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Genetic analysis reveals that house cats were never domesticated like dogs and horses. Humans invented the idea of robot uprisings to reassure ourselves that we are a worthy adversary for our machines, rather than merely their boring aunties. Fired pottery changed the world more than the internet will. In the future, computers and the natural environment will merge. Homo sapiens is merely a glorified combination of <i>Homo erectus</i> and a lot of symbolic-nomadic labor. Your gender has become a weaponized meme.
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How much are you willing to pay for a fantasy?
https://buttondown.com/thehypothesis/archive/how-much-are-you-willing-to-pay-for-a-fantasy/
Published: February 24, 2025 18:36
One of the great mysteries contemplated by everyone from top executives in the entertainment industry, to lowly culture critics, is why people are willing to pay money for certain kinds of stories. Especially when so many of those stories are essentially…
The man who discovered media codes and how to resist them
https://buttondown.com/thehypothesis/archive/the-man-who-discovered-media-codes-and-how-to/
Published: February 10, 2025 20:03
Morpheus is ready for some discourse theory, in The Matrix (1999).
How do you analyze something that is imaginary, symbolic, and exerts its power only in our minds? This, in a nutshell, is the question at the core of media studies. There are no scientific…