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Link Deal With It: the art and science of…
By T.C. Sottek and Thomas Houston Humans have always lived singularly in the present moment; the internet has only accelerated the pace that we leap from one lily pad of…

April 18 2013, 4:54pm | Comments
Tumblr Why Do Sign Language Interpreters Look So Animated?

January 27 2013, 8:07am | Comments
Link A vested interest in palimpsest
The English language contains certain meaning-rich words that command attention and stir controversy. “Paradigm,” for instance: When Thomas Kuhn used it in 1966 to describe accepted scientific theories, and gave…

December 20 2012, 3:45am | Comments
Twitter Links Meaning as gloss
Frances Egan is a mind-bombing philosopher who wonders on explanatory frameworks of science, the fits and starts of mind evolution, the links between neuroscience…

November 14 2012, 4:39am | Comments
Twitter Links Why Do Sign Language Interpreters Look So Animated?
As New York City Mayor Bloomberg gave numerous televised addresses about the preparations the city was making for Hurricane Sandy, and then the storm’s…

November 11 2012, 1:02am | Comments
Twitter Links Rhetological Fallacies infographic
Errors and manipulations of rhetoric and logical thinking

September 20 2012, 3:48am | Comments
Link The madness of crowds: hoarding (Will Self)
Wherefrom comes this urge to expose such traumatic interiors? After all, hoarding can be nothing new – it’s easy to imagine a Cyclops’s cavern stuffed to the roof with sheep…

May 30 2012, 1:50am | Comments
Twitter Links THEORY BEYOND THE CODES: Doing with Icons makes Symbols; or, Jailbreaking the Perfect User Interface
Mediation and technologies of mediation, whether the sign (Vygotsky), the symbol (Piaget), or the mirror or signifier (Lacan), all play central roles in accounts…

April 18 2012, 12:29am | Comments
Twitter Links Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'
"What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible" The list is the origin of culture. It's part of the history of art and literature.…

March 21 2012, 9:35am | Comments
Tumblr "Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for..."

February 20 2012, 7:21am | Comments
Tumblr Electrical Model illustrating a Mind having a Will but capable...

October 31 2011, 6:42am | Comments
Twitter Links Evolution and Innovation
George Dyson: “Information Is Cheap, Meaning Is Expensive”

October 29 2011, 3:55pm | Comments
Link Is mental time travel what makes us human?
A stonishing animals show up everywhere these days. Cooperative apes, grief-stricken elephants, empathetic cats and dogs crowd our bookshop shelves. It’s all the rage to plumb the cognitive and emotional…

October 28 2011, 10:32am | Comments
Link Meaning/time=? [e-flux on Coked-Out, Motherless Robots]
Are we moving too fast for meaning? That’s the argument put together by Franco Berardi in his essay Time, Acceleration, and Violence, published on e-flux. It’s the latest in an…

September 29 2011, 7:29am | Comments
Link How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical…
The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful…

September 20 2011, 10:26am | Comments
Link Humanism / After Humanism
n this essay, I want to explore some dimensions of what the term “humanism” means—what it meant in the past and what it means today. In particular, I would like…

August 11 2011, 11:30am | Comments
Link Secularism and Its Discontents
These are theological questions without theological answers, and, if the atheist is not supposed to entertain them, then, for slightly different reasons, neither is the religious believer. Religion assumes that…

August 9 2011, 3:57pm | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) Michel Serres, The Natural Contract
“Suppose two speakers, determined to contradict each other. As violent as their confrontation may be, as long as they are willing to continue the discussion they must speak a common language in order for the dialogue to take…

August 9 2011, 5:36am | Comments
Link The Pathology of Collecting
What I’ve learned, the hard way, is that the one thing you must never ask a collector is “why?” It’ll get you nowhere. They’ll just stare at you in baffled…

July 11 2011, 4:54am | Comments
Link Inside the Box: Notes From Within the European…
The debate over artistic research, particularly its appeal to scientificity, often rests on defining one’s terms. Thus, an examination of some of the keywords deployed might be instructive, especially when…

June 16 2011, 3:13am | Comments
Link A Medium for the Masses
The word “meme” first appeared in Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book “The Selfish Gene.” Dawkins defined a meme as being any sort of idea that spreads from person to person within…

June 6 2011, 2:25am | Comments
Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments
Link Japanese people need our solidarity, not a blame…
The earthquake confirms that a pre‑Enlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback. The Japanese proverb ‘fix the problem, not the blame’ captures an attitude…

March 26 2011, 1:48pm | Comments
Link What concepts do not exist in the English…
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,…

September 10 2010, 4:17am | Comments
Link An Amoral Manifesto (Part I)
Hard Atheism or What Shall I Name This Column? Hold onto your hats, folks. Although it is perhaps fitting that the actual day on which I sit here at my…

August 30 2010, 10:12am | Comments
Link Biosemiotics: Searching for meanings in a meadow
Are signs and meanings just as vital to living things as enzymes and tissues? Liz Else investigates a science in the making EVERY so often, something shows up on the…

August 27 2010, 1:08am | Comments
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June 15 2010, 2:35pm | Comments
Link Should This Be the Last Generation?
Have you ever thought about whether to have a child? If so, what factors entered into your decision? Was it whether having children would be good for you, your partner…

June 10 2010, 2:45am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Opposition Paradigm (Together Again for the First…

May 16 2010, 9:15pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments
Link Next Big Thing - Literary Scholars Turn to…
This layered process of figuring out what someone else is thinking — of mind reading — is both a common literary device and an essential survival skill. Why human beings…

April 6 2010, 12:04pm | Comments
Link Technologies of Culture: The Archive
"'To read what was never written.' Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new…

February 24 2010, 7:38am | Comments
Metafilter Sacrifice, speech, writing and art Sacrifice, speech, writing and art: I am interested in the different ways in which a sacrifice, a sacrament, a spoken word and a written word act as signifiers.…

February 24 2010, 5:28am | Comments
Portfolio The Movement of The Middle

June 30 2009, 9:05am | Comments

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