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• Furtherfield Contributions The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 3:16am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Use of The City as a metaphor for the Internet/Web I am looking for examinations of the Internet and World Wide Web that use the structure and/or history of the city as a metaphor. I'm afraid I have no original example of this phenomenon to kick things off. I have this image in…

  April 12 2013, 10:19am | Comments

• Bookmark From Otherkin to Transethnicity: Your Field Guide to the Weird World of…

  Like a lot of teenagers and 20-somethings, "Eric Draven" used to keep a Tumblr. The microblogging platform has a strong community aspect, and it's easy to find people who like the…

  March 24 2013, 8:23am | Comments

• Tumblr The Silent City

  February 24 2013, 1:53am | Comments

• GIFbites Birthday Submitted by Otolythe with Shepard Tones, ham radio...

  January 7 2013, 4:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Devastation in Meatspace

  The missile rushing over your head was processed through an Instagram filter just hours previously. As you see it pass out of sight behind the apartment block opposite some young conscript…

  December 14 2012, 3:04am | Comments

• Bookmark GIFABILITY

  Writing in the early 1990s, Susan Stewart observed that “with the advent of film, interpretation has been replaced by watching … Here we see the increasing historical tendency toward the self-sufficient…

  November 21 2012, 3:26am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Why Do Sign Language Interpreters Look So Animated?

  November 11 2012, 1:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Walled City: Cannot one dream of a ‘computer hypothesis’? | Radical…

  This essay is in many ways a companion piece to Gary Hall’s ‘Pirate Radical Philosophy’ in RP 173 (May/June 2012). Consider it a prequel, or something akin to a video game’s…

  August 29 2012, 2:11am | Comments

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

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Vimeo

  August 13 2012, 3:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing

  For the most part, the biological metaphor has long been just that — a simplifying analogy rather than a blueprint for how to do computing. Engineering, not biology, guided the pursuit…

  August 8 2012, 2:44am | Comments

• Portfolio LISTEN TO MY EXECUTABLES

  July 23 2012, 3:06am | Comments

• Portfolio Binary Nomination

  July 19 2012, 9:32am | Comments

• Bookmark The Manifest Destiny of Artificial Intelligence

  Artificial intelligence began with an ambitious research agenda: To endow machines with some of the traits we value most highly in ourselves—the faculty of reason, skill in solving problems, creativity, the…

  July 10 2012, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Pirate Radical Philosophy

  Much has been written about the ‘crisis of capitalism’ and the associated events known, for short, as the ‘Arab Spring’, ‘student protests’, ‘Occupy’ and ‘August riots’. Yet to what extent does…

  June 15 2012, 5:17am | Comments

• Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

  June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Sloppy MicroChips: Can a fair comparison be made between biological and silicon entropy? Was reading about microchips that are designed to allow a few mistakes (known as 'Sloppy Chips'), and pondering equivalent kinds of 'coding' errors and entropy in biological systems. Can a fair comparison be made between the two? OK, to setup my question I…

  June 5 2012, 10:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Art of War

  The Israeli Defence Forces have been heavily influenced by contemporary philosophy, highlighting the fact that there is considerable overlap among theoretical texts deemed essential by military academies and architectural schools The…

  June 2 2012, 9:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Nakatomi Space

  While watching Die Hard the other night—one of the best architectural films of the past 25 years—I kept thinking about an essay called "Lethal Theory" by Eyal Weizman—itself one of the…

  June 2 2012, 9:31am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Will reading in the digital era erode our ability to understand the…

  Quite the opposite, so long as we grasp the fresh routes to knowledge, and connection, that technological change brings, says Nick Harkaway. These are old, old fears in a new form.…

  May 17 2012, 3:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Can Artists Help Us Reboot Humanism in an Over-Connected Age?

  How does aesthetic experience fare in such an environment? Within art-tech circles, the buzz these days is about something called the “New Aesthetic,” a coinage of James Bridle, who launched a…

  April 25 2012, 4:44pm | Comments

• Bookmark Synthetic Genetic Polymers Capable of Heredity and Evolution

  Genetic information storage and processing rely on just two polymers, DNA and RNA, yet whether their role reflects evolutionary history or fundamental functional constraints is currently unknown. With the use of…

  April 20 2012, 12:31pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tumblr ❤ GIFs

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Digging in the Gates: The Digital Socratic Shift

  April 3 2012, 12:26pm | Comments

• YouTube

  March 21 2012, 9:51am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 16 2012, 5:41am | Comments

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  No secularism please, we're British

  February 15 2012, 3:20am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth

  Evidence has emerged that the brain's capacity to absorb information is limiting the amount of data humanity can produce

  December 9 2011, 8:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How Fear Turned A Surplus Into Scarcity

  November 29 2011, 10:52am | Comments

• Bookmark The Movie Set That Ate Itself

  Five years ago, a relatively unknown (and unhinged) director began one of the wildest experiments in film history. Armed with total creative control, he invaded a Ukrainian city, marshaled a cast…

  October 28 2011, 10:30am | Comments

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• Furtherfield Contributions The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 3:16am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Use of The City as a metaphor for the Internet/Web I am looking for examinations of the Internet and World Wide Web that use the structure and/or history of the city as a metaphor. I'm afraid I have no original example of this phenomenon to kick things off. I have this image in…

  April 12 2013, 10:19am | Comments

• Bookmark From Otherkin to Transethnicity: Your Field Guide to the Weird World of…

  Like a lot of teenagers and 20-somethings, "Eric Draven" used to keep a Tumblr. The microblogging platform has a strong community aspect, and it's easy to find people who like the…

  March 24 2013, 8:23am | Comments

• Tumblr The Silent City

  February 24 2013, 1:53am | Comments

• GIFbites Birthday Submitted by Otolythe with Shepard Tones, ham radio...

  January 7 2013, 4:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Devastation in Meatspace

  The missile rushing over your head was processed through an Instagram filter just hours previously. As you see it pass out of sight behind the apartment block opposite some young conscript…

  December 14 2012, 3:04am | Comments

• Bookmark GIFABILITY

  Writing in the early 1990s, Susan Stewart observed that “with the advent of film, interpretation has been replaced by watching … Here we see the increasing historical tendency toward the self-sufficient…

  November 21 2012, 3:26am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Why Do Sign Language Interpreters Look So Animated?

  November 11 2012, 1:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Walled City: Cannot one dream of a ‘computer hypothesis’? | Radical…

  This essay is in many ways a companion piece to Gary Hall’s ‘Pirate Radical Philosophy’ in RP 173 (May/June 2012). Consider it a prequel, or something akin to a video game’s…

  August 29 2012, 2:11am | Comments

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

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Vimeo

  August 13 2012, 3:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing

  For the most part, the biological metaphor has long been just that — a simplifying analogy rather than a blueprint for how to do computing. Engineering, not biology, guided the pursuit…

  August 8 2012, 2:44am | Comments

• Portfolio LISTEN TO MY EXECUTABLES

  July 23 2012, 3:06am | Comments

• Portfolio Binary Nomination

  July 19 2012, 9:32am | Comments

• Bookmark The Manifest Destiny of Artificial Intelligence

  Artificial intelligence began with an ambitious research agenda: To endow machines with some of the traits we value most highly in ourselves—the faculty of reason, skill in solving problems, creativity, the…

  July 10 2012, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Pirate Radical Philosophy

  Much has been written about the ‘crisis of capitalism’ and the associated events known, for short, as the ‘Arab Spring’, ‘student protests’, ‘Occupy’ and ‘August riots’. Yet to what extent does…

  June 15 2012, 5:17am | Comments

• Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

  June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Sloppy MicroChips: Can a fair comparison be made between biological and silicon entropy? Was reading about microchips that are designed to allow a few mistakes (known as 'Sloppy Chips'), and pondering equivalent kinds of 'coding' errors and entropy in biological systems. Can a fair comparison be made between the two? OK, to setup my question I…

  June 5 2012, 10:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Art of War

  The Israeli Defence Forces have been heavily influenced by contemporary philosophy, highlighting the fact that there is considerable overlap among theoretical texts deemed essential by military academies and architectural schools The…

  June 2 2012, 9:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Nakatomi Space

  While watching Die Hard the other night—one of the best architectural films of the past 25 years—I kept thinking about an essay called "Lethal Theory" by Eyal Weizman—itself one of the…

  June 2 2012, 9:31am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Will reading in the digital era erode our ability to understand the…

  Quite the opposite, so long as we grasp the fresh routes to knowledge, and connection, that technological change brings, says Nick Harkaway. These are old, old fears in a new form.…

  May 17 2012, 3:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Can Artists Help Us Reboot Humanism in an Over-Connected Age?

  How does aesthetic experience fare in such an environment? Within art-tech circles, the buzz these days is about something called the “New Aesthetic,” a coinage of James Bridle, who launched a…

  April 25 2012, 4:44pm | Comments

• Bookmark Synthetic Genetic Polymers Capable of Heredity and Evolution

  Genetic information storage and processing rely on just two polymers, DNA and RNA, yet whether their role reflects evolutionary history or fundamental functional constraints is currently unknown. With the use of…

  April 20 2012, 12:31pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tumblr ❤ GIFs

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Digging in the Gates: The Digital Socratic Shift

  April 3 2012, 12:26pm | Comments

• YouTube

  March 21 2012, 9:51am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 16 2012, 5:41am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  No secularism please, we're British

  February 15 2012, 3:20am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth

  Evidence has emerged that the brain's capacity to absorb information is limiting the amount of data humanity can produce

  December 9 2011, 8:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How Fear Turned A Surplus Into Scarcity

  November 29 2011, 10:52am | Comments

• Bookmark The Movie Set That Ate Itself

  Five years ago, a relatively unknown (and unhinged) director began one of the wildest experiments in film history. Armed with total creative control, he invaded a Ukrainian city, marshaled a cast…

  October 28 2011, 10:30am | Comments

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