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March 3

Dense Discovery

6 days ago

Help me hit this year’s Friends goal

Dense Discovery Dear DD reader, It’s the beginning of March and the start of my once-a-year ‘Friends Drive’. It’s when I do something that doesn’t come naturally to...

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March 2

Dense Discovery

7 days ago

378 / The myth of the dying reader

Dense Discovery – Issue 378 Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul. – Joyce Caro...

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February 23

Dense Discovery

14 days ago

377 / First, fast, forgotten: the media lifecycle

Dense Discovery – Issue 377 Just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having...

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February 16

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21 days ago

376 / Coding: from craft to commodity

Dense Discovery – Issue 376 In the technical realm we repeatedly enter into a series of social contracts, the terms of which are revealed only after the signing is complet...

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February 9

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28 days ago

375 / American acceptionalism

Dense Discovery – Issue 375 Cause-and-effect assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing awa...

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February 2

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about 1 month ago

374 / AI and the propaganda of inevitability

Dense Discovery – Issue 374 Once we discard the heroic scientist model and the myth of tech inevitability, the course of technological and scientific advancement looks les...

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January 26

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373 / Offloading risk, distributing fear

Dense Discovery – Issue 373 Isolation is, as it were, pretotalitarian; its hallmark is impotence insofar as power always comes from men acting together; isolated men are p...

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January 20

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about 2 months ago

372 / Friction-maxxing through 2026?

Dense Discovery – Issue 372 Wind extinguishes a candle and energises fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos: you want to use them, not hide from them. – Nassim...

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January 12

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371 / What our work weighs

Dense Discovery – Issue 371 There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, t...

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January 6

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2 months ago

370 / New(ish) look, same insanity

Dense Discovery – Issue 370 The question is not whether we will be technologists, but what kind of technologists we will be. – Priya Vasanth Artwork by Soña Lee ...

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