NEW: noemamag.com/are-we-acciden… The process of producing Artificial Intelligence might also artificialize our entire planet. Many have argued this is already underway. My latest, for Noema Magazine, unearthing the roots of the idea of a 'technosphere' — tracing it back to crabs. 🧵👇

#PlanetarySummit Session 3: how should we define new categories of knowing and the manner by which the Planetary is revealed through technology and human thought? Benjamin Bratton 李开诚 Lukáš Likavčan Thomas Moynihan

李开诚 Lukáš Likavčan Humanity’s cognitive achievements arise from the mobilization of entire ecologies and networks of matter interacting in reciprocal, dynamic processes, rather than from isolated breakthroughs by individual minds. #PlanetarySummit

The Berggruen Institute's #PlanetarySummit could not have been better: every conversation electrifying; every topic crucial. It was a pleasure to share the stage with 李开诚 Lukáš Likavčan & Benjamin Bratton. We discussed the discovery that humans are a cosmically endangered species & much else...

Think chemtrails are a silly distraction from the "real" solar geoengineering debate? An important article from the amazing Holly Buck Holly Jean Buck will make you think again. Once you know what para-environmentalism is, you can't unsee it. compactmag.com/article/the-ri… 1/2

NASA has selected SpaceX's Falcon Heavy to launch the Dragonfly mission to Titan in July 2028. Contract value is $256.6 million. nasa.gov/news-release/n…

It was amazing to represent Antikythera on the stage w/ Thomas Moynihan & Benjamin Bratton. At #PlanetarySummit, we discussed technosphere-biosphere convergence, Fermi paradox, and the cosmic perspective on the Planetary. Many thanks to Berggruen Institute for curating this landmark event

No doubt in my mind which was my favorite read of this year.

That those of us who pursue writing or other mysteries of thought could stop because our actions 'have no social value' is absurd. Our pursuits are unnegotiable and eternal, and will persist with or without approval.

Are you ready for the future in which you may spill your computer on the floor? After Silicon is a freely available report by researcher Christopher Burman and philosopher 李开诚 Lukáš Likavčan, exploring the era of biocomputing, DNA storage & hybrid organic systems. aftersilicon.com

I’m so glad that during a coffee chat with 李开诚 Lukáš Likavčan in Shanghai last year, I got to contribute a bit to this Bio-Computing research project. aftersilicon.com Congrats!🎊

Antikythera and MIT Press are pleased to announce their new book series with the inaugural title What Is Life? by leading AI researcher and longtime Antikythera collaborator Blaise Agüera y Arcas. Taking its title from theoretical physicist Erwin Schrödinger’s 1944 book of the

After Silicon, Part 2: Speculations is alive! It features four speculations about the future of biocomputing, DNA storage, organoid intelligence and hybrid organic systems produced in collaboration with Chris Burman from Heat Island/UCL Bartlett. Visit: aftersilicon.com

"Having a self is not a metaphysical fact but a cognitive trade-off, a useful heuristic to avoid the info overload that would inevitably lead to paralysis of the organism’s decision-making capacities and the ability to act upon them." - 李开诚 Lukáš Likavčan syntheticzero.net/2025/04/13/how…

NEW PREPRINT OUT 🧫 Nothing is more exciting to a philosopher of science than writing with a top level scientist. So it’s an honour to share my preprint co-authored w/ Adam Frank, a disciplinary crossover on astrobiology and economy of the Planetary. osf.io/preprints/soca…

We will be hosting an exhibition of Antikythera's work and some additional surprises in Venice next month. Hope to see you. The Monolith features work by Antikythera, Peter Galison, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Metahaven, Gaspar Begus, Stewart Smith, Robert Pietrusko, Alexander

New paper with 李开诚 Lukáš Likavčan! "The Planetary and Its Uses. Grounding Political Economy in an Astrobiological Perspective" The project combined 2 very different disciplines find 1 path through the anthropocene towards a mature technosphere. osf.io/preprints/soca…

Heading to Venice soon to join the launch of our new Antikythera x MIT Press journal, including an exhibition The Next Earth at Palazzo Diedo + a fun day of debates on May 10th w/ Benjamin Bratton Thomas Moynihan Nina Beguš Gašper Beguš Winnie Street metahaven & others

As Antikythera’s researcher, it was my privilege to add an annotation layer to this big classic in planetary thinking 🦾

Humans are the only creatures to have asked, and begun answering, the question: ‘where is now?’. That is, how much past was required to produce our verdant present, and how much future might be left ahead, waiting to be produced. We are the animal that has sought to gain its