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Subject: [Yasmin_discussions] yasminers; pirate care for the YASMIN
PHOENIX
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yasminers
doug hall shared his update on his concept of 'pirate philosophy: from
his 2016 book
hew draws your attention in particular to the links he sent us- and
yes i think Yasmin Phoenicians should read pirate care syllabus and
apply it as appropriate https://syllabus.pirate.care/

thanks Doug, lets pirate on with the post pandemic provocateurs at your heels

roger malina

https://pirate.care/pages/concept/
Pirate Care is a transnational research project and a network of
activists, scholars and practitioners who stand against the
criminalization of solidarity & for a common care infrastructure.

Pirate Care, a syllabus

We live in a world where captains get arrested for saving people?s
lives on the sea; where a person downloading scientific articles faces
35 years in jail; where people risk charges for bringing
contraceptives to those who otherwise couldn?t get them. Folks are
getting in trouble for giving food to the poor, medicine to the sick,
water to the thirsty, shelter to the homeless. And yet our heroines
care and disobey. They are pirates.

________________________________

Pirate Care is a research process - primarily based in the
transnational European space - that maps the increasingly present
forms of activism at the intersection of ?care? and ?piracy?, which in
new and interesting ways are trying to intervene in one of the most
important challenges of our time, that is, the ?crisis of care? in all
its multiple and interconnected dimensions.

These practices are experimenting with self-organisation, alternative
approaches to social reproduction and the commoning of tools,
technologies and knowledges. Often they act disobediently in expressed
non-compliance with laws, regulations and executive orders that
criminalise the duty of care by imposing exclusions along the lines of
class, gender, race or territory. They are not shying risk of
persecution in providing unconditional solidarity to those who are the
most exploited, discriminated against and condemned to the status of
disposable populations.

The Pirate Care Syllabus we present here for the first time is a tool
for supporting and activating collective processes of learning from
these practices. We encourage everyone to freely use this syllabus to
learn and organise processes of learning and to freely adapt, rewrite
and expand it to reflect their own experience and serve their own
pedagogies.

8th March 2020 - Please Note: The Pirate Care Syllabus is still work
in progress. Some topics and sessions are still under development,
more will be created during the residency at the Kunsthalle (beginning
of April) and beyond.

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emerging digi-indigenous ingenious natives (YASMIN DISCUSSIONS)


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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 14:19:19 -0600
From: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS <yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr>
To: yasmin_announcements@ntlab.gr, yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr
Subject: [Yasmin_discussions] yasmin phoenix, pirates, phoenicians and
etruscans and and emerging digi-indigenous ingenious natives
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Yasminers
and in particular Dalila Honorato, Stephen Nowlin and Luca Forcucci
and Gullermo Munoz

Dalila triggered the metaphor of YASMIN PHOENIX for the work we are
starting to have a new different YASMIN rise from the ashes of the
pandemic- let me add that we should think as yasminers as pirates

Immediately it triggered my memory of reading Gary Hall's Pirate
Philosophy https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/pirate-philosophy and his
unpacking the very useful innovation role that pirates played in the
Mediterranean- i have copied this email to him in case he has an
update on how pirate philosophy might be relevant in the post pandemic
digi-indigenous culture that the digi-natives are inventing as we read
the new rituals, customs and behaviours for the post pandemic world
and its increasing virtual reality- and we digital elders stand back
and notice but don't meddle- ok digi-natives take over YASMIN PHOENI

secondly YASMIN moderator Guillermo Munoz co founded the group in
spain called "pirates of science'
https://www.piratasdelaciencia.com/blog/quienes-somos/ so maybe the
pirate metaphor could be helpful as we work on the helping the YASMIN
PHOENIX arise from the ashes with the help of the YASMIN pirates and
phoenicians-- i have copied Guillermo also in case he has some
thoughts too

luca forcucci also suggested: I am all in for the flight, and let's
not forget the Etruscans !
all the best Luca

and stephen nowlin: Roger -- as our nearest star rises seemingly anew
over a political return to some sanity here in the U.S., your news
feels timely and welcomed. Happy to climb aboard the flight of the
YASMIN Phenix!


and

Roger Malina
more on gary hall below:
Gary Hall is a critical theorist and media philosopher working in the
areas of digital culture, politics and technology. He is Professor of
Media at Coventry University, UK, where he directs the Centre for
Postdigital Cultures which brings together media theorists,
practitioners, activists and artists.

He is the author of a number of books, including The Inhumanist
Manifesto (Techne Lab, 2017), Pirate Philosophy (MIT Press, 2016) and
The Uberfication of the University (Minnesota UP, 2016).

How philosophers and theorists can find new models for the creation,
publication, and dissemination of knowledge, challenging the received
ideas of originality, authorship, and the book.

In Pirate Philosophy, Gary Hall considers whether the fight against
the neoliberal corporatization of higher education in fact requires
scholars to transform their own lives and labor. Is there a way for
philosophers and theorists to act not just for or with the
antiausterity and student protestors??graduates without a future??but
in terms of their political struggles? Drawing on such phenomena as
peer-to-peer file sharing and anticopyright/pro-piracy movements, Hall
explores how those in academia can move beyond finding new ways of
thinking about the world to find instead new ways of being theorists
and philosophers in the world.

Hall describes the politics of online sharing, the battles against the
current intellectual property regime, and the actions of Anonymous,
LulzSec, Aaron Swartz, and others, and he explains Creative Commons
and the open access, open source, and free software movements. But in
the heart of the book he considers how, when it comes to scholarly
ways of creating, performing, and sharing knowledge, philosophers and
theorists can challenge not just the neoliberal model of the
entrepreneurial academic but also the traditional humanist model with
its received ideas of proprietorial authorship, the book, originality,
fixity, and the finished object. In other words, can scholars and
students today become something like pirate philosophers?

and the phoenicians:
The Phoenicians came to prominence following the collapse (c. 1150 BC)
of most major cultures during the Late Bronze Age. They were renowned
in antiquity as adept merchants, expert seafarers, and intrepid
explorers.[citation needed] They developed an expansive maritime trade
network that lasted over a millennium, becoming the dominant
commercial power for much of classical antiquity. Phoenician trade
also helped facilitate the exchange of cultures, ideas, and knowledge
between major cradles of civilization such as Greece, Egypt, and
Mesopotamia. After its zenith in the ninth century BC, the Phoenician
civilization in the eastern Mediterranean slowly declined in the face
of foreign influence and conquest, though its presence would remain in
the central and western Mediterranean until the second century BC.


PS words matter: nina czegledy thinks the term 'digi-indigenous' is an
inappropriate appropriation of the values of indigenous cultures

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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:05:32 +0100
From: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS <yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr>
To: yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr
Subject: Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Yasmin_discussions Digest, Vol 33,
Issue 2_and the Etruscan too
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Dear Roger,

I am all in for the flight, and let's not forget the Etruscans !
all the best
Luca


Le mar. 26 janv. 2021 ? 11:00, <yasmin_discussions-request@ntlab.gr> a
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> To: roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu>, "yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr"
> <yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr>, "yasmin_announcements@ntlab.gr"
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> Roger -- as our nearest star rises seemingly anew over a political return
> to some sanity here in the U.S., your news feels timely and welcomed. Happy
> to climb aboard the flight of the YASMIN Phenix!
>
> /stephen
>
> ----------------------------------
> Visit the Williamson Gallery's SKY exhibit online:
>
> http://artcenter.edu/about/exhibitions/sky.html
>
>
>
> Stephen Nowlin
> Vice President, ArtCenter Exhibitions
> Director, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery
> (he/him/his)
>
>
>
> ArtCenter College of Design
> 1700 Lida Street
> Pasadena, CA 91103
> 626.396.2397 | http://williamsongallery.net/google
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> ________________________________________
>
>
> From: Yasmin_announcements <yasmin_announcements-bounces@ntlab.gr> on
> behalf of roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2021 9:09 AM
> To: yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr; yasmin_announcements@ntlab.gr
> Subject: [Yasmin_announcements] astronomer reports sighting of yasmin
> phenix - help us help it fly
>
> Yasminers
> Yesterday a group of trouble makers and provocateurs met under the
> coordination of Dimitris
> in Athens- and we made a tentative decision to try and re-invent YASMIN
> and see if we can find other ways of contributing slowly emerging
> better ideas to the post pandemic world ( we throw ideas at each
> other, not stones and bombs, just as maturana and varela incited
> auto-poesis in complex systems)
>
> It was a rather emotional meeting-with long e-lost friends including
> andreas, soussi , and new friends such as Dalila and Penny
> In the brainstorming someone (Dalila?) mentioned the Phoenix and
> suddenly we started talking about the YASMIN Phenix- the phenix is a
> legendary mediterranean bird, south bank i think,
>
> So with this email the Yasmin Phoenicians solicit, invite, encourage,
> listen loudly to your thoughts and wishes for the Yasmin Phenix
> arising from the ashes of the pandemic
>
> i just looked up Phenicians and it sees like a good germ of a sead
>
> The Phoenicians came to prominence following the collapse (c. 1150 BC)
> of most major cultures during the Late Bronze Age ( aka 21st
> pandemic). They were renowned in antiquity as adept merchants, expert
> seafarers, and intrepid explorers and came to be known as Yasminers
> They developed an expansive maritime( air and space) trade network
> that lasted over a millennium, becoming the dominant (collaborative)
> commercial power for much of classical antiquity. Phenician trade also
> helped facilitate the exchange of cultures, ideas, and knowledge
> between major cradles of civilization such as Greece, Egypt, and
> Mesopotamia ( the native americans too)- as jadwiga reminds us trade
> routes such as the Amber and Silk roads were not only commercial, drug
> and other goods transmitters- for instance as Linda has explained- the
> design of patterns in cloth and pottery travelled along the trade
> routes- so yasminers- work with yourself and other to give birth to
> the Yasmin Phenix
>
> Roger Malina
> PS the Leonardo non=profit now as a safe space at Arizona State
> University- where apparently there is a town called Phoenix.
> Coincidence ? Serendipity ( david peat ?)
>
>
> phenix ('fi?n?ks ) NOUN
> 1. a legendary Arabian bird said to set fire to itself and rise anew
> from the ashes every 500 years
> 2. a person or thing of surpassing beauty or quality
> Collins English Dictionary. Copyright ? HarperCollins Publishers
> Word origin
> Old English fenix, via Latin from Greek phoinix; identical in form
> with Greek Phoinix Phoenician, purple
> Roger in Dallas, please phone/txt/ +15108532007 if urgent
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*New Paper*
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*Next events*

*14.10 - 15.02.2021 *
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Roger -- as our nearest star rises seemingly anew over a political return to some sanity here in the U.S., your news feels timely and welcomed. Happy to climb aboard the flight of the YASMIN Phenix!

/stephen

----------------------------------
Visit the Williamson Gallery's SKY exhibit online:

http://artcenter.edu/about/exhibitions/sky.html



Stephen Nowlin
Vice President, ArtCenter Exhibitions
Director, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery
(he/him/his)



ArtCenter College of Design
1700 Lida Street
Pasadena, CA 91103
626.396.2397 | http://williamsongallery.net/google

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From: Yasmin_announcements <yasmin_announcements-bounces@ntlab.gr> on behalf of roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2021 9:09 AM
To: yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr; yasmin_announcements@ntlab.gr
Subject: [Yasmin_announcements] astronomer reports sighting of yasmin phenix - help us help it fly

Yasminers
Yesterday a group of trouble makers and provocateurs met under the
coordination of Dimitris
in Athens- and we made a tentative decision to try and re-invent YASMIN
and see if we can find other ways of contributing slowly emerging
better ideas to the post pandemic world ( we throw ideas at each
other, not stones and bombs, just as maturana and varela incited
auto-poesis in complex systems)

It was a rather emotional meeting-with long e-lost friends including
andreas, soussi , and new friends such as Dalila and Penny
In the brainstorming someone (Dalila?) mentioned the Phoenix and
suddenly we started talking about the YASMIN Phenix- the phenix is a
legendary mediterranean bird, south bank i think,

So with this email the Yasmin Phoenicians solicit, invite, encourage,
listen loudly to your thoughts and wishes for the Yasmin Phenix
arising from the ashes of the pandemic

i just looked up Phenicians and it sees like a good germ of a sead

The Phoenicians came to prominence following the collapse (c. 1150 BC)
of most major cultures during the Late Bronze Age ( aka 21st
pandemic). They were renowned in antiquity as adept merchants, expert
seafarers, and intrepid explorers and came to be known as Yasminers
They developed an expansive maritime( air and space) trade network
that lasted over a millennium, becoming the dominant (collaborative)
commercial power for much of classical antiquity. Phenician trade also
helped facilitate the exchange of cultures, ideas, and knowledge
between major cradles of civilization such as Greece, Egypt, and
Mesopotamia ( the native americans too)- as jadwiga reminds us trade
routes such as the Amber and Silk roads were not only commercial, drug
and other goods transmitters- for instance as Linda has explained- the
design of patterns in cloth and pottery travelled along the trade
routes- so yasminers- work with yourself and other to give birth to
the Yasmin Phenix

Roger Malina
PS the Leonardo non=profit now as a safe space at Arizona State
University- where apparently there is a town called Phoenix.
Coincidence ? Serendipity ( david peat ?)


phenix ('fi?n?ks ) NOUN
1. a legendary Arabian bird said to set fire to itself and rise anew
from the ashes every 500 years
2. a person or thing of surpassing beauty or quality
Collins English Dictionary. Copyright ? HarperCollins Publishers
Word origin
Old English fenix, via Latin from Greek phoinix; identical in form
with Greek Phoinix Phoenician, purple
Roger in Dallas, please phone/txt/ +15108532007 if urgent

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Subject: [Yasmin_discussions] astronomer reports sighting of yasmin
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Yasminers
Yesterday a group of trouble makers and provocateurs met under the
coordination of Dimitris
in Athens- and we made a tentative decision to try and re-invent YASMIN
and see if we can find other ways of contributing slowly emerging
better ideas to the post pandemic world ( we throw ideas at each
other, not stones and bombs, just as maturana and varela incited
auto-poesis in complex systems)

It was a rather emotional meeting-with long e-lost friends including
andreas, soussi , and new friends such as Dalila and Penny
In the brainstorming someone (Dalila?) mentioned the Phoenix and
suddenly we started talking about the YASMIN Phenix- the phenix is a
legendary mediterranean bird, south bank i think,

So with this email the Yasmin Phoenicians solicit, invite, encourage,
listen loudly to your thoughts and wishes for the Yasmin Phenix
arising from the ashes of the pandemic

i just looked up Phenicians and it sees like a good germ of a sead

The Phoenicians came to prominence following the collapse (c. 1150 BC)
of most major cultures during the Late Bronze Age ( aka 21st
pandemic). They were renowned in antiquity as adept merchants, expert
seafarers, and intrepid explorers and came to be known as Yasminers
They developed an expansive maritime( air and space) trade network
that lasted over a millennium, becoming the dominant (collaborative)
commercial power for much of classical antiquity. Phenician trade also
helped facilitate the exchange of cultures, ideas, and knowledge
between major cradles of civilization such as Greece, Egypt, and
Mesopotamia ( the native americans too)- as jadwiga reminds us trade
routes such as the Amber and Silk roads were not only commercial, drug
and other goods transmitters- for instance as Linda has explained- the
design of patterns in cloth and pottery travelled along the trade
routes- so yasminers- work with yourself and other to give birth to
the Yasmin Phenix

Roger Malina
PS the Leonardo non=profit now as a safe space at Arizona State
University- where apparently there is a town called Phoenix.
Coincidence ? Serendipity ( david peat ?)


phenix (?fi?n?ks ) NOUN
1. a legendary Arabian bird said to set fire to itself and rise anew
from the ashes every 500 years
2. a person or thing of surpassing beauty or quality
Collins English Dictionary. Copyright ? HarperCollins Publishers
Word origin
Old English fenix, via Latin from Greek phoinix; identical in form
with Greek Phoinix Phoenician, purple
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yasminers

happy new week, the week has been happy for us
in our family, happy new year we are not sure !?

in a previous discussion post i circulated the question of who
should have the right to respond to the extraterrestrial intelligence
that may have been discovered in the last month around proxima centauri
( answer NOT the president of the USA)

in a related question I draw your attention to this interesting article
by Maggi Savin- Baden and David Burden
who ask a related question: virtual assistants are becoming sophisticated
enough that you can ask them questions about dead people and the virtual
assistant will reply on your behalf after you are dead- this is not a new
question
i forget the artist who set up an email responder that would reply after
his death
from AIDS

The post pandemic provocateur group has been discussing these issues
for some time and maybe YASMINERS would like to contribute to a discussion
on these issues

roger malina
in dallas lockdown

Digital Immortality and Virtual Humans
Postdigital Science and Education (2019) 1:87?103
https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-018-0007-6
Maggi Savin-Baden1 & David Burden2
Published online: 27 September 2018
# The Author(s) 2018
Abstract
The use of virtual assistants such as Siri that provide voice and
conversational
interfaces, the growth of machine learning techniques to mine large data
sets and
the rise in the level of autonomy being given to computer-controlled
systems all
represent shifts in artificial intelligence that are enhancing the creation
of digital
immortality. The growth of personality capture and levels of brain
simulation as
well as computationally inspired life after death may change the future of
religion,
affect understandings of the afterlife and increase the influence of the
dead
surviving in society. This paper provides an overview of recent
developments in
the area of digital immortality, explores how such digital immortals might
be
created and raises challenging issues. It presents the early findings from
a study
that created a virtual persona. This prototype system contains relevant
memories,
knowledge, processes and modelling of an individual?s personality traits,
knowledge
and experience and, also, incorporates the individual?s subjective and
possibly
flawed view of reality. It is argued that this system offers the
possibility for the
development of a persona that learns post-death.
Keywords Digital immortality. Virtual
Postdigital Science and Education (2019) 1:87?103
https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-018-0007-6
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Yasminers

Happy New


It is possible that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has had a
first success:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/12/31/breakthrough-listen-seti-technosignatures/

The astronomical community is organising to figure out who/what has a right
to reply to his extraterrestrial

intelligence. There are NO international rules who who can reply on behalf
of humanity. Would you like your president to reply on behalf of human
civilisation ?


This may sound like science fiction or academic non sense, but if this is a
Breakthrough Listen BLC! then

the pandemic will be old news- i have signed the following statement which
has been submitted to the Washington Post and we would welcome a YASMIN
discussion.


Finally the YASMIN community is interested in knowing if you think we
should try and keep YASMIN going during the pandemic and if so, we are
looking for volunteers to help moderate and animate YASMIN


Roger Malina



Author's name:

John W. Traphagan, Anson Mount, William Alba, Carl DeVito, Jerome Barkow,
Jeffrey Lockwood, Roger F. Malina, Ian G. Roberts, Kelly Smith

Name of submitter:

John Traphagan

Contact email address:

jtrap@utexas.edu

Contact phone number:

737-222-1719

Subject:

BLC-1, astrobiology, SETI. Breakthrough Listen, social responsibility


Text of your submission:

Recent news about the detection of a candidate signal from an
extraterrestrial source relatively close to Earth has generated
considerable interest on the Internet.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/12/31/breakthrough-listen-seti-technosignatures/


In a Washington Post editorial, astrophysicist Adam Frank writes, somewhat
excitedly, about the possibility that Breakthrough Listen Candidate 1
(BLC-1, as the signal is known) actually might be the moment of First
Contact. He then announces that the age of technosignatures, meaning clear
indications of extraterrestrial technological civilizations, may finally be
upon us. The only reason we haven?t found life elsewhere, states Frank, is
because we just haven?t been looking hard enough.

Regardless of the level of technical challenges we face detecting
extraterrestrial life of any kind, we must also remember that the search is
not simply a technical endeavor. It?s also an event constructed in the
human imagination. News of BLC-1 leaked before the scientific team
analyzing the data had completed their work, which has led to a fair amount
of speculative writing in news and social media, but little in the way of
detail other than scientists reminding the public that it is unlikely BLC-1
represents an actual technosignature.

This underscores the need for a public discourse about how to handle
possible signal detection. In fact, although there is a robust history of
discussion among scientists involved with SETI (search for extraterrestrial
intelligence) about the need for post-detection protocols, and one was
developed in the 1980s intended to prevent leaks of unconfirmed detections,
the Internet has made control over news about signal detection essentially
impossible. In the 2000s, the International Academy of Astronautics? (IAA)
SETI committee revised the protocol, but the IAA board never approved the
revisions. To date, no government, nor international organization such as
the United Nations, has endorsed or pursued creation of any protocol or
legal framework to address issues related to technosignature detection and
there is no means for scientific bodies to control what is reported to the
public.

Because many astronomers treat detection of technosignatures as a technical
problem, the social and political ramifications of signal detection are
often overlooked in the media. On the surface, it seems that receiving a
signal from ET would be harmless. What could happen if ET is many light
years away? In the case of BLC-1, the source actually may be nearby at
Proxima Centauri, a mere 4.5 light years from Earth, and the Breakthrough
Starshot initiative is already working on technologies to send
nano-spacecraft to that star system. If ET were there, not only is radio
communication only a few years away, material interaction could happen in a
few decades.

But even if the source is much more distant, the history of competition
among great powers makes it clear that if an opportunity arises to gain an
advantage over global rivals, it will be taken. That advantage can be
military, economic, or political; and in the modern world, it may involve
access to and control over information, as we have seen through the furor
concerning Russian hacking of US government agencies.

As former Air Force General Ken Wisian and John Traphagan have argued, if
the information related to detection of a technosignature is deemed as
potentially advantageous, competing powers will vie for control over that
information?if there may be a perceived benefit, then governments will
likely attempt to monopolize access for national security reasons. And it
is not unreasonable to imagine a situation in which monopolization of
communication with an extraterrestrial civilization could lead to an
information-driven cold war.

Although the possibility of BLC-1 being an actual technosignature is low,
it piques the human imagination and there is something powerful captured in
the possibility that we may soon learn we are not alone in the universe.
However, scientists and the news media should be careful to avoid overly
optimistic musings about both the likelihood of detection and the possible
outcomes for human civilization should we find a technosignature. The
potential for human interest generated by leaks such as BLC-1 clearly
defines the responsibility that both scientists and the news media have to
be cautious and to carefully consider the unpredictable ways contact may
change our world.

Despite recent success in exoplanet hunting, the search for
extraterrestrial life faces hurdles and presents potential risk, even if
minor, for humans. Both the search for technosignatures and the societal
implications of that search require greater commitment to long-term
thinking and there has been insufficient public discussion about the
implications of First Contact. This should give us pause if we are at the
dawn of an era in which technosigatures of alien life become more than just
an imaginative exercise.

Of course, we could always shrug our collective shoulders and say that
contact is very unlikely to happen now or any time soon. But some people
used to say that about a global pandemic.

Comments:

The authors are all deeply engaged in research and thinking related to
social implications of astrobiology. John W. Traphagan is Professor of
Religious Studies and in the Program in Human Dimensions of Organization at
the University of Texas at Austin. Anson Mount is an actor, producer, and
podcaster. William Alba is Associate Teaching Professor of Chemistry at
Carnegie Mellon University. Carl DeVito is Associate Professor Emeritus of
Mathematics at the University of Arizona. Jerome H. Barkow is Professor
Emeritus of Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University. Jeffrey Lockwood
is Professor of Natural Sciences and Humanities in the Departments of
Philosophy & Religious Studies and Visual & Literary Arts at the University
of Wyoming. Roger F. Malina is Arts and Technology Distinguished Chair at
the University of Texas at Dallas. Ian G. Roberts is Professor of
Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Kelly Smith is Professor of
Philosophy at Clemson University.




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