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Could Science Revive Clubbing?
Rebekka Karijord on the Sound of Climate Grief
“composed by Low Jack and performed by choir”
These three stories are very different but all the same in their bridging electronic music and technology with reconnecting to people and planet. The last item I caught in Paris and it was sublime . To the essay above, the things... See more
Rebekka Karijord on the Sound of Climate Grief
“composed by Low Jack and performed by choir”
These three stories are very different but all the same in their bridging electronic music and technology with reconnecting to people and planet. The last item I caught in Paris and it was sublime . To the essay above, the things... See more
Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick • let's FART girls 💩💨
Feral Atlas, curated and edited by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, Feifei Zhou, invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects.
Stanford University Press • Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene
Perhaps if more people were aware of the First Wave and Second Wave extinctions, they’d be less nonchalant about the Third Wave they are part of. If we knew how many species we’ve already eradicated, we might be more motivated to protect those that still survive. This is especially relevant to the large animals of the oceans. Unlike their terrestri
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
to bear the burden of the world’s curiosity and confusion—which
Robin Sloan • Annabel Scheme
Our encounter with AI – our self-created nemesis, our last invention, and, I suspect, our last chance – may ensure that human exceptionalism will give way to humility.
Jeanette Winterson • 12 Bytes
We can’t hope to capture every single fragment of the internet, from the first lagging days of DARPA to the videos attached to each TikTok sound, to preserve the fire hose of content we are all wallowing in. But we can have a conversation about which things we value and believe should be kept, which things should be allowed to disappear into the wa... See more
s.e. smith • What happens when the internet disappears?
In these latter days everybody is familiar with concepts like the carbon footprint, sustainability, and the like. Measures of the ecological cost of the things we do. One of the most irksome problems bedeviling Earth's biosphere at present is the outrageous cost of many aspects of many human lifestyles. Society is gradually and too late awakening t... See more