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• Bookmark Do Androids Dream of Electric Authors?

  But the invasion of robot-books is unsettling for another reason. I think we can all agree that it’s O.K. for robots to take over unpleasant jobs — like cleaning up nuclear…

  October 16 2011, 7:04am | Comments

• Bookmark The case for reconciling the scientific with the divine -- and against…

  As a both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious…

  October 8 2011, 10:01am | Comments

• Tumblr thomforsyth: BIRD RIB Paintings | Maurizio Bongiovanni My work...

  October 2 2011, 4:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Innovation Starvation

  SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer) to…

  October 2 2011, 4:47am | Comments

• Bookmark 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, unconstrained…

  September 30 2011, 7:33am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or..."

  “Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.” - J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition…

  September 30 2011, 5:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Meaning/time=? [e-flux on Coked-Out, Motherless Robots]

  Are we moving too fast for meaning? That’s the argument put together by Franco Berardi in his essay Time, Acceleration, and Violence, published on e-flux. It’s the latest in an expanding…

  September 29 2011, 7:29am | Comments

• Bookmark On Science Transfer

  “Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before. Our…

  September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Being Human (Blame it on Andy)

  Being human offers homo sapiens variety, or some elasticity, in social life, though sociologists claim that people’s personalities disappear with no one else around. Imagining this evacuation, I see a person…

  September 29 2011, 3:55am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How the refrigerator got its hum

  September 26 2011, 4:54am | Comments

• Bookmark How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical Artifact"?

  The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful to…

  September 20 2011, 10:26am | Comments

• Bookmark Can religion tell us more than science?

  In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and against…

  September 20 2011, 3:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Steven Pinker on the History and decline (and myth of) Violence

  Some of the evidence has been under our nose all along. Conventional history has long shown that, in many ways, we have been getting kinder and gentler. Cruelty as entertainment, human…

  September 20 2011, 3:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Artist is Present (a video game about waiting in line at…

  Writing articles about video games is so much fun that we often have to stop, wipe the manic grins off our faces and find something really boring to do. Sometimes we…

  September 19 2011, 1:39am | Comments

• Tumblr Spillage hypergeography: bunkai tktgysmr

  September 17 2011, 10:31am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put…

  “What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or…

  September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments

• Twitter

  Bataille: I dont know what the being is that I am nor do I know what the world is & I would not be able to produce another one by any means

  September 7 2011, 6:27am | Comments

• Bookmark The Battle Over Zomia

  Over the past two millennia, "runaway" communities have put the "friction of terrain" between themselves and the people who remained in the lowlands, he writes. The highland groups adopted a swidden…

  September 5 2011, 5:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Novelists Predict Future With Eerie Accuracy

  September 4 2011, 6:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark Is New Media Accepted in the Art World? Domenico Quaranta’s Media, New…

  Do institutions and galleries have a growing interest in New Media? Two weeks ago, I identified the art “internet bubble” at The L Magazine, a trend that’s currently giving new media…

  September 2 2011, 3:07pm | Comments

• Tumblr Harcourt Street Station

  September 1 2011, 1:44am | Comments

• Metafilter F**k Statistics Statistical analysis of OKCupid profiles exposes some sexually fascinating revelations: Herbivores like giving oral more than omnivores Twitter users are more likely to masturbate today Christians and Atheists are just as likely to claim they have never masturbated The correlation between men who…

  August 31 2011, 6:05am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How Star Trek artists imagined the iPad... 23 years ago

  August 30 2011, 10:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Reading Life - What We Do to Books

  There has always been a lot of discussion about the effect that reading books has on us. Far less attention has been paid to the effect that we (the readers) have…

  August 30 2011, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark The New Atheism

  Trapped in the childhood literalism of my background, I had not entertained the possibility of Christian belief separated from the great lure and threat of heaven and hell. The New Atheism…

  August 30 2011, 8:21am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 29 2011, 2:36pm | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• YouTube

  August 22 2011, 5:10pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Shock: Adam and Eve NEVER existed! (If it wasn't for you pesky biochemists...) http://t.co/hjiA8lK #religion #faith #belief #science #x

  August 18 2011, 1:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Manichean World of Tim Wu

  For the past dozen years, several distinguished thinkers about law and technology have warned that a golden age of Internet freedom may be about to close. The most influential alarm-ringer has…

  August 18 2011, 1:34am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Is Craig Venter going to save the planet? Or, is this more hype from one of America’s most controversial scientists? - The Washington Post

  August 15 2011, 2:23am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Samir Chopra and Laurence F. White: A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents, University of Michigan Press

  August 15 2011, 1:47am | Comments

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• Bookmark Do Androids Dream of Electric Authors?

  But the invasion of robot-books is unsettling for another reason. I think we can all agree that it’s O.K. for robots to take over unpleasant jobs — like cleaning up nuclear…

  October 16 2011, 7:04am | Comments

• Bookmark The case for reconciling the scientific with the divine -- and against…

  As a both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious…

  October 8 2011, 10:01am | Comments

• Tumblr thomforsyth: BIRD RIB Paintings | Maurizio Bongiovanni My work...

  October 2 2011, 4:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Innovation Starvation

  SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer) to…

  October 2 2011, 4:47am | Comments

• Bookmark 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, unconstrained…

  September 30 2011, 7:33am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or..."

  “Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.” - J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition…

  September 30 2011, 5:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Meaning/time=? [e-flux on Coked-Out, Motherless Robots]

  Are we moving too fast for meaning? That’s the argument put together by Franco Berardi in his essay Time, Acceleration, and Violence, published on e-flux. It’s the latest in an expanding…

  September 29 2011, 7:29am | Comments

• Bookmark On Science Transfer

  “Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before. Our…

  September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Being Human (Blame it on Andy)

  Being human offers homo sapiens variety, or some elasticity, in social life, though sociologists claim that people’s personalities disappear with no one else around. Imagining this evacuation, I see a person…

  September 29 2011, 3:55am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How the refrigerator got its hum

  September 26 2011, 4:54am | Comments

• Bookmark How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical Artifact"?

  The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful to…

  September 20 2011, 10:26am | Comments

• Bookmark Can religion tell us more than science?

  In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and against…

  September 20 2011, 3:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Steven Pinker on the History and decline (and myth of) Violence

  Some of the evidence has been under our nose all along. Conventional history has long shown that, in many ways, we have been getting kinder and gentler. Cruelty as entertainment, human…

  September 20 2011, 3:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Artist is Present (a video game about waiting in line at…

  Writing articles about video games is so much fun that we often have to stop, wipe the manic grins off our faces and find something really boring to do. Sometimes we…

  September 19 2011, 1:39am | Comments

• Tumblr Spillage hypergeography: bunkai tktgysmr

  September 17 2011, 10:31am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put…

  “What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or…

  September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments

• Twitter

  Bataille: I dont know what the being is that I am nor do I know what the world is & I would not be able to produce another one by any means

  September 7 2011, 6:27am | Comments

• Bookmark The Battle Over Zomia

  Over the past two millennia, "runaway" communities have put the "friction of terrain" between themselves and the people who remained in the lowlands, he writes. The highland groups adopted a swidden…

  September 5 2011, 5:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Novelists Predict Future With Eerie Accuracy

  September 4 2011, 6:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark Is New Media Accepted in the Art World? Domenico Quaranta’s Media, New…

  Do institutions and galleries have a growing interest in New Media? Two weeks ago, I identified the art “internet bubble” at The L Magazine, a trend that’s currently giving new media…

  September 2 2011, 3:07pm | Comments

• Tumblr Harcourt Street Station

  September 1 2011, 1:44am | Comments

• Metafilter F**k Statistics Statistical analysis of OKCupid profiles exposes some sexually fascinating revelations: Herbivores like giving oral more than omnivores Twitter users are more likely to masturbate today Christians and Atheists are just as likely to claim they have never masturbated The correlation between men who…

  August 31 2011, 6:05am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How Star Trek artists imagined the iPad... 23 years ago

  August 30 2011, 10:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Reading Life - What We Do to Books

  There has always been a lot of discussion about the effect that reading books has on us. Far less attention has been paid to the effect that we (the readers) have…

  August 30 2011, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark The New Atheism

  Trapped in the childhood literalism of my background, I had not entertained the possibility of Christian belief separated from the great lure and threat of heaven and hell. The New Atheism…

  August 30 2011, 8:21am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 29 2011, 2:36pm | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• YouTube

  August 22 2011, 5:10pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Shock: Adam and Eve NEVER existed! (If it wasn't for you pesky biochemists...) http://t.co/hjiA8lK #religion #faith #belief #science #x

  August 18 2011, 1:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Manichean World of Tim Wu

  For the past dozen years, several distinguished thinkers about law and technology have warned that a golden age of Internet freedom may be about to close. The most influential alarm-ringer has…

  August 18 2011, 1:34am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Is Craig Venter going to save the planet? Or, is this more hype from one of America’s most controversial scientists? - The Washington Post

  August 15 2011, 2:23am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Samir Chopra and Laurence F. White: A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents, University of Michigan Press

  August 15 2011, 1:47am | Comments

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