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• Bookmark Chtodelat? / What is to be done?

  Chto delat? / What is to be done? was founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod (see…

  March 9 2010, 10:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Human Culture Plays a Role in Natural Selection

  As with any other species, human populations are shaped by the usual forces of natural selection, like famine, disease or climate. A new force is now coming into focus. It is…

  March 2 2010, 4:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark Technologies of Culture: The Archive

  "'To read what was never written.' Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new kind…

  February 24 2010, 7:38am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

  February 2 2010, 6:35am | Comments

• Bookmark For The Love Of Culture

  In early 2002, the filmmaker Grace Guggenheim--the daughter of the late Charles Guggenheim, one of America’s greatest documentarians, and the sister of the filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, who made An Inconvenient Truth-decided…

  January 27 2010, 2:17pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Inner Touch

  January 15 2010, 3:57am | Comments

• Wikipedia Cargo cult A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults are focused on obtaining the material wealth (the "cargo") of the advanced culture through magical thinking…

  January 8 2010, 9:51am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Technology is Not the End of Artistic Trends

  The Wall Street Journal’s Terry Teachout thinks future generations will consider itunes, youtube, and Kindle a more important cultural development than anything it distributes. He’s right to point out the huge…

  December 23 2009, 3:49am | Comments

• Metafilter Arcangel and the future of digi/net art Corey Arcangel is perhaps the internet's most infamous hack, masher-upper, digi/net artist. His work stands for a growing culture of artists who run wildly through animated GIF landscapes populated with corrupted data-compressed bunny rabbits and tinny, MIDI renditions of Savage Garden ballads. As…

  December 8 2009, 5:44am | Comments

• Wikipedia Profanity The original meaning of the adjective profane (Latin: "in front of", "outside the temple") referred to items not belonging to the church, e.g. "The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest…

  November 30 2009, 7:12am | Comments

• Bookmark How we read: an investigation

  A classical, although often implicit, view in social science is that the human brain, unlike that of other animals, is a learning machine which can adapt to essentially any novel cultural…

  November 23 2009, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark IMG MGMT: Hubris/Nemesis/Whatever

  Another binary myth fundamental to Western culture is the eternally popular hubris/nemesis complex. According to this idea, those who transgress against the natural order always get their just desserts. Hubris is…

  November 13 2009, 4:22pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark Monsters and the Moral Imagination

  Monsters are on the rise. People can't seem to get enough of vampires lately, and zombies have a new lease on life. This year and next we have the release of…

  October 27 2009, 12:01pm | 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

• Bookmark An Interview with W. Brian Arthur

  Technology so pervades our culture that it's sobering to consider how poorly we understand it. How do new tools and techniques arise? What principles guide their evolution? And how does their…

  October 4 2009, 4:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark GOOD COPY BAD COPY

  A documentary about the current state of copyright and culture

  September 14 2009, 3:17am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

  September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Bibliography Critical Play

  August 6 2009, 1:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark What do Amnesia, Immortality, and Mind Control have to do with Game…

  What breaks your sense of presence in a story? The culture of video game playing has developed a tolerance for the common practices and limitations in designing and producing games. We’ve…

  July 11 2009, 6:53am | Comments

• Bookmark From Book to Anti-Book

  by Harry Polkinhorn - To arrive at a theoretical understanding of artists' books, it is perhaps best to begin, as Richard Kostelanetz points out in his essay entitled "Book Art," on…

  July 7 2009, 9:25am | Comments

• Bookmark What Skepticism Reveals about Science

  “The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It’s all lies. But they’re entertaining lies, and in the end isn’t that the real truth? The…

  June 24 2009, 3:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark Dual Perspectives Article

  Not long ago mass media was about the only kind of culture there was. The lucky few creative works that made it into general circulation were what copyright law was supposed…

  June 16 2009, 3:08pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Open Work

  June 8 2009, 1:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Positions in Flux - Panel 2: New territories and cultures of the…

  The panel New territories and cultures of the digital looked at the geographical shift that media culture currently undergoes. Europe, North America and Japan used to be at the forefront of…

  May 20 2009, 9:24am | 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

• Misc 3quarksdaily (An Eclectic Digest of Science, Art and Literature) machine says: What traditional libraries need is a more networked, discursive interface.I love the British Library. I spent half of my study time there last year, searching for specific books in the database and picking them up from the collection desks to study…

  April 23 2009, 12:51am | 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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• Bookmark Chtodelat? / What is to be done?

  Chto delat? / What is to be done? was founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod (see…

  March 9 2010, 10:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Human Culture Plays a Role in Natural Selection

  As with any other species, human populations are shaped by the usual forces of natural selection, like famine, disease or climate. A new force is now coming into focus. It is…

  March 2 2010, 4:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark Technologies of Culture: The Archive

  "'To read what was never written.' Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new kind…

  February 24 2010, 7:38am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

  February 2 2010, 6:35am | Comments

• Bookmark For The Love Of Culture

  In early 2002, the filmmaker Grace Guggenheim--the daughter of the late Charles Guggenheim, one of America’s greatest documentarians, and the sister of the filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, who made An Inconvenient Truth-decided…

  January 27 2010, 2:17pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Inner Touch

  January 15 2010, 3:57am | Comments

• Wikipedia Cargo cult A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults are focused on obtaining the material wealth (the "cargo") of the advanced culture through magical thinking…

  January 8 2010, 9:51am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Technology is Not the End of Artistic Trends

  The Wall Street Journal’s Terry Teachout thinks future generations will consider itunes, youtube, and Kindle a more important cultural development than anything it distributes. He’s right to point out the huge…

  December 23 2009, 3:49am | Comments

• Metafilter Arcangel and the future of digi/net art Corey Arcangel is perhaps the internet's most infamous hack, masher-upper, digi/net artist. His work stands for a growing culture of artists who run wildly through animated GIF landscapes populated with corrupted data-compressed bunny rabbits and tinny, MIDI renditions of Savage Garden ballads. As…

  December 8 2009, 5:44am | Comments

• Wikipedia Profanity The original meaning of the adjective profane (Latin: "in front of", "outside the temple") referred to items not belonging to the church, e.g. "The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest…

  November 30 2009, 7:12am | Comments

• Bookmark How we read: an investigation

  A classical, although often implicit, view in social science is that the human brain, unlike that of other animals, is a learning machine which can adapt to essentially any novel cultural…

  November 23 2009, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark IMG MGMT: Hubris/Nemesis/Whatever

  Another binary myth fundamental to Western culture is the eternally popular hubris/nemesis complex. According to this idea, those who transgress against the natural order always get their just desserts. Hubris is…

  November 13 2009, 4:22pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark Monsters and the Moral Imagination

  Monsters are on the rise. People can't seem to get enough of vampires lately, and zombies have a new lease on life. This year and next we have the release of…

  October 27 2009, 12:01pm | 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

• Bookmark An Interview with W. Brian Arthur

  Technology so pervades our culture that it's sobering to consider how poorly we understand it. How do new tools and techniques arise? What principles guide their evolution? And how does their…

  October 4 2009, 4:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark GOOD COPY BAD COPY

  A documentary about the current state of copyright and culture

  September 14 2009, 3:17am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

  September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Bibliography Critical Play

  August 6 2009, 1:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark What do Amnesia, Immortality, and Mind Control have to do with Game…

  What breaks your sense of presence in a story? The culture of video game playing has developed a tolerance for the common practices and limitations in designing and producing games. We’ve…

  July 11 2009, 6:53am | Comments

• Bookmark From Book to Anti-Book

  by Harry Polkinhorn - To arrive at a theoretical understanding of artists' books, it is perhaps best to begin, as Richard Kostelanetz points out in his essay entitled "Book Art," on…

  July 7 2009, 9:25am | Comments

• Bookmark What Skepticism Reveals about Science

  “The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It’s all lies. But they’re entertaining lies, and in the end isn’t that the real truth? The…

  June 24 2009, 3:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark Dual Perspectives Article

  Not long ago mass media was about the only kind of culture there was. The lucky few creative works that made it into general circulation were what copyright law was supposed…

  June 16 2009, 3:08pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Open Work

  June 8 2009, 1:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Positions in Flux - Panel 2: New territories and cultures of the…

  The panel New territories and cultures of the digital looked at the geographical shift that media culture currently undergoes. Europe, North America and Japan used to be at the forefront of…

  May 20 2009, 9:24am | 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

• Misc 3quarksdaily (An Eclectic Digest of Science, Art and Literature) machine says: What traditional libraries need is a more networked, discursive interface.I love the British Library. I spent half of my study time there last year, searching for specific books in the database and picking them up from the collection desks to study…

  April 23 2009, 12:51am | 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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