Sentiers MediaPast issues Newsletter archive, each issue is available here the day after it’s sent to subscribers.
This week → Theses on techno-optimism ⊗ Minimal maintenance ⊗ Ecological crises and equitable futures ⊗ Racial capitalism, The Stack and the Green New Deal A year ago…
This week → The Ghostchain. (Or taking things for what they are) ⊗ Future Myopia ⊗ The race to understand the thrilling, dangerous world of language AI ⊗…
This week → Green Utopias: Environmental hope before and after nature ⊗ The worlds to come ⊗ The NFT funhouse mirror ⊗ The intelligent forest A year ago…
This week → Protopia futures framework ⊗ The art of negativity ⊗ We’re going to radically transform our cities — or abandon them ⊗ Can climate fiction writers…
This week → Superhistory, not superintelligence ⊗ Think about the future’s past ⊗ Why Generation X will save the web ⊗ Manufacturing mRNA vaccines is surprisingly straightforward ⊗…
This week → Left alone, together ⊗ The new frontier of belonging ⊗ Can speculative fiction teach us anything in a world this crazy? ⊗ The tragedy of…
This week → Appropriate measures ⊗ Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power. ⊗ Meet the company designing tech for superheroes and spacecraft ⊗…
This week → Robots are animals, not humans ⊗ Democracy, sovereignty, technology, and so called Canada ⊗ The infrastructural power beneath the Internet as we know it ⊗…
This week → Money for nothing ⊗ Hummingbirds and the Ecstatic Moment ⊗ Control creep: when the data always travels, so do the harms ⊗ Creativity is dead,…
This week → How to map nothing ⊗ Why a more feminist internet would be better for everyone ⊗ Civilizations don’t really die. They just take new forms.…
This week → Apocalyptic infrastructures ⊗ Why computers won’t make themselves smarter ⊗ How mRNA technology could change the world ⊗ How to mass manufacture humanoid robots ⊗…
This week → Impossible silences ⊗ Delinquent telephone activity ⊗ Under the big black sun ⊗ Outgrowing software ⊗ Unlikely union between hackers & indigenous peoples A year…
This week → All these worlds are yours ⊗ Kits and revolutions ⊗ The algorithmic auditing trap ⊗ Explore synthetic futuring ⊗ There’s a global plan to conserve…
This week → The edge of our existence ⊗ The hyperreal life of Chen Qiufan ⊗ Kyle Wiens, open sourcing other people’s hardware ⊗ Chaos strikes global shipping…
This week → You’re doing it wrong: notes on criticism and technology hype ⊗ When engineers were humanists ⊗ The Billion Seconds Institute ⊗ Blueprints of intelligence ⊗…
This week → Design better systems in a world overwhelmed by complexity ⊗ An ecological civilization ⊗ Against performative positivity ⊗ Attention stewardship ⊗ Reimagining the research lab…
This week → Touching the future ⊗ Surveyors, neighbors, and stoichiometrists ⊗ The next act for messenger RNA could be bigger than covid vaccines ⊗ Can a park…
This week → Nurturing architecture ⊗ Protopia futures ⊗ The internet rewired our brains ⊗ A brief history of consumer culture ⊗ We need a new work culture…
This week → Worldbuilding forever: Bold ideas for our collective futures ⊗ Dreaming big ⊗ The future encyclopedia of Luddism ⊗ How predicting the future became a literary…
This week → Future Schlock ⊗ Solarpunk is a Tumblr vibe. It’s also a practical movement. ⊗ Earth at a cute angle ⊗ Towards the Orthogonal Technology Lab…
This week → Other species are essential workers, whose economies enfold our own ⊗ Capitalism is over, if you want it. ⊗ After climate alarmism ⊗ Find something…
This week → Camera obscura: Beyond the lens of user-centered design ⊗ Make way for the ‘one-minute city’ ⊗ Neofeudalism and the digital manor ⊗ Playing chess is…
This week → Facebook is a doomsday machine ⊗ Pillar or pawn ⊗ Experimenting with GPT-3 felt like witnessing a technological revolution ⊗ What’s breakfast cereal got to…
This week → Defuturing the image of the future ⊗ An interview with McKenzie Wark ⊗ The curse of ‘white oil’: electric vehicles’ dirty secret ⊗ Countdown clocks,…