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Metafilter The Soul Niche Swimming around in a mixture of language and matter, humans occupy a particular evolutionary niche mediated by something we call 'consciousness'. To Professor Nicholas Humphrey we're made up of "soul dust": "a kind of theatre... an entertainment which we put on for ourselves…

February 4 2011, 2:46am | Comments
Bookmark Explain yourself: George-Lakoff, cognitive linguist
As part of our research on explanatory journalism, we’re interviewing experts in fields outside journalism about their approaches to explaining complex systems to non-specialtists. Our first expert is cognitive linguist George Lakoff,…

February 4 2011, 2:26am | Comments
Bookmark This is an 808 Keychain Camera
Shanzai is the name used for a huge black market industry that (currently) specialises in making fake mobile phones in small factories. Basements. We’re not talking about a few phones either.…

January 31 2011, 3:29pm | Comments
Bookmark Slavoj Žižek · Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks
So far, the WikiLeaks story has been represented as a struggle between WikiLeaks and the US empire: is the publishing of confidential US state documents an act in support of the…

January 18 2011, 4:01am | Comments
Bookmark Programmed for Love: The Unsettling Future of Robotics
Imagine standing in front of a robot, gazing into its wide, plastic eyes, and falling in love. Your heart revs up, and you hope this Other—this humanoid machine—turns your way again,…

January 18 2011, 3:16am | Comments
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January 15 2011, 2:13am | Comments
Bookmark The Postmedia Perspective
The starting point of the book is that the label “New Media Art” does not identify an art genre or an art movement, and cannot be viewed – as it usually…

January 12 2011, 9:44am | Comments
Bookmark The Novel is not under threat from technology
One of the first things I did with my palm-sized glossy black pebble of the future was to download loads of free books using the app Stanza. I read The Island…

January 10 2011, 3:34am | Comments
Bookmark When Art Goes Disruptive: The A/Moral Dis/Order of Recursive Publics | Public…
Although the analysis of geek community as a recursive public sharing social imaginary of openness, and a moral order of freedom, is a valid frame to understand geek culture through a…

January 10 2011, 3:22am | Comments
Bookmark John Gray on humanity's quest for immortality
How do we deal with a purposeless universe and the finality of death? From Victorian séances to the embalming of Lenin's corpse to schemes for uploading our minds into cyberspace, there…

January 9 2011, 3:38pm | Comments
Bookmark Earth project aims to 'simulate everything'
It could be one of the most ambitious computer projects ever conceived. An international group of scientists is aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth -…

January 8 2011, 7:50am | Comments
Bookmark Interactive Art: What Video Games Can Learn from Freud
What if the best thing art has to offer is freedom from choice? There’s a reason it’s high praise, not criticism, to say that a film or a piece of music…

January 8 2011, 7:38am | Comments
Bookmark Open Books: The E-Reader Reads You
It’s fitting that at the end of this essay about the proliferation of e-readers, Scott McLemee invokes critic Franco Moretti, who has devoted the past decade to deromanticizing literary criticism and…

January 6 2011, 8:17pm | Comments
Bookmark The decline of the serial killer
The number of serial murders seems to be dwindling, as does the public's fascination with them. "It does seem the golden age of serial murderers is probably past," says Harold Schechter,…

January 6 2011, 7:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Unearthing Prehistoric Tumors, and Debate
Often thought of as a modern disease, cancer has always been with us. Where scientists disagree is on how much it has been amplified by the sweet and bitter fruits of…

December 27 2010, 3:38pm | Comments
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Whole kit 'n kaboodle 'n the kitchen sink #Beefheart

December 18 2010, 2:59am | Comments
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December 17 2010, 7:44pm | Comments
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My hero, Captain Beefheart, dies at 69 ... The world shall mourn

December 17 2010, 6:12pm | Comments
Bookmark Lev manovich: software culture. the common grammar of media
Professor of New Media Art at the University of California, both artist and graphic designer, Lev Manovich does not need further presentation. His first book “The language of New Media” (it…

December 13 2010, 6:12pm | Comments
Bookmark How Video Games Are Infiltrating—and Improving—Every Part of Our Lives
Games are sneaking into every part of our lives -- at home, school, and work. Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and even the Army depend on games. and Pretty soon, you'll be a…

December 8 2010, 7:46am | Comments
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December 8 2010, 7:05am | Comments
Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments
Bookmark Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior
Pac-Man is one of the most iconic video games of all time, and most people (even non-gamers) have at least a passing familiarity with it. The purpose of the game is…

December 5 2010, 4:10am | Comments
Bookmark Is there a secular body?
Is there a secular body? Or, in somewhat different terms, is there a particular configuration of the human sensorium—of sensibilities, affects, embodied dispositions—specific to secular subjects, and thus constitutive of what…

December 3 2010, 8:47am | Comments
Bookmark Art for animals
Yesterday afternoon, Matthew Fuller gave a brief but fascinating overview of artworks that make a direct address to the perceptual world of non-human animal species. As you will see quite a…

November 27 2010, 6:44am | Comments
Misc Besides/In a paradigmatic way Type Journal Article Author Yve Lomax URL http://www.nafae.org.uk/journals/jvap-7-3/page-205/ Volume 7.3 Publication The Journal of Visual Art Practice Date December 2008 Accessed 2010-11-26 11:58:07 Abstract This text starts with critique as that which does not rest content with the given,and starting here it embraces…

November 26 2010, 3:58am | Comments
Misc What is a Paradigm? Type Web Page Author Giorgio Agamben URL http://www.egs.edu/faculty/giorgio-agamben/articles/what-is-a-paradigm/ Date 2002 Accessed 2010-11-26 11:43:06

November 26 2010, 3:43am | Comments
Bookmark When new narratives meet old brains
We're hard-wired to turn our lives into stories - how will we cope with the dizzying digital fictions of the future, ask John Bickle and Sean Keating "We are our narratives"…

November 25 2010, 8:29am | Comments
Flickr Santa Monica Mountains Boney Mountain Poppies

November 22 2010, 2:51pm | Comments
foursquare checkin @ Huddersfield Art Gallery - 12 hour performance of John Cage's 'Music for Piano 4-84' at hcmf.co.uk

November 20 2010, 7:38am | Comments
Bookmark Kubrick on 2001
You begin with an artifact left on earth four million years ago by extraterrestrial explorers who observed the behavior of the man-apes of the time and decided to influence their evolutionary…

November 19 2010, 2:29am | Comments
Wikipedia Desert Bus Desert Bus is the best known trick minigame in the package, and was a featured part of Electronic Gaming Monthly's preview. The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a…

November 18 2010, 2:02pm | Comments

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