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• Bookmark how to write drone fiction | THE STATE

  Earlier this week, Teju Cole posted seven short stories about drones on his twitter account. Here they are, reprinted from The New Inquiry: 1. Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the…

  February 21 2013, 4:08pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: A literary character with the actual power to kill How To Write Drone Fiction: "One can easily and self-righteously claim the merits of writing non-fiction about drones by asserting a primacy of fact over “false fiction”. The problem is that one does not write non-fiction about drones."

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• Bookmark Shakespeare’s Sonnets and MLK’s Speech Stored in DNA Speck – Phenomena: Not…

  Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that…

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• Bookmark The Hendrick's Lecture Series

  WILLIAM BURROUGHS and the TORSO MURDERER with Oliver Harris William Burroughs writes "...in this life we have to take things as we find them as the torso murderer said when he…

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• Tumblr (Quote) "Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time..."

  “Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that read them—think about video tapes, cassettes, or floppy disks. That’s a faff—it means…

  January 30 2013, 9:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Rhizome | Using, Using, Used

  Within the pages of Digital Folklore Reader, Olia Lialina, one of the book's editors, refers to a claim by the social media researcher Danah Boyd, that some American teenagers identify as…

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• Bookmark Roger Scruton – A culture of fake originality

  A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a shared frame of reference among educated people. High culture…

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• Bookmark A disjointed conversation – Claire Bishop, The Digital Divide, and the State…

  I found Claire Bishop’s landmark essay on Digital Art, ‘The Digital Divide’ in Artforum’s 50th Anniversary issue three months late through Lauren Cornell and Brian Droitcour’s equally polemic response, ‘Technical Difficulties’…

  January 16 2013, 2:41am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: How appropriate. You fight like a cow. The insult swordfighting from LucasArts' Monkey Island series is now available as a standalone browser game.

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  WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DIGITAL ART? Cast your mind back to the late 1990s, when we got our first e-mail accounts. Wasn’t there a pervasive sense that visual art was going to…

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• Bookmark How art history is failing at the Internet

  Keeping up with the pace of change in the digital world is challenging, and harnessing its potential can be frustrating. But the biggest mistake many of us in the arts and…

  December 31 2012, 7:01am | Comments

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  Have you watched the last few moments of Saddam’s life? Or the necrophilic videos with Gaddafi’s behind? Al Zarqawi’s internet kill rooms? Magnotta’s cat suffocation videos? Ronal Poppo’s eaten face? I…

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  Andrew Brown, at The Guardian‘s ‘Comment is Free’ (CIF) wrote an article a couple of weeks ago now rubbishing humanism and the British Humanist Association. I’ve responded today on the Huffington…

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  The humanism that the BHA stands for is quite clearly defined in opposition to Christendom. By "Christendom", I mean the idea that the normative and proper state of a society is…

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• Bookmark Darwin Among the Machines — [To the Editor of the Press, Christchurch,…

  Sir—There are few things of which the present generation is more justly proud than of the wonderful improvements which are daily taking place in all sorts of mechanical appliances. And indeed…

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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,…

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  team of archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, and paleoartists has created a more accurate Neanderthal reconstruction, based on a nearly complete skeleton discovered in France more than 100 years ago. The La Ferrassie Neanderthal…

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  In 1909, excavations at La Ferrassie cave in the Dordogne unearthed the remains of a group of Neanderthals. One of the skeletons in that group was that of an adult male,…

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  The English language contains certain meaning-rich words that command attention and stir controversy. “Paradigm,” for instance: When Thomas Kuhn used it in 1966 to describe accepted scientific theories, and gave us…

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• Bookmark The Fallacy of Dumb Superintelligence

  This is what a New Yorker article has to say on the subject of “Moral Machines”: “An all-powerful computer that was programmed to maximize human pleasure, for example, might consign us…

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  HUMANS AND INTELLIGENT MACHINES : CO-EVOLUTION, FUSION OR REPLACEMENT?

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  Overheard cellphone chat at NY airport "Mommy bear says there's blood all over the place needs cleanin up. I'll see u down there real soon."

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• Bookmark how to write drone fiction | THE STATE

  Earlier this week, Teju Cole posted seven short stories about drones on his twitter account. Here they are, reprinted from The New Inquiry: 1. Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the…

  February 21 2013, 4:08pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: A literary character with the actual power to kill How To Write Drone Fiction: "One can easily and self-righteously claim the merits of writing non-fiction about drones by asserting a primacy of fact over “false fiction”. The problem is that one does not write non-fiction about drones."

  February 20 2013, 12:15pm | Comments

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  February 12 2013, 2:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Shakespeare’s Sonnets and MLK’s Speech Stored in DNA Speck – Phenomena: Not…

  Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that…

  February 11 2013, 2:53am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 10 2013, 5:28am | Comments

• Tumblr “Create connections, if possible between everything in the...

  February 8 2013, 5:56am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Tate Britain

  February 8 2013, 5:56am | Comments

• Bookmark The Hendrick's Lecture Series

  WILLIAM BURROUGHS and the TORSO MURDERER with Oliver Harris William Burroughs writes "...in this life we have to take things as we find them as the torso murderer said when he…

  February 4 2013, 3:25am | Comments

• Vimeo

  February 3 2013, 3:40am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time..."

  “Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that read them—think about video tapes, cassettes, or floppy disks. That’s a faff—it means…

  January 30 2013, 9:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Rhizome | Using, Using, Used

  Within the pages of Digital Folklore Reader, Olia Lialina, one of the book's editors, refers to a claim by the social media researcher Danah Boyd, that some American teenagers identify as…

  January 22 2013, 3:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark Roger Scruton – A culture of fake originality

  A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a shared frame of reference among educated people. High culture…

  January 22 2013, 5:16am | Comments

• Bookmark A disjointed conversation – Claire Bishop, The Digital Divide, and the State…

  I found Claire Bishop’s landmark essay on Digital Art, ‘The Digital Divide’ in Artforum’s 50th Anniversary issue three months late through Lauren Cornell and Brian Droitcour’s equally polemic response, ‘Technical Difficulties’…

  January 16 2013, 2:41am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: How appropriate. You fight like a cow. The insult swordfighting from LucasArts' Monkey Island series is now available as a standalone browser game.

  January 15 2013, 11:24am | Comments

• Bookmark artforum.com / in print

  WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DIGITAL ART? Cast your mind back to the late 1990s, when we got our first e-mail accounts. Wasn’t there a pervasive sense that visual art was going to…

  January 14 2013, 5:29pm | Comments

• YouTube

  January 6 2013, 10:23am | Comments

• Bookmark How art history is failing at the Internet

  Keeping up with the pace of change in the digital world is challenging, and harnessing its potential can be frustrating. But the biggest mistake many of us in the arts and…

  December 31 2012, 7:01am | Comments

• Bookmark the real internet

  Have you watched the last few moments of Saddam’s life? Or the necrophilic videos with Gaddafi’s behind? Al Zarqawi’s internet kill rooms? Magnotta’s cat suffocation videos? Ronal Poppo’s eaten face? I…

  December 31 2012, 7:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Humanism: not an ‘impossible dream’

  Andrew Brown, at The Guardian‘s ‘Comment is Free’ (CIF) wrote an article a couple of weeks ago now rubbishing humanism and the British Humanist Association. I’ve responded today on the Huffington…

  December 31 2012, 6:57am | Comments

• Bookmark Humanism is an impossible dream

  The humanism that the BHA stands for is quite clearly defined in opposition to Christendom. By "Christendom", I mean the idea that the normative and proper state of a society is…

  December 31 2012, 6:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Darwin Among the Machines — [To the Editor of the Press, Christchurch,…

  Sir—There are few things of which the present generation is more justly proud than of the wonderful improvements which are daily taking place in all sorts of mechanical appliances. And indeed…

  December 31 2012, 6:54am | 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

• Bookmark Neanderthal vs. Homo sapiens: Who would win in a fight?

  team of archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, and paleoartists has created a more accurate Neanderthal reconstruction, based on a nearly complete skeleton discovered in France more than 100 years ago. The La Ferrassie Neanderthal…

  December 31 2012, 6:49am | Comments

• Bookmark How scientists recreated Neanderthal man

  In 1909, excavations at La Ferrassie cave in the Dordogne unearthed the remains of a group of Neanderthals. One of the skeletons in that group was that of an adult male,…

  December 31 2012, 6:48am | Comments

• Bookmark A vested interest in palimpsest

  The English language contains certain meaning-rich words that command attention and stir controversy. “Paradigm,” for instance: When Thomas Kuhn used it in 1966 to describe accepted scientific theories, and gave us…

  December 20 2012, 3:45am | Comments

• GIFbites 121212 Featuring the voice and work of Gretta Louw GIF source:...

  December 14 2012, 10:18am | Comments

• Bookmark The Fallacy of Dumb Superintelligence

  This is what a New Yorker article has to say on the subject of “Moral Machines”: “An all-powerful computer that was programmed to maximize human pleasure, for example, might consign us…

  December 14 2012, 3:03am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  HUMANS AND INTELLIGENT MACHINES : CO-EVOLUTION, FUSION OR REPLACEMENT?

  December 14 2012, 3:02am | Comments

• Twitter

  Overheard cellphone chat at NY airport "Mommy bear says there's blood all over the place needs cleanin up. I'll see u down there real soon."

  December 11 2012, 8:35am | Comments

• GIFbites No higher resolution available Featuring the very subtle sounds...

  December 6 2012, 4:07am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On Online 'Becoming' #Pizza

  November 20 2012, 7:13am | Comments

• Tumblr Help Kickstart ▌▀▐▐GLI.TCH  2112! ▐▐▀▌▌▐▀▀▄▄▀▀AGAI▀NN▀▀▀

  November 15 2012, 9:34am | Comments

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