<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Renate, hello all!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">My bookshelves are filled with science fiction—this weekend I finished Robert A. Heinlein's <i>Orphans of the Sky</i> and started Octavia E. Butler's <i>Kindred;</i> my online reading centers on surveillance media, algorithmic civilization and its discontents (including artists, techies and organizers who are seeking alternatives):</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/opinion/sunday/facebook-surveillance-society-technology.html" target="_blank">Shoshana Zuboff on Surveillance Society and Epistemic Chaos</a><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://ourcyberpunknow.substack.com/p/some-armageddon" target="_blank">James McGirk on 5th Generation Warfare</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/fatherrich_/status/1343000927448535043">Robert Saint Rich on the incompatibility of social media and art</a><br></div><div><a href="https://opensea.io/blog/announcements/introducing-the-collection-manager/?utm_campaign=Newsletter+January+2021&utm_content=A&utm_medium=email_action&utm_source=customer.io" target="_blank"><i>Lazy Minting</i> of NFTs on OpenSea</a></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.ericbarrydrasin.com/portfolio/1274/" target="_blank">Eric Barry Drasin on a Distributed Object Framework for digital properties</a><br></div><div>Eric Drasin also pointed me to these sites:</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://metagov.org/" target="_blank">http://metagov.org/</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://workerorganizing.org/" target="_blank">http://workerorganizing.org/</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://economicspace.agency/" target="_blank">http://economicspace.agency/</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://bentoncbainbridge.com/cv/" target="_blank">Here's my bio</a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/lwHujA4KDw4" target="_blank">a short video by Andrew Freedman Home about my recent artwork</a>.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Thanks for this soft_skinned_space free of algorithmic intermediaries! 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dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Benton C Bainbridge | +1.646.338.9172 </div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/lwHujA4KDw4" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:15 PM Renate Ferro <<a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu" target="_blank">rferro@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
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