Humanity Revisited

Human population dynamics revisited with the logistic model: how much can be modeled and predicted?

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Nothing can hold out against civilization and the power of industry. The only animal species to survive will be those that industry multiplies. With hundreds of eggs in her ovaries, she begins a search for carbon dioxide and heat.

Once detected, she lands on her host to penetrate the epidermis with her proboscis and deposit saliva, which as an anti-coagulant, ensures The rise of right-wing populist, anti-liberal, and authoritarian political alternatives has brought a renewed attention to architecture. Anthropogeny is the study of human origins, of how something that was not quite human becomes human.

It considers what enables and curtails us today: It was , and the scales of territories, cities, buildings, animals, plants and human started to simultaneously expand and contract. Proximity and narrative became the matter. So we decide to retreat and prepare for the usual post-apocalyptic era. Pale light could be seen coming from gaps in a large, low building. A simple clarity had been disturbed. True size was hard to read. The function of this place was hard to define. The surrounding landscape held no markers or signs. Nothing stood close by in order to provide scale.

The mass refused to reveal itself. Cuts in the facade were troubling and extreme. Great tears and raw holes had broken through a thin metal skin, yet the basic framework remained. A view through the cuts revealed Anton Vidokle and Arseny Zhilyaev. Cosmism is a little known intellectual and artistic movement that arose in Russia towards the end of the nineteenth century.

At its base is a philosophy of immortality and Chapter 1 As I scan the fields below I see her, in the corner of my lens. She is playing below, in a town I have never heard of, in a place I will never visit. It is 2pm on a Tuesday. I am on a long mission that launched back in World War I, and I am still flying.

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I look down on the world. I am operated, I am programmed and subject to your motivations I drift across voyeurism, horror and wonder. What I choose to focus on defines who you are, and in the glass of When the brain manages to introduce a knower in the mind, subjectivity follows. Creative Destruction and Cybernetic History I saw the future. A clean slate, flat, designed through and through. Nelson states that design is crucial in improving both the form and function of weapons. It deploys aesthetics to improve lethal technology.

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An accelerated version of the design of killing recently went on trial This question is this: A special case of this would be: If they do, what are the means of recognition? One reason for asking the question is because of the way in which violence There was a period shortly before the third end when a group of mechatronic engineers were incredibly productive. Mechatronic Systems Science Programs created new devices for communication without cell phones that emit radiofrequencies.

Our Incident Update Office transformed crime-prediction algorithms into crime-prevention algorithms and abolished all In , during a flight over southwest Amazonia, the geographer Alceu Ranzi noticed a huge geometric earthwork cut through the middle of a vast tract of deforested land. From the ground, the structure was nearly imperceptible, as it mingled with the environment like a natural topographic feature, but from the vantage point of the aircraft, its precise architectural plan was clearly distinguishable as an engineered inscription on the surface of the earth.

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If to err is human, to design corrective systems is all the more so. Crucially, in both, one does not have to be able to draw a circle to draw a circle. Over the past twelve months, two international initiatives have been closely watched because they appear to set the terms for a new, globally punishable, architectural criminality. The discovery just reveals that we, non-ducks, are deeply fascinated by sharing traits that are relevant to our idea of rationality with ducks.

If taken really seriously, the discovery is a revolution, marking, in a very nice, duckish way, the impossibility of taking the premises of humanism and humanists seriously These small digital animations, more commonly known as buffer icons, only appear when your internet connection or browser speed is too slow to manage the volume of incoming data.

In the s almost every webpage used to buffer before it loaded; the old Netscape throbber depicting a meteor shower over a hilltop was practically the unofficial logo of the World Wide Web for many years. These days you will only see a But such aestheticization reaches deeper, it affects fundamental structures of reality as such. Appearance is the summary of phenomena.

The chemical design of DNA is uniform among every form of life, but its sequence is different between species and individuals. Design, Kiesler implies, is born by the omnivorous appetite of animal beings seeking to assimilate the most indigestible things, including This was neither the first nor the last time a suicide bomber would strike against innocent people in a modern public space, The New Old Gentry Housing is meant to make our lives more comfortable from the outside.

Besides walls that protect us from hostile circumstances, we have equipped the interior with an accumulation of tools and devices.

To be spoiled by all those belongings has only been followed by even more things. Digitalization marked a shift in the minimalism of interior design; while it was first about shrinking, smoothing, and hiding those tools and devices, 3D printing and the Cloud enable us to A sophisticated type of android, it fulfilled a series of literary dreams and cinematic fantasies: Most cultures, it seems, project the idea of design into the sphere of international English and the cool modernity it represents.

Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty. One morning, while a man busied himself opening his shop, Design and Accident entered into a conversation. Their families, friends, gods, religions, organizations, communities and nations are me; their homes, schools, factories, temples, cities and graveyards are nothing but me; there is no human universe without me; I am what they eat, wear and think; I create sense in I wish You and I were in a house A house the furthest house Erased behind the frontiers of darkness and wind And snow falling, wounding the surface of all things, Making you lose your way, so that you would never leave, And you would remain, Next to me you would remain, While a thousand season of jasmine would blossom, and Daniel Birnbaum and Sven-Olov Wallenstein.

Certainly there have been works of literature, art, and music with such magnificent ambitions, and intellectuals who have attempted to articulate the philosophy of, say, the novel, And there was nothing any of us could do about it. If I am not drowned or killed trying to escape in the next few days, I hope to write two books. I shall entitle them Apology for Survivors and Tribute to Malthus.

The division of humans into passive victims, active Isamu Noguchi wired his friend Buckminster Fuller, an admirer of Einstein, to ask if he knew it. Man is alone, desperately scraping out the music of his own skeleton, without father, mother, family, love, god or society. And no living being to accompany him. And the skeleton is not of bone, but of skin, like a skin that walks. I could not use Some twenty years ago, the effects of an expanding regime of design were starting to be felt in the field of contemporary art.

Increasingly, designers seemed to use art contexts as platforms for non-pragmatic reflection and expression. In the work of collectives like Superflex or Atelier van Lieshout, for instance, design was Its appearance was whole and round with four hands and legs, two faces, and a back on all sides. The creature was not erect and would never stand vertical to the earth.

The first and sometimes last thing an architect designs is himself. John Swan is the forgotten son of a mason, but also the moderately known architect John Soan, as I was inventing culture for myself, and at the same time inventing a character and a personality. Field Note Excerpt I: Anticipation was in the air.

Old friends, new acquaintances, and profitable collaborations. History and synthetic genomes.

If we contemplate any natural object, especially any part of animated nature, fully and in all its bearings, we can arrive only at this conclusion: But human infrastructures and activities Apparently nobody wants to know that contemporary history has created a new kind of human being—the kind that are put in concentration camps by their foes and in internment camps by their friends.

Might the humanitarian protection of humanity also involve a production The idea of self-design is a paradox. Or, to put it more accurately, the idea of self-design will be a paradox if the self involved is understood as either too unified or too heterogeneous.

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Even so, paradox lingers. The self that emerges should merge back into the very agent who is doing the It is probably a mistake to elevate those attributes of the homo sapiens nervous system that long for the right answer, the unified field, the elementary particle, or the universal truth.

The field of design has radically expanded. As a practice, design is no longer limited to the world of material objects, but rather extends from carefully crafted individual looks and online identities, to the surrounding galaxies of personal devices, new materials, interfaces, networks, systems, infrastructures, data, chemicals, organisms, and genetic codes. From the Publisher via CrossRef no proxy dx. Mill John Stuart - - Broadview Press. Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Richard Rorty - - Cambridge University Press.

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