Saturday, April 28, 2012

To Criticize A Successful Con Man Is Not To Criticize Success

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Please have one of your drassage horse masseuses make a note of it, Mitt . This kind of devisiveness, this attack of success, is very differ...
Saturday, April 14, 2012

What Are People Really Talking About When They Talk About "Geo-Engineering"?

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My latest article published at The Futurist is here . I am re-posting here it at Amor Mundi as well: This article is not intended as a co...
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Selling the Debased Present With Fraudulent Futures

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The momentary reflection on Jeffrey Toobin's disgusting self-promotional stunt in the last post leads me to make a larger point that act...
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Thursday, March 29, 2012

The Ambivalence of Investment/Speculation As the Kernel of Reactionary Futurology

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Yesterday I wrote a post deriding Robot Cultists [who] like to paint themselves as brave for devoting their adult lives to daydreaming about...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Not Necessarily Abnormal, But Certainly Stupid

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Living Infomercial and Very Serious Futurologist Natasha Vita More crayon-scribbles a bit of her usual zany nonsense for the Robot Cultists...
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Saturday, March 24, 2012

"Stand Your Ground" As Secessionist Treason

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When the democratic left spinelessly abandoned the struggle for sensible gun control regulations in the aftermath of the 2000 election, when...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

I Predict That In Twenty Years Futurological Predictions Will Still Inevitably Begin "I Predict That In Twenty Years"

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Look, Ma, I'm a futurologist! Let's ask this scientician... More Futurological Brickbats here . Added, to put some meat on the b...
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Monday, March 12, 2012

“Geo-Engineering” As Right-Wing War and Revolution

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In an interview over at Grist the indispensable Naomi Klein talks about how the Republican right has only comparatively recently arrived at...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Schlock and Awesome; Or, The Futurists Are Worse Than You Think

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Very Serious Futurologist and Dean Martin impersonator (just a heartfelt suggestion, dude) Patrick Tucker, begins his discussion of the boo...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Meat Brain Futurology: One More Time On the "In-Vitro Meat" Merry Go Wrong

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The Very Serious Futurologists at IEET have decided that enough time has passed since the last time they had a circle-jerk about how “in-vit...
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Ten Things You Must Fail To Understand If You Want To Be A Transhumanist For Long

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One: Enjoying science fiction is not the same thing as doing science or making science policy. Two: Indulging in wish-fulfillment fantasie...
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Saturday, March 03, 2012

Is Jerking Off Genocide?

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Delaware Online : Wilmington City Council sent a message to lawmakers everywhere Thursday night: It's time to hold men accountable for ...
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Faulty Ivory Towers

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An aphorism is a point of departure masquerading as an arrival.   People who want nothing more than to be salesmen shouldn’t be running ...
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Thursday, March 01, 2012

Evadeus Corpus: Absenting the Referent in the Meat-Industrial Complex

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Iowa is the nation's leading pork and egg producer with nearly twenty million hogs and over fifty million egg-laying chickens in confine...
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Monday, February 13, 2012

Futurama Fantasyland

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Upgraded and Adapted from the most recent post's Moot, in an exchange with my friend JimF : I am of two minds when it comes to supers...
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