- For example, Architecture for Humanity and its book, with perhaps the most self-satisfied title ever: Kate Stohr, Design like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises (New York: Metropolis Books, 2006).
- I ’ m referring here to the work of Bruno Latour to rethink the logics of political inclusion and exclusion for a modern social theory. In particular, see his address, “ Toward a Compositionist Manifesto, ” http://www.bruno-latour.fr/node/140. Tom Cohen, Theory in the Era of Climate Change (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2012), is an excellent appraisal of the complicity and failure of cultural theory to understand its situation within the historical arc of ecological deterioration and potential catastrophe.
- A designer at SAP suggested to me that 22 percent of the world ’ s water is managed by its software on a daily basis. Warren B. Causey, “ Important Issues Water Utilities Face, ” February 2, 2011, http://www.sap.com/bin/sapcom/en\_us/downloadasset.2011-02-feb-01-08.important -issues-water-utilities-face-pdf.htm.
- “ The state loves climate change because a schizophrenic nature is the ultimate terrorist and — as became apparent in New Orleans — militarized police will be needed. ” See Massumi, “ National Enterprise Emergency. ”
- Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978 — 1979 (New York: Picador, 2010).
- Freeman J. Dyson, “ Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation, ” Science, June 3,
1960, 1667 – 1668, doi:10.1126/science.131.3414.166.
- Charles Stross, Accelerando (New York: Penguin Group, 2005). See also Robert J. Bradbury, “ Matrioshka Brains, ” working paper, 1999, http://www.gwern.net/docs/1999-bradbury -matrioshkabrains.pdf.
- Nick Bostrom of the Oxford Institute for the Future of Humanity imagines that computational megastructures of this scale and capacity would even be capable of supporting full-scale simulations of entire worlds and if that is so, perhaps our reality is already being powered by such a machine. Bostrom, “ Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? ” Philosophical Quarterly 53 (2003).
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- Alexandre Koj è ve, “ Outline of a Doctrine of French Policy, ” 1945, Paris, https://www .marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/kojeve2.htm.
- Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
1950).
- Aristophanes, The Clouds, trans. William Arrowsmith (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1962).
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