Gossip 003

New Models is a human-directed aggregator that puts information and opinion into context.
https://medium.com/new-models/…

No onboarding now! The New Computers Working Group releases its manifesto on computational objects that can be picked up like a pile of rocks.
https://newcomputers.group/…

The New Normal, a speculative urbanism think-tank at the Strelka Institute in Moscow, presented proposals for new discourse and new models.
https://youtu.be/…

One project in this New Normal is Alt’ai, an agent-based simulation of a fully automated mountain landscape soundtracked by mobilegirl.
http://altai.id/
https://youtu.be/…

What do we want and how do we get there? Sam Hart unpacks the many meanings of decentralization, calling for the consideration of what is needed socially to guide the design of technological systems.
— https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena…(PDF)

A politics for alienation. Patricia Reed introduces the manifesto on Xenofeminism and models of co-habitation adapted to our planetary-scale condition.
https://soundcloud.com/poltheoryother/…

Jay Springett discusses landscapes granted personhood and fictions that don’t shy away from their feasibility at Het Nieuwe Instituut.
https://youtu.be/…

Terra0 levels up to prototype status. Trent McConaghy mentions them as an example of nature-machine relations in this talk on Nature 2.0.
https://youtu.be/…

Take a common resource, put it into common ownership, and set it to work for the common good. Nick Srnicek and Christine Berry on public data and the potential of social wealth funds.
http://www.autonomyinstitute.org/…(PDF)

Apply! Mozilla Announces a new fund for art and advocacy that explores artificial intelligence. Deadline August 1, 2018.
https://blog.mozilla.org/…

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