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By playing with body art, gay male aesthetics and extreme physical training – from weightlifting to martial arts – the artist has adapted his own female body into a series of powerful physical shapes that challenge any notion of binary gender… “…I wanted to draw attention to the fact that…

With virtually no police, crime or unemployment, meet the Spanish town described as a democratic, socialist utopia. Unemployment is non-existent in Marinaleda, an Andalusian village in southern Spain that is prosperous thanks to its farming cooperative. Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.filmsforaction.org

Physicists around the world (myself included) are hoping that this week will mark the beginning of a new era of discovery. And not, as some fear, the end of particle physics as we know it. Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.iflscience.com After 27 months of upgrade, the Large Hadron Collider gears up for…

ROSS ULBRICHT CONCEIVED of his Silk Road black market as an online utopia beyond law enforcement’s reach. Now he’ll spend the rest of his life firmly in its grasp, locked inside a federal penitentiary. On Friday Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his…

The problem isn’t the substance of student complaints — the problem is that university lecturers are so terrified of the effect student complaints could have. That’s a problem to be solved by universities having faculty members’ backs, not by somehow silencing the debate over identity politics. Sourced through Scoop.it from:…

“Today EPA confirmed what communities living with fracking have known for years, fracking pollutes drinking water,” said Earthworks Policy Director Lauren Pagel. She continued, “Now the Obama administration, Congress, and state governments must act on that information to protect our drinking water, and stop perpetuating the oil and gas industry’s…

We’ve had the authority to collect and publish data on police use of force for 20 years. We can’t wait another 20 for transparency or accountability Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.theguardian.com

The reptilian antihero gets civic papers granting special residency for watching over the people of Tokyo (and boosting tourism) Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.theguardian.com

The rise of in-game photography has left people asking: when is a screenshot a photograph and is it ever art? Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.hopesandfears.com Ontology of the virtual work of art… photography within games.

“For the past century, cities in Texas have had courts and the state recognize their power to govern themselves, with the understanding that the city knows best how to protect its way of life and its citizens,” says Adam Briggle, a philosophy professor at the University of North Texas in…

Elites have changed the very rules by which the economy runs — and not in a good way. Sourced through Scoop.it from: prospect.org Robert Reich amending his standard interpretation of inequality to more properly include how plutocrats have reconstructed social norms in the Society of Control to benefit the elites…

Four leading researchers share their concerns and solutions for reducing societal risks from intelligent machines. Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.nature.com

The apparatus of disappearance is a capitalist ritual of creating ghosts. Disappearance is intrinsic to capitalism, to Western modernity, which is always already prepared to dispose of these othered humans along lines of racialized poverty. Disappearance in this sense, of the necropolitical creation of disposable classes that are prone to…