student of biopolitics, uni. Lapland :: enthralled by confused voices, subjugated knowledges. fake is my fav topic. mostly minor issues

Joined July 2012
same concern
Palmer Luckey unveils “Warhound,” a $200 million startup developing genetically enhanced dogs for the US military in partnership with Colossal Biosciences and Anduril Industries. Colossal will provide genetic engineering and cloning expertise, while Anduril will equip the dogs with advanced cybernetic technology and battlefield awareness systems. Follow: @AFpost
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there was a time when equality meant "to stand shoulder to shoulder with elites"
Today is the official release date for my new book, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism (Belknap, 2026). It explores how and why “equality” became, rather suddenly, a basis on which ordinary men and women could make political demands in early modern England. hup.harvard.edu/books/978067…
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"boot camp becomes a form of mortificatio, or ritualized stripping of civilian selfhood"
As Within, So Without: Veteran Identity and Posthuman Alchemical Inquiry Natalie Danielle Baker and Zeno Franco journal-veterans-studies.org…
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the dream of "shepherding mankind [sic] into political unity" now rising from obscurity
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is it even possible to depoliticise politics?
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scam emails belong with us
Discussing my correspondence with AI agents on CNN!
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exhibition of power and power of exhibition
Exhibition Ecologies: Entanglements of Art, Institutions, and Politics in the Environmental Crisis Edited by Regine Ehleiter and Friederike Schäfer degruyterbrill.com/document/…
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Andrei Sokolov’s vision of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, 1950s. A strikingly sleek vision of dystopian domestic life.
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"strategic silence" as a response to the blurring of the coloniser/colonised distinction
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"traditional, formal, witty or inspirational" the trouble with generative AI is the normalised resignation to a given classification
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still, technology is out-and-out political
AI did not go 'rogue', did not 'solve' the Navier-Stokes problem, does not have 'goals', is not and will not ever be conscious, certainly is not going to evolve into a god-device and wipe out humanity. Criti-hype obscures the real dangers. patreon.com/richardseymourwt…
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...which is the point of gun control
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the Robinson Crusoe syndrome:
Replying to @hilbertspaess
Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing.
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basically, SciFi thrives on insight into "madness"
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what happens when a speculative hype dies out? quick answer: it becomes the infrastructure of everyday life
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as explained above, the purpose is not to carve an "outside" but to imagine a "hybrid" existence that is at once inside and outside the state
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in my reading of Financial Thriller, the factual prevalence of speculative finance ceases to obscure our reliance on the fictionality of financialisation tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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erdogan_h retweeted
"the Freudian death drive has nothing whatsoever to do with the craving for self-annihilation, for the return to the inorganic absence of any life-tension; it is, on the contrary, the very opposite of dying +
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