networked worlds

Once, we made sense of the world with sweeping narratives that provided a comforting sense of mastery. Now, with those narratives shattered beyond repair by a reality too complex for us to fathom, a new kind of coping mechanism is emerging—one where we make peace with the limits of our agency rather than pretending to overcome them. The task is no... See more

Los Angeles, for example, has already been fully modeled by others. I didn't need to recreate it. Ditto for the desert or the puma. You go to this 3-D images supermarket and choose a palm tree pack, a piece of desert to download. This perfectly matches the mix between reality and artificiality in my projects. It's thanks to these virtual... See more

At the same time, we are often told these systems are impossible to fully comprehend and are far beyond our control.

Embrace the Symbiotic Dance Between Culture + Technology

"Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship." — Brenda Laurel

What appears to us today as the end of the world is in fact a new phase in his life.

Devotion Strategy

The hefty tome of cross-references, which readers can navigate via one of the thematic paths outlined by sixteen notable cyberfeminists, or by using the entries like hyperlinks, has become an indispensable resource for historicizing the putting into practice of contemporary technology criticism.

Le Guin and Butler use the world-building capacities of the speculative and science fictions as a cypher into the complex social, cultural, and ecological conditions of life here on Spaceship Earth[2]. In their work, Butler and Le Guin established a more empathetic kind of world-building, using the genres as a way to think critically about society... See more

I’ve been thinking , what is imagination? A ny language that you create as an artist is a form of worldmaking and creativity comes into play in many ways – i n everyday tasks , all the time . E veryone dreams. E veryone has dreams , a nd that also is a process of worldmaking. – Tai Shani