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“Portraits of queer futurity” at National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
https://mechanicaldolphin.com/2024/09/05/portraits-of-queer-futurity-at-national-portrait-gallery-canberra/
Published: September 5, 2024 09:04
Where do we find the limits of identity and desire? What secret possibilities of thinking the world anew exist in quiet suburbs, remote farmsteads, Olympic pools, and the farthest reaches of time and space? Join me next month for a special online virtual…
“The True Source of Hope Is That We Never Know”: Scripturient x Design by Fire, with Brett Milligan
https://mechanicaldolphin.com/2024/08/15/the-true-source-of-hope-is-that-we-never-know-scripturient-x-design-by-fire-with-brett-milligan/
Published: August 15, 2024 11:57
The latest edition of Scripturient, my quarterly column for Information Professional magazine, is out now and can be downloaded here. In it, I interview UC Davis’s Brett Milligan, who together with Emily Schlickman is the author of Design by Fire, a new…
Climate action and the vantage point of imagined futures: a scenario-based conversation
https://mechanicaldolphin.com/2024/07/01/climate-action-and-the-vantage-point-of-imagined-futures-a-scenario-based-conversation/
Published: July 1, 2024 11:03
npj Climate Action has today published a new article, “Climate action and the vantage point of imagined futures: a scenario-based conversation“, co-written by Marie Mahon, Malka Older, David Robertson, and myself. Drawing on the example of the IMAJINE…
Peat Hub Ireland: 2050 Scenarios
https://mechanicaldolphin.com/2024/06/01/peat-hub-ireland-2050-scenarios/
Published: June 1, 2024 00:18
I’m just back from collaborating with the Peat Hub Ireland team on a scenarios workshop which invited participants from across the communities and institutions involved in Irish peatlands management to explore three visions of the world in 2050.…
Emerging Threats x auDA: Mapping the Future of Internet Governance and Security
https://mechanicaldolphin.com/2024/05/26/emerging-threats-x-auda-mapping-the-future-of-internet-governance-and-security/
Published: May 26, 2024 14:28
A group from the University of Oxford’s Emerging Threats group have written a response to the auDA future-of-the-Internet scenarios, exploring them from an emerging threats and geopolitical security perspective. You can read “Mapping the Future of Internet…
Scripturient: To Dream Like A Human
https://mechanicaldolphin.com/2024/05/21/scripturient-to-dream-like-a-human/
Published: May 21, 2024 03:52
The world could always be otherwise than it is. Sometimes fate is only a failure of imagination. The trajectory of automation is not only uncertain, it is unwritten. The fundamental question is less about technical capacity than ethics, authority, and…
auDA Internet Governance Scenarios – Launch Webinar Recording
https://mechanicaldolphin.com/2024/05/08/auda-internet-governance-scenarios-launch-webinar-recording/
Published: May 8, 2024 21:54
You can watch the recording of the online launch for auDA’s scenarios for the future of Internet governance on YouTube now. Find out more about the project, and read the full scenario set, here.
Futures of the networked world – auDA Internet governance scenarios
https://mechanicaldolphin.com/2024/05/07/futures-of-the-networked-world-auda-internet-governance-scenarios/
Published: May 7, 2024 04:50
Australia’s Internet domain name self-regulatory body, the .au Domain Administration (auDA), has released a public version of its scenarios exploring the future of Internet governance. I’m pleased to have supported auDA in this process, and you can find…
Scenarios, cinema, and the horizon of dreams
https://mechanicaldolphin.com/2024/04/28/scenarios-cinema-and-the-horizon-of-dreams/
Published: April 28, 2024 17:34
“…of all forms of art, only film could show the remote horizon of dreams as a habitable country and, at the same time, could turn familiar landscapes into a vague scenery fit only for dreams.” Gerald Murnane, The Plains The word scenario came into strategy…
auDA Future of the Internet Scenarios Launch, 7 May 2024
https://mechanicaldolphin.com/2024/04/19/auda-future-of-the-internet-scenarios-launch-7-may-2024/
Published: April 19, 2024 16:28
How might global Internet governance change in times to come? What uncertainties surround our networked world, and how might they play out in ways that challenge the assumptions underpinning “business as usual” today? Together with Australia’s auDA and a…
The View from Fourth Place
https://mechanicaldolphin.com/2024/04/17/the-view-from-fourth-place/
Published: April 18, 2024 02:59
The concept of practising failure perhaps prompts us to discover our inner dweeb, to be underachievers, to fall short, to get distracted, to take a detour, to find a limit, to lose our way, to forget, to avoid mastery, and, with Walter Benjamin, to…