critiquing ideology
In what has been called the ‘6th Mass Extinction‘, we are currently living through a period in which overpopulation, exhaustive consumption patterns, and global warming are leading to ‘biological annihilation’. There have been five other mass extinctions: End-Ordovician, 443 million years ago Late Devonian, 360 million years ago Permian-Triassic, 250 million years go Triassic-Jurassic, 200 […]
Read More…“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face” – Albert Camus
Read More…Whilst social media may, in some cases, have a positive impact on an individual’s mental health, many studies demonstrate the serious risk it poses to your day-to-day mental state. A recent article I found in the Economist helps to make this sweeping statement slightly more detailed. Here is an interesting graph demonstrating the impact of […]
Read More…“Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t […]
Read More…From the bottomless entrails of darkness arises the shining spark of a new culture” – Kazimir Malevich The Russian painter Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935), developed a new form of painting called Suprematism during the turbulent years of the Russian Revolution and the First World War. Suprematism reflects the revolutionary spirit through abandoning the traditional mode of […]
Read More…1) What happens when machines pass the Turing Test, or further still, the point of Singularity? 2) How do we ensure the compliance of a machine that we don’t understand? 3) Can we realistically ensure the long-term survival of humanity in the age of super-intelligent AI? 4) If we can, how should human society, politics […]
Read More…“It’s not only about the facts, it’s also about the perceptions, it’s also about people’s feelings, it’s also about people’s emotions, and I am very well aware that emotion is a subject that is underestimated and belittled in mainstream political theory, but in general, we, on the left liberal democrat progressive circles, I don’t think […]
Read More…Then out spoke the new horizon, the guide of those in trouble: “to every man upon this land the future do doth bubble. And what is much more worthy than spending time with me, as we seek to find the answers The Junction sets us free. And for all those in peril, in need […]
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The Junction 