Günther Anders's "The Obsolescence of the Human," which was finally translated into English last year, is one of the books I most often recommend these days. Robert Bellafiore has written a lucid introduction to Anders's ever more relevant thought: https://t.co/MWiwSMeq6u— Geoff Shullenberger (@g_shullenberger) September 10, 2026
The obsolescence of man, vol I , part 2: The world as phantom and as matrix: philosophical considerations on radio and television - Günther Anders
The first complete English translation of a remarkable 1956 essay about television from Vol. I of The Obsolescence of Man by Günther Anders, who—using phenomenological analyses, excerpts from his diaries and reflections on daily life—depicts a capitalist world that manufactures a warped “mass-man” by imposing nonparticipation, consumption of images, artificial “needs” (“drug addiction is the model for today’s needs”), separation, “conditioning”, an eternal present, commodified leisure and the dissolution of the individual in vapid mass produced roles, in a text that in many ways anticipates the theory of the “spectacle” of Guy Debord and the situationists.
Import AI 463: Self-improving robots; a 10k Chinese GPU cluster; and an elegiac essay for the human era
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In conversation with Eric Ries – June 3, Marin
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Martin Eden by Jack London
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
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Anarchism
Geoffrey Ostergaard Anarchism 1993 Published in The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social and Political Thought, pp. 12–14.
Great new-ish paper by @zephoria.bsky.social I have a few thoughts …
