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Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments
Bookmark The case for reconciling the scientific with the divine -- and against…
As a both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious…

October 8 2011, 10:01am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) "Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or..."
“Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.” - J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition…

September 30 2011, 5:16am | Comments
Bookmark Can religion tell us more than science?
In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and against…

September 20 2011, 3:12am | Comments
Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments
Bookmark Our Emergent Digital Future
What will the digital world look like in ten years? The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path. The explosion in the volume…

August 14 2011, 4:32am | Comments
Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

July 31 2011, 10:28am | 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 The Neolithic Age is over!
Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance, the…

July 12 2011, 1:36am | Comments
Bookmark Three arguments against the singularity
This is my take on the singularity: we're not going to see a hard take-off, or a slow take-off, or any kind of AI-mediated exponential outburst. What we're going to see…

June 23 2011, 2:48am | Comments
Bookmark Our data, ourselves
Who owns the data in that cloud has been the subject of ferocious debate. It’s not all stored in one place, of course — our lives are tracked and documented by…

May 30 2011, 3:11pm | Comments
Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments
Wikipedia Alien space bats Alien space bats (ASBs) is a neologism for plot devices used in alternate history to create a point of divergence that would otherwise be implausible. [edit]Definition "Alien space bats" originally was used as a sarcastic attack on poorly written alternate histories due to…

May 3 2011, 12:27pm | Comments
Flickr GLTI.CH Karaoke

April 3 2011, 7:04am | Comments
Ask Metafilter (Contemporary) Japanese karaoke hits Karaoke in Japanese. Am looking for tracks with a karaoke version on YouTube for an event. This old post has some great ideas, but sadly half of them have been removed from YouTube. What Japanese language songs do you sing at karaoke at…

April 1 2011, 3:41am | Comments
Bookmark Capitalism's Dismal Future
A remarkable feature of the commentary on today's economic troubles is that, despite constant reference to the Great Depression of the 1930s, as well as to the many downturns since World…

March 30 2011, 2:30am | 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
Metafilter Projects: GLTI.CH Karaoke is a virtual jukebox oozing with time-delayed, glitchy fun. Streaming live over the web, London and Kumamoto will be joined in a sing off to end all sing offs. The first GLTI.CH KARAOKE event will laugh in the face of the nine hour…

March 25 2011, 11:17am | Comments
Projects GLTI.CH Karaoke

March 25 2011, 9:38am | Comments
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March 20 2011, 4:04pm | Comments
Bookmark Prop Theory in a Nutshell
Any time we interact with a representative art work – be it a painting, a sculpture, a song, a novel, a comic, a play, a film, or a game – it…

March 10 2011, 9:31am | Comments
Bookmark The not so universal tree of life or the place of viruses…
According to this view, ancient viruses, as with the ones today, could only make copies of themselves by succesfully infecting a host. So they become engines of innovation, using every possible…

March 2 2011, 6:32am | 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 Hawking contra Philosophy
Professor Hawking has probably been talking to the wrong philosophers, or picked up some wrong ideas about the kinds of discussion that currently go on in philosophy of science. His lofty…

February 19 2011, 5:31am | Comments
Bookmark How to Make Anything Signify Anything
It is unlikely that Bacon’s cipher system was ever used for the transmission of military secrets, in the seventeenth century or in the twentieth. But for roughly a century from 1850,…

February 10 2011, 4:17pm | Comments
Bookmark Malaria caught on camera breaking and entering cell
The video above captures the moment when a malaria parasite invades a human red blood cell - the first time the event has been caught in high resolution. The Plasmodium parasite…

January 24 2011, 2:54am | Comments
Bookmark The Postmedia Perspective
The starting point of the book is that the label “New Media Art” does not identify an art genre or an art movement, and cannot be viewed – as it usually…

January 12 2011, 9:44am | Comments
Bookmark On Resilience
A key feature of complex adaptive systems is their ability to self-organize along a number of different pathways with possible sudden shifts between states: A lake, for example, can exist in…

December 16 2010, 3:09am | Comments
Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments
Flickr Santa Monica Mountains Boney Mountain Poppies

November 22 2010, 2:51pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter Using a Facebook 'page' as University Research Hub My university department (art postgrad) wants to use Facebook as a community and research hub. What is the best way to go about this? In a perfect world we will use the facebook hub for: News of events and department politics Community options,…

November 18 2010, 9:12am | Comments
Bookmark Declaration on the Notion of “The Future”
The International Necronautical Society now entering its eleventh year, the First Committee has recently come under pressure to release, in keeping with the INS’s avant-garde demeanor, some kind of “statement” both…

November 1 2010, 3:42am | Comments

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