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• Ask Metafilter Turing Machines and (Gothic) Horror I am interested in any writings connecting (Universal) Turing Machines and horror. The idea of computers being able to imitate the behaviour of anything speaks to me of the monsters and doppelgängers from the Gothic tradition onwards. Know any writings on this? Alan…

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  Fossils and artefacts pulled from the Grotte du Renne cave in central France present anthropologists with a Pleistocene puzzle. Strewn among the remains of prehistoric mammals are the bones of Neanderthals,…

  December 31 2012, 6:52am | Comments

• Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

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• Portfolio Binary Nomination

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• Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation

  In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a very…

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  The Mastery of Non-Mastery

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  Wired for Culture: How Language Enabled "Visual Theft," Sparked Innovation, and Helped Us Evolve

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• Bookmark The Spam of the Earth: Withdrawal from Representation (by Hito Steyerl)

  Image spam is one of the many dark matters of the digital world; spam tries to avoid detection by filters by presenting its message as an image file. An inordinate amount…

  February 12 2012, 4:32am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 to…

  October 31 2011, 6:53am | Comments

• Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

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  Walter Benjamin, Doctrine of the Similar

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• Tumblr Takeshi Murata: Get Your Ass To Mars

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• Bibliography Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Analogue artists defying the digital age

  Dusty vinyl records, vintage film cameras, rickety typewriters and antiquated recording equipment … these are the creative tools being used by some emerging artists. Pure nostalgia? Or a laudable refusal to…

  April 24 2011, 6:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Jacques Ranciere: What Medium Can Mean

  I will present some remarks here on the use of the notion of medium in art theory and the light cast on this notion by the case of photography. The notion of…

  March 12 2011, 1:55am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 of…

  March 2 2011, 6:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Ants mimic liquids to stay afloat

  Rain may seem a harmless nuisance to us humans, but for ants, it's a big deal. They can get trapped by just a single drop and risk drowning. Paradoxically, it's by…

  November 25 2010, 3:36am | Comments

• Bookmark 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, which…

  November 3 2010, 8:26am | Comments

• Bookmark Glitch Paintings

  Andy Denzler does these great paintings that look as though they're highly compressed JPEGs with encoding issues.

  October 21 2010, 1:47pm | Comments

• Bookmark Journalism in the Age of Data: A Film

  What bad writing has to do with war casualties and traffic over North America. It’s no secret we have a data visualization fetish, but that’s not just because we like looking…

  September 30 2010, 4:19pm | Comments

• Bookmark Game Design as Make-Believe (4): Fictional Worlds

  When one plays most videogames there is a tacit understanding that one is entering into a fictional world – the term virtual world, is often deployed to mean exactly this. It…

  May 12 2010, 3:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Signs: The most useful thing you pay no attention to

  Signage—the kind we see on city streets, in airports, on highways, in hospital corridors—is the most useful thing we pay no attention to. When it works well, it tells us where…

  May 2 2010, 2:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark 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 kind…

  February 24 2010, 7:38am | Comments

• Ask 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. The notion for instance that the sacrament, at the point of its acceptance, is understood…

  February 24 2010, 5:28am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | 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 focused on obtaining the material wealth (the "cargo") of the advanced culture through magical thinking…

  January 8 2010, 9:51am | Comments

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  Another binary myth fundamental to Western culture is the eternally popular hubris/nemesis complex. According to this idea, those who transgress against the natural order always get their just desserts. Hubris is…

  November 13 2009, 4:22pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Innovative Book Designs Innovative Books: I am looking to compile a list of the most innovative uses of the book format. Books that break the mould in their layout and design, perhaps books that use online systems to extend their content value or push their form…

  November 1 2009, 4:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Origin of the Work of Art

  In his article, Heidegger explains the essence of art in terms of the concepts of being and truth. He argues that art is not only a way of expressing the element…

  October 8 2009, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Adorno on Mimesis in Aesthetic Theory

  Art is imitation only to the extent to which it is objective expression, far removed from psychology. There may have been a time long ago when this expressive quality of the…

  July 13 2009, 7:19am | Comments

• Ask 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 oral culture, through his mimesis of Socrates' dialogues in writing. Following Plato, Aristotle's theory was…

  February 16 2009, 7:09am | Comments

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  April 29 2017, 12:02pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Turing Machines and (Gothic) Horror I am interested in any writings connecting (Universal) Turing Machines and horror. The idea of computers being able to imitate the behaviour of anything speaks to me of the monsters and doppelgängers from the Gothic tradition onwards. Know any writings on this? Alan…

  December 3 2014, 4:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthals smart enough to copy humans

  Fossils and artefacts pulled from the Grotte du Renne cave in central France present anthropologists with a Pleistocene puzzle. Strewn among the remains of prehistoric mammals are the bones of Neanderthals,…

  December 31 2012, 6:52am | Comments

• Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

• Portfolio Binary Nomination

  July 19 2012, 9:32am | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation

  In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a very…

  July 19 2012, 8:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Mastery of Non-Mastery

  April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Wired for Culture: How Language Enabled "Visual Theft," Sparked Innovation, and Helped Us Evolve

  February 28 2012, 6:35am | Comments

• Bookmark The Spam of the Earth: Withdrawal from Representation (by Hito Steyerl)

  Image spam is one of the many dark matters of the digital world; spam tries to avoid detection by filters by presenting its message as an image file. An inordinate amount…

  February 12 2012, 4:32am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 to…

  October 31 2011, 6:53am | Comments

• Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

  May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Walter Benjamin, Doctrine of the Similar

  May 16 2011, 8:06am | Comments

• Tumblr Takeshi Murata: Get Your Ass To Mars

  May 6 2011, 2:36am | Comments

• Bibliography Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Analogue artists defying the digital age

  Dusty vinyl records, vintage film cameras, rickety typewriters and antiquated recording equipment … these are the creative tools being used by some emerging artists. Pure nostalgia? Or a laudable refusal to…

  April 24 2011, 6:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Jacques Ranciere: What Medium Can Mean

  I will present some remarks here on the use of the notion of medium in art theory and the light cast on this notion by the case of photography. The notion of…

  March 12 2011, 1:55am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 of…

  March 2 2011, 6:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Ants mimic liquids to stay afloat

  Rain may seem a harmless nuisance to us humans, but for ants, it's a big deal. They can get trapped by just a single drop and risk drowning. Paradoxically, it's by…

  November 25 2010, 3:36am | Comments

• Bookmark 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, which…

  November 3 2010, 8:26am | Comments

• Bookmark Glitch Paintings

  Andy Denzler does these great paintings that look as though they're highly compressed JPEGs with encoding issues.

  October 21 2010, 1:47pm | Comments

• Bookmark Journalism in the Age of Data: A Film

  What bad writing has to do with war casualties and traffic over North America. It’s no secret we have a data visualization fetish, but that’s not just because we like looking…

  September 30 2010, 4:19pm | Comments

• Bookmark Game Design as Make-Believe (4): Fictional Worlds

  When one plays most videogames there is a tacit understanding that one is entering into a fictional world – the term virtual world, is often deployed to mean exactly this. It…

  May 12 2010, 3:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Signs: The most useful thing you pay no attention to

  Signage—the kind we see on city streets, in airports, on highways, in hospital corridors—is the most useful thing we pay no attention to. When it works well, it tells us where…

  May 2 2010, 2:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark 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 kind…

  February 24 2010, 7:38am | Comments

• Ask 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. The notion for instance that the sacrament, at the point of its acceptance, is understood…

  February 24 2010, 5:28am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | 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 focused on obtaining the material wealth (the "cargo") of the advanced culture through magical thinking…

  January 8 2010, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark IMG MGMT: Hubris/Nemesis/Whatever

  Another binary myth fundamental to Western culture is the eternally popular hubris/nemesis complex. According to this idea, those who transgress against the natural order always get their just desserts. Hubris is…

  November 13 2009, 4:22pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Innovative Book Designs Innovative Books: I am looking to compile a list of the most innovative uses of the book format. Books that break the mould in their layout and design, perhaps books that use online systems to extend their content value or push their form…

  November 1 2009, 4:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Origin of the Work of Art

  In his article, Heidegger explains the essence of art in terms of the concepts of being and truth. He argues that art is not only a way of expressing the element…

  October 8 2009, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Adorno on Mimesis in Aesthetic Theory

  Art is imitation only to the extent to which it is objective expression, far removed from psychology. There may have been a time long ago when this expressive quality of the…

  July 13 2009, 7:19am | Comments

• Ask 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 oral culture, through his mimesis of Socrates' dialogues in writing. Following Plato, Aristotle's theory was…

  February 16 2009, 7:09am | Comments

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