Thursday, November 8, 2012

Links for 2012-11-07 [del.icio.us]

Links for 2012-11-07 [del.icio.us]:

  • Report raises ethical concerns about human enhancement technologies | Science | guardian.co.uk

    Jackie Leach Scully, an ethicist at Newcastle University, said that, while there were many advantages to a future of human enhancement, there needed to be a public debate to ensure people were not forced to work in unsuitable conditions just because drugs or other enhancements allow them to. "We've worked very hard in this country and elsewhere to put in place legal requirements to have tolerable working conditions and the last thing we'd want to see happening is for that to slip away," she said.

  • An Era of Discontent | Art Threat

    An Era of Discontent Art: As Occupation at the Kamloops Art Gallery during my visit.

    The group exhibition holds a similar heartbeat to the Occupy movement, and its variety of works speak to current political issues like cultural capital, labour, war, capitalism. An Era of Discontent is a thoughtfully curated and powerful exhibion.

  • The class teaching young people to find their inner activist | Politics | The Guardian

    Demand the Impossible – a free, five-day course at Goldsmith's College that introduced around 25 teenagers from east and north London to activism and radical politics. By the time I arrive towards the end of the week, the class has had workshops on the Egyptian revolution, Palestine, oil spillages in Africa, and feminism.

  • “L’identità nell’era dei social network“,

    “L’identità nell’era dei social network“, in Flash Art, Issue 305, October 2012, p. 30. Pdf download here.




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