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June 8 2009, 1:06am | Comments
Link Adaptation: On Literary Darwinism
Human beings expend an enormous amount of energy doing things that don't seem to have any survival value: singing, dancing, painting caves, decorating spears and, above all, telling stories. (Think…

June 8 2009, 12:41am | Comments
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June 7 2009, 7:31am | Comments
Link Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension « Strange…
“When an English speaker doesn’t understand a word of what someone says, he or she states that it’s ‘Greek to me’. When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it ’sounds…

June 7 2009, 3:42am | Comments
Link How Nuclear Radiation Can Change Our Race
This is a remarkably uninformed article about what effect a huge nuclear war would have upon the human race. The author seems to think that the radiation would create a…

June 6 2009, 9:36am | Comments
Link 'On the Origin of Stories,' 'Finding Our Tongues,'…
A few years ago Tufts philosopher Daniel Dennett opined that the idea of natural selection - proposed 150 years ago in Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" - was…

June 3 2009, 12:01pm | Comments
Link Positions in Flux - Panel 3: Open Source…
The open source movement is driven by the idea of collective, process-based, sustainable production and improvement. In software development this strategy has already proven to be valid; however can this…

May 20 2009, 9:25am | Comments
Link Positions in Flux - Panel 2: New territories…
The panel New territories and cultures of the digital looked at the geographical shift that media culture currently undergoes. Europe, North America and Japan used to be at the forefront…

May 20 2009, 9:24am | Comments
Writing for 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge
Through the topology of the network we have begun to perceive what Michel Serres calls ‘The World Object’, an ecology of interconnections and interactions…

April 20 2009, 3:11am | Comments
Link If Atheists Ruled the World | Youtube
Dramatised reading of message-board posts about atheism from Christian fundamentalist message boards

April 2 2009, 6:59am | Comments
Link Luis Camnitzer: Art and Literacy | Journal /…
[T]his theory—that if one wants to be able to write something, one should know how it is written—has some logic to it. It forces one first to read, then to…

March 23 2009, 4:00pm | Comments
Writing for 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Grapholectic Thought and the…
Of course my mini-history of scientific revolution should not be taken itself as a “truth”. I draw it as a parable of progress, as…

March 23 2009, 2:38am | Comments
Link Michel Serres: Journals/Articles
Writings about author, Michel Serres

March 11 2009, 10:45am | Comments
Spacecollective.org Traversing the Altermodern: Tate Britain’s 4th Triennial

February 18 2009, 7:58pm | Comments
Metafilter New theories of Mimesis (in digital/hypertextual/ hypermedial cultures) I am looking for writings on mimesis in regards new, digital, hypertext and hypermedial technologies and cultures. I am following the redefinition of mimesis. From Plato's disregard of…

February 16 2009, 8:09am | Comments
Link Lewis Carroll in Numberland
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, was a mathematician at Oxford University for most of his life. His fanciful “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass”…

February 4 2009, 11:17am | Comments
Link Is Google Making Us Stupid? | The Atlantic
I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming…

February 2 2009, 5:58pm | Comments
Link Further Reading on Reading | NYTimes
What does it mean to read in a digital age? Researchers are just beginning to explore the question, and educators are engaged in passionate debate about how reading may be…

February 2 2009, 5:55pm | Comments
Link 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…

January 30 2009, 7:03am | Comments
Writing for Spacecollective The Total Library Project
Books that redefine reality - or - How to redefine the book...

January 29 2009, 3:58am | Comments
Writing for 3quarksdaily Obama's Address to the State of Non-belief
As a British citizen I watched the inauguration speech of America's 44th President with a warm but distanced interest. But as someone who was…

January 26 2009, 12:52am | Comments
Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments
Metafilter The Various Workings of a Cube-Shaped Gallery | Ask… Imagine a cube-shaped building, with ten cube-shaped rooms along each side (10 rooms long, 10 high & 10 deep). Each cubular room has 4 walls, 1 ceiling and…

April 25 2007, 3:39am | Comments

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