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• Bookmark Uncivilizing the PhD: for a politics of doctoral experience | ROAR Magazine

  The road to a PhD is a common source of frustration. It is time to acknowledge and contest this experience as the outcome of a disciplinarian process. As a faceless PhD…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Entering Posthumanism: Ihab Hassan and Neil Badmington | Simulation Space

  In “Prometheus as Performer: Toward a Posthumanist Culture?” Ihab Hassan uses the metaphor of the mythological Prometheus to frame his discussion on posthumanism and positions him as a trickster with a…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia

  Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

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• Bookmark Digital Metaphors: Editor’s Introduction | Alluvium

  Metaphor wants to be… ‘[...] metaphors work to change people’s minds. Orators have known this since Demosthenes. [...] But there’s precious little evidence that they tell you what people think. [...]…

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• Bookmark Chess 2: The Sequel - How a street fightin' man fixed the…

  Chess has problems. Not for most of us, perhaps - not for the bluffers and the fudgers and the seat-of-the-pants players who prod a path through matchups in which each side's…

  November 20 2013, 5:12am | Comments

• Bookmark A Future Internet Might Not Use Servers

  You'd think that given how pervasive the internet is, we'd be stuck with the fundamental architecture it uses: servers that many devices connect to for their information fix. But a team…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Media Watch: Pixelating protects identity? Think again. (09/07/2012)

  Gerard Baden-Clay Mr Baden-Clay's lawyers say he is devastated and will vigorously defend the charge. — ABC Online, 13 June, 2012 The ABC's lawyers insisted on pixelating Mr Baden-Clay's image after…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Portals at CRYSTALLIZE: The Aftermath + interview for BBC World

  We just finished a 3 day marathon we called GLTI.CH Portals, at CRYSTALLIZE exhibition. Part of a 3 day New Media art installation at the 2013 Korea Brand & Entertainment Expo, held at Old Billingsgate, London. Below are photos from the event. You can…

  November 7 2013, 4:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Captcha FAIL: Researchers Crack the Web's Most Popular Turing Test

  Captcha is the the gold standard for Turing tests on the web: Whenever an online form wants to check if you're a human being and not a spambot, it asks you…

  October 28 2013, 8:37am | Comments

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• Portfolio Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  Part of an ongoing series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work but may not (yet) be well known to our readers. Nick Briz is an artist/educator/organizer living in Chicago, and co-founder of the conference and festival GLI.TC/H. This interview took…

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• Bookmark Dylan Trigg - The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia, and the Absense…

  In (New York: Peter Lang, 2006), Dylan Trigg confronts the remnants from the fallout of post-industrialism and postmodernism. Through a considered analysis of memory, place, and nostalgia, Trigg argues that the…

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• Bookmark Cloning Woolly Mammoths: It’s the Ecology, Stupid | Guest Blog, Scientific American…

  As an ecologist of ice age giants, I long ago came to terms with the fact that I will never look my study organisms in the eye.

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• Bookmark Information wants to be free, but the world isn't ready | The…

  Every few years, one of my friends from the early days of digital enthusiasm turns up on the media’s radar as a “defector.” Huzzah! The former advocate or progenitor of the…

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• Bookmark Scientist wants human woman to give birth to a Neanderthal - Crave

  A scientist believes he's close to perfecting the necessary technology to clone a Neanderthal - all he needs is a human woman to gestate it.

  January 22 2013, 3:44pm | 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…

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• GLTI.CH Karaoke Machines by Other Means, Manchester

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• Bookmark A Thomasson is any kind of "useless and defunct object attached to…

  ...according to Akasegawa's definition. A publisher's blurb states that this includes the "doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete... thing sprouting…

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• Bookmark Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts

  RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about…

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  Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay?

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  January 9 2014, 3:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Uncivilizing the PhD: for a politics of doctoral experience | ROAR Magazine

  The road to a PhD is a common source of frustration. It is time to acknowledge and contest this experience as the outcome of a disciplinarian process. As a faceless PhD…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Entering Posthumanism: Ihab Hassan and Neil Badmington | Simulation Space

  In “Prometheus as Performer: Toward a Posthumanist Culture?” Ihab Hassan uses the metaphor of the mythological Prometheus to frame his discussion on posthumanism and positions him as a trickster with a…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia

  Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Metaphors: Editor’s Introduction | Alluvium

  Metaphor wants to be… ‘[...] metaphors work to change people’s minds. Orators have known this since Demosthenes. [...] But there’s precious little evidence that they tell you what people think. [...]…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Chess 2: The Sequel - How a street fightin' man fixed the…

  Chess has problems. Not for most of us, perhaps - not for the bluffers and the fudgers and the seat-of-the-pants players who prod a path through matchups in which each side's…

  November 20 2013, 5:12am | Comments

• Bookmark A Future Internet Might Not Use Servers

  You'd think that given how pervasive the internet is, we'd be stuck with the fundamental architecture it uses: servers that many devices connect to for their information fix. But a team…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Media Watch: Pixelating protects identity? Think again. (09/07/2012)

  Gerard Baden-Clay Mr Baden-Clay's lawyers say he is devastated and will vigorously defend the charge. — ABC Online, 13 June, 2012 The ABC's lawyers insisted on pixelating Mr Baden-Clay's image after…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Portals at CRYSTALLIZE: The Aftermath + interview for BBC World

  We just finished a 3 day marathon we called GLTI.CH Portals, at CRYSTALLIZE exhibition. Part of a 3 day New Media art installation at the 2013 Korea Brand & Entertainment Expo, held at Old Billingsgate, London. Below are photos from the event. You can…

  November 7 2013, 4:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Captcha FAIL: Researchers Crack the Web's Most Popular Turing Test

  Captcha is the the gold standard for Turing tests on the web: Whenever an online form wants to check if you're a human being and not a spambot, it asks you…

  October 28 2013, 8:37am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Host a GLTI.CH Portal!

  October 24 2013, 3:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  Part of an ongoing series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work but may not (yet) be well known to our readers. Nick Briz is an artist/educator/organizer living in Chicago, and co-founder of the conference and festival GLI.TC/H. This interview took…

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

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  July 4 2013, 12:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Dylan Trigg - The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia, and the Absense…

  In (New York: Peter Lang, 2006), Dylan Trigg confronts the remnants from the fallout of post-industrialism and postmodernism. Through a considered analysis of memory, place, and nostalgia, Trigg argues that the…

  April 18 2013, 4:53pm | Comments

• Bookmark Cloning Woolly Mammoths: It’s the Ecology, Stupid | Guest Blog, Scientific American…

  As an ecologist of ice age giants, I long ago came to terms with the fact that I will never look my study organisms in the eye.

  March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark Information wants to be free, but the world isn't ready | The…

  Every few years, one of my friends from the early days of digital enthusiasm turns up on the media’s radar as a “defector.” Huzzah! The former advocate or progenitor of the…

  February 11 2013, 2:54am | Comments

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  February 3 2013, 3:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Scientist wants human woman to give birth to a Neanderthal - Crave

  A scientist believes he's close to perfecting the necessary technology to clone a Neanderthal - all he needs is a human woman to gestate it.

  January 22 2013, 3:44pm | 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

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

  December 14 2012, 3:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Everyone Who Wants a Drone Will Have One Soon - Alexis C.…

  Everyone Who Wants a Drone Will Have One Soon

  September 29 2012, 4:14am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Machines by Other Means, Manchester

  August 8 2012, 4:56am | Comments

• Tumblr Interstellar Pulse intothecontinuum: In July 1967, astronomers...

  July 25 2012, 7:01am | Comments

• Bookmark A Thomasson is any kind of "useless and defunct object attached to…

  ...according to Akasegawa's definition. A publisher's blurb states that this includes the "doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete... thing sprouting…

  May 23 2012, 12:36am | Comments

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  May 11 2012, 4:11am | Comments

• Bookmark Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts

  RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about…

  April 21 2012, 5:37am | Comments

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  Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay?

  April 20 2012, 7:36am | Comments

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  The Mastery of Non-Mastery

  April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments

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