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Patrick Tanguay

Autodidact. Generalist. Synthesist. Curator of the weekly Sentiers, a newsletter to understand the world and imagine better futures.

Montreal

‘Is your soul missing too?’ Shanghai, China, by Katherine Gu on Unsplash.

Rapid urbanisation and paranormal anxieties in China ⊗ The dragonfly journey ⊗ Sorry we created the Torment Nexus

Person in a space suit and helmet looking out at the moon Europa. Vintage science fiction illustration. With Midjourney.

Space Is Dead ⊗ Work, Life, and Perennials ⊗ Sculpting Consciousness

African political activists & performance artists focused on climate change, with Midjourney.

Seawater’s teeming life may change our own ⊗ Youth Boom in Africa changes the world ⊗ Think computationally about AI

Watercolor illustrations of mushrooms by amateur mycologist Hans Walty.

Unbundling AI ⊗ Why we need utopias ⊗ Freedom from work

The Daniel-Johnson Dam, located 214 km north of Baie-Comeau, Quebec.

Ode to living on the grid ⊗ Can’t tech billionaires learn anything new? ⊗ The polycrisis, explained

A video photocomposite capturing sensory experiences, by Stuart Neilsen, Cork, Ireland.

Cities for someone, cities for everyone

Fear of oozification ⊗ Is the web eating itself? ⊗ Why culture has come to a standstill

Fear of oozification ⊗ Is the web eating itself? ⊗ Why culture has come to a standstill

Apocalypse-proof, 33 Thomas Street in New York City.

Against scale ⊗ AI data training companies hiring poets ⊗ Daniel Schmachtenberger on the Metacrisis

Movie still photo of a spacecraft, made with Midjourney.

AI, hardware, and virtual reality ⊗ From synthetic biology to AI ⊗ Capitalism is dead

Glitched Scottish landscape made with Midjourney.

Liberty machines and dark tech ⊗ Tomorrow’s democracy is open source ⊗ The living things that feast on plastic

Interesting

Interesting

Salève, Beaumont, France. By Olivier Miche on Unsplash.

Your own transdisciplinarity