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• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark Rethinking Einstein: The end of space-time

  Physicists struggling to reconcile gravity with quantum mechanics have hailed a theory – inspired by pencil lead – that could make it all very simple IT WAS a speech that changed…

  August 11 2010, 3:25am | Comments

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

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark Infinite Life

  A starry firmament, or sand cascading through one’s open fingers, or weeds springing up time after time: the first conception of infinity, of the uncountable and the unending, is not recorded,…

  August 5 2010, 3:18am | Comments

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

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Code is not the Text (unless it is the Text)

  by John Cayley Digital utopianism is still with us. It is with us despite having been tempered by network logistics and an all-too-reasonable demand for 'content.' Admittedly, New Media has aged.…

  June 21 2010, 3:33am | Comments

• Bookmark The linguistic turn and other misconceptions about analytic philosophy

  Analytic philosophy has a complex history of more than one hundred years and this movement is so variegated that it can hardly be characterized by a single feature. Most of those…

  June 13 2010, 11:56pm | Comments

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

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Gottschall's Problem

  These are fighting words. But can the scientific model really be applied to literature? Some of the scholars I talked to regard science’s push into the humanities as an intrusion, an…

  May 16 2010, 4:21pm | Comments

• Portfolio System of Enthalpy

  March 26 2010, 9:46am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web

  The story of Google’s algorithm begins with PageRank, the system invented in 1997 by cofounder Larry Page while he was a grad student at Stanford. Page’s now legendary insight was to…

  March 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Wikipedia Other The Other or constitutive other (also referred to as othering) is a key concept in continental philosophy, opposed to the Same. It refers, or attempts to refer, to that which is 'other' than the concept being considered. The term often means a person…

  January 26 2010, 1:48pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Into the Uncanny Valley

  Disturbing experiences that feel both familiar and strange are instances of the “uncanny,” an intuitive concept, yet one that has defied simple explanation for more than a century. Interest in the…

  December 7 2009, 5:08pm | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Overhyped Placebos of Doom?

  Let’s say a new drug appears to be effective in combating a condition like chronic anxiety and is the subject of popular news stories. When the drug enters clinical trials, patients…

  November 20 2009, 3:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Left vs Right | Information Is Beautiful

  A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th). Of course,…

  October 21 2009, 3:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Origin of the Work of Art

  In his article, Heidegger explains the essence of art in terms of the concepts of being and truth. He argues that art is not only a way of expressing the element…

  October 8 2009, 9:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

  October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

  September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments

• Bibliography Critical Play

  August 6 2009, 1:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Beyond Postmodernism? Paul Virilio's Hypermodern Cultural Theory

  Paul Virilio is one of the most significant French cultural theorists writing today.1 Increasingly hailed as the inventor of concepts such as 'dromology' (the 'science' of speed), Virilio is renowned for…

  July 7 2009, 9:34am | Comments

• Portfolio The Movement of The Middle

  June 30 2009, 9:05am | Comments

• Portfolio Seeing Centaurs

  June 14 2009, 2:50pm | Comments

• Misc Voiceworks | Holly Pester A collaborartion between Joshua Kaye (composer) and Holly Pester (poet and text artist) Presidents Birds and Even At the conception of this project Kaye and Pester created a system of exchange and translation, developing shared concerns for chance operations, periphery speech sounds and…

  June 11 2009, 12:08am | Comments

• Bibliography The Open Work

  June 8 2009, 1:40am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Desire Paths/Lines: the original translation and related concepts/terms Desire Paths / Lines: a term apparently coined by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space. What was the original French he used? and are there any other terms for the act and outcome of paths that emerge through routine, reflexion and the…

  May 25 2009, 11:37am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

  May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

• Bookmark A Society of Simulations

  This essay aims to increase our understanding of simulations and their impact on our notion of reality. Following on some observations regarding the dominant role of visual representations in our culture,…

  April 20 2009, 3:22pm | Comments

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark Rethinking Einstein: The end of space-time

  Physicists struggling to reconcile gravity with quantum mechanics have hailed a theory – inspired by pencil lead – that could make it all very simple IT WAS a speech that changed…

  August 11 2010, 3:25am | Comments

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

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark Infinite Life

  A starry firmament, or sand cascading through one’s open fingers, or weeds springing up time after time: the first conception of infinity, of the uncountable and the unending, is not recorded,…

  August 5 2010, 3:18am | Comments

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

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Code is not the Text (unless it is the Text)

  by John Cayley Digital utopianism is still with us. It is with us despite having been tempered by network logistics and an all-too-reasonable demand for 'content.' Admittedly, New Media has aged.…

  June 21 2010, 3:33am | Comments

• Bookmark The linguistic turn and other misconceptions about analytic philosophy

  Analytic philosophy has a complex history of more than one hundred years and this movement is so variegated that it can hardly be characterized by a single feature. Most of those…

  June 13 2010, 11:56pm | Comments

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

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Gottschall's Problem

  These are fighting words. But can the scientific model really be applied to literature? Some of the scholars I talked to regard science’s push into the humanities as an intrusion, an…

  May 16 2010, 4:21pm | Comments

• Portfolio System of Enthalpy

  March 26 2010, 9:46am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web

  The story of Google’s algorithm begins with PageRank, the system invented in 1997 by cofounder Larry Page while he was a grad student at Stanford. Page’s now legendary insight was to…

  March 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Wikipedia Other The Other or constitutive other (also referred to as othering) is a key concept in continental philosophy, opposed to the Same. It refers, or attempts to refer, to that which is 'other' than the concept being considered. The term often means a person…

  January 26 2010, 1:48pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Into the Uncanny Valley

  Disturbing experiences that feel both familiar and strange are instances of the “uncanny,” an intuitive concept, yet one that has defied simple explanation for more than a century. Interest in the…

  December 7 2009, 5:08pm | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Overhyped Placebos of Doom?

  Let’s say a new drug appears to be effective in combating a condition like chronic anxiety and is the subject of popular news stories. When the drug enters clinical trials, patients…

  November 20 2009, 3:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Left vs Right | Information Is Beautiful

  A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th). Of course,…

  October 21 2009, 3:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Origin of the Work of Art

  In his article, Heidegger explains the essence of art in terms of the concepts of being and truth. He argues that art is not only a way of expressing the element…

  October 8 2009, 9:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

  October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

  September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments

• Bibliography Critical Play

  August 6 2009, 1:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Beyond Postmodernism? Paul Virilio's Hypermodern Cultural Theory

  Paul Virilio is one of the most significant French cultural theorists writing today.1 Increasingly hailed as the inventor of concepts such as 'dromology' (the 'science' of speed), Virilio is renowned for…

  July 7 2009, 9:34am | Comments

• Portfolio The Movement of The Middle

  June 30 2009, 9:05am | Comments

• Portfolio Seeing Centaurs

  June 14 2009, 2:50pm | Comments

• Misc Voiceworks | Holly Pester A collaborartion between Joshua Kaye (composer) and Holly Pester (poet and text artist) Presidents Birds and Even At the conception of this project Kaye and Pester created a system of exchange and translation, developing shared concerns for chance operations, periphery speech sounds and…

  June 11 2009, 12:08am | Comments

• Bibliography The Open Work

  June 8 2009, 1:40am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Desire Paths/Lines: the original translation and related concepts/terms Desire Paths / Lines: a term apparently coined by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space. What was the original French he used? and are there any other terms for the act and outcome of paths that emerge through routine, reflexion and the…

  May 25 2009, 11:37am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

  May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

• Bookmark A Society of Simulations

  This essay aims to increase our understanding of simulations and their impact on our notion of reality. Following on some observations regarding the dominant role of visual representations in our culture,…

  April 20 2009, 3:22pm | Comments

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