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• Bookmark Emergence of the Human 'SuperBrain' 75,000 Years Ago --"AI Could Blur Differences…

  "Humans obviously evolved a much wider range of communication tools to express their thoughts, the most important being language," said Hoffecker, a fellow at CU's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.…

  April 22 2012, 4:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts

  RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about…

  April 21 2012, 5:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world's smallest nation

  A data haven is "the information equivalent to a tax haven," a country that helps you evade other countries' rules on what you can and can't do with your bits. (Think…

  March 28 2012, 3:42am | Comments

• Twitter

  "Distance is not an evil that should be abolished. It is the normal condition of communication."

  March 2 2012, 5:05am | Comments

• Tumblr "Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for..."

  February 20 2012, 7:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  “The Shannon and Weaver Model”

  February 20 2012, 6:51am | Comments

• Metafilter Digital Images are SomeThing to aspire to? (A reflection on Hito Steyerl's proposal) Artist and film-maker, Hito Steyerl, asks us to stand shoulder to shoulder with our digital equivalents. Digital images are Things (like you and me) - a plethora of compressed, corrupted representations pushed and pulled through increasingly policed and capitalised information networks. If 80%…

  February 16 2012, 5:13am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 23 2012, 7:58am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On Distributed Communications Networks

  October 23 2011, 3:08pm | Comments

• Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

  July 21 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Is Twitter writing, or is it speech? Why we need a new…

  Which begs the question: What is Twitter, actually? (No, seriously!) And what type of communication is it, finally? If we’re wondering why heated debates about Twitter’s effect on information/politics/us tend to…

  June 2 2011, 1:19pm | Comments

• Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

  May 25 2011, 5:21am | 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

• Bookmark James Gleick’s History of Information

  Gleick makes his case in a sweeping survey that covers the five millenniums of humanity’s engagement with information, from the invention of writing in Sumer to the elevation of information to…

  March 20 2011, 5:41am | Comments

• Twitter

  'Virus' in Latin means 'poison'... Communication cannot go on without the element... of contagion at its centre. goo.gl/BKUY1 @juspar

  March 4 2011, 7:45am | Comments

• Portfolio Errors in Things and “The Friendly Medium”

  February 16 2011, 7:39am | Comments

• Bookmark How the Internet Gets Inside Us

  That the reality of machines can outpace the imagination of magic, and in so short a time, does tend to lend weight to the claim that the technological shifts in communication…

  February 10 2011, 4:18pm | Comments

• Bookmark Explain yourself: George-Lakoff, cognitive linguist

  As part of our research on explanatory journalism, we’re interviewing experts in fields outside journalism about their approaches to explaining complex systems to non-specialtists. Our first expert is cognitive linguist George Lakoff,…

  February 4 2011, 2:26am | Comments

• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Speaking Without Words: Dump.fm and Ryder Ripps

  If a picture is worth a thousand words, then maybe we should let dump.fm do the talking. The image-based chat service is the brainchild of Ryder Ripps and the result of…

  September 11 2010, 4:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Svetlana Boym | Off-Modern Manifesto

  “It's not my fault. Communication error has occurred,” my computer pleads with me in a voice of lady Victoria. First it excuses itself, then urges me to pay attention, to check…

  August 16 2010, 5:22am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Portfolio Rancière’s Ignoramus

  July 26 2010, 6:43am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments

• Portfolio System of Enthalpy

  March 26 2010, 9:46am | Comments

• Bookmark The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication

  by Bertolt Brecht In our society one can invent and perfect discoveries that still have to conquer their market and justify their existence; in other words discoveries that have not been…

  January 6 2010, 7:16am | Comments

• Bookmark We have a message from another world

  In the summer of 1899, whilst alone in his Colorado Springs laboratory working with his magnifying transmitter, the inimitable Nikola Tesla observed a series of unusual rhythmic signals which he described…

  December 11 2009, 4:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Google Wave is Changing the News

  It’s not too often that legacy media learns a new mass communication tool along with its audience. But that’s exactly what’s going on now because of Google Wave. Although it’s still…

  November 23 2009, 5:17am | 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

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• Bookmark Emergence of the Human 'SuperBrain' 75,000 Years Ago --"AI Could Blur Differences…

  "Humans obviously evolved a much wider range of communication tools to express their thoughts, the most important being language," said Hoffecker, a fellow at CU's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.…

  April 22 2012, 4:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts

  RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about…

  April 21 2012, 5:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world's smallest nation

  A data haven is "the information equivalent to a tax haven," a country that helps you evade other countries' rules on what you can and can't do with your bits. (Think…

  March 28 2012, 3:42am | Comments

• Twitter

  "Distance is not an evil that should be abolished. It is the normal condition of communication."

  March 2 2012, 5:05am | Comments

• Tumblr "Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for..."

  February 20 2012, 7:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  “The Shannon and Weaver Model”

  February 20 2012, 6:51am | Comments

• Metafilter Digital Images are SomeThing to aspire to? (A reflection on Hito Steyerl's proposal) Artist and film-maker, Hito Steyerl, asks us to stand shoulder to shoulder with our digital equivalents. Digital images are Things (like you and me) - a plethora of compressed, corrupted representations pushed and pulled through increasingly policed and capitalised information networks. If 80%…

  February 16 2012, 5:13am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 23 2012, 7:58am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On Distributed Communications Networks

  October 23 2011, 3:08pm | Comments

• Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

  July 21 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Is Twitter writing, or is it speech? Why we need a new…

  Which begs the question: What is Twitter, actually? (No, seriously!) And what type of communication is it, finally? If we’re wondering why heated debates about Twitter’s effect on information/politics/us tend to…

  June 2 2011, 1:19pm | Comments

• Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

  May 25 2011, 5:21am | 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

• Bookmark James Gleick’s History of Information

  Gleick makes his case in a sweeping survey that covers the five millenniums of humanity’s engagement with information, from the invention of writing in Sumer to the elevation of information to…

  March 20 2011, 5:41am | Comments

• Twitter

  'Virus' in Latin means 'poison'... Communication cannot go on without the element... of contagion at its centre. goo.gl/BKUY1 @juspar

  March 4 2011, 7:45am | Comments

• Portfolio Errors in Things and “The Friendly Medium”

  February 16 2011, 7:39am | Comments

• Bookmark How the Internet Gets Inside Us

  That the reality of machines can outpace the imagination of magic, and in so short a time, does tend to lend weight to the claim that the technological shifts in communication…

  February 10 2011, 4:18pm | Comments

• Bookmark Explain yourself: George-Lakoff, cognitive linguist

  As part of our research on explanatory journalism, we’re interviewing experts in fields outside journalism about their approaches to explaining complex systems to non-specialtists. Our first expert is cognitive linguist George Lakoff,…

  February 4 2011, 2:26am | Comments

• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Speaking Without Words: Dump.fm and Ryder Ripps

  If a picture is worth a thousand words, then maybe we should let dump.fm do the talking. The image-based chat service is the brainchild of Ryder Ripps and the result of…

  September 11 2010, 4:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Svetlana Boym | Off-Modern Manifesto

  “It's not my fault. Communication error has occurred,” my computer pleads with me in a voice of lady Victoria. First it excuses itself, then urges me to pay attention, to check…

  August 16 2010, 5:22am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Portfolio Rancière’s Ignoramus

  July 26 2010, 6:43am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments

• Portfolio System of Enthalpy

  March 26 2010, 9:46am | Comments

• Bookmark The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication

  by Bertolt Brecht In our society one can invent and perfect discoveries that still have to conquer their market and justify their existence; in other words discoveries that have not been…

  January 6 2010, 7:16am | Comments

• Bookmark We have a message from another world

  In the summer of 1899, whilst alone in his Colorado Springs laboratory working with his magnifying transmitter, the inimitable Nikola Tesla observed a series of unusual rhythmic signals which he described…

  December 11 2009, 4:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Google Wave is Changing the News

  It’s not too often that legacy media learns a new mass communication tool along with its audience. But that’s exactly what’s going on now because of Google Wave. Although it’s still…

  November 23 2009, 5:17am | 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

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