A Participatory and Personal Futures Design Course Something is wrong with how we talk about AI and climate. We get the data. We attend the briefings. We read the reports. We know what’s coming. And yet most of us leave those conversations feeling smaller, not larger. More anxious, not more empowered. Like spectators looking at …
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The Digital Crossroads
Sovereignty, Rent, and the Futures of the Dollar For nearly a century, the United States has operated under a unique global dispensation: the “exorbitant privilege” of the dollar. This system allowed the U.S. to consume the world’s goods while the world, in turn, subsidized the American standard of living by holding those dollars as a …
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Young Goodman Brown and the Epstein Files
From Revelation to Revolution The story of “Young Goodman Brown” (1835) by Nathaniel Hawthorne follows a pious young man in Salem who secretly follows his respected neighbors into the forest at night, where he witnesses them, including his own wife Faith, gathered in a demonic ritual. The minister, the deacon, the virtuous elderly women are …
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The Power of IIDEAS: Cosmolocalism and the Transformation of the Production of Everyday Life
Jose Ramos Abstract: Cosmolocalism is an emerging mode of production and exchange that reflects both the possibilities and the crises of our era. This paper provides a descriptive, historical, discursive and empirical overview of cosmolocalism. The paper begins by describing the planetary context, cosmolocalization’s technological dynamics, its preferred virtuous cycle, the inversion of production it …
Intelligence in Epic Times
Artificial intelligence has become a very fashionable way to envision the future of intelligence, and nausea. However there are a number of concepts of intelligence that can be explored in the context of epic times. What are the kinds of intelligences that are needed in the 21st century? Can we use the idea of collective intelligence as a way to expand and deepen the …
Peacebot
In a world filled with geopolitical tensions, a project called the Pacific Means Peace (PMP) project is exploring how to find alternative pathways to peace. The PMP began as a focused effort called Pax Pacifica, aimed at addressing the Taiwan-China conflict, but has since evolved into a broader initiative that integrates traditional peace theory with …
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