Jumana Emil Abboud
Where did the mountain go?
Paper No. 7 – November 2023
A multi-authoured folk tale in the future adapted from the Palestinian folk tale “Gazelle.” Abboud channels her childhood memory, as well as the expansive community of women storytellers and a chatbot AI in the remaking of the original tale.
PDF free download
Ronnie Vuine
Do Not Align
Paper No. 4 – August 2023
A superintelligence is “one of us” from the moment it emerges. It is more connected, epistemically and normatively, to any one part of humanity (evil or good) than the parts of humanity are connected to each other. The humanity that could potentially restrain superintelligences does not exist.
PDF free download
Karin Pittman
Conversations With Slime
Paper No. 1 – June 2023
Slime contains antiparasitic, antiviral, antifungal, antibacterial substances and triggers for the wider immune system. Slime has protected all aquatic organisms through evolution, and
has ended up lining our guts as a continuation of its constant companionship. It is the great mediator. Respect the slime even if you cannot understand it.
PDF free download
Sonia Fernández Pan
The Ultimate Dancers
Paper No. 6 – October 2023
After a major crisis, the energy produced by dancing bodies inside clubs is stored and used as a local resource. The characters in this story are aware of the ambiguity of their work, but they are mostly driven by the pleasure and community-making when dancing. What’s more, their routine hints at a society where friendship and communal living is
a widespread practice.
PDF free download
Amanda E. Metzger
Identity Sandboxing
Paper No. 3 – June 2023
The research project SCION suggests a new Internet architecture of largely separate subnetworks, so-called Isolation Domains. This approach is taken as the scaffold for thought experiments on how to help artists by providing more privacy and security. Isolation Domains could separate the different domains of an artist’s life—allowing for more vulnerability to be shared.
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Ran Zhang
My Slippery Minds
Paper No. 5 – September 2023
Ran Zhang’s narrator lives in the year 2123 and is the descendent of an ancient East Asian grey-zoner. She sits in an armchair, resting on a regular afternoon, analyzing things around her in the middle of the known and unknown, and letting her mind drift between awake criticism, cognitive self-doubt, pseudo-rationality and illusive absurdity. The text is written as a response to experiencing the mental states of citizens in authoritarian societies.
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Onome Ekeh
Future Fashion Week
Paper No. 2 – June 2023
Future Fashion Week is an ephemeral event. A noetic device designed to capture your attention and attune it to a greater purpose than merely enhancing your sartorial experience (even though this is also important and instrumental to our cause).
PDF free download
Jumana Emil Abboud
Where did the mountain go?
Paper No. 7 – November 2023
A multi-authoured folk tale in the future adapted from the Palestinian folk tale “Gazelle.” Abboud channels her childhood memory, as well as the expansive community of women storytellers and a chatbot AI in the remaking of the original tale.
PDF free download
Ran Zhang
My Slippery Minds
Paper No. 5 – September 2023
Ran Zhang’s narrator lives in the year 2123 and is the descendent of an ancient East Asian grey-zoner. She sits in an armchair, resting on a regular afternoon, analyzing things around her in the middle of the known and unknown, and letting her mind drift between awake criticism, cognitive self-doubt, pseudo-rationality and illusive absurdity. The text is written as a response to experiencing the mental states of citizens in authoritarian societies.
PDF free download
Amanda E. Metzger
Identity Sandboxing
Paper No. 3 – June 2023
The research project SCION suggests a new Internet architecture of largely separate subnetworks, so-called Isolation Domains. This approach is taken as the scaffold for thought experiments on how to help artists by providing more privacy and security. Isolation Domains could separate the different domains of an artist’s life—allowing for more vulnerability to be shared.
PDF free download
Karin Pittman
Conversations With Slime
Paper No. 1 – June 2023
Slime contains antiparasitic, antiviral, antifungal, antibacterial substances and triggers for the wider immune system. Slime has protected all aquatic organisms through evolution, and
has ended up lining our guts as a continuation of its constant companionship. It is the great mediator. Respect the slime even if you cannot understand it.
PDF free download
Sonia Fernández Pan
The Ultimate Dancers
Paper No. 6 – October 2023
After a major crisis, the energy produced by dancing bodies inside clubs is stored and used as a local resource. The characters in this story are aware of the ambiguity of their work, but they are mostly driven by the pleasure and community-making when dancing. What’s more, their routine hints at a society where friendship and communal living is
a widespread practice.
PDF free download
Ronnie Vuine
Do Not Align
Paper No. 4 – August 2023
A superintelligence is “one of us” from the moment it emerges. It is more connected, epistemically and normatively, to any one part of humanity (evil or good) than the parts of humanity are connected to each other. The humanity that could potentially restrain superintelligences does not exist.
PDF free download
Onome Ekeh
Future Fashion Week
Paper No. 2 – June 2023
Future Fashion Week is an ephemeral event. A noetic device designed to capture your attention and attune it to a greater purpose than merely enhancing your sartorial experience (even though this is also important and instrumental to our cause).
PDF free download
Jumana Emil Abboud
Where did the mountain go?
Paper No. 7 – November 2023
A multi-authoured folk tale in the future adapted from the Palestinian folk tale “Gazelle.” Abboud channels her childhood memory, as well as the expansive community of women storytellers and a chatbot AI in the remaking of the original tale.
PDF free download
Sonia Fernández Pan
The Ultimate Dancers
Paper No. 6 – October 2023
After a major crisis, the energy produced by dancing bodies inside clubs is stored and used as a local resource. The characters in this story are aware of the ambiguity of their work, but they are mostly driven by the pleasure and community-making when dancing. What’s more, their routine hints at a society where friendship and communal living is
a widespread practice.
PDF free download
Ran Zhang
My Slippery Minds
Paper No. 5 – September 2023
Ran Zhang’s narrator lives in the year 2123 and is the descendent of an ancient East Asian grey-zoner. She sits in an armchair, resting on a regular afternoon, analyzing things around her in the middle of the known and unknown, and letting her mind drift between awake criticism, cognitive self-doubt, pseudo-rationality and illusive absurdity. The text is written as a response to experiencing the mental states of citizens in authoritarian societies.
PDF free download
Ronnie Vuine
Do Not Align
Paper No. 4 – August 2023
A superintelligence is “one of us” from the moment it emerges. It is more connected, epistemically and normatively, to any one part of humanity (evil or good) than the parts of humanity are connected to each other. The humanity that could potentially restrain superintelligences does not exist.
PDF free download
Amanda E. Metzger
Identity Sandboxing
Paper No. 3 – June 2023
The research project SCION suggests a new Internet architecture of largely separate subnetworks, so-called Isolation Domains. This approach is taken as the scaffold for thought experiments on how to help artists by providing more privacy and security. Isolation Domains could separate the different domains of an artist’s life—allowing for more vulnerability to be shared.
PDF free download
Onome Ekeh
Future Fashion Week
Paper No. 2 – June 2023
Future Fashion Week is an ephemeral event. A noetic device designed to capture your attention and attune it to a greater purpose than merely enhancing your sartorial experience (even though this is also important and instrumental to our cause).
PDF free download
Karin Pittman
Conversations With Slime
Paper No. 1 – June 2023
Slime contains antiparasitic, antiviral, antifungal, antibacterial substances and triggers for the wider immune system. Slime has protected all aquatic organisms through evolution, and
has ended up lining our guts as a continuation of its constant companionship. It is the great mediator. Respect the slime even if you cannot understand it.
PDF free download
