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• Bookmark A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families

  Every family, it seems, has its own set of words for describing particular Lego pieces. No one uses the official names. “Dad, please could you pass me that Brick 2x2?” No.…

  November 8 2009, 3:01am | Comments

• Portfolio Profane Prisms

  November 5 2009, 1:14pm | Comments

• Bookmark IMG MGMT: Teen Image

  IMG MGMT is an annual image-based artist essay series. Today’s invited artist, Seth Price presents an essay challenging the traditional photo essay format. Ritualized Unknowing People keep trying to get a…

  November 5 2009, 2:06am | Comments

• Bookmark The Future of Reading

  The future of reading is very much in doubt. In this century, reading could soar to new heights or crash and burn. Some educators and librarians fear that sustained reading for…

  November 3 2009, 9:30am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Innovative Book Designs Innovative Books: I am looking to compile a list of the most innovative uses of the book format. Books that break the mould in their layout and design, perhaps books that use online systems to extend their content value or push their form…

  November 1 2009, 4:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Beauty, Art, and Darwin

  It is possible that we have a kind of built-in moral resistance to the runaway pathologies now visible in the arts. Where did that resistance come from? Judging from his new…

  November 1 2009, 3:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Troubling new revelations about Arendt and Heidegger

  Will we ever be able to think of Hannah Arendt in the same way again? Two new and damning critiques, one of Arendt and one of her longtime Nazi-sycophant lover, the…

  October 30 2009, 6:20pm | Comments

• Portfolio Announcing: MachineMachine Radio!

  October 30 2009, 5:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Monsters and the Moral Imagination

  Monsters are on the rise. People can't seem to get enough of vampires lately, and zombies have a new lease on life. This year and next we have the release of…

  October 27 2009, 12:01pm | Comments

• Bookmark Who’s afraid of the avant-garde?

  There's a reason why we find it easier to "get" modern art than avant-garde music, and it's not just about our natural conservatism and love of Mozart... Arts & books Who’s…

  October 27 2009, 11:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Luis Camnitzer, ALPHABETIZATION, Part Two: Hegemonic Language and Arbitrary Order

  In all the traditional approaches to pedagogy, both in art and in literacy, the possibility of perceiving the transitional nature of the space produced by text or image—the common space for…

  October 27 2009, 11:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Left vs Right | Information Is Beautiful

  A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th). Of course,…

  October 21 2009, 3:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark 42 Essential 3rd Act Twists

  Dresden Codak's handy comic-chart of '42 Essential Third-Act Twists' for writers.

  October 21 2009, 3:19pm | Comments

• YouTube

  October 19 2009, 5:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Seriousness is the New Black: The Turner Prize at Tate Britain and…

  Many factors have lead to London’s pre-eminence in the contemporary art world: the importance of Goldsmith’s College to the Hirst generation of YBAs, Saatchi’s ubiquitous influence as a collector, Jay Joplin’s…

  October 19 2009, 3:50am | Comments

• Wikipedia Petrichor Petrichor (pronounced /ˈpɛtrɨkər/; from Greek petros "stone" + ichor "the fluid that is supposed to flow in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology") is the name of the scent of rain on dry earth. The term was coined in 1964 by…

  October 15 2009, 3:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate

  Dr. Nielsen and Dr. Ninomiya have proposed a kind of test: that CERN engage in a game of chance, a “card-drawing” exercise using perhaps a random-number generator, in order to discern…

  October 15 2009, 8:12am | Comments

• Flickr 50 Years of Space Exploration

  October 11 2009, 11:26am | Comments

• Bookmark The Origin of the Work of Art

  In his article, Heidegger explains the essence of art in terms of the concepts of being and truth. He argues that art is not only a way of expressing the element…

  October 8 2009, 9:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

  October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Stunning Images of Herds from Above [PICS]

  Though the term “herd behaviour” today is most often used when talking about financial markets, it originally described individuals in a group acting together without direction – for example an animal…

  October 4 2009, 5:16pm | Comments

• Bookmark An Interview with W. Brian Arthur

  Technology so pervades our culture that it's sobering to consider how poorly we understand it. How do new tools and techniques arise? What principles guide their evolution? And how does their…

  October 4 2009, 4:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark Altermodern: A Conversation with Nicholas Bourriaud

  Independent curator and critic Bartholomew Ryan interviews Nicholas Bourriaud, author of the seminal book Relational Aesthetics and curator of the fourth Tate Triennial, Altermodern, which remains on view in London at…

  October 3 2009, 8:36am | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia enters a new chapter Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English. It's all…

  September 28 2009, 9:10am | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia enters a new chapter Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English. It's all…

  September 28 2009, 9:10am | Comments

• Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

  September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments

• Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

  September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Fictional Stimulus

  Fictional Stimulus is a reading experience for people who like books and are curious about the future of literature in the digital world. It's an introductory taster for those new to…

  September 28 2009, 8:54am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 28 2009, 8:44am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Offsetting sea level rise: An engineering idea of Biblical proportions | Ask Metafilter The seas are rising. Climate change has made it inevitable. I have a strange question... Assuming that world sea-level rises by 1 metre over the next hundred years - Would it be possible to cordon off a section of land, somewhere in the…

  September 18 2009, 8:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Beyond space and time: To the Nth Dimension

  We don't have any trouble coping with three dimensions – or four at a pinch. The 3D world of solid objects and limitless space is something we accept with scarcely a…

  September 18 2009, 1:01am | Comments

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• Bookmark A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families

  Every family, it seems, has its own set of words for describing particular Lego pieces. No one uses the official names. “Dad, please could you pass me that Brick 2x2?” No.…

  November 8 2009, 3:01am | Comments

• Portfolio Profane Prisms

  November 5 2009, 1:14pm | Comments

• Bookmark IMG MGMT: Teen Image

  IMG MGMT is an annual image-based artist essay series. Today’s invited artist, Seth Price presents an essay challenging the traditional photo essay format. Ritualized Unknowing People keep trying to get a…

  November 5 2009, 2:06am | Comments

• Bookmark The Future of Reading

  The future of reading is very much in doubt. In this century, reading could soar to new heights or crash and burn. Some educators and librarians fear that sustained reading for…

  November 3 2009, 9:30am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Innovative Book Designs Innovative Books: I am looking to compile a list of the most innovative uses of the book format. Books that break the mould in their layout and design, perhaps books that use online systems to extend their content value or push their form…

  November 1 2009, 4:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Beauty, Art, and Darwin

  It is possible that we have a kind of built-in moral resistance to the runaway pathologies now visible in the arts. Where did that resistance come from? Judging from his new…

  November 1 2009, 3:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Troubling new revelations about Arendt and Heidegger

  Will we ever be able to think of Hannah Arendt in the same way again? Two new and damning critiques, one of Arendt and one of her longtime Nazi-sycophant lover, the…

  October 30 2009, 6:20pm | Comments

• Portfolio Announcing: MachineMachine Radio!

  October 30 2009, 5:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Monsters and the Moral Imagination

  Monsters are on the rise. People can't seem to get enough of vampires lately, and zombies have a new lease on life. This year and next we have the release of…

  October 27 2009, 12:01pm | Comments

• Bookmark Who’s afraid of the avant-garde?

  There's a reason why we find it easier to "get" modern art than avant-garde music, and it's not just about our natural conservatism and love of Mozart... Arts & books Who’s…

  October 27 2009, 11:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Luis Camnitzer, ALPHABETIZATION, Part Two: Hegemonic Language and Arbitrary Order

  In all the traditional approaches to pedagogy, both in art and in literacy, the possibility of perceiving the transitional nature of the space produced by text or image—the common space for…

  October 27 2009, 11:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Left vs Right | Information Is Beautiful

  A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th). Of course,…

  October 21 2009, 3:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark 42 Essential 3rd Act Twists

  Dresden Codak's handy comic-chart of '42 Essential Third-Act Twists' for writers.

  October 21 2009, 3:19pm | Comments

• YouTube

  October 19 2009, 5:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Seriousness is the New Black: The Turner Prize at Tate Britain and…

  Many factors have lead to London’s pre-eminence in the contemporary art world: the importance of Goldsmith’s College to the Hirst generation of YBAs, Saatchi’s ubiquitous influence as a collector, Jay Joplin’s…

  October 19 2009, 3:50am | Comments

• Wikipedia Petrichor Petrichor (pronounced /ˈpɛtrɨkər/; from Greek petros "stone" + ichor "the fluid that is supposed to flow in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology") is the name of the scent of rain on dry earth. The term was coined in 1964 by…

  October 15 2009, 3:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate

  Dr. Nielsen and Dr. Ninomiya have proposed a kind of test: that CERN engage in a game of chance, a “card-drawing” exercise using perhaps a random-number generator, in order to discern…

  October 15 2009, 8:12am | Comments

• Flickr 50 Years of Space Exploration

  October 11 2009, 11:26am | Comments

• Bookmark The Origin of the Work of Art

  In his article, Heidegger explains the essence of art in terms of the concepts of being and truth. He argues that art is not only a way of expressing the element…

  October 8 2009, 9:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

  October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Stunning Images of Herds from Above [PICS]

  Though the term “herd behaviour” today is most often used when talking about financial markets, it originally described individuals in a group acting together without direction – for example an animal…

  October 4 2009, 5:16pm | Comments

• Bookmark An Interview with W. Brian Arthur

  Technology so pervades our culture that it's sobering to consider how poorly we understand it. How do new tools and techniques arise? What principles guide their evolution? And how does their…

  October 4 2009, 4:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark Altermodern: A Conversation with Nicholas Bourriaud

  Independent curator and critic Bartholomew Ryan interviews Nicholas Bourriaud, author of the seminal book Relational Aesthetics and curator of the fourth Tate Triennial, Altermodern, which remains on view in London at…

  October 3 2009, 8:36am | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia enters a new chapter Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English. It's all…

  September 28 2009, 9:10am | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia enters a new chapter Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English. It's all…

  September 28 2009, 9:10am | Comments

• Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

  September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments

• Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

  September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Fictional Stimulus

  Fictional Stimulus is a reading experience for people who like books and are curious about the future of literature in the digital world. It's an introductory taster for those new to…

  September 28 2009, 8:54am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 28 2009, 8:44am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Offsetting sea level rise: An engineering idea of Biblical proportions | Ask Metafilter The seas are rising. Climate change has made it inevitable. I have a strange question... Assuming that world sea-level rises by 1 metre over the next hundred years - Would it be possible to cordon off a section of land, somewhere in the…

  September 18 2009, 8:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Beyond space and time: To the Nth Dimension

  We don't have any trouble coping with three dimensions – or four at a pinch. The 3D world of solid objects and limitless space is something we accept with scarcely a…

  September 18 2009, 1:01am | Comments

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