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Review by Kristian H. Nielsen

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he distribution of social capital (including economic, relational and intellectual forms of capital) further distinguishes the typical anticipations of the future characterizing different social groups (Bordieu, 1984)

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(via I Have a Computer Chip in My Brain That Reads My Thoughts - VICE)

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(via Are We Already Living in the Age of the Cyborg?)

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Let’s start with the disclosure. I voted for the UK to remain in the European Union (EU). My reasoning at the time was that the EU is an over-bureaucratic, dysfunctional organisation that ought to ...

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(via How America’s Leading Science Fiction Authors Are Shaping Your Future | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian)

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How Alexa Fits Into Amazon’s Prime Directive

The wildly popular home assistant offers a vision of an automated future — one that Amazon itself is poised to dominate.

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sound map archives for diverse communities. data archive of living and nonliving entities. uploading sounds acti as a social forum exhibiting environmental, social, and political problems, conflicts, memories, desires demands of the .........(via Sesol.org [BE the VOICE of] – Islands Sound Map | Sesol.org: Ses Haritaları Platformu)

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Imagining Futures: Speculative Design and Social Justice

This is just a short excerpt for the about page.

fantastic syllabus for a course using science fiction as the core

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another syllabus on teaching STS through science fiction 

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As I've done in previous terms, I am sharing here the syllabus for my graduate seminar this fall. The focus is on science fiction AS media theory: i.e. we are looking primarily at science fiction texts (mostly literary) as ways of thinking through the implications of media change and we are looking

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Fostering Scepticism: The Importance of Warranting Claims

Fostering Scepticism: The Importance of Warranting Claims: Evaluation & Research in Education: Vol 16, No 3

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an academic article

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The purpose of this guide is to provide advice on how to develop and organize a research paper in the social sciences.

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Everything You Need to Eat in Kyoto, from Chicken Skin to Tofu Ice Cream

In Japan’s prettiest city, the train station is filled with ramen, the tofu is plentiful, and it’s easy to get a taste of what this country’s food is really all about

yay for trips to Kyoto!