Daniel Rourke /stream

Bookmark Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto – Indigenous Action Media
Why can we imagine the ending of the world, yet not the ending of colonialism? We live the future of a past that is not our own. It is a history…

June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments
Bookmark In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-hub
In Antoine de Saint Exupéry's tale the Little Prince meets a businessman who accumulates stars with the sole purpose of being able to buy more stars. The Little Prince is perplexed.…

June 16 2020, 5:13pm | Comments
Bookmark Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto – Indigenous Action Media
Why can we imagine the ending of the world, yet not the ending of colonialism? We live the future of a past that is not our own. It is a history…

June 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to…
To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.

March 26 2020, 5:21am | Comments
Bookmark History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help…
Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis? By In its first issue…

November 13 2019, 5:17pm | Comments
Bookmark Rude Awakening: Memes as Dialectical Images > non.copyriot.com non.copyriot.com
“It’s not that what is past casts its light on what is present, or what is present its light on what is past; rather, image is that wherein what has been…

April 5 2018, 4:08am | Comments
Bookmark The Human Fear of Total Knowledge - The Atlantic
Libraries tend to occupy a sacred space in modern culture. People adore them. (Perhaps even more than that, people love the idea of them.

June 15 2016, 4:59pm | Comments
Bookmark The Rise of Pirate Libraries | Atlas Obscura
Only a tiny fraction of the world's knowledge. (Photo: David Iliff/CC-BY-SA-3.0) All around the world, shadow libraries keep growing, filled with banned materials.

May 9 2016, 1:16am | Comments
Bookmark In the Name of Humanity | Limn
The total archive is already here, Balázs Bodó finds it hidden in the shadows and run by pirates. As I write this in August 2015, we are in the middle of…

March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments
Bookmark Ants divide knowledge to protect the 'network' - Futurity
You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. To kill spam, email filters might need to act a bit more like ants.

April 4 2015, 1:55am | Comments
Bookmark All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the…
We rely on computers to fly our planes, find our cancers, design our buildings, audit our businesses. That's all well and good.

November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments
Bookmark In 1977, NASA sent 115 images – the so-called ‘Golden Record’ –…
In 1977, NASA sent 115 images – the so-called ‘Golden Record’ – into space on board the Voyager space probe. They also included greetings in 55 different languages and a number…

August 13 2012, 5:47am | Comments
Wikipedia Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future “Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.” - Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how…

August 8 2012, 2:51am | Comments
Bookmark "Once upon a time" exhibition by Steve McQueen
In the work Once upon a Time (2004) McQueen presents a slide show of 116 of these images installed to make them seem to float in space: about two-thirds of the…

July 11 2012, 4:57am | Comments
Bookmark The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder
A really new aesthetics might work differently: instead of concerning itself with the way we humans see our world differently when we begin to see it through and with computer media…

April 18 2012, 9:33am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
The Mastery of Non-Mastery

April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
Philip K. Dick : To the best of our KNOWLEDGE

March 4 2012, 1:35am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
The Exegesis of Philip K Dick with Erik Davis

March 3 2012, 12:05pm | Comments
Bookmark A Conversation with film-maker Adam Curtis
Since the early 1990s Adam Curtis has made a number of serial documentaries and films for the BBC using a playful mix of journalistic reportage and a wide range of avant-garde…

February 12 2012, 4:36am | Comments
Bookmark The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith
The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and…

December 22 2011, 12:24pm | Comments
Twitter Favourites
What Is the Future of Knowledge in the Internet Age?

November 29 2011, 6:37am | Comments
Bookmark How Google Dominates Us
Most of the time Google does not actually have the answers. When people say, “I looked it up on Google,” they are committing a solecism. When they try to erase their…

July 31 2011, 6:17pm | Comments
Bookmark Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or the next big thing?
There’s a new online threat to writing. Critics of the web like to blame email, texts, and chat for killing prose. Even blogs—present company included—don’t escape their wrath. But in fact…

July 25 2011, 2:46am | Comments
Bookmark Michel Serres on the word 'human'
Son of a barge man, Michel Serres joined the Ecole Navale in 1949 and the Ecole Normale supérieure in 1952 where he obtained the aggregation of philosophy in 1955. From 1956…

July 6 2011, 3:15pm | Comments
Bookmark Knowledge, not the way you knew it
17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an “experiment”…

June 28 2011, 4:11pm | Comments
Bookmark Views on Evolution, Intelligent Design Hinge on Death Anxiety
It may be the foundation of modern biology, but fewer than 40 percent of Americans say they believe in the theory of evolution. While frustrated scientists sometimes blame religion for this…

April 7 2011, 3:39am | Comments
Bookmark James Gleick’s History of Information
Gleick makes his case in a sweeping survey that covers the five millenniums of humanity’s engagement with information, from the invention of writing in Sumer to the elevation of information to…

March 20 2011, 5:41am | Comments
Bookmark Hawking contra Philosophy
Professor Hawking has probably been talking to the wrong philosophers, or picked up some wrong ideas about the kinds of discussion that currently go on in philosophy of science. His lofty…

February 19 2011, 5:31am | Comments
Portfolio Errors in Things and “The Friendly Medium”

February 16 2011, 7:39am | Comments
Bookmark Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic
Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time: In research the story is similar. PhD students and contract staff known as “postdocs”, described by one student as “the ugly…

December 20 2010, 9:47am | Comments
Bookmark What concepts do not exist in the English language?
Carl Honoré (In Praise of Slow) says Canada's Baffin Island Inuit "use the same word—'uvatiarru'—to mean both 'in the distant past' and 'in the distant future.' Time, in such cultures, is…

September 10 2010, 4:17am | Comments
Bookmark Reclaiming the Imagination
Imagine being a slave in ancient Rome. Now remember being one. The second task, unlike the first, is crazy. If, as I’m guessing, you never were a slave in ancient Rome,…

August 18 2010, 2:12am | Comments

Page: 1 2

Page: 1 2

navigation

portfolio detail

portfolio (ext)

art/residencies

major projects

online detritus

other work

search

connections / tags

elsewhere