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There is a problem with conceiving of death as something you can protect against through behavioral changes. There are certain things that do correlate, but if you’re living in a place where you’re exposed to various toxic chemicals, if you’re a worker at a plant where you’re exposed to carcinogens, you lack control. Transhumanists’vision of life extension views the individual subject as this enclosed body that is not dependent upon other living things and other environments.

Who Gets to Live Forever? With Tamara Kneese and Santiago Sanchez

Tamara Kneese , Santiago Sanchez

Just as maps abstracted land into monetizable parcels, computers convert things into their digital counterparts, rendering them grist for the exponential mill and supporting the underlying need under capitalism for money to grow. Nowhere has this been made more clear than in digital’s replacement for central currency—crypto.

Survival of the Richest

Douglas Rushkoff

Before writing, the natural limits on human cognition and memory prevented memeplexes from becoming too elaborate or abstract; after, the sky was the limit—words became the fire-hardened bricks with which we erected ever-higher and more intricate thought structures.

The Great Disembedding

Roger’s Bacon

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