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Link A Provisional Theory of Non-Sites: Robert Smithson

By drawing a diagram, a ground plan of a house, a street plan to the location of a site, or a topographic map, one draws a "logical two dimensional picture."…

March 7 2010, 4:53pm | Comments

Link An evolutionary biologist on religion: Spirit level

WHEREVER their investigations lead, all analysts of religion begin somewhere. And in the final lines of his densely but skilfully packed account of faith from the viewpoint of evolutionary biology,…

March 7 2010, 4:52pm | Comments

Link Your Reality is out of Date

These slow-changing facts are what I term “mesofacts.” Mesofacts are the facts that change neither too quickly nor too slowly, that lie in this difficult-to-comprehend middle, or meso-, scale. Often,…

March 5 2010, 6:14am | 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, 8:38am | Comments

Link Manipulating Reality - How Images Redefine the World

Manipulating Reality presents a selection of 23 artistic approaches that work through photography and video to develop possible models of reality. Its aim is not to understand whether photographs can…

January 29 2010, 5:00pm | Comments

Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

January 24 2010, 10:04pm | Comments

Link Philip K. Dick: A 'plastic' paradox

When, one evening in 1976, Philip K. Dick invited Tim Powers to his Fullerton apartment, the Cal State student expected the kind of night he often passed with the science-fiction…

January 24 2010, 6:06pm | Comments

Link From Eternity to Here

The arrow of time points in one direction only, from past to present to future. Now there's a fact—rather like Wittgenstein's observation "A is the same thing as A"—that is…

January 12 2010, 3:15am | Comments

Link The World Question Center 2010: How is the…

Read any newspaper or magazine and you will notice the many flavors of the one big question that everyone is asking today. Or you can just stay on the page…

January 8 2010, 10:55am | Comments

Blog Post Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

November 23 2009, 9:29am | Comments

Link This Is Not Your Grade School Solar System

Pick up a 30-year-old astronomy textbook and you will find more illustrations of planets than actual pictures; Pluto still holds onto its full planet status and exoplanets are theoretical. In…

November 19 2009, 4:46pm | Comments

Blog Post Simulating Kim Jong Il

November 6 2009, 10:28am | Comments

Link lose/lose

Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien,…

October 1 2009, 5:30am | Comments

Link Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man

Directed by Philippe Molins - Although honors came late in life to Jorge Luis Borges, his unique worldview had begun to emerge even as a child. This program examines the…

August 6 2009, 1:23pm | Comments

Link How to fake science, history and religion

One of the epigraphs that punctuate Invented Knowledge is from Pascal: "It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of…

August 6 2009, 1:20pm | Comments

Link What Skepticism Reveals about Science

“The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It’s all lies. But they’re entertaining lies, and in the end isn’t that the real truth?…

June 24 2009, 3:26pm | Comments

Link Michel Serres's Milieux

Mediation means that which stands, comes or moves between things otherwise separated or opposed. Serres’s work has never ceased to meditate upon mediation in every possible sense: as arbitration; moderation;…

June 23 2009, 2:38pm | Comments

Blog Post Seeing Centaurs

June 14 2009, 2:50pm | Comments

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May 24 2009, 2:52pm | Comments

Blog Post The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

Link A Society of Simulations

This essay aims to increase our understanding of simulations and their impact on our notion of reality. Following on some observations regarding the dominant role of visual representations in our…

April 20 2009, 3:22pm | Comments

Writing for 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

Through the topology of the network we have begun to perceive what Michel Serres calls ‘The World Object’, an ecology of interconnections and interactions…

April 20 2009, 3:11am | Comments

Writing for 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Grapholectic Thought and the…

Of course my mini-history of scientific revolution should not be taken itself as a “truth”. I draw it as a parable of progress, as…

March 23 2009, 2:38am | Comments

Writing for Spacecollective The Total Library Project

Books that redefine reality - or - How to redefine the book...

January 29 2009, 3:58am | Comments

Writing for 3quarksdaily In Another city another me is writing

Take this article, for example. It is an unwinding spring of phonic sounds, encoded into a series of arbitrary symbols, stretching from left to…

December 29 2008, 11:52am | Comments

Writing for Spacecollective How Things Become: The Infinity of Definition

The perceiver's position in an architectural, or merely physical space, determines the dimensional imperatives of that person's mental qualia. It is interesting to note…

December 29 2008, 11:47am | Comments

Metafilter The phenomenology of text The phenomenology / ontology of text: has anyone examined this issue directly in philosophical, literary and/or critical terms? I am interested in the experience and perception of text,…

September 18 2008, 8:21am | Comments

Spacecollective.org The Metaphor is the Message Part II: Palimpsests…

April 24 2008, 8:57am | Comments

Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments

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