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Mindful Cyborgs

Mindful Cyborgs #51 — Nordic Larp, Social Change, and Free-will Agency with Eleanor Saitta

presented by Chris Dancy, Eleanor Saitta, Klint Finley, Sara M. Watson

Change is going to happen. I guess in a lot of cases I see my role in the world as trying desperately to build enough tools, and enough understanding of how they work and how they can be used, and to get that stuff out into the world enough so that when stuff inevitably breaks and falls apart and explodes in our faces, we’ve got kind of a first aid kit that we can reach for.

Mindful Cyborgs #54 — A Positive Vision of Transhumanism and AI with Damien Williams

presented by Damien Williams, Klint Finley

I don’t think it’s going to be necessarily a problem within the next five to ten, fifteen, to maybe even twenty years. But my perspective on it has always been, because I am more philosophically focused in these things, why not try to address the issues before they arrive? Why not try to think about these questions before they become problems that we have to fix?

Mindful Cyborgs #55 — Magick & the Occult within the Internet and Corporations with Damien Williams

presented by Damien Williams, Klint Finley

We can see the hidden, occult operations of programmers, of people who are seeking to get very specific outcomes by operating on very particular components, ritually operating within very particular symbolic frameworks. People who are using particular coding languages, people who are using particular setups of hardware because for their purposes, for their end goals, these are the things that get the job done. These are the things that have the resonance and the capability, the power, the efficacy, to do the work.

Mindful Cyborgs #69 — Materials Science & Plastic-making Bees with Deb Chachra

presented by Deb Chachra, Klint Finley, Sara M. Watson

Designers do spend a fair bit of time thinking about what materials to use, but they don’t necessarily think about why those materials have the properties that they have.

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