Stefan Tiron
@tironstefan.bsky.social
Scheerbartian central planner//ostblock SF shlock theory//Chinamarxxing since the 80s Fugitive exo-curator, eco horror actor & theory fiction writer.
#recommend #cinema #politics #desire #libido #substack #psychanalysis Bogdan’s Wiederholen iamanintellectual.substack.com?r=4uegi&utm_...
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I am a philosopher and cultural critic, and teach courses in American Studies in a Department of Letters (Brașov, Romania). On this site you can find reflections on film and politics, psychoanalysis a...
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#finance #capital #occult #singapore Big thanks to MUSE as always for providing a #pdf foe Spectropolis: The Enchantment of Capital in Singapore by Joshua Comaroff muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/oa_mo... about capital flows, speculation and 'ghost-busting’ teams deployed at real estate projects. CC licence.
Project MUSE - Spectropolis
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#climateemergency #climatechange #climatecrisis Not as fast as heat trap cities but global warming is coming to the country side. No more protection at your dacha. Pioneering study projects rural heat will edge closer to city swelter. www.science.org/content/arti...
Global warming is coming for the countryside
Pioneering study projects rural heat will edge closer to city swelter
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RIP John Crowley. Very very sad, may he find peace & comfort in the realm of the Faerie. Such comfort & endless enchantment to be finally reading this summer Little Big that I've been hunting since the 80s...
Online reading group dedicated to Mike Davis's Late Victorian Holocausts, which uncovers the devastating role imperialism played in the famines that followed nineteenth-century El Niño-related droughts. v @equatormag.bsky.social
#sciencefiction #worldbuilding #political #reactionary I finally managed to #review Jordan S. Carroll's timely book Speculative Whiteness on Goodreads. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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#pessimism #humanity #sciencefiction #exhuman My #review of Michael Bérubé's The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species which I finished recently, which, although a tough cookie, I must say I enjoyed. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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I am getting a lot of follow-ups recently. Just know that I have no interest in following back.
No significant rainfall expected for England and Wales in the foreseeable future. #climatecrisis
Drought expected to be declared in more parts of England
Officials will meet on Monday to assess water shortages across the country as a new heatwave builds.
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#heatwave #economy #Germany #health youtu.be/0DfrrAoSXHc?... Compared to China or the US Europe seems severely limited in its response (and protection) against extreme climate change produced heatwaves. No protection in Germany for green slaves/workers working outside compared to France. #AdamTooze
Was extreme Sommer uns wirklich kosten | Mit Prof. Adam Tooze
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#cartoon #annecy #Berlin #animation #soulshift Something similar to Rick & Morty is screening today at Babylon Kino in Berlin where there're snowing the highlights from Annecy. I wish these would circulate wider and get promoted more. babylonberlin.eu/programm/fes...
BABYLON in Berlin - Best of Annecy 2026: Soul Shift
Kino Babylon
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#techbros #tecnofascism #book #cyberpunk Similar to Golumbia, Morozov, Slobodian, Hao, Gil Durán etc. French Tunisian political scientist Asma Mhalla follows not the rupture but transition to post-liberal regime (not a return to old historical fascism) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/838411...
Cyberpunk by Asma Mhalla: 9781644216033 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Asma Mhalla’s wildly popular Cyberpunk is a prescient, urgent deep dive into techno-political totalitarianism with more than 50,000 copies sold since its release in France. French political scientist...
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#essay #mustread #bootleg #cinephiles #movies #pandemic “The Internet Cafe That Died During The Pandemic” by Laurehl Onyx B. Cabiles Evocative essay about the pandemic times at a small internet cafe in the Philippines. chajournal.com/2026/07/14/i...
[ESSAY] “The Internet Cafe That Died During The Pandemic” by Laurehl Onyx B. Cabiles
[ESSAY] “The Internet Cafe That Died During The Pandemic” by Laurehl Onyx B. Cabiles There was a well-known internet café in our municipality. Like all other small businesses, it was lo…
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#capital #gaming #class Class Wargames & Richard Barbrook play testing The Capital: The Board Game designed by Cheng Enfu www.facebook.com/groups/58141... thx AR
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Here's a peek #preview at some of the gorgeous alternative covers for the release of the BAD comics imprint of Fantomas publishing MangaINC20 zine by @otakuent.bsky.social full galore of manga & recommendations.
#book #history #balkan #romania Craft of Robbery by Florin Dumitrescu. A new book on the romantic & tricksterish tradition of Robin Hoods #haiduc #hajduk is out in Romanian. www.facebook.com/share/p/1D1D...
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#rave #romania #brasov #boysonic #dancemusic #history #jungle #lp The rediscovery (thx to Lidia Ilici) of all but forgotten music pioneers Boysonic (1993-1994) - wicked tracks (as well as re edits and new mixes) on Madhouse by Boysonic is ready for pre-order. boysonicc.bandcamp.com/album/boyson...
Boysonic (1993-1994) - Madhouse, by Boysonic
17 track album
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#technolibertarian #history #siliconvalley #ai #wired I know I have posted this before, but everyone should listen to this #interview. Long unavailable, Borsook's groundbreaking Cyberselfish romp through the incipient SV geek and techbro subculture by Zer0 Books. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcme...
Why “Cyberselfish,” Written 25 Years Ago, Is Suddenly Relevant Again | Amanpour and Company
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And for my thoughts on DINOTOPIA: A LAND APART FROM TIME, you can read that essay too!
Reading “Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time” by James Gurney (Dinotopia 1)
James Gurney’s Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time (1992) is an incredible illustrated utopian novel of an adventurer’s arrival and education in a land where dinosaurs and humans live sid…
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Today I took a look at James Gurney's second Dinotopia book, THE WORLD BENEATH (1995), a parable about the dangers of a society that overrelies on technology and turns its back on multispecies community. A beautiful book, but not nearly as powerful as DINOTOPIA (1992).
Reading “The World Beneath” by James Gurney (Dinotopia 2)
On James Gurney’s The World Beneath (1995), the second Dinotopia illustrated novel and a parable about the dangers of overreliance on technology at the expense of community.
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My colleague and quondam coauthor William Diebold wrote about that Nazi exhibition of replicas in a brilliant article everyone should read. www.academia.edu/33845067/_A_...
"A living source of our civilization." The Exhibition Deutsche Groesse/Grandeur de l’Allemagne/Duitsche Grootheid in Brussels, 1942
"A living source of our civilization." The Exhibition Deutsche Groesse/Grandeur de l’Allemagne/Duitsche Grootheid in Brussels, 1942
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In Rome in 2024, I wondered what contemporary art under far right government appointees would look like and I found out: midjourney slop created through Dante’s inferno prompts. www.maxxi.art/en/events/ar...
Artificial Hell. L'Inferno di Dante visto dall'Intelligenza Artificiale | MAXXI
La cantica dell’Inferno narrata integralmente attraverso un percorso visivo e multimediale.
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Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2w ago<<cough>> H/t to @ebwood.bsky.social for the NYT story here
"Artificial intelligence is not just a market product or a scientific achievement. It is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy." connect the dots! Dr. McMillan Cottom has homework! go to the library, host a reading group, organize your neighbors www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
Opinion | A Reading List for Our Age of A.I. (Gift Article)
A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.
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"Banning any open model would hurt first cyber security defenders, startups, small companies, researchers and everyone who's not a frontier lab and need on-prem affordable controlable models to compete and protect themselves. Let's not do that!" edition.cnn.com/2026/07/31/u...
Hugging Face CEO speaks out after company hacked during OpenAI test | CNN
CNN News Central’s Kate Bolduan speaks with Hugging Face CEO and co-founder Clement Delangue in his first interview since the platform was hacked by an OpenAI model that escaped its test environment.
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#book #bigtech #techbross 'Cyberselfish' on Amanpour and Company 💥 Long unavailable, Borsook's groundbreaking behind-the-curtain look at Silicon Valley's codependent relationship with the dark heart of far-right ideology will be back in print this fall from Zer0 Books! youtu.be/fcmezu4Kba8?...
Why “Cyberselfish,” Written 25 Years Ago, Is Suddenly Relevant Again | Amanpour and Company
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Think I've found a good title for my article contribution to the Simultan Festival anthology of texts (20 years of experimental music/sound & film shorts): Festivalocene: from Wicker Man to Burning Man and back.
Altough I would say - as in Malm & Zetkin Collective - minimal space left for fhe left comes with maximal disconnect from reality.
The Isolator: A 1925 Helmet Designed to Eliminate Distractions & Increase Productivity (Created by SciFi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback) www.openculture.com/2021/05/the-...
The Isolator: A 1925 Helmet Designed to Eliminate Distractions & Increase Productivity (Created by SciFi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback)
The anti-distraction device is the modern mousetrap: build a better one, and the world will beat a path to your door.
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