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Wikipedia Sacred Contagion Sacred contagion is the belief that spiritual properties within an object, place, or person may be passed to another object, place, or person, usually by direct contact or physical proximity. While the concept of sacred contagion has existed in numerous cultures since before…

August 12 2011, 8:08am | Comments
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A Trick of the Mind - Reason Magazine

August 6 2011, 5:02am | Comments
Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments
Bookmark How Catholicism made Marshall McLuhan one of the twentieth century’s freest and…
APPROPRIATELY ENOUGH, a century after his birth in 1911, Marshall McLuhan has found a second life on the Internet. YouTube and other sites are a rich repository of McLuhan interviews, revealing…

June 20 2011, 9:16am | Comments
Bibliography Materiality (Politics, History, and Culture) by Daniel Miller

June 19 2011, 5:11am | Comments
Bookmark The Origin of Our Species
"If there has been no spiritual change of kind / Within our species since Cro-Magnon Man . . ." The poet Louis MacNeice was voicing a commonplace that was accepted by…

June 16 2011, 4:18pm | 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
Bookmark Cory Arcangel Goes Old School
Arcangel’s conflicted relationship with technology drives his artistic practice and pervades Pro Tools, the artist’s first solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. At 33, Arcangel will be the…

June 6 2011, 3:11pm | Comments
Bookmark A Medium for the Masses
The word “meme” first appeared in Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book “The Selfish Gene.” Dawkins defined a meme as being any sort of idea that spreads from person to person within a…

June 6 2011, 2:25am | 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 A Guide To Enjoying (And Making Your Own) GIF Art
You can satisfy your low-brow GIF cravings on sites like 4chan or the countless GIF-glorifying Tumblrs like GIF Party and Fuck Yeah GIFs. A step above is the image-based chat site…

May 19 2011, 11:50am | Comments
Bookmark Graphics Interchange Format At Denison University's Mulberry ...
Since the early days of the web, users have been posting animated GIFs. Once synonymous with shoveling construction workers on parked domains, these moving images now more commonly find their way…

May 19 2011, 11:48am | Comments
Ask Metafilter GIF Archaeology I'm writing a paper on (animated) GIFs and am trying to track down some of the most (in)famous. I suppose I am talking memes, but I'm more interested in the GIF as an archaeological reference point. I frequent sites like dump.fm, tumblr etc.…

May 16 2011, 8:17am | Comments
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April 30 2011, 7:01pm | Comments
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April 30 2011, 6:35pm | Comments
Bookmark Analogue artists defying the digital age
Dusty vinyl records, vintage film cameras, rickety typewriters and antiquated recording equipment … these are the creative tools being used by some emerging artists. Pure nostalgia? Or a laudable refusal to…

April 24 2011, 6:39am | 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
Misc The Principle of Notworking Concepts in Critical Internet Culture Type Conference Paper Author Geert Lovink URL: hva.nl/lectoraten/documenten/ol09-050224-lovink.pdf Place Hogeschool van Amsterdam Date 24 Februari 2005 Accessed 2011-04-13 Abstract Lector Interactieve Media in het Digitaal Publiek Domein Instituut voor Interactieve Media

April 13 2011, 8:24am | Comments
Bookmark The Principle of Notworking: Concepts in Critical Internet Culture
Internet culture is in a permanent flux. There is no linear growth, neither up nor down. The only certainty is the steady rise, both in absolute and relative numbers of users…

April 9 2011, 2:16am | Comments
Bookmark Japanese people need our solidarity, not a blame game
The earthquake confirms that a pre‑Enlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback. The Japanese proverb ‘fix the problem, not the blame’ captures an attitude towards…

March 26 2011, 1:48pm | Comments
Bookmark Realer than Real: The Simulacrum According to Deleuze and Guattari
There is a seductive image of contemporary culture circulating today. Our world, Jean Baudrillard tells us, has been launched into hyperspace in a kind of postmodern apocalypse. The airless atmosphere has…

March 8 2011, 9:46am | Comments
Bookmark The Digital Humanities: Beyond Computing
The field of the digital humanities embraces various scholarly activities in the humanities that involve writing about digital media and technology as well as being engaged in digital media production. Perhaps…

March 2 2011, 6:36am | Comments
Bookmark Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology
hrough Insect Media I wanted to investigate non-human media theory – and how we have for a longer time understood high-tech media through nature; through metaphors adapted from nature and more…

March 2 2011, 6:35am | Comments
Bookmark Technology Wants to Keep Evolving
Kelly argues that all technologies, from the stone ax to the computer chip, should be seen as a collectivity—the technium, which is “the greater, global, massively interconnected system of technology vibrating…

February 22 2011, 12:03pm | Comments
Bookmark 400 years of the King James Bible
The King James Bible is a book that attracts superlatives. To David Norton it is “the most important book in English religion and culture”, to Gordon Campbell “the most celebrated book…

February 11 2011, 3:43am | Comments
Bookmark What the science of human nature can teach us
We are living in the middle of a revolution in consciousness. Over the past few decades, geneticists, neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, and others have made great strides in understanding the inner…

January 13 2011, 2:17am | Comments
Bookmark When Art Goes Disruptive: The A/Moral Dis/Order of Recursive Publics | Public…
Although the analysis of geek community as a recursive public sharing social imaginary of openness, and a moral order of freedom, is a valid frame to understand geek culture through a…

January 10 2011, 3:22am | Comments
Bookmark Lev manovich: software culture. the common grammar of media
Professor of New Media Art at the University of California, both artist and graphic designer, Lev Manovich does not need further presentation. His first book “The language of New Media” (it…

December 13 2010, 6:12pm | Comments
Bookmark How Video Games Are Infiltrating—and Improving—Every Part of Our Lives
Games are sneaking into every part of our lives -- at home, school, and work. Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and even the Army depend on games. and Pretty soon, you'll be a…

December 8 2010, 7:46am | Comments
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December 8 2010, 7:05am | Comments
Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

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