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• 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

• Bookmark Ian Bogost on understanding what it's like to be a thing

  In a New Yorker essay a few weeks back, Laura Miller considered the various ways in which science fiction writers have imagined aliens, from the 18th century through today. Perhaps inevitably,…

  August 8 2012, 3:53am | Comments

• Bookmark What Is Life? A 21st Century Perspective | Conversation | Edge

  lecture by Craig Venter Life is code, as you heard in the introduction, was very clearly articulated by Schrodinger as code script. Perhaps even more importantly, and something I missed on…

  August 8 2012, 3:25am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

  July 17 2012, 8:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Rationally Speaking: Enjoying natural selection on multiple levels

  Meanwhile, Richard Dawkins was picking another fight. Normally, this would not be an occasion worthy of comment. The best way to distinguish between Professor Dawkins’ waking and sleeping states is probably…

  July 10 2012, 2:53am | 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

• GLTI.CH Karaoke GLTI.CH Karaoke at Goldsmiths: “Speak That I May See Thee”!

  July 2 2012, 8:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Paradigms Regained

  The following is an excerpt from Ian Hacking's introduction to the new edition of Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which commemorates the book's 50th anniversary. To be published…

  June 27 2012, 3:22pm | 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

• YouTube

  June 16 2012, 4:08am | Comments

• YouTube

  June 15 2012, 5:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark War and Peace ebook readers find a surprise in its Nooks

  A few days ago a blogger who identifies himself as just "Philip" took to his site to recount his experience of reading War and Peace – specifically, a 99¢ version as…

  June 15 2012, 5:23am | Comments

• Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

  June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Machines and memory

  Kernel on machines and memory, with some nice examples of apps that are exploring our changing relationship with both. We are all digital archaeologists now, writes Robert Carroll. But in a…

  June 2 2012, 9:33am | Comments

• Bookmark What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific “Truth"

  “Look,” Thomas Kuhn said. The word was weighted with weariness, as if Kuhn was resigned to the fact that I would misinterpret him, but he was still going to try—no doubt…

  May 30 2012, 2:01am | Comments

• Bibliography The Normal and the Pathological by Georges Canguilhem

  May 29 2012, 7:10am | Comments

• Bibliography The Cultures of Collecting (Critical Views) by John Elsner

  May 29 2012, 7:10am | Comments

• Bibliography Big Town Big Time by Daily News Books

  May 29 2012, 7:10am | Comments

• Bibliography The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture by Jussi Parikka

  May 29 2012, 7:10am | Comments

• Bookmark In the Digital Era, Publication Isn’t Preservation

  Publication used to mean preservation but it no longer does. Let me explain. When a print book is published its metadata is literally attached to its content. The author and title,…

  May 21 2012, 10:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Re-Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology

  Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology gives us a good perspective from which to think through what has been so far said about Derrida's book. The book is a careful selection of valuable…

  May 17 2012, 3:36am | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 8 2012, 2:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark Children of Hoarders on Leaving the Cluttered Nest

  In dealing with her mother’s home in Minneapolis, Ms. Sholl has spent much of her life alternating between feeling shame about its squalid condition and attempting to rid it of the…

  May 4 2012, 3:45am | Comments

• Bookmark In the Zone of Alienation: Tarkovsky as Video Game

  Zona, Geoff Dyer’s recent book about Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterpiece Stalker, has been much discussed for its almost comically thorough dissection of the stately 1979 film. In an account that combines summary,…

  May 1 2012, 3:13pm | Comments

• Bookmark Jonathan Lethem on our rapidly dematerializing culture

  The Ecstasy of Influence, now the title of his recent collection of writings, often addresses the process of integrating and "cobbling together" ideas and culture to make something new. Yet, stories…

  April 26 2012, 12:43pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Just how big are porn sites?

  April 10 2012, 8:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Free Will and “Free Will” : How my view differs from Daniel Dennett's : Sam Harris

  April 7 2012, 4:04pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Art in the Era of the Internet (and Why Open Education Matters)

  March 29 2012, 1:35am | Comments

• Twitter

  "The act of writing may be nothing but an act of controlled violence... The book explodes with infuriating legibility." - Edmond Jabes

  March 27 2012, 7:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

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• 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

• Bookmark Ian Bogost on understanding what it's like to be a thing

  In a New Yorker essay a few weeks back, Laura Miller considered the various ways in which science fiction writers have imagined aliens, from the 18th century through today. Perhaps inevitably,…

  August 8 2012, 3:53am | Comments

• Bookmark What Is Life? A 21st Century Perspective | Conversation | Edge

  lecture by Craig Venter Life is code, as you heard in the introduction, was very clearly articulated by Schrodinger as code script. Perhaps even more importantly, and something I missed on…

  August 8 2012, 3:25am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

  July 17 2012, 8:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Rationally Speaking: Enjoying natural selection on multiple levels

  Meanwhile, Richard Dawkins was picking another fight. Normally, this would not be an occasion worthy of comment. The best way to distinguish between Professor Dawkins’ waking and sleeping states is probably…

  July 10 2012, 2:53am | 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

• GLTI.CH Karaoke GLTI.CH Karaoke at Goldsmiths: “Speak That I May See Thee”!

  July 2 2012, 8:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Paradigms Regained

  The following is an excerpt from Ian Hacking's introduction to the new edition of Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which commemorates the book's 50th anniversary. To be published…

  June 27 2012, 3:22pm | 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

• YouTube

  June 16 2012, 4:08am | Comments

• YouTube

  June 15 2012, 5:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark War and Peace ebook readers find a surprise in its Nooks

  A few days ago a blogger who identifies himself as just "Philip" took to his site to recount his experience of reading War and Peace – specifically, a 99¢ version as…

  June 15 2012, 5:23am | Comments

• Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

  June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Machines and memory

  Kernel on machines and memory, with some nice examples of apps that are exploring our changing relationship with both. We are all digital archaeologists now, writes Robert Carroll. But in a…

  June 2 2012, 9:33am | Comments

• Bookmark What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific “Truth"

  “Look,” Thomas Kuhn said. The word was weighted with weariness, as if Kuhn was resigned to the fact that I would misinterpret him, but he was still going to try—no doubt…

  May 30 2012, 2:01am | Comments

• Bibliography The Normal and the Pathological by Georges Canguilhem

  May 29 2012, 7:10am | Comments

• Bibliography The Cultures of Collecting (Critical Views) by John Elsner

  May 29 2012, 7:10am | Comments

• Bibliography Big Town Big Time by Daily News Books

  May 29 2012, 7:10am | Comments

• Bibliography The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture by Jussi Parikka

  May 29 2012, 7:10am | Comments

• Bookmark In the Digital Era, Publication Isn’t Preservation

  Publication used to mean preservation but it no longer does. Let me explain. When a print book is published its metadata is literally attached to its content. The author and title,…

  May 21 2012, 10:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Re-Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology

  Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology gives us a good perspective from which to think through what has been so far said about Derrida's book. The book is a careful selection of valuable…

  May 17 2012, 3:36am | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 8 2012, 2:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark Children of Hoarders on Leaving the Cluttered Nest

  In dealing with her mother’s home in Minneapolis, Ms. Sholl has spent much of her life alternating between feeling shame about its squalid condition and attempting to rid it of the…

  May 4 2012, 3:45am | Comments

• Bookmark In the Zone of Alienation: Tarkovsky as Video Game

  Zona, Geoff Dyer’s recent book about Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterpiece Stalker, has been much discussed for its almost comically thorough dissection of the stately 1979 film. In an account that combines summary,…

  May 1 2012, 3:13pm | Comments

• Bookmark Jonathan Lethem on our rapidly dematerializing culture

  The Ecstasy of Influence, now the title of his recent collection of writings, often addresses the process of integrating and "cobbling together" ideas and culture to make something new. Yet, stories…

  April 26 2012, 12:43pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Just how big are porn sites?

  April 10 2012, 8:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Free Will and “Free Will” : How my view differs from Daniel Dennett's : Sam Harris

  April 7 2012, 4:04pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Art in the Era of the Internet (and Why Open Education Matters)

  March 29 2012, 1:35am | Comments

• Twitter

  "The act of writing may be nothing but an act of controlled violence... The book explodes with infuriating legibility." - Edmond Jabes

  March 27 2012, 7:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

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