The Lunacy of Artemis
1972 Project
The Cultural Contradictions of Neoliberalism: The Longing for an Alternative Order and the Future of Multiracial Democracy in an Age of Authoritarianism - Roosevelt Institute
How we lived: ‘In 1972, I got married because my mother wanted me to’
50 Years Later: Remembering How the Future Looked in 1974
We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus - Charlie's Diary
What we talk about when we talk about The Future
Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real
'Blade Runner', Cyberpunk, and Our Stuck Future
David Bowie’s Legendary 1972 Performance of Starman on Top of the Pops
Liberty Machines and Dark Tech - Dissent Magazine
18 November 2022. Modernity | Brands - by Andrew Curry
The end of modernity and our crisis of meaning
What happened in 1972? - USA
Who Is Blue Origin For? - by Tim Carmody - Amazon Chronicles
Griffin Sees the Light - Burning Shore
Griffin produced and contributed to underground comix, but he remains best known for the rock poster art he produced in late-‘60s San Francisco. Like many, I bow down amazed before his legendary Jimi Hendrix flying eyeball poster (BG-105), perhaps the supreme eidolon of the era. I also owe a lot to the biomorph erotics of his album cover art for the Dead’s Aoxomoxoa, which worked like an initiatory mandala on my wee stoner mind. But Man from Utopia is the pinnacle, or, perhaps, the pit of Griffin’s psychedelic vision: convulsive, sexual, hermetic, intensely sacred and intensely profane.
How the Space Fantasy Became Banal
The final frontier, as a setting, has long channeled giddy dreams of human communion. A new group of cultural works explores the opposite possibility.
Touching the future - Griffith Review
Genevieve Bell writing for the Griffith Review with a trip through the history of computing, AI, systems, cybernetics, and ideas for the way forward. She starts with “THE FUTURE IS not a destination. We build it every day in the present,” in an intro very close in spirit to the “Ashby-Benjamin manoeuvre,” then goes on to cover the Macy conferences (cybernetics), the meeting at Dartmouth (AI), their influence on the Whole Earth catalogue, Jasia Reichardt’s Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition (which I didn’t know about, fascinating), and finishes with the Brewarrina Aboriginal Fish Traps in Australia, as inspiration for “ideas about sustainability; ideas about systems that are decades or centuries in the making; ideas about systems that endure and systems that are built explicitly to endure.” The difference between Macys and Dartmouth in the inclusion of a planetary context and the environment is worth noting and Bell keeps that thread going throughout the piece.
Opinion | Facebook and the Surveillance Society: The Other Coup - The New York Times
John Naughton | Thursday 5 November, 2020 | Memex 1.1
And so the question is: how did that come to pass? That’s a long story, and some of it is peculiarly American (particularly the racism that runs through that society like the message in a stick of Blackpool rock). But not all of it; there’s an element of it also that other Western democracies share, namely that this pathological polarisation has been a long time building — by my reckoning since the collapse of the post-war Keynesian order from 1971 onwards, and the subsequent ideological infection of ruling elites in most democracies by neoliberalism. We are now reaping the whirlwind of what we sowed in those decades.
The Tories’ culture war is a reminder that the right isn't as fearless as it seems | Society | The Guardian
Postwar prosperity depended on a truce between capitalism and democracy | Aeon Essays
Amy Coney Barrett and the Triumph of Phyllis Schlafly
Empire of Same ❧ Current Affairs
Western Decline Began in the '90s - The Atlantic
James T. Baldwin - Wikipedia
an American industrial designer and writer.[1] Baldwin was a student of Buckminster Fuller; Baldwin's work was inspired by Fuller's principles and, in the case of some of Baldwin's published writings, he popularized and interpreted Fuller's ideas and achievements. In his own right, Baldwin was a figure in American designers' efforts to incorporate solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources. In his career, being a fabricator was as important as being a designer.[2] Baldwin is noted as the inventor of the "Pillow Dome",[3] a design that combines Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome with panels of inflated ETFE plastic panels.
George Dyson (science historian) - Wikipedia
George Dyson is the son of the theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson and mathematician Verena Huber-Dyson, the brother of technology analyst Esther Dyson, and the grandson of the British composer Sir George Dyson. When he was sixteen he went to live in British Columbia to pursue his interest in kayaking. From 1972 to 1975, he lived in a treehouse at a height of 30 metres that he built from salvaged materials on the shore of Burrard Inlet.
@lydiacambron • Instagram photos and videos
I’ve been drawing aesthetic similarities between space exploration and baroque decor for a larger project, and looking at the political parallels as well—as tools of persuasion to promote power and faithful cooperation.
I Was a Useful Idiot for Capitalism - The Atlantic
Men in Space – BLDGBLOG
Silver Machines – { feuilleton }
I read this essay by Alfred Jarry called, “How to Construct a Time Machine”, and I noticed something which I don’t think anyone else has thought of because I’ve never seen any criticism of the piece to suggest this. I seemed to suss out immediately that what he was describing was his bicycle. He did have that turn of mind. He was the kind of bloke who’d think it was a good joke to write this very informed sounding piece, full of really good physics (and it has got some proper physics in it), describing how to build a time machine, which is actually about how to build a bicycle, buried under this smoke-screen of physics that sounds authentic.
Bernie Sanders Is George McGovern - The Atlantic