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• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark New Computer Programming Language Imitates The Human Brain

  As we pointed out earlier this week, we’re still far from being able to replicate the awesome power of the human brain. So rather than use traditional models of computing, IBM…

  August 26 2013, 3:39pm | 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

• Portfolio Falling into the Digital Divide: Encounters with the Work of Hito Steyerl

  The highly compressed, deteriorated ‘poor image mocks the promises of digital technology. Not only is it often degraded to the point of being just a hurried blur, one even doubts whether it could be called an image at all.’ The aesthetic affect of digital…

  May 21 2013, 2:58am | Comments

• Portfolio Datamoshing the Land of Ooo: An Interview with David OReilly

  April 25 2013, 5:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Datamoshing the Land of Ooo

  April 25 2013, 4:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Émilie Gervais

  April 18 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Interview with a writer: John Gray » Spectator Blogs

  In his new book The Silence of Animals, the philosopher John Gray explores why human beings continue to use myth to give purpose to their lives. Drawing from the material of…

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | 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

• Projects GIFbites

  December 15 2012, 3:04pm | Comments

• GIFbites Thank you for being a friend Featuring the voice of Daniel...

  November 30 2012, 8:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On Online 'Becoming' #Pizza

  November 20 2012, 7:13am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Why OOO?

  November 14 2012, 4:38am | Comments

• Tumblr On Being Thingly

  November 9 2012, 7:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  As We May Think: A 1945 Essay on Information Overload, "Curation," and Open

  October 15 2012, 1:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  MANIFESTO FOR A THEORY OF THE ‘NEW AESTHETIC’

  October 11 2012, 3:23pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Do Artists Actually Confront Our New Technological Reality?

  September 8 2012, 6:07am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

  September 8 2012, 6:05am | Comments

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

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark In 1977, NASA sent 115 images – the so-called ‘Golden Record’ –…

  In 1977, NASA sent 115 images – the so-called ‘Golden Record’ – into space on board the Voyager space probe. They also included greetings in 55 different languages and a number…

  August 13 2012, 5:47am | Comments

• Wikipedia Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future “Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.” - Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how…

  August 8 2012, 2:51am | Comments

• Wikipedia Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future “Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.” - Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how…

  August 1 2012, 8:07am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Speculative Realism 101 Speculative Realism: What are the key texts I need to read. I am interested in Speculative Realism (SR) (and Speculative Materialism (SM)) as attempts to overcome 'Philosophies of access' (those which privilege the human being over other entities; anthropocentrism). Also, any texts that…

  July 26 2012, 7:40am | Comments

• Portfolio Binary Nomination

  July 19 2012, 9:32am | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation

  In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a very…

  July 19 2012, 8:20am | Comments

• Bookmark How to write in the digital age

  There have been plenty of conferences about the future of publishing, but few, if any, have been aimed at writers. The Literary Consultancy remedied this recently with a two-day conference –…

  July 10 2012, 2:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Freeman Dyson on Tool-Creation, Technology, and What Makes a Scientific Revolution

  Dyson refutes the idea that scientific revolutions are concept-driven, a stance pioneered by Thomas Kuhn in his controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and later endorsed by other theory-driven…

  July 10 2012, 2:42am | Comments

• Bookmark An Idle Theory of Evolution

  The idea of evolution is of great antiquity. Empedocles, around 440 BC, wrote that there were once "countless tribes of mortal creatures, scattered abroad and endowed with all manner of forms,"…

  July 10 2012, 2:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Computing Texas Hold 'em

  About five years ago, Rubin’s father mentioned that Avi’s younger brother, Yaacov, had been winning money playing poker online. Soon after, Avi suggested to Yaacov that they play sometime. “He kind…

  June 27 2012, 3:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark After the Last Man: Images and Ethics of Becoming Otherwise

  Huddled within one of the most influential theories of human desire and the destiny of democracy is an image of history and its future. This image is of a horizon. In…

  June 15 2012, 5:25am | Comments

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• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark New Computer Programming Language Imitates The Human Brain

  As we pointed out earlier this week, we’re still far from being able to replicate the awesome power of the human brain. So rather than use traditional models of computing, IBM…

  August 26 2013, 3:39pm | 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

• Portfolio Falling into the Digital Divide: Encounters with the Work of Hito Steyerl

  The highly compressed, deteriorated ‘poor image mocks the promises of digital technology. Not only is it often degraded to the point of being just a hurried blur, one even doubts whether it could be called an image at all.’ The aesthetic affect of digital…

  May 21 2013, 2:58am | Comments

• Portfolio Datamoshing the Land of Ooo: An Interview with David OReilly

  April 25 2013, 5:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Datamoshing the Land of Ooo

  April 25 2013, 4:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Émilie Gervais

  April 18 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Interview with a writer: John Gray » Spectator Blogs

  In his new book The Silence of Animals, the philosopher John Gray explores why human beings continue to use myth to give purpose to their lives. Drawing from the material of…

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | 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

• Projects GIFbites

  December 15 2012, 3:04pm | Comments

• GIFbites Thank you for being a friend Featuring the voice of Daniel...

  November 30 2012, 8:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On Online 'Becoming' #Pizza

  November 20 2012, 7:13am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Why OOO?

  November 14 2012, 4:38am | Comments

• Tumblr On Being Thingly

  November 9 2012, 7:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  As We May Think: A 1945 Essay on Information Overload, "Curation," and Open

  October 15 2012, 1:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  MANIFESTO FOR A THEORY OF THE ‘NEW AESTHETIC’

  October 11 2012, 3:23pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Do Artists Actually Confront Our New Technological Reality?

  September 8 2012, 6:07am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

  September 8 2012, 6:05am | Comments

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

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark In 1977, NASA sent 115 images – the so-called ‘Golden Record’ –…

  In 1977, NASA sent 115 images – the so-called ‘Golden Record’ – into space on board the Voyager space probe. They also included greetings in 55 different languages and a number…

  August 13 2012, 5:47am | Comments

• Wikipedia Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future “Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.” - Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how…

  August 8 2012, 2:51am | Comments

• Wikipedia Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future “Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.” - Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how…

  August 1 2012, 8:07am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Speculative Realism 101 Speculative Realism: What are the key texts I need to read. I am interested in Speculative Realism (SR) (and Speculative Materialism (SM)) as attempts to overcome 'Philosophies of access' (those which privilege the human being over other entities; anthropocentrism). Also, any texts that…

  July 26 2012, 7:40am | Comments

• Portfolio Binary Nomination

  July 19 2012, 9:32am | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation

  In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a very…

  July 19 2012, 8:20am | Comments

• Bookmark How to write in the digital age

  There have been plenty of conferences about the future of publishing, but few, if any, have been aimed at writers. The Literary Consultancy remedied this recently with a two-day conference –…

  July 10 2012, 2:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Freeman Dyson on Tool-Creation, Technology, and What Makes a Scientific Revolution

  Dyson refutes the idea that scientific revolutions are concept-driven, a stance pioneered by Thomas Kuhn in his controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and later endorsed by other theory-driven…

  July 10 2012, 2:42am | Comments

• Bookmark An Idle Theory of Evolution

  The idea of evolution is of great antiquity. Empedocles, around 440 BC, wrote that there were once "countless tribes of mortal creatures, scattered abroad and endowed with all manner of forms,"…

  July 10 2012, 2:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Computing Texas Hold 'em

  About five years ago, Rubin’s father mentioned that Avi’s younger brother, Yaacov, had been winning money playing poker online. Soon after, Avi suggested to Yaacov that they play sometime. “He kind…

  June 27 2012, 3:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark After the Last Man: Images and Ethics of Becoming Otherwise

  Huddled within one of the most influential theories of human desire and the destiny of democracy is an image of history and its future. This image is of a horizon. In…

  June 15 2012, 5:25am | Comments

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