Michal B. Paradowski (Warsaw): The Embodied Language: Why Language Should Not Be Conceived of in Abstraction from the Brain and Body, and the Consequences for Robotics. This Blog is Not a Fungus: Technology’s effect on culture is not just about the production and distribution of the media — technology becomes part of the plot, it enables new kinds of narratives, and produces new art forms all-together. From Transformations, a special issue on Slow Media, including Tero Karppi (Turku): Digital Suicide and the Biopolitics of Leaving Facebook. Jason Silva’s captivating videos deliver a dose of "techno-optimism". Our successors, the next stage of Homo sapiens, have ascended to the level of effortlessly geolocating tweets and viewing many more of their friends' updates on their iPads all while listening to iTunes — could evolution possibly reach any higher? Mike Thomsen on the search for posthumanism: The idea that we can run out of time is peculiar — it’s a product of how we organize our memories. In the Year 9595: Why the singularity is not near, but hope springs eternal.
