Justin Pickard finished reading Catalonia's Human Towers by Mariann Vaczi
Catalonia's Human Towers by Mariann Vaczi
The building of human towers (castells) is a centuries-old traditional sport where hundreds of men, women, and children …
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The building of human towers (castells) is a centuries-old traditional sport where hundreds of men, women, and children …
Software applications have taken over our lives. We use and are used by software many times a day. Nevertheless, we …
Part-biography, part-political thriller, The Unaccountability Machine is a rousing exposé of how management failures lead organisations to make catastrophic errors. …
The building of human towers (castells) is a centuries-old traditional sport where hundreds of men, women, and children …
A critical exegesis of large language models, like ChatGPT, and recent advances in artificial intelligence.
If speech has long been …
During the early decades of the Cold War, large-scale investments in American defense and aerospace research and development spawned a …
Often seen as an outlier in science, Gaia has run a long and varied course since its formulation in the …
In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), …
The zine PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot gathered more than 30 authors in an aim to collectively explore the …
A tad overstuffed, but (because of this?) succeeds as (all of) hardboiled noir, speculative anthropology, and cathartic routing of white supremacy, which is no small accomplishment. Could have done with a more low-key ending, in my opinion, for some light and shade, but superb writing and characterisation throughout, with more than a few lines that elicited audibly-impressed noises. This alt-history nerd left happy.
In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of …
In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world literature’s …
A groundbreaking study on the universe of technical objects by one of France’s most important thinkers of the second half …
@eldang@weirder.earth Having read the introduction, it's academic, but seems timely and powerful; delaminating the actual teachings, the contingencies of its original political context, later colonial influences, Punjabi culture, and the diaspora, is (to my mind) a very good thing.