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  As the 19th century entered its final decade, the War of Currents was nearing its peak. On one side of this war was Thomas Edison, who had invested heavily in direct-current…

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• Bookmark e-flux journal 56th Venice Biennale – SUPERCOMMUNITY – Extinction as Usual?: Geo-Social…

  The concept of the Anthropocene, the so-called geological age of man, has become pervasive in recent years, marking one of those rare instances when an idea from the natural sciences gains…

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  Soft-bodied cephalopods such as the octopus (Fig.

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• Bookmark Was human evolution inevitable or a matter of luck? – Dan Falk…

  In the movie Sliding Doors (1998), a woman named Helen, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, rushes to catch a train on the London Underground, but just misses it, watching helplessly from the…

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• Bookmark The Sixth Mass Extinction: We Aren’t The Dinosaurs, We’re The Asteroid -…

  Extinction is an inevitable consequence of evolution. Environments change, new species arrive and crowd out the old, any number of factors make a formerly successful species unsuccessful.

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• Bookmark Why don't we just terraform Earth? — Hopes&Fears; — flow "Science"

  McKay's research focuses on the evolution of the solar system and the origin of life. McKay is currently involved in planning future Mars missions and has authored a number of studies…

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• Portfolio Algorithmic Narratives and Synthetic Subjects (paper)

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• Furtherfield Contributions Interview with Domenico Quaranta

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  Hominisation is the evolutionary and cultural process of “becoming human".

  

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  Finally, the robot revolution is arriving. There’s a Cambrian explosion in robotics, with species of all sizes, shapes and modes of mobility crawling out of the muck of the lab and…

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• Bookmark “Wow. Scare. Amaze.” — Matter — Medium

  Memes are viruses. In 1976, British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins defined the term as a “unit of cultural transmission” that will “literally parasitize” the brain, “turning it into a vehicle for…

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• Bookmark The Revolutionary Technique That Quietly Changed Machine Vision Forever | MIT Technology…

  In space exploration, there is the Google Lunar X Prize for placing a rover on the lunar surface. In medicine, there is the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize for developing a Star…

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• Bookmark Wild Systems « NextNature.net

  Steven Levy writes in Wired on the unexpected turn of the Artificial Intelligence revolution: rather than whole artificial minds, it consists of a rich bestiary of digital fauna, which few would…

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• Portfolio Journal Contribution: Exaptation and the Digital Now

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• Bookmark 'A Perfect and Beautiful Machine': What Darwin's Theory of Evolution Reveals About…

  Charles Darwin and Alan Turing, in their different ways, both homed in on the same idea: the existence of competence without comprehension. Francis Crick and James Watson closed their epoch-making paper…

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• 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,…

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• Bookmark Game Theory Makes New Predictions for Evolution | Simons Foundation

  In what appears to be the first study of its kind, computer scientists report that an algorithm discovered more than 50 years ago in game theory and now widely used in…

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  There is an ebooks version of me now : @rourke_ebooks... Follow it to support the bot revolution

  

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  Or: The tail that wags the dog. A discourse on digital 3-D cinema. Film scholar Thomas Elsaesser on a revolution in perception.

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• Bookmark New Statesman | Welcome to the age of synthetic biology – it’s…

  Evolution’s retirement plan has been 3.6 billion years in the making. With the appearance of the modern human being, we now have an organism that can take over from natural processes…

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• Bookmark Evolution of the mutant in popular fiction

  Update: I’ve been working on expanding this timeline into a book. I’m currently in the research phase, but you can read my notes here. They are generally more up-to-date and correct…

  December 29 2013, 9:42am | Comments

• Bookmark The Gray Zone | The Nation

  If there is one issue in contemporary life that supposedly defines the progressive nature of liberal societies, it is gay rights. Over the past half-century, most of the world’s Western democracies…

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• Bookmark Why Winning the War on Climate Change Will Require a Technocratic Revolution…

  As the 19th century entered its final decade, the War of Currents was nearing its peak. On one side of this war was Thomas Edison, who had invested heavily in direct-current…

  October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments

• Bookmark e-flux journal 56th Venice Biennale – SUPERCOMMUNITY – Extinction as Usual?: Geo-Social…

  The concept of the Anthropocene, the so-called geological age of man, has become pervasive in recent years, marking one of those rare instances when an idea from the natural sciences gains…

  October 3 2015, 10:38am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 18 2015, 7:56am | Comments

• Bookmark The octopus genome and the evolution of cephalopod neural and morphological novelties…

  Soft-bodied cephalopods such as the octopus (Fig.

  August 23 2015, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Was human evolution inevitable or a matter of luck? – Dan Falk…

  In the movie Sliding Doors (1998), a woman named Helen, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, rushes to catch a train on the London Underground, but just misses it, watching helplessly from the…

  July 4 2015, 4:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Sixth Mass Extinction: We Aren’t The Dinosaurs, We’re The Asteroid -…

  Extinction is an inevitable consequence of evolution. Environments change, new species arrive and crowd out the old, any number of factors make a formerly successful species unsuccessful.

  July 4 2015, 4:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why don't we just terraform Earth? — Hopes&Fears; — flow "Science"

  McKay's research focuses on the evolution of the solar system and the origin of life. McKay is currently involved in planning future Mars missions and has authored a number of studies…

  June 11 2015, 2:40am | Comments

• Vimeo

  June 10 2015, 6:13am | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 25 2015, 2:14am | Comments

• Portfolio Algorithmic Narratives and Synthetic Subjects (paper)

  May 8 2015, 4:02am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Interview with Domenico Quaranta

  April 8 2015, 3:57am | Comments

• Twitter

  Hominisation is the evolutionary and cultural process of “becoming human".

  

  March 30 2015, 3:27am | Comments

• Additivism #Additivism Interview at Creators Project: 3D Printing's Call to Action

  March 23 2015, 10:51am | Comments

• Bookmark The Day You’ll Prefer Robots to Humans | Singularity HUB

  Finally, the robot revolution is arriving. There’s a Cambrian explosion in robotics, with species of all sizes, shapes and modes of mobility crawling out of the muck of the lab and…

  December 18 2014, 1:48am | Comments

• Bookmark “Wow. Scare. Amaze.” — Matter — Medium

  Memes are viruses. In 1976, British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins defined the term as a “unit of cultural transmission” that will “literally parasitize” the brain, “turning it into a vehicle for…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• Portfolio Data as Culture

  October 1 2014, 7:37am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Data as Culture

  October 1 2014, 6:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Revolutionary Technique That Quietly Changed Machine Vision Forever | MIT Technology…

  In space exploration, there is the Google Lunar X Prize for placing a rover on the lunar surface. In medicine, there is the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize for developing a Star…

  September 15 2014, 4:23pm | Comments

• Bookmark Wild Systems « NextNature.net

  Steven Levy writes in Wired on the unexpected turn of the Artificial Intelligence revolution: rather than whole artificial minds, it consists of a rich bestiary of digital fauna, which few would…

  September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments

• Portfolio Journal Contribution: Exaptation and the Digital Now

  August 31 2014, 6:59am | Comments

• Bookmark 'A Perfect and Beautiful Machine': What Darwin's Theory of Evolution Reveals About…

  Charles Darwin and Alan Turing, in their different ways, both homed in on the same idea: the existence of competence without comprehension. Francis Crick and James Watson closed their epoch-making paper…

  July 29 2014, 3:06am | Comments

• Vimeo

  July 15 2014, 3:28pm | 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 Game Theory Makes New Predictions for Evolution | Simons Foundation

  In what appears to be the first study of its kind, computer scientists report that an algorithm discovered more than 50 years ago in game theory and now widely used in…

  June 18 2014, 2:53pm | Comments

• Twitter

  There is an ebooks version of me now : @rourke_ebooks... Follow it to support the bot revolution

  

  May 4 2014, 1:24am | Comments

• Bookmark The Dimesion of depth and objects rushing towards us

  Or: The tail that wags the dog. A discourse on digital 3-D cinema. Film scholar Thomas Elsaesser on a revolution in perception.

  May 1 2014, 1:41pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 30 2014, 12:39am | Comments

• Bookmark New Statesman | Welcome to the age of synthetic biology – it’s…

  Evolution’s retirement plan has been 3.6 billion years in the making. With the appearance of the modern human being, we now have an organism that can take over from natural processes…

  April 21 2014, 8:24am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 9:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Evolution of the mutant in popular fiction

  Update: I’ve been working on expanding this timeline into a book. I’m currently in the research phase, but you can read my notes here. They are generally more up-to-date and correct…

  December 29 2013, 9:42am | Comments

• Bookmark The Gray Zone | The Nation

  If there is one issue in contemporary life that supposedly defines the progressive nature of liberal societies, it is gay rights. Over the past half-century, most of the world’s Western democracies…

  December 11 2013, 3:43pm | Comments

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