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• Bookmark Four Notes Towards Post-Digital Propaganda | post-digital-research

  “Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments and to integrate the individual into a technological world” (Ellul xvii). How might future research into digital…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | 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

• Bookmark Digital Metaphors: Editor’s Introduction | Alluvium

  Metaphor wants to be… ‘[...] metaphors work to change people’s minds. Orators have known this since Demosthenes. [...] But there’s precious little evidence that they tell you what people think. [...]…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute

  Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

• Portfolio What makes out today’s notworking is the social glitch

  November 7 2013, 7:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Psychologists Propose Horrifying Solution to PTSD in Drone Operators

  Drone operators often kill their targets from a continent away, but studies suggests that even thousands of miles of distance cannot mitigate war's devastating psychological effects.

  October 28 2013, 8:37am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Tumblr Phantom Effect

  September 4 2013, 5:52am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Representations of 'The Phantom Zone' (in the original Superman films) In the original Superman films General Zod and his accomplices are trapped in The Phantom Zone, which in the films is represented as a 2D 'crystal' prison sent spinning through space. I am looking for any writings/insights into how the visual effects for…

  June 3 2013, 9:24am | Comments

• Portfolio Datamoshing the Land of Ooo: An Interview with David OReilly

  April 25 2013, 5:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Datamoshing the Land of Ooo

  April 25 2013, 4:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Émilie Gervais

  April 18 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Lovely Lustig Latency

  April 11 2013, 6:26am | Comments

• Bookmark Foucault’s boomerang: the new military urbanism

  As our planet urbanizes more rapidly than ever before, an insidious set of boomerang effects, linking security doctrine in cities in the global North with those in the South, are permeating…

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Foucault’s boomerang: the new military urbanism | openDemocracy

  As our planet urbanizes more rapidly than ever before, an insidious set of boomerang effects, linking security doctrine in cities in the global North with those in the South, is permeating…

  February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments

• Tumblr spaceplasma: This image of Neptune was taken on 11 August 2006...

  January 26 2013, 7:40am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  HUMANS AND INTELLIGENT MACHINES : CO-EVOLUTION, FUSION OR REPLACEMENT?

  December 14 2012, 3:02am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 8 2012, 6:44am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

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

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Wikipedia Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future “Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.” - Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how…

  August 1 2012, 8:07am | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation

  In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a very…

  July 19 2012, 8:20am | Comments

• Bookmark An extended breakdown of the Christian symbolism in Prometheus

  Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in…

  June 27 2012, 3:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark Prometheus Unbound: What The Movie Was Actually About

  Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in…

  June 15 2012, 5:29am | Comments

• Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

  June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Nevolution: Metaphysical Mario

  In which I string together a series of videos, links and text that use Mario as a base for Science. First is Mario and the Many World Interpretation of Quantum Physics…

  May 30 2012, 1:54am | Comments

• Bookmark People see sexy pictures of women as objects, not people

  Sexual objectification has been well studied, but most of the research is about looking at the effects of this objectification. "What's unclear is, we don't actually know whether people at a…

  May 17 2012, 3:28am | Comments

• Bookmark In the Zone of Alienation: Tarkovsky as Video Game

  Zona, Geoff Dyer’s recent book about Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterpiece Stalker, has been much discussed for its almost comically thorough dissection of the stately 1979 film. In an account that combines summary,…

  May 1 2012, 3:13pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 14 2012, 6:01pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Four Notes Towards Post-Digital Propaganda | post-digital-research

  “Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments and to integrate the individual into a technological world” (Ellul xvii). How might future research into digital…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | 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

• Bookmark Digital Metaphors: Editor’s Introduction | Alluvium

  Metaphor wants to be… ‘[...] metaphors work to change people’s minds. Orators have known this since Demosthenes. [...] But there’s precious little evidence that they tell you what people think. [...]…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute

  Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

• Portfolio What makes out today’s notworking is the social glitch

  November 7 2013, 7:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Psychologists Propose Horrifying Solution to PTSD in Drone Operators

  Drone operators often kill their targets from a continent away, but studies suggests that even thousands of miles of distance cannot mitigate war's devastating psychological effects.

  October 28 2013, 8:37am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Tumblr Phantom Effect

  September 4 2013, 5:52am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Representations of 'The Phantom Zone' (in the original Superman films) In the original Superman films General Zod and his accomplices are trapped in The Phantom Zone, which in the films is represented as a 2D 'crystal' prison sent spinning through space. I am looking for any writings/insights into how the visual effects for…

  June 3 2013, 9:24am | Comments

• Portfolio Datamoshing the Land of Ooo: An Interview with David OReilly

  April 25 2013, 5:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Datamoshing the Land of Ooo

  April 25 2013, 4:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Émilie Gervais

  April 18 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Lovely Lustig Latency

  April 11 2013, 6:26am | Comments

• Bookmark Foucault’s boomerang: the new military urbanism

  As our planet urbanizes more rapidly than ever before, an insidious set of boomerang effects, linking security doctrine in cities in the global North with those in the South, are permeating…

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Foucault’s boomerang: the new military urbanism | openDemocracy

  As our planet urbanizes more rapidly than ever before, an insidious set of boomerang effects, linking security doctrine in cities in the global North with those in the South, is permeating…

  February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments

• Tumblr spaceplasma: This image of Neptune was taken on 11 August 2006...

  January 26 2013, 7:40am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  HUMANS AND INTELLIGENT MACHINES : CO-EVOLUTION, FUSION OR REPLACEMENT?

  December 14 2012, 3:02am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 8 2012, 6:44am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

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

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Wikipedia Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future “Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.” - Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how…

  August 1 2012, 8:07am | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation

  In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a very…

  July 19 2012, 8:20am | Comments

• Bookmark An extended breakdown of the Christian symbolism in Prometheus

  Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in…

  June 27 2012, 3:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark Prometheus Unbound: What The Movie Was Actually About

  Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in…

  June 15 2012, 5:29am | Comments

• Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

  June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Nevolution: Metaphysical Mario

  In which I string together a series of videos, links and text that use Mario as a base for Science. First is Mario and the Many World Interpretation of Quantum Physics…

  May 30 2012, 1:54am | Comments

• Bookmark People see sexy pictures of women as objects, not people

  Sexual objectification has been well studied, but most of the research is about looking at the effects of this objectification. "What's unclear is, we don't actually know whether people at a…

  May 17 2012, 3:28am | Comments

• Bookmark In the Zone of Alienation: Tarkovsky as Video Game

  Zona, Geoff Dyer’s recent book about Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterpiece Stalker, has been much discussed for its almost comically thorough dissection of the stately 1979 film. In an account that combines summary,…

  May 1 2012, 3:13pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 14 2012, 6:01pm | Comments

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