Children of the Wasteland: Experimental Biology vs. Global Catastrophe ch.3

Children of the Wasteland: Experimental Biology vs. Global Catastrophe ch.3

Chapter Three: Rise of the Xenobots. Can life be persuaded to take novel forms and behaviors that stabilize the Earth system? The only way to find out is to find out. Let's look to the strange frontiers of experimental biology for a framework of inquiry. Two kinds of so-called biobots have been constructed, one from embryonic frog cells and one from human lung cells. These cellular collectives become autonomously mobile, begin differentiating, and take on novel problems to solve. We can't kno...

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World-Self-Void-Marx-Lenin: Interview with Adam of Subjective Conditions

World-Self-Void-Marx-Lenin: Interview with Adam of Subjective Conditions

What does it feel like, in our bodies, to be in a Marxist reading group or an anarchist direct action collective? What unexamined stories, from our profoundly traumatizing experiences of development, ...

3 Syys 1h 54min

Children of the Wasteland: Experimental Biology vs. Global Catastrophe ch.2

Children of the Wasteland: Experimental Biology vs. Global Catastrophe ch.2

Chapter Two: The Poison Eaters. In this chapter, we examine some possible experimental biology-assisted climate interventions, such as mineralization of rapidly-produced biomass. We then return to the...

22 Elo 43min

Children of the Wasteland: Experimental Biology vs. Global Catastrophe ch.1

Children of the Wasteland: Experimental Biology vs. Global Catastrophe ch.1

Chapter One: Will the Wasteland Blossom? Here we search for synthetic biology-assisted interventions into runaway climate change and other catastrophic Earth changes. Our first chapter looks at the cu...

14 Elo 44min

Deceive Like an Animal pt. 2: Narcissist vs. Machiavellian Death Match

Deceive Like an Animal pt. 2: Narcissist vs. Machiavellian Death Match

The structure of a society is the sum of the different kinds of agency different kinds of people exercise. Here we tell a story of the rise of the current intrigue-riddled, paranoid state of the world...

5 Touko 1h 16min

Deceive Like an Animal pt. 1: How the Nazis Won WWII

Deceive Like an Animal pt. 1: How the Nazis Won WWII

How did we come to live in such an intrigue-riddled, spook-haunted world? In this two-part series, we tell a story about the ascent of the post-WWII espionage establishment, and the permanent sense of...

1 Touko 1h 3min

No Option but Sabotage: Interview with Thomas Zeitzoff

No Option but Sabotage: Interview with Thomas Zeitzoff

Thomas Zeitzoff's No Option but Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate Crisis explores the tumultuous past and uncertain present of movements for a habitable Earth. In this inter...

14 Huhti 36min

The Visitors: Tangles of Strangeness

The Visitors: Tangles of Strangeness

We're not exactly asking what the true nature of the UFO phenomenon is. It's more like we're asking how people form the beliefs they do (which turns out to be a pretty good way to structure an inquiry...

7 Huhti 48min

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