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• Twitter Links Marx at 193

  In trying to think what Marx would have made of the world today, we have to begin by stressing that he was not an…

  March 29 2012, 3:17pm | Comments

• Instapaper Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature

  In Western cultures, nature is a cosmological, primal ordering force and a terrestrial condition that exists in the absence of human beings. Both meanings…

  March 9 2012, 5:34am | Comments

• Twitter Links The Democracy of Objects

  Since Kant, philosophy has been obsessed with epistemological questions pertaining to the relationship between mind and world and human access to objects. In The…

  March 5 2012, 4:44pm | Comments

• Twitter Links The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

  Even in his earliest stories, Dick wrestled with the nature of perception. As he described it to me, “I began to get an idea…

  December 18 2011, 3:20am | Comments

• Twitter Links From Beyond

  by H.P.Lovecraft

  October 20 2011, 6:24am | Comments

• Wikipedia Sacred Contagion Sacred contagion is the belief that spiritual properties within an object, place, or person may be passed to another object, place, or person, usually by direct contact or…

  August 12 2011, 8:08am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Link The Neolithic Age is over!

  Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance,…

  July 12 2011, 1:36am | 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 The Things, by Peter Watts

  I am being Blair. I escape out the back as the world comes in through the front. I am being Copper. I am rising from the dead. I am being…

  June 20 2011, 5:13am | Comments

• Miscellanous Projects Digital Autonomy

  June 11 2011, 4:02am | Comments

• Link A Thing Like You and Me

  by Hito Steyerl What happens to identification at this point? Who can we identify with? Of course, identification is always with an image. But ask anybody whether they’d actually like…

  May 11 2011, 3:03am | Comments

• Link Radical Ethology: Jussi Parikka's Insect Media

  In a fundamental sense, technology is deeply non-human. While we might apply a humanist logic to the function and workings of technological systems, and view technological objects as extensions of…

  April 20 2011, 3:25pm | Comments

• Link Technology Wants to Keep Evolving

  Kelly argues that all technologies, from the stone ax to the computer chip, should be seen as a collectivity—the technium, which is “the greater, global, massively interconnected system of technology…

  February 22 2011, 1:03pm | Comments

• Portfolio Errors in Things and “The Friendly Medium”

  February 16 2011, 8:39am | Comments

• Portfolio The Clock

  November 5 2010, 10:11am | Comments

• Link The 10 Most Disgusting Alien Civilizations

  We've dedicated this Power Grid to the most disgusting alien civilizations to ever grace the page, screen, or hard drive. Why is biology used as technology the easiest way to…

  August 10 2010, 6:56am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Link Art and Thingness, Part Two: Thingification

  by Sven Lütticken In a text written in response to the upheavals of the Russian Revolution and the early Soviet avant-garde, Carl Einstein claimed that tradition “piles up in the…

  July 19 2010, 8:08am | Comments

• Wikipedia Thing - Wikipedia Thing may refer to: In philosophy: * An object (philosophy), being, or entity * Thing-in-itself (or noumenon), the reality that underlies perceptions, a term coined by Immanuel Kant…

  July 16 2010, 3:30am | Comments

• Video

  July 12 2009, 3:54pm | Comments

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• Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island
• The Creators Project interview: Sing Glitchy Karaoke Over The Web
• A Labyrinth (No Minotaur): Goldsmiths Postgraduate Degree Show 2011
• Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean
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• Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island
• GLTI.CH Karaoke IV: Where Will You Sing?
• A Labyrinth (No Minotaur): Goldsmiths Postgraduate Degree Show 2011
• Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean
• RAWTunes.exe 10.4.2
• Thoughts on art practice PhDs
• And There It Was
• “Everything on the Face of the Earth”