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  On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine'

  October 25 2011, 3:21am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or..."

  “Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.” - J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition…

  September 30 2011, 5:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Being Human (Blame it on Andy)

  Being human offers homo sapiens variety, or some elasticity, in social life, though sociologists claim that people’s personalities disappear with no one else around. Imagining this evacuation, I see a person…

  September 29 2011, 3:55am | Comments

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  How to Read Lacan - Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer of Alien

  September 5 2011, 12:41am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ City Art Centre - David Mach exhibition, Edinburgh

  August 28 2011, 5:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Humanism / After Humanism

  n this essay, I want to explore some dimensions of what the term “humanism” means—what it meant in the past and what it means today. In particular, I would like to…

  August 11 2011, 11:30am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Tumblr Ubik: Philip K. Dick

  July 12 2011, 1:39am | Comments

• Tumblr City Pulse un-gif-dans-ta-gueule: NYC - Time Lapse Source...

  July 2 2011, 7:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Inside the Box: Notes From Within the European Artistic Research Debate

  The debate over artistic research, particularly its appeal to scientificity, often rests on defining one’s terms. Thus, an examination of some of the keywords deployed might be instructive, especially when their…

  June 16 2011, 3:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Man Is Not Cat Food

  In the last decade, human vanity has taken a major hit. Traits once thought to be uniquely, even definingly human have turned up in the repertoire of animal behaviors: tool use,…

  June 12 2011, 8:12am | Comments

• Projects Digital Autonomy

  June 11 2011, 4:02am | Comments

• Tumblr Wizard War (via maxcapacity)

  May 25 2011, 9:50am | Comments

• Tumblr maxcapacity: X696

  May 13 2011, 3:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Radical Ethology: Jussi Parikka's Insect Media

  In a fundamental sense, technology is deeply non-human. While we might apply a humanist logic to the function and workings of technological systems, and view technological objects as extensions of the…

  April 20 2011, 3:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Loving the Ghost in the Machine: Aesthetics of Interruption

  In science fiction, ghosts in machines always appear as malfunctions, glitches, interruptions in the normal flow of things. Something unexpected appears seemingly out of nothing and from nowhere. Through a malfunction,…

  April 9 2011, 2:17am | Comments

• Projects GLTI.CH Karaoke

  March 25 2011, 9:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Jacques Ranciere: What Medium Can Mean

  I will present some remarks here on the use of the notion of medium in art theory and the light cast on this notion by the case of photography. The notion of…

  March 12 2011, 1:55am | Comments

• Bookmark North Korea’s Digital Underground

  The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the very archetype of a “closed society.” It ranks dead last—196th out of 196 countries—in Freedom House’s Freedom of the Press index. Unlike the…

  March 9 2011, 6:11am | Comments

• Bookmark Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter or Energy—It’s Data

  Information flows everywhere, through wires and genes, through brain cells and quarks. But while it may appear ubiquitous to us now, until recently we had no awareness of what information was…

  March 6 2011, 3:43am | Comments

• Bookmark The New Virology

  Largely unseen by the world, two dangerous germs homed in on their targets in the spring and early summer of 2009. One was made by man to infect computers. The other…

  March 3 2011, 7:45am | Comments

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  Kittler & Virilio: The information bomb is not being dropped on a single city but on the territory of the entire planet goo.gl/vZb0q

  March 3 2011, 6:45am | 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 Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic

  Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time: In research the story is similar. PhD students and contract staff known as “postdocs”, described by one student as “the ugly…

  December 20 2010, 9:47am | Comments

• Vimeo

  December 8 2010, 7:05am | Comments

• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 1:41pm | 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 Reclaiming the Imagination

  Imagine being a slave in ancient Rome. Now remember being one. The second task, unlike the first, is crazy. If, as I’m guessing, you never were a slave in ancient Rome,…

  August 18 2010, 2:12am | Comments

• Bookmark You're Dead. Now What?

  Will my enduring ghost be a mute witness to the goings-on down here, waving its vapory arms frantically at the undead? Or will it be an agent, endowed with the capacity…

  August 13 2010, 4:29am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 2 2010, 4:05am | Comments

• Bookmark "Lost" Languages to Be Resurrected by Computers?

  A new computer program has quickly deciphered a written language last used in Biblical times—possibly opening the door to "resurrecting" ancient texts that are no longer understood, scientists announced last week.…

  July 20 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

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• Twitter Favourites

  On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine'

  October 25 2011, 3:21am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or..."

  “Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.” - J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition…

  September 30 2011, 5:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Being Human (Blame it on Andy)

  Being human offers homo sapiens variety, or some elasticity, in social life, though sociologists claim that people’s personalities disappear with no one else around. Imagining this evacuation, I see a person…

  September 29 2011, 3:55am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How to Read Lacan - Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer of Alien

  September 5 2011, 12:41am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ City Art Centre - David Mach exhibition, Edinburgh

  August 28 2011, 5:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Humanism / After Humanism

  n this essay, I want to explore some dimensions of what the term “humanism” means—what it meant in the past and what it means today. In particular, I would like to…

  August 11 2011, 11:30am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Tumblr Ubik: Philip K. Dick

  July 12 2011, 1:39am | Comments

• Tumblr City Pulse un-gif-dans-ta-gueule: NYC - Time Lapse Source...

  July 2 2011, 7:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Inside the Box: Notes From Within the European Artistic Research Debate

  The debate over artistic research, particularly its appeal to scientificity, often rests on defining one’s terms. Thus, an examination of some of the keywords deployed might be instructive, especially when their…

  June 16 2011, 3:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Man Is Not Cat Food

  In the last decade, human vanity has taken a major hit. Traits once thought to be uniquely, even definingly human have turned up in the repertoire of animal behaviors: tool use,…

  June 12 2011, 8:12am | Comments

• Projects Digital Autonomy

  June 11 2011, 4:02am | Comments

• Tumblr Wizard War (via maxcapacity)

  May 25 2011, 9:50am | Comments

• Tumblr maxcapacity: X696

  May 13 2011, 3:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Radical Ethology: Jussi Parikka's Insect Media

  In a fundamental sense, technology is deeply non-human. While we might apply a humanist logic to the function and workings of technological systems, and view technological objects as extensions of the…

  April 20 2011, 3:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Loving the Ghost in the Machine: Aesthetics of Interruption

  In science fiction, ghosts in machines always appear as malfunctions, glitches, interruptions in the normal flow of things. Something unexpected appears seemingly out of nothing and from nowhere. Through a malfunction,…

  April 9 2011, 2:17am | Comments

• Projects GLTI.CH Karaoke

  March 25 2011, 9:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Jacques Ranciere: What Medium Can Mean

  I will present some remarks here on the use of the notion of medium in art theory and the light cast on this notion by the case of photography. The notion of…

  March 12 2011, 1:55am | Comments

• Bookmark North Korea’s Digital Underground

  The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the very archetype of a “closed society.” It ranks dead last—196th out of 196 countries—in Freedom House’s Freedom of the Press index. Unlike the…

  March 9 2011, 6:11am | Comments

• Bookmark Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter or Energy—It’s Data

  Information flows everywhere, through wires and genes, through brain cells and quarks. But while it may appear ubiquitous to us now, until recently we had no awareness of what information was…

  March 6 2011, 3:43am | Comments

• Bookmark The New Virology

  Largely unseen by the world, two dangerous germs homed in on their targets in the spring and early summer of 2009. One was made by man to infect computers. The other…

  March 3 2011, 7:45am | Comments

• Twitter

  Kittler & Virilio: The information bomb is not being dropped on a single city but on the territory of the entire planet goo.gl/vZb0q

  March 3 2011, 6:45am | 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 Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic

  Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time: In research the story is similar. PhD students and contract staff known as “postdocs”, described by one student as “the ugly…

  December 20 2010, 9:47am | Comments

• Vimeo

  December 8 2010, 7:05am | Comments

• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 1:41pm | 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 Reclaiming the Imagination

  Imagine being a slave in ancient Rome. Now remember being one. The second task, unlike the first, is crazy. If, as I’m guessing, you never were a slave in ancient Rome,…

  August 18 2010, 2:12am | Comments

• Bookmark You're Dead. Now What?

  Will my enduring ghost be a mute witness to the goings-on down here, waving its vapory arms frantically at the undead? Or will it be an agent, endowed with the capacity…

  August 13 2010, 4:29am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 2 2010, 4:05am | Comments

• Bookmark "Lost" Languages to Be Resurrected by Computers?

  A new computer program has quickly deciphered a written language last used in Biblical times—possibly opening the door to "resurrecting" ancient texts that are no longer understood, scientists announced last week.…

  July 20 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

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