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Writing Falling into the Digital Divide: Encounters with the Work of Hito Steyerl
The highly compressed, deteriorated ‘poor image mocks the promises of digital technology. Not only is it often degraded to the point of being just a hurried blur, one even doubts whether it could be called an image at all.’ The aesthetic affect of digital…

May 21 2013, 2:58am | Comments
Link The culture of the copy by James Panero…
Technological revolutions are far less obvious than political revolutions to the generations that live through them. This is true even as new tools, for better and worse, shift human history…

January 22 2013, 3:27pm | Comments
Link Roger Scruton – A culture of fake originality
A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a shared frame of reference among educated people. High…

January 22 2013, 5:16am | Comments
Twitter Links Google Dominion
'Instead of trying to "correct" the "errors", we should remake the world to fit Google's image of it.' http://t.co/mJ78NDM0 v. @alienated

November 11 2012, 3:41pm | Comments
Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments
Link Did a Copying Mistake Build Man's Brain?
A copying error appears to be responsible for critical features of the human brain that distinguish us from our closest primate kin, new research finds. When tested out in mice,…

May 9 2012, 8:14am | Comments
Link Kopimism: the world's newest religion explained
Isak Gerson is spiritual leader of the world's newest religion, Kopimism, devoted to file-sharing. On 5 January the Church of Kopimism was formally recognised as a religion by the Swedish…

January 15 2012, 1:32pm | Comments
Link Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan Turing)
I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think." The definitions might be framed so as…

October 31 2011, 6:53am | Comments
Link Information Wants to be Consumed
Although information spreads, virus-like, through replication, this replication, as Walter Benjamin foresaw, involves a dispersion that allows images or data to be seen in different places, in different contexts (what…

August 3 2011, 6:00am | Comments
Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments
Link The Font of the Hand
JUST AS IN OUR DAY a fervid minority denounces the digitization of literary experience, fifteenth-century literati responded to their own depredations. In 1492, Johannes Trithemius, Abbot of Sponheim, wrote De…

March 24 2011, 5:23pm | Comments
Link Credit in the Straight WWW: "DDDDoomed", Berger, and…
[ED: Nearly all of the text in this post is taken from R. Gerald Nelson's independently published, occasionally problematic but more often brilliantly concise treatise DDDDoomed. Anyone concerned with issues…

March 15 2011, 8:01am | Comments
Link Similarities - a set on Flickr
The pairs of images in this "Similarities" set are similar visually in one way or another. They are presented without judgement as to the motives of their creators. The viewers…

March 2 2011, 6:28am | Comments
Link This is an 808 Keychain Camera
Shanzai is the name used for a huge black market industry that (currently) specialises in making fake mobile phones in small factories. Basements. We’re not talking about a few phones…

January 31 2011, 3:29pm | Comments
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January 27 2011, 9:21am | Comments
Link In Praise of Copying: Get Your Free Copy
Just a quick fyi: If you head over to the Harvard University Press web site, you can grab a free copy of Marcus Boon’s new book, In Praise of Copying,…

November 3 2010, 8:26am | Comments
Link Disaster Reenactments (Stock Footage)
Men in lab coats race across streets, meet up with kids. Kids into building. Panic in streets. People running from cover. Montage of panic. Panic in streets. Flying saucer blasts…

September 28 2010, 7:00am | Comments
Findings The Ship Argo

May 9 2010, 12:37pm | Comments
Link Should We Clone Neanderthals?
If Neanderthals ever walk the earth again, the primordial ooze from which they will rise is an emulsion of oil, water, and DNA capture beads engineered in the laboratory of…

March 1 2010, 3:58am | Comments
Wikipedia Cargo cult A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults are…

January 8 2010, 9:51am | Comments

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