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Twitter Links Should we clone Neanderthals?
If Neanderthals ever walk the earth again, the primordial ooze from which they will rise is an emulsion of oil, water, and DNA capture…

April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments
Twitter Links Atheists as "Other": Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership - http://t.co/ePMMKhgW #PDF via @3qd
Despite the declining salience of divisions among religious groups, the boundary between believers and nonbelievers in America remains strong. This article examines the limits…

March 30 2012, 7:00am | Comments
Twitter Links At what age do babies enter the uncanny valley?
Human Beings Enter the Uncanny Valley Between 6 and 12 Years of Age

February 13 2012, 10:06am | Comments
Link The Cyberspace Real (Between Perversion and Trauma)
Are the pessimistic cultural criticists (from Jean Baudrillard to Paul Virilio) justified in their claim that cyberspace ultimately generates a kind of proto-psychotic immersion into an imaginary universe of hallucinations,…

September 30 2011, 7:33am | Comments
Metafilter Crusoe film adaptations and *that* footprint Robinson Crusoe film adaptations. Which are the best ones? Also, that footprint... For a project I am working on, I want to isolate the moment in Robinson Crusoe…

September 29 2011, 5:31am | Comments
Link Violence at the Edge: Tottenham, Athens, Paris
"The everyday experience of liberal capitalism rests upon the violent defence of the boundaries against the other that the system itself produces. That banal and pacifying phrase ‘social exclusion’ allows…

August 9 2011, 4:39am | Comments
Link Finding the Neanderthal within ourselves
Like a disowned half-brother the Neanderthals keep hammering on our door, forcing us to face inconvenient truths. In the nineteenth century, fossil remains of powerful, thickset, short-necked human-like creatures with…

October 22 2010, 9:12am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments
Wikipedia Other The Other or constitutive other (also referred to as othering) is a key concept in continental philosophy, opposed to the Same. It refers, or attempts to refer, to…

January 26 2010, 2:48pm | Comments

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