Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #135

The very best

About the "infodemic" in the slipstream of COVID-19.

The speed of mediation creates the crisis as it surpasses what happens on the ground, reduces it, encapsulates it, and sells it as pills of panic to the public: an “infodemic” has been growing and spreading in parallel with the viral pandemic.

About time as an ideological simulation. Venkatesh Rao at his best.

About a podcast with Jamais Cascio from the IFTF, who coined the term BANI. Also good example of a well produced podcast. As most readers know, I am preparing a 100% online immersive experience on BANI.

About live versus dead players.

A live player is a person or a tightly coordinated group of people that is able to do things they have not done before. A dead player is a person or a group of people that is working off a script, incapable of doing new things.

About Changeist's Future Design Program.

Contextual questions give us the critical context we need to understand how these “hero” innovations change

You’ve seen her launch her annual tech trends report at SXSW — now get ready for a deep dive into the trends you need to follow in 2020 and how the global co...

A more recent one on live/dead player

About experiencing time in a before/during/post Corona era. By the master of pause Robert Poynton

Minds happen in time, always in the middle of life. Minds become consciously aware in a long and arduous process in time, in Chronos, registering the duration of their existence. Minds carry…

Martin Winiecki speaks about 'What is Sacred Activism?' in the opening speech (6th of August 2017) of the international gathering 'Defend the Sacred - Envisi...

Data and Society

How conspiracy theories captured the American mind

About extendable ears!

If you want to upgrade the computers in your Tesla, know that the company may not erase your data from it, as white hat hacker GreenTheOnly discovered.

Zeitgeist

Does right-wing populism have a better understanding of culture than the creative class? The latest work by artist Hito Steyerl and a book by Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie demonstrate what the Trump and Brexit campaigns have learned from fashion.

Masks have become a personal, visceral link to the injustices of capitalism’s supply chains

Innovation

“The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed.” This is one of our guiding principles at the Institute for the Future (IFTF). It means that if you look closely around the world today…

Amazon, led by founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, is a data-driven colossus and now America’s second-largest company. Here's how it has moved swiftly to adjust to the coronavirus crisis.

Future of work

Imagine buying a wool coat when it is actually cold out, instead of in the middle of summer. The coronavirus could make that a reality.

Internet Culture

Super-impressive demo of computer generate realities: state of the art anno 2020

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Weird (Cyber)Space

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

By Geoff Manaugh

Art related

Dror Benshetrit launched his QuaDror structural support system at Design Indaba 2011. Fantastic talk/performance by super passionate designer.

Inspired by the art of Flemish Renaissance painters Bosch and Bruegel, the book Networks of New York by artist and writer Ingrid Burrington, and Jim Henson’s colorful puppet show Fraggle Rock. Warning: very weird.

Friends from Academy

By my Digital Art Coach Patrick Baele

Aesthetics

Lawrence Lek - 2065 "In the year 2065, Farsight Corporation learns to harness the power of artificial intelligence. eSports is the world’s fastest-growing…

AXOR places

Elena Manferdini [Principal, Atelier Manferdini / SCI-Arc Graduate Programs Chair] takes an excursion through her latest book “Elena Manferdini: Portraits an...

Music/Sound

Via Patrick Baele > The electronic composer invites us to her LA home for an intimate performance. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has become one of the most fascinating champions of modu...

An educated guess as to how Mubert’s endless music streams are created, and how generative music systems like Mubert’s are going to impact music creation.

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