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Twitter Links The God gap
Religion may have lost much of its power to explain our modern world but we still crave its emotional satisfactions

January 28 2012, 11:35am | Comments
Twitter Links The Dark Sides of Our Digital Self
To many, the internet holds great promises of freedom, wealth, power, and opportunity. One great example of this is the dot com bubble. When…

December 18 2011, 4:51am | Comments
Link Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to…
Emulators for playing older games are immensely popular online, with regular arguments breaking out over which emulator is best for which game. Today we present another point of view from…

August 11 2011, 4:25am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community
“The novelty of the coming politics is that it will no longer be a struggle for the conquest or control of the State, but a struggle between the State and the non-state (humanity), an insurmountable disjunction between whatever…

August 9 2011, 4:27pm | 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 The Information Essay
Just as this is an age of great wealth inequality, it is also an age of great inequality of knowledge or, more exactly, factual information. For all its democratic potential,…

April 18 2011, 9:42am | Comments
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April 5 2011, 6:39am | Comments
Link Slavoj Žižek · Good Manners in the Age…
So far, the WikiLeaks story has been represented as a struggle between WikiLeaks and the US empire: is the publishing of confidential US state documents an act in support of…

January 18 2011, 5:01am | Comments
Link The Wall and the Books
by Jorge Luis Borges I read, in past days, that the man who ordered the construction of the nearly infinite Wall of China was that First Emperor, Shih Huang Ti,…

December 13 2009, 4:17pm | Comments
Link Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss
It Felt Like a Kiss started life as an experimental film I made for the BBC last year. My aim was to try and find a more involving and emotional…

June 20 2009, 5:39am | Comments

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