cross-posted at Second Power The grid is an accident in motion. Paul Virilio once said: When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution… Energy is Virilio’s dromology made incarnate: speed and infrastructure fused into a single…
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MONDAY LINKS: The Beauty of Disciplined & Decisive Action, Cosmic Duty, Exceptio Probat Regulam
If Wishes Were Fishes — a Teachable Intermezzo: “This is the most significant reality of the world picture now: the wishes of the manager class are going in one direction while the actual dynamics of economy and politics go in the opposite direction. The managers wish for their management of systems to become as centralized…
Off-Blog Content: Electric Money & Nuclear Energy
Over at my energy blog, Second Power, I’ve published a guest post by Twitter mutual Brett Maverick_, entitled Electric Money: Flywheel for the Neo-Atomic Age, which dives into the nexus of nuclear energy and Bitcoin mining. An excerpt: Given what we know about electricity, our goal here is to catalyze the nuclear industry into a…
Mid-Week Links: Shatter Zones, Cultures of Refusal, Glory
A Far Away Planet to Which I Would Never Return — The vanishing horizon line of Terrence Malick‘s BADLANDS: “Kit is a trash collector by trade, Batailling against the solar surpluses reclaimable in the culturubble, throwing away items of no-to-low utility, revealing how even The Outsider can only seek emancipation from materialism in refuse materials,…
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A weekly compendium of links. An Interface Theory of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon: “Interface Theory’s creator, Dr. Donald Hoffman has suggested that phenomenon like synaesthesia may be instances of evolution at work, a kind of real time tinkering of the interface to see what works and what doesn’t via mutation. In that light, it’s not hard…