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Ask Metafilter the "undifferentiated mass of organic sensation" origin In this text from 1966, Robert Smithson quotes Roland Barthes as saying the “undifferentiated mass of organic sensation.” But I can’t find the origin of the quote. A skewed translation? or possibly just made up by Smithson? Any ideas where it might come…

March 14 2024, 1:38pm | Comments
Bookmark The Thermodynamic Theory of Ecology | Quanta Magazine
The Western Ghats in India rise like a wall between the Arabian Sea and the heart of the subcontinent to the east.

January 12 2018, 3:11am | Comments
Bookmark Controversial New Theory Suggests Life Wasn't a Fluke of Biology—It Was Physics…
The biophysicist Jeremy England made waves in 2013 with a new theory that cast the origin of life as an inevitable outcome of thermodynamics.

August 6 2017, 11:35am | Comments
Bookmark A Grand New Theory of Life's Evolution on Earth - The Atlantic
A series of energy revolutions—some natural, some technological—built upon one another to give us our rich, diverse biosphere.

May 20 2017, 6:35am | Comments
Bookmark Towards a statistical mechanics of consciousness: maximization of number of connections is…
Authors: R. Guevara Erra, D. M. Mateos, R. Wennberg, J.L. Perez Velazquez Abstract: It has been said that complexity lies between order and disorder. In the case of brain activity, and…

October 23 2016, 4:56am | Comments
Bookmark Paul Beatriz Preciado: Feminism beyond humanism, ecology beyond the environment | Autonomies
During one of his “infinite interviews”, Hans-Ulrich Obrist asked me to pose an urgent question to which artists and political movements must answer together.

February 19 2016, 2:57pm | Comments
Bookmark The Deeper I Stare Into the Internet, the More I See the…
We have a strange, sad way of leaving things behind. Not just regular old things—spent notebooks, obsolete consumer electronics, whatever—but big things that happen to be old.

October 8 2014, 1:54am | Comments
Bookmark Evolution, Entropy, and Information
There are really two points. The first is a bit of technical background you can ignore if you like, and skip to the next paragraph. It’s the idea of “relative entropy”…

June 15 2012, 5:19am | Comments
Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Sloppy MicroChips: Can a fair comparison be made between biological and silicon entropy? Was reading about microchips that are designed to allow a few mistakes (known as 'Sloppy Chips'), and pondering equivalent kinds of 'coding' errors and entropy in biological systems. Can a fair comparison be made between the two? OK, to setup my question I…

June 5 2012, 10:05am | Comments
Bookmark Sloppy MicroChips: Oh, that’s near enough
Letting microchips make a few mistakes here and there could make them much faster and more energy-efficient. Managing the probability of errors and limiting where they occur can ensure that the…

June 5 2012, 9:18am | Comments
Bookmark The Arrow of Time (Debategraph)
The debate about the nature of time and its passage is a long and venerable one. The issues addressed by pre-Socratic philosophers such as Heraclitus and Parmenides about whether time 'flows'…

May 11 2012, 8:12am | Comments
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“The Shannon and Weaver Model”

February 20 2012, 6:51am | Comments
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Digital Decay (2001): by Bruce Sterling

August 10 2011, 9:59am | Comments
Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments
Bookmark Genetic Future: How much data is a human genome? It depends how…
The question is pretty simple: in the not-too-distant future you and I will have had our entire genomes sequenced (except perhaps those of you in California) - so how much hard…

June 29 2010, 8:33am | Comments
Bookmark Uniformity and Variability: An Essay in the Philosophy of Matter
If the planet needs us to speed up information, and slow down matter, what does this mean for the complex relationship between information and nature? There is a growing awareness of…

May 3 2010, 9:35am | Comments

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