Thursday, September 29, 2011

Fear Not, Robot Cultists! "The Future" of Futurology Is Still A White Penis

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Last year I made the unhappy habit for quite a while of weekly visits to the website of the Very Serious techno-"progressive" fut...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Future Schlock Credulity Levels

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Across the Robot Cult archipelago the talk has turned , that is to say returned , to the topic of "Shock Levels," to futurists boa...
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Monday, September 26, 2011

Learning from Lanier's Inverse Moore's Law

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From his Half A Manifesto , now well over a decade old: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspond...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

My Own Opposition to Capital Punishment

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I am utterly opposed to the dreadful barbarism of the death penalty, and advocate a life sentence without the possibility of parole for murd...
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"All Futurisms Are Finally Retro-Futurisms"

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The following is adapted from an exchange over at Accelerating Future , occasioned by one of my Futurological Brickbats : "To speak of ...
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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Transhuman Transsex

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This is another post adapted from an exchange in the thread over at Accelerating Future : A more lefty than the average futurologist inter...
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Friday, September 09, 2011

Mapping the Futurological Complex

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This post began as a response to somebody who recommended Edge.org in the still-ongoing discussion mentioned below taking place over at Mich...
Saturday, September 03, 2011

The Personal Is Articulated By the Political, Sure, and Hence Is Always Politicizable -- But It Isn't Automatically Political As Such and To Think Otherwise Risks the Evacuation of the Political

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I've sparred on an off lately with a reader who shares many of my larger aspirations -- for a sustainable, equitable, informed, consensu...
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Sunday, August 28, 2011

It Turns On Power: A Schematic Distinguishing the Politics of Technodevelopmental Social Struggle from Futurological Anti-Politics

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The Politics of Technodevelopmental Social Struggle, Peer to Peer A. Power Construed As Experience of Possibility B. Political Rationali...
Friday, August 26, 2011

What Futurology Is Peddling Has Little To Do With Foresight

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Foresight is a dimension of every proper form of expertise. Just as "The Future" does not exist, neither does the "foresight...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Ten Reasons to Take Seriously the Transhumanists, Singularitarians, Techno-Immortalists, Nano-Cornucopiasts and Other Assorted Robot Cultists and White Guys of "The Future"

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ONE -- Just because futurologists tend to be both foolish and wrong doesn't mean it is always foolish to point out in public places that...
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Friday, August 19, 2011

All Humans Are Mortal. Socrates Is Human. Therefore, Socrates Is Mortal.

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Students have been learning the basics of logic through the re-iteration of this syllogism for centuries. Everybody who has ever lived has...
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Monday, August 15, 2011

Every Jock Is A Puke -- And Why This Matters

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In 1968, Bill Stowe explained to me that there were only two kinds of men on campus, perhaps in the world -- Jocks and Pukes. He explained...
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Sunday, August 14, 2011

"The Rich Are Different From You and Me"

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Brian Alexander : Psychologist and social scientist Dacher Keltner says the rich really are different, and not in a good way: Their life ex...
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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Riot, Try It: A Pragmatics of Urban Disruption in a Planet of Slums

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A political scientist at Drexel University, George Ciccariello-Maher, provides an insightful preliminary analytic sketch of recent rioting...
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Sunday, August 07, 2011

Peter Thiel and Elon Musk Are the Koch Brothers of Reactionary Futurology

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That last post was rather long and covered lots of topical ground, but I do want to make sure this late link-rich paragraph doesn't get...

Sins of the Transhumanoids: More on "Animal Uplift" and Reactionary Futurology More Generally

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Upgraded and adapted from an exchange in the Moot , regular reader Martin responded to my recent critiques of the so-called "animal upl...
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Saturday, August 06, 2011

Reagan, PATCO, and the Turning of the Tide (With a Prelude on Pelerin and the Rising of the Tide)

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Michael Moore reminds us of the PATCO Strike thirty years ago today and the moment when Reagan turned the tide in the long-ongoing Republic...
Sunday, July 31, 2011

"The Future" on the Planet of the Apes

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George Dvorsky, one of the White Guys of The Future over at the stealth Robot Cult outfit IEET has written a piece explaining why "we...
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