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• Bookmark Humans evolved for punching, study confirms - Big Think

  According to biologist David Carrier of the University of Utah, “In mammals in general, the difference between males and females is often greatest in the structures that are used as weapons.

  April 18 2023, 12:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Charles Murray Returns, Nodding to Caution but Still Courting Controversy - The…

  Yes, that Charles Murray, who in 1994 co-authored “The Bell Curve,” with Richard J. Herrnstein, arguing in two notorious chapters that I.Q. differences between the races were mostly innate and mostly…

  February 15 2020, 6:06am | Comments

• Portfolio PhD Thesis: The Practice of Posthumanism

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• Vimeo

  August 19 2018, 10:22am | Comments

• Bookmark The Revolution Will Be Weird and Eerie - VICE

  The simplest way to distinguish between the "weird" and the "eerie", the late Mark Fisher writes, is to think about the difference between presence and absence. Weirdness is produced by the presence…

  March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments

• YouTube

  March 2 2017, 11:29am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark A is for Afrofuturism — Cyberfeminism vs. Afrofuturistfeminism

  There are differences and sameness on some accounts within cyberfeminism versus afrofuturistfeminism, I’ll quickly list the basics.

  January 13 2017, 5:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Hunt for the Algorithms That Drive Life on Earth | WIRED

  To the computer scientist Leslie Valiant, “machine learning” is redundant. In his opinion, a toddler fumbling with a rubber ball and a deep-learning network classifying cat photos are both learning; calling…

  March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments

• Portfolio Algorithmic Narratives and Synthetic Subjects (paper)

  May 8 2015, 4:02am | Comments

• Portfolio “Please don’t call me uncanny”: Cécile B. Evans at Seventeen Gallery

  December 4 2014, 1:17pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions "Please don't call me uncanny": Cécile B. Evans at Seventeen Gallery

  December 4 2014, 12:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark Who Goes There?

  Didja Know? This short story first appeared in Astounding Stories, August 1938, and is the inspiration for the 1951 film The Thing from Another World and 1982's The Thing. The 1982…

  September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Meet the Father of Digital Life

  n 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other,…

  June 20 2014, 6:08am | Comments

• Bookmark The difference between a concept & a constraint, part 2: What is…

  OK, back to this.

  June 14 2014, 3:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark The difference between a concept & a constraint, part 1: What is…

  I wrote about this to some extent here, but I wanted to expound on the issue in what I hope is a more coherent form. Because I frequently see concepts confused…

  June 14 2014, 3:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia

  Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Portfolio Glitchometry

  November 20 2013, 6:51am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 14 2013, 3:45am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Architectural Origins of the Chess Set | Design Decoded

  Prior to 1849, there was no such thing as a “normal chess set.” At least not like we think of it today. Over the centuries that chess had been played, innumerable…

  April 18 2013, 4:53pm | Comments

• YouTube

  February 12 2013, 2:33pm | Comments

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  Meaning as gloss

  November 14 2012, 4:39am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

  June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Google Knowledge Graph

  Last Wednesday, with relatively little fanfare, Google introduced a new technology called Google Knowledge Graph. Type in “François Hollande,” and you are offered a capsule history (with links) to his children,…

  May 30 2012, 1:59am | Comments

• 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

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  Large study shows little difference between human and robot essay graders

  April 13 2012, 7:30am | Comments

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  Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes

  March 27 2012, 7:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s “The Thing” and You

  This monster’s talent for mimicry provokes some of the darkest questions. By foregrounding this capability and coupling it with our inability to discern mimics from the remaining men, The Thing focuses…

  March 26 2012, 3:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Adaptor vs. Adapter

  February 24 2012, 4:09pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Humans evolved for punching, study confirms - Big Think

  According to biologist David Carrier of the University of Utah, “In mammals in general, the difference between males and females is often greatest in the structures that are used as weapons.

  April 18 2023, 12:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Charles Murray Returns, Nodding to Caution but Still Courting Controversy - The…

  Yes, that Charles Murray, who in 1994 co-authored “The Bell Curve,” with Richard J. Herrnstein, arguing in two notorious chapters that I.Q. differences between the races were mostly innate and mostly…

  February 15 2020, 6:06am | Comments

• Portfolio PhD Thesis: The Practice of Posthumanism

  August 8 2019, 5:56am | Comments

• Vimeo

  August 19 2018, 10:22am | Comments

• Bookmark The Revolution Will Be Weird and Eerie - VICE

  The simplest way to distinguish between the "weird" and the "eerie", the late Mark Fisher writes, is to think about the difference between presence and absence. Weirdness is produced by the presence…

  March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments

• YouTube

  March 2 2017, 11:29am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark A is for Afrofuturism — Cyberfeminism vs. Afrofuturistfeminism

  There are differences and sameness on some accounts within cyberfeminism versus afrofuturistfeminism, I’ll quickly list the basics.

  January 13 2017, 5:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Hunt for the Algorithms That Drive Life on Earth | WIRED

  To the computer scientist Leslie Valiant, “machine learning” is redundant. In his opinion, a toddler fumbling with a rubber ball and a deep-learning network classifying cat photos are both learning; calling…

  March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments

• Portfolio Algorithmic Narratives and Synthetic Subjects (paper)

  May 8 2015, 4:02am | Comments

• Portfolio “Please don’t call me uncanny”: Cécile B. Evans at Seventeen Gallery

  December 4 2014, 1:17pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions "Please don't call me uncanny": Cécile B. Evans at Seventeen Gallery

  December 4 2014, 12:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark Who Goes There?

  Didja Know? This short story first appeared in Astounding Stories, August 1938, and is the inspiration for the 1951 film The Thing from Another World and 1982's The Thing. The 1982…

  September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Meet the Father of Digital Life

  n 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other,…

  June 20 2014, 6:08am | Comments

• Bookmark The difference between a concept & a constraint, part 2: What is…

  OK, back to this.

  June 14 2014, 3:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark The difference between a concept & a constraint, part 1: What is…

  I wrote about this to some extent here, but I wanted to expound on the issue in what I hope is a more coherent form. Because I frequently see concepts confused…

  June 14 2014, 3:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia

  Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Portfolio Glitchometry

  November 20 2013, 6:51am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 14 2013, 3:45am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Architectural Origins of the Chess Set | Design Decoded

  Prior to 1849, there was no such thing as a “normal chess set.” At least not like we think of it today. Over the centuries that chess had been played, innumerable…

  April 18 2013, 4:53pm | Comments

• YouTube

  February 12 2013, 2:33pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Meaning as gloss

  November 14 2012, 4:39am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

  June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Google Knowledge Graph

  Last Wednesday, with relatively little fanfare, Google introduced a new technology called Google Knowledge Graph. Type in “François Hollande,” and you are offered a capsule history (with links) to his children,…

  May 30 2012, 1:59am | Comments

• 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

• Twitter Favourites

  Large study shows little difference between human and robot essay graders

  April 13 2012, 7:30am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes

  March 27 2012, 7:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s “The Thing” and You

  This monster’s talent for mimicry provokes some of the darkest questions. By foregrounding this capability and coupling it with our inability to discern mimics from the remaining men, The Thing focuses…

  March 26 2012, 3:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Adaptor vs. Adapter

  February 24 2012, 4:09pm | Comments

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