MachineMachine /stream - tagged with new http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron text@machinemachine.net What did Jesus do? (Reading and Unreading the Gospels) http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/1262/what-did-jesus-do-reading-an-unreading-the-gospels When we meet Jesus of Nazareth at the beginning of the Gospel of Mark, almost surely the oldest of the four, he’s a full-grown man. He comes down from Galilee, meets John, an ascetic desert hermit who lives on locusts and wild honey, and is baptized by him in the River Jordan. If one thing seems nearly certain to the people who read and study the Gospels for a living, it’s that this really happened: John the Baptizer—as some like to call him, to give a better sense of the original Greek’s flat-footed active form—baptized Jesus. They believe it because… ]]> Wed, 19 May 2010 03:52:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/1262/what-did-jesus-do-reading-an-unreading-the-gospels Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/1210/stephen-wolfram-computing-a-theory-of-everything ]]> Mon, 03 May 2010 09:38:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/1210/stephen-wolfram-computing-a-theory-of-everything hellograndad.com http://hellograndad.com


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]]> Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:27:00 -0700 http://hellograndad.com Seed Magazine Salon: Hershman and Shanks Interview http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/744/seed-salon-magazine-hershman-and-shanks-interview ]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:48:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/744/seed-salon-magazine-hershman-and-shanks-interview A Society of Simulations http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/140/a-society-of-simulations This essay aims to increase our understanding of simulations and their impact on our notion of reality. Following on some observations regarding the dominant role of visual representations in our culture, I will argue that we are now living in a society, in which simulations are often more influential, satisfying and meaningful than the things they are presumed to represent. Media technologies play a fundamental role in our cycle of meaning construction. This is not necessarily a bad thing, nor is it entirely new. Yet, it has consequences for our concepts of virtual and real, which are less complementary, than… ]]> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:22:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/140/a-society-of-simulations The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/04/the-next-great-discontinuity-part-two.html In only a handful of years the human has gone from merely dipping into the database to becoming an active component in a human-cloud of data. The interface has begun to reflect back upon us, turning each of us into a node in a vast database bigger than any previous material object. Gone are the days when clusters of galaxies had to a catalogued by an expert and entered into a linear taxonomy. Now, the same job is done by the crowd and the interface, allowing a million galaxies to be catalogued by amateurs in the same time it would… ]]> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:11:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/04/the-next-great-discontinuity-part-two.html Dick Higgins: Statement on Intermedia http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/14/dick-higgins-statement-on-intermedia Art is one of the ways that people communicate. It is difficult for me to imagine a serious person attacking any means of communication per se. Our real enemies are the ones who send us to die in pointless wars or to live lives which are reduced to drudgery, not the people who use other means of communication from those which we find most appropriate to the present situation. When these are attacked, a diversion has been established which only serves the interests of our real enemies. ]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:03:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/14/dick-higgins-statement-on-intermedia