delta.ark

What capital builds, we must learn to live in. A new essay at five scales — body, medium, society, geopolitics, cosmos — on the medieval-mythic aesthetic regime berserk capitalism is producing, populated by clashing AIs and human facsimiles. delta.center/berserk-capitalism #philosophyoftechnology #aesthetics #aestheticsofai #ai #postbiological #aiagents #aiwar #autonomousagents #motioncapture #vrchat #ghostclub #medievalfutures #speculativedesign #virtualworlds #deltaark #hangwithai #worldengineslab

What we make makes us. A new essay at five scales — cosmic to a single video game — on what humans are building, whether we mean to or not, and what we might become inside it. As we domesticate the agents, they domesticate us. delta.center/cosmic-toy #philosophyoftechnology #ai #postbiological #aiagents #autonomousagents #emergence #symbiogenesis #speculativedesign #virtualworlds #worldengineslab #deltaark #hangwithai

Who makes work like this? Can I hire them and/or their junior colleagues? Apply page is here: https://delta.center/graphic-design

#gravitysketch + #blender experiments with @jorisputteneers

Four founding mothers. Names unknown. A man arriving by ship at Ostia, 80 CE. A woman in the Rhine valley, prehistoric, lineage K. A woman in the Rhine valley, prehistoric, lineage N1b. A woman whose mtDNA traveled west from China, date uncertain. A woman in southern Italy, 9th century, converted. A man in Mainz, 11th century, slaughtered. A woman in Worms, 11th century, slaughtered. A boy in Speyer, 12th century, hidden in a cellar. A girl in Erfurt, 14th century, buried with the others. A woman in Lublin, 16th century, reciting psalms. A man in Vilna, 18th century, arguing about a comma. A woman in Odessa, 1881, on a ship. A man in New York, 1924, lying about his age. A woman in Los Angeles, 1989, swimming. The face of the descendant: see attached. Notes ¹ Hammer, M.F. et al. (2000). "Jewish and Middle Eastern non-Jewish populations share a common pool of Y-chromosome biallelic haplotypes." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97(12): 6769–6774. ² Behar, D.M. et al. (2006). "The matrilineal ancestry of Ashkenazi Jewry: portrait of a recent founder event." American Journal of Human Genetics 78(3): 487–497. ³ Costa, M.D. et al. (2013). "A substantial prehistoric European ancestry amongst Ashkenazi maternal lineages." Nature Communications 4: 2543. ⁴ Carmi, S. et al. (2014). "Sequencing an Ashkenazi reference panel supports population-targeted personal genomics and illuminates Jewish and European origins." Nature Communications 5: 4835. ⁵ Xue, J., Lencz, T., Darvasi, A., Pe'er, I., & Carmi, S. (2017). "The time and place of European admixture in Ashkenazi Jewish history." PLoS Genetics 13(4): e1006644. See also Waldman, S. et al. (2022). "Genome-wide data from medieval German Jews show that the Ashkenazi founder event pre-dated the 14th century." Cell 185(25): 4703–4716.e16. ⁶ Li, Y.C. et al. (2015). "A genetic contribution from the Far East into Ashkenazi Jews via the ancient Silk Road." Scientific Reports 5: 8377. ⁷ Behar, D.M. et al. (2013). "No evidence from genome-wide data of a Khazar origin for the Ashkenazi Jews." Human Biology 85(6): 859–900.

experimental dance weapon robot boi v1 @bymyelf