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Silke Panse
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Reader in Film, Art and Philosophy at an art university in the UK. Tries to digest human and nonhuman natures in and around moving images through writing.
Following Academia.edu's extractivist new terms I have deleted my account: "by creating an Account, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent to use your Member Content and your personal information ... in any manner."
September 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Cool! Now let's spend as much money on philosophy departments as we do prisons and see what happens then!
July 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Courageous Carole Cadwalladr: "Whatever they are saying, they are doing the exact opposite."
Carole Cadwalladr - Broligarchs, AI, and a Techno-Authoritarian Surveillance State | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
www.youtube.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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'Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to remember and celebrate 1.5, who passed away last year, in 2024, after a truly remarkable life.' Jason Scott-Warren's powerful eulogy for 1.5 degrees.
May 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
"Processing data, mainly for AI, will consume more electricity in the US alone by 2030 than manufacturing steel, cement, chemicals and all other energy-intensive goods combined. Only about half of the demand is likely to be met from renewable sources."
Energy demands from AI datacentres to quadruple by 2030, says report
The IEA forecast indicates a sharp rise in the requirements of AI, but said threat to the climate was ‘overstated’
www.theguardian.com
April 10, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Mostafa Henaway's relevant testimony at the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes arguing that temporary migrant labour is a continuation of the indentured labour regime of the British East India Company.
April 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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UbuWeb · All rivers lead to the same ocean: find your form of resistance, no matter how small, and go hard. It's now or never.
ubu.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
New causalities are emerging: "Sewer fatberg of ‘grease and rags’ forces Bryan Adams to cancel concert."
February 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Ethical Materialities in Art and Moving Images is out in the UK (release in the US, AU, NZ in April).
Ethical Materialities in Art and Moving Images
Starting from the premise that after modernism and postmodernism – in the Anthropocene – an artwork cannot rest upon its separation from the planet, this volume…
www.bloomsbury.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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The authors of “Generative AI and Social Media May Exacerbate the Climate Crisis” outline some of the indirect ways in which generative AI and social media undermine the focus & veracity required to address the climate crisis: https://bit.ly/4gO2Cwc #OpenAccess via @gepjournal.bsky.social
January 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Thank you all for joining us at the event, 'A Warning to America - 2073 and The Arrival of Techno Authoritarianism'

Featuring Asif Kapadia, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, @mariaressa.bsky.social & Rana Ayyub

The full event is now available to watch on YouTube
youtu.be/2n3lVl0dZ9g?...
A Warning to America - 2073 and The Arrival of Techno Authoritarianism
YouTube video by The Citizens
youtu.be
January 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Adding to it by posting: "The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry."
The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
January 10, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
fortune.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM