Category: Sentiers

This week → The umami theory of value ⊗ Cultural invention ⊗ The spaces that make cities fairer and more resilient ⊗ End of the ‘human climate niche’…

This week → Facing the Age of Chaos ⊗ The Screen New Deal ⊗ It’s Only going to get weirder ⊗ The Secret Lives of Fungi ⊗ Stanislaw…

This week → Living with just enough ⊗ Life less normal ⊗ Brace yourself for the most dangerous idea yet: most people are pretty decent ⊗ The history…

This week → Home Screens ⊗ The conditions conducive to life ⊗ Not fit for this future ⊗ Can speculative journalism help us prepare for what’s to come?…

This week → Hail the maintainers ⊗ It’s time to build (is it?) ⊗ Tokyo as slowdown city ⊗ Mass consumption is what ails us A year ago…

This week → After dread ⊗ Civil society in a digital world ⊗ These are conditions in which revolution becomes thinkable ⊗ The tech ‘solutions’ for coronavirus take…

This week → 18 lessons of quarantine urbanism ⊗ Slowdown papers ⊗ Rush to the future ⊗ Design for systems, not users ⊗ Getting compound interest on your…

This week → Premonition ⊗ This is not the apocalypse you were looking for ⊗ Perhaps China’s centralised supply chain won’t last forever ⊗ After supply chain capitalism…

This week → Ecological crises and equitable futures ⊗ AI is an ideology, not a technology ⊗ Why don’t we just ban targeted advertising? ⊗ That feeling of…

This week → Why superheroes are the shape of tech things to come ⊗ Where be dragons? ⊗ Defining information ⊗ Leading by example A year ago →…

This week → A blank page for a new beginning ⊗ We’re destroying the Earth’s layer of life ⊗ How futurists cope with uncertainty ⊗ Cory Doctorow explains…

This week → Progress, postmodernism and the tech backlash ⊗ Jan Morris: ‘You’re talking to someone at the very end of things’ ⊗ How to design a smart…

This week → Digital socialism ⊗ Trees as infrastructure ⊗ On distortion ⊗ A text renaissance A year ago → Rebecca Solnit on a childhood of reading and…

This week → Calling for a more-than-human politics ⊗ Sense-makers vs. map-makers ⊗ Narrative strategy ⊗ The personified city A year ago → Metamodern Values for a Listening…

This week → Anthropology, cybernetics, and establishing a new branch of engineering at ANU ⊗ Centaurs or butlers? Designing for human relationships with non-human intelligences ⊗ The manifesto…

This week → What I mean when I talk about more-than-human design ⊗ Can we have prosperity without growth? ⊗ The Internet is a toxic hellscape—but we can…

This week → You are now remotely controlled ⊗ Splendid isolation: how I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours ⊗ We’re banning facial recognition.…

This week → The Metaverse: what it is, where to find it, who will build it, and Fortnite ⊗ The case for … cities that aren’t dystopian surveillance…

This week → Does minimalism really make us any happier? ⊗ Logistics Landscapes ⊗ How scific imagined the 2020s ⊗ The world on fire won’t shock us for…

This week → How William Gibson keeps his science fiction real ⊗ A persistence of magical thinking? ⊗ Mediating consent ⊗ What the Internet can learn from the…

This week → An introduction to metamodernism: the cultural philosophy of the digital age ⊗ Jeff Bezos’s vision of the future Is basically Blade Runner ⊗ The dark…

This week → A Better Internet Is Waiting for Us ⊗ Epic’s moves towards the Metaverse ⊗ The Myth of the Return of the City State ⊗ If…

This week → General Ludd in the Long Seventies ⊗ Better than ethics ⊗ Taiwan is making democracy work again. It’s time we paid attention ⊗ Oil is…

This week → Cyberpunk is dead ⊗ On serendipity ⊗ The return of the night train ⊗ Imagine a future of distributed cooperatives ⊗ What is a weird…