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  Additivism Workshop: Designing Post-Natural Futures (Athens, 10-11 Jun 2017) 12:00-18:00 - Diplareios School (Theatrou sq 3, Athens centre)This #additivism workshop led by Daniel Rourke and Geraldine Juárez invites us to an exploration of post-natural history, geo-history and Mediterranean world-ecologies, emphasizing critical perspectives driven from…

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• Bibliography Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought & Cultural Ctiticism) by Julia Kristeva

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• Metafilter MeFi: Advanced Lawn Mower Simulator, and other deliberately crap games Guardian: 'The annual CGC (Crap Games Competition) has been bringing Spectrum fans together for more than 25 years' ... "What makes the CGC entertaining is the self-deprecating, sardonic British humour," explains 43-year-old Paul Collins from Reading, who first entered the CGC in 2000…

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• Bookmark The Return of the Face

  Physiognomy — the attempt to interpret a person’s character by means of their face — was one of those things that educated 19th-century Europeans knew wasn’t supposed to work. In his…

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• Syllabus Cache The Digital Condition: Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age

  UPDATE: Due to circumstances the Winter School will be held virtually. Please note that the programme follows the EET Eastern European Time UTC+2 timezone!

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• Bookmark Colonialism did not just create slavery: it changed geology | Science |…

  It brought riches to Britain and many other European nations; played a major role in enslaving more than 10 million Africans; and created the first global markets in cotton, tobacco and…

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 22 2018, 1:39pm | Comments

• Additivism #Additivism Workshop: Designing Post-Natural Futures (Athens,...

  Additivism Workshop: Designing Post-Natural Futures (Athens, 10-11 Jun 2017) 12:00-18:00 - Diplareios School (Theatrou sq 3, Athens centre)This #additivism workshop led by Daniel Rourke and Geraldine Juárez invites us to an exploration of post-natural history, geo-history and Mediterranean world-ecologies, emphasizing critical perspectives driven from…

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  February 27 2017, 5:35am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Ancient Humans May Have Left a Genetic Mark on Neanderthals Carl Zimmer…

  In 1997, scientists found the first scrap of Neanderthal DNA in a fossil. Since then, they have recovered genetic material, even entire genomes, from a number of Neanderthal bones, and their…

  February 17 2016, 11:50am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 20 2015, 1:43am | Comments

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• Bookmark The end of progress | New Philosopher

  David C. Wood is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of European Studies at Vanderbilt University. Interview by Zan Boag, editor of New Philosopher. Zan Boag: Contemporary society places…

  May 26 2015, 5:08am | Comments

• Projects 'Ways Of Something' Episode 2 Premiere at Transfer Gallery

  September 3 2014, 6:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Gregg Segal photographs people with a week’s worth of their trash in…

  The United States has a trash problem. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the average American produces more than 4 pounds of garbage per day. That’s more than double the…

  July 14 2014, 12:43am | Comments

• Bookmark The New Manifestos: 6 Artist Texts That Are Defining Today's Avant-Garde |…

  Once upon a time, you couldn't flip through a European newspaper without coming across the polemical manifesto of a budding avant garde artists' movement.

  May 21 2014, 1:29pm | Comments

• YouTube

  March 7 2014, 4:19am | Comments

• Bookmark Handaxe design reveals distinct Neanderthal cultures

  Dr Karen Ruebens from the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins (CAHO) and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) examined the design of 1,300 stone tools originating…

  August 26 2013, 3:39pm | Comments

• Bibliography Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought & Cultural Ctiticism) by Julia Kristeva

  July 9 2013, 7:32am | 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

• YouTube

  February 10 2013, 5:28am | Comments

• Portfolio Sampling, Acclimatisation, and the ‘Die Hard’ Method

  October 7 2012, 3:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark Brute force or intelligence? The slow rise of computer chess

  When you visit the History of Computer Chess exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the first machine you see is "The Turk." In 1770, a Hungarian engineer…

  August 8 2011, 8:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Rebellion Against Pluralism

  Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted responsibility for the death of seventy six innocents, is undoubtedly a madman. But madmen can be spurred on by anything in their environment they are…

  July 27 2011, 3:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark Inside the Box: Notes From Within the European Artistic Research Debate

  The debate over artistic research, particularly its appeal to scientificity, often rests on defining one’s terms. Thus, an examination of some of the keywords deployed might be instructive, especially when their…

  June 16 2011, 3:13am | Comments

• Bookmark The Philosophy of Insomnia

  Philosophy is no friend of sleep. In his Laws (circa 350 BC), Plato platonized, "When a man is asleep, he is no better than if he were dead; and he who…

  April 21 2011, 2:44am | Comments

• Vimeo

  December 8 2010, 7:05am | Comments

• Bookmark First Cannibals Ate Each Other for Extra Nutrition

  The world's first known human cannibals ate each other to satisfy their nutritional needs, concludes a new study of the remains of cannibal feasts consumed about one million years ago. The…

  August 30 2010, 10:11am | Comments

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

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark European and Asian genomes have traces of Neanderthal

  The genomes of most modern humans are 1–4% Neanderthal — a result of interbreeding with the close relatives that went extinct 30,000 years ago, according to work by an international group…

  May 9 2010, 6:53am | Comments

• Bookmark More from Eyjafjallajokull

  As ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano continued to keep European airspace shut down over the weekend, affecting millions of travelers around the world, some government agencies and airlines clashed over the…

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• Bookmark Kurt Andersen on the Large Hadron Collider

  Among the defining attributes of now are ever tinier gadgets, ever shorter attention spans, and the privileging of marketplace values above all. Life is manically parceled into financial quarters, three-minute YouTube…

  December 25 2009, 6:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like "Avatar"?

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  December 23 2009, 2:24am | Comments

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