Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #123

The end of unilateral globalization and the arrival of the Anthropocene force us to talk about cosmopolitics. These two factors correlate with one another and correspond to two different senses of the word “cosmopolitics”: cosmopolitics as a commercial regime, and cosmopolitics as a politics of nature.

Part one of a four part series, in which a new game about an avocado and a young inventor sketches out new ideas for both television and videogames. Google’s Stadia does likewise. Apple’s Arcade and Netflix’s Bandersnatch do not.

Inside Spotify’s emotional surveillance-driven quest for total ad domination.

"If AI is evolving into our superior, it has a long way to go. Watson is not our new computer overlord and just about everything we hear along those lines is hype."

Are ideas like objects, or are they like people? The world getting eaten by software means more and more people work with abstract ideas rather than concrete objects or people.

Worlding is the art of devising a World: by choosing its dysfunctional present, maintaining its habitable past, aiming at its transformative future, and ultimately, letting it outlive your authorial control.

We augment ourselves with artificial illusions But our innards are still the wheels Of survival and of myths, the spinners of dopamine The sugar-tipped pleasure-seeking gold-rattling smile-faced source.

In his latest work, the composer Michel van der Aa has fully integrated emerging technology with musical and theatrical ideas.