Coco Krumme traces the fascinating history of optimization from its roots in America’s founding principles, to its dominance as the driving principle of our modern world. Optimized models underlie everything and are deeply embedded in the technologies and assumptions that have come to comprise not only our material reality, but what we make of it. […]
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Optimized models underlie more and more of the world around us. They are deeply embedded in the technological assumptions that have come to comprise our material reality and what we make of it. But how did a mathematical concept take on such outsized cultural shape? What have we lost through a single-minded pursuit of optimization?
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In scientific archives the world over, ghosts of time and space lurk. Collected by long-dead naturalists and biologists, each collected specimen is a window into the moment of its creation β and the centuries of science that followed. In a dispatch from the entomological archives, writer and researcher A’liya Spinner tells us of how the
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Coco Krumme traces the fascinating history of optimization from its roots in America’s founding principles, to its dominance as the driving principle of our modern world. Optimized models underlie everything and are deeply embedded in the technologies and assumptions that have come to comprise not only our material reality, but what we make of it.
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Good evening everyone! Welcome to tonightβs Long Now Talk featuring Bette Adriaanse in conversation with Chelsea T. Hicks on Radical Sharing. Bette & Chelsea will be joined for this Talk by virtual guests Brian Eno, Margaret Levi, and Aqui Thami. Bette Adriaanse, Chelsea T. Hicks | Radical Sharing www.youtube.com Our bodies, our houses, our land,
Bette Adriaanse is a writer and co-founder of TRQSE, an international network of artists and scientists working together on social issues. Her new novel Whatβs Mine revolves around topics of property and sharing, and she is interested in the ways our sharing habits influence our societies and our characters. Chelsea T. Hicks is a writer
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Next Week: We humans donβt always like to share. Author Bette Adriaanse talks with Chelsea T. Hicks, and virtual guests Brian Eno, Margaret Levi, and Aqui Thami, about property, sharing, and how to make a lasting positive change in the way we share the world with each other. Photos from The Long Now Foundation’s post
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