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• Bookmark Entering Posthumanism: Ihab Hassan and Neil Badmington | Simulation Space

  In “Prometheus as Performer: Toward a Posthumanist Culture?” Ihab Hassan uses the metaphor of the mythological Prometheus to frame his discussion on posthumanism and positions him as a trickster with a…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• 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 Today, cyber means war.

  Today, cyber means war. But back in the 1990s, it meant sex — at least, the kind of sex you can have in a chat room. Why did the word change,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

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

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Evolution's Other Narrative » American Scientist

  Why science would benefit from a symbiosis-driven history of speciation. During a recent meal with a friend who happens to be a successful engineer, I found myself drawn, as usual, into…

  November 24 2013, 5:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Big Things & Little Things | ‘Digital’ in the arts

  So, returning to an old subject, about which I’ve got very annoyed in the past. Last week Arts Council England (ACE) published the second version of their 10-year strategic framework for…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke GLTI.CH at The White Building

  August 12 2013, 8:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Human evolution: the next stages | Dean Burnett | Science | guardian.co.uk

  What will become of humans as we evolve under the selective pressures of our modern lives and technology? If we adapt to some of the more bizarre elements of the present,…

  July 14 2013, 4:39pm | Comments

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  @JackLScanlan @therourke Thought this might interest - does evolution have a purpose? The Q of teleology in biology: http://t.co/BwSFQwwYYf

  June 24 2013, 7:00am | Comments

• Tumblr Excited and privileged to be in this show, opening tomorrow (May...

  May 22 2013, 5:14pm | Comments

• Bookmark Living Computers Possible with Biological Transistor | DNA Computing | LiveScience

  The transistor revolutionized electronics and computing. Now, researchers have made a biological transistor from DNA that could be used to create living computers. A transistor is a device that controls the…

  April 18 2013, 4:54pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Alex Myers

  April 3 2013, 9:28am | Comments

• Bookmark "Biological Intelligence is a Fleeting Phase in the Evolution of the Universe"…

  Before the year 2020, scientists are expected to launch intelligent space robots that will venture out to explore the universe for us. "Robotic exploration probably will always be the trail blazer…

  March 8 2013, 3:55am | Comments

• Bookmark The culture of the copy by James Panero - The New Criterion

  Technological revolutions are far less obvious than political revolutions to the generations that live through them. This is true even as new tools, for better and worse, shift human history more…

  January 22 2013, 3:27pm | Comments

• Bookmark Turing Complete User

  Computers are getting invisible. They shrink and hide. They lurk under the skin and dissolve in the cloud. We observe the process like an eclipse of the sun, partly scared, partly…

  December 31 2012, 6:46am | Comments

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

  December 14 2012, 3:02am | Comments

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  On Online 'Becoming' #Pizza

  November 20 2012, 7:13am | Comments

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  Meaning as gloss

  November 14 2012, 4:39am | Comments

• Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The evolution of cheating in chess

  September 18 2012, 4:48am | Comments

• Wikipedia Ontogeny Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origin and the development of an organism – for example: from the fertilized egg to mature form. It covers in essence, the study of an organism's lifespan. The word "ontogeny" comes from the Greek ὄντος, ontos,…

  September 17 2012, 6:02am | Comments

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  How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything

  September 12 2012, 3:23pm | Comments

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  Do Artists Actually Confront Our New Technological Reality?

  September 8 2012, 6:07am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Bibliography The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S Kuhn

  September 3 2012, 6:56am | Comments

• Bibliography Evolution and the Theory of Games by John Maynard Smith

  September 3 2012, 6:56am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 29 2012, 3:44am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Machines by Other Means, Manchester

  August 8 2012, 4:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Rationally Speaking: Enjoying natural selection on multiple levels

  Meanwhile, Richard Dawkins was picking another fight. Normally, this would not be an occasion worthy of comment. The best way to distinguish between Professor Dawkins’ waking and sleeping states is probably…

  July 10 2012, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Freeman Dyson on Tool-Creation, Technology, and What Makes a Scientific Revolution

  Dyson refutes the idea that scientific revolutions are concept-driven, a stance pioneered by Thomas Kuhn in his controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and later endorsed by other theory-driven…

  July 10 2012, 2:42am | Comments

• Bookmark An Idle Theory of Evolution

  The idea of evolution is of great antiquity. Empedocles, around 440 BC, wrote that there were once "countless tribes of mortal creatures, scattered abroad and endowed with all manner of forms,"…

  July 10 2012, 2:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Paradigms Regained

  The following is an excerpt from Ian Hacking's introduction to the new edition of Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which commemorates the book's 50th anniversary. To be published…

  June 27 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Entering Posthumanism: Ihab Hassan and Neil Badmington | Simulation Space

  In “Prometheus as Performer: Toward a Posthumanist Culture?” Ihab Hassan uses the metaphor of the mythological Prometheus to frame his discussion on posthumanism and positions him as a trickster with a…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• 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 Today, cyber means war.

  Today, cyber means war. But back in the 1990s, it meant sex — at least, the kind of sex you can have in a chat room. Why did the word change,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

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

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Evolution's Other Narrative » American Scientist

  Why science would benefit from a symbiosis-driven history of speciation. During a recent meal with a friend who happens to be a successful engineer, I found myself drawn, as usual, into…

  November 24 2013, 5:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Big Things & Little Things | ‘Digital’ in the arts

  So, returning to an old subject, about which I’ve got very annoyed in the past. Last week Arts Council England (ACE) published the second version of their 10-year strategic framework for…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke GLTI.CH at The White Building

  August 12 2013, 8:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Human evolution: the next stages | Dean Burnett | Science | guardian.co.uk

  What will become of humans as we evolve under the selective pressures of our modern lives and technology? If we adapt to some of the more bizarre elements of the present,…

  July 14 2013, 4:39pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  @JackLScanlan @therourke Thought this might interest - does evolution have a purpose? The Q of teleology in biology: http://t.co/BwSFQwwYYf

  June 24 2013, 7:00am | Comments

• Tumblr Excited and privileged to be in this show, opening tomorrow (May...

  May 22 2013, 5:14pm | Comments

• Bookmark Living Computers Possible with Biological Transistor | DNA Computing | LiveScience

  The transistor revolutionized electronics and computing. Now, researchers have made a biological transistor from DNA that could be used to create living computers. A transistor is a device that controls the…

  April 18 2013, 4:54pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Alex Myers

  April 3 2013, 9:28am | Comments

• Bookmark "Biological Intelligence is a Fleeting Phase in the Evolution of the Universe"…

  Before the year 2020, scientists are expected to launch intelligent space robots that will venture out to explore the universe for us. "Robotic exploration probably will always be the trail blazer…

  March 8 2013, 3:55am | Comments

• Bookmark The culture of the copy by James Panero - The New Criterion

  Technological revolutions are far less obvious than political revolutions to the generations that live through them. This is true even as new tools, for better and worse, shift human history more…

  January 22 2013, 3:27pm | Comments

• Bookmark Turing Complete User

  Computers are getting invisible. They shrink and hide. They lurk under the skin and dissolve in the cloud. We observe the process like an eclipse of the sun, partly scared, partly…

  December 31 2012, 6:46am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

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

  December 14 2012, 3:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On Online 'Becoming' #Pizza

  November 20 2012, 7:13am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Meaning as gloss

  November 14 2012, 4:39am | Comments

• Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The evolution of cheating in chess

  September 18 2012, 4:48am | Comments

• Wikipedia Ontogeny Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origin and the development of an organism – for example: from the fertilized egg to mature form. It covers in essence, the study of an organism's lifespan. The word "ontogeny" comes from the Greek ὄντος, ontos,…

  September 17 2012, 6:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything

  September 12 2012, 3:23pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Do Artists Actually Confront Our New Technological Reality?

  September 8 2012, 6:07am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Bibliography The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S Kuhn

  September 3 2012, 6:56am | Comments

• Bibliography Evolution and the Theory of Games by John Maynard Smith

  September 3 2012, 6:56am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 29 2012, 3:44am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Machines by Other Means, Manchester

  August 8 2012, 4:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Rationally Speaking: Enjoying natural selection on multiple levels

  Meanwhile, Richard Dawkins was picking another fight. Normally, this would not be an occasion worthy of comment. The best way to distinguish between Professor Dawkins’ waking and sleeping states is probably…

  July 10 2012, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Freeman Dyson on Tool-Creation, Technology, and What Makes a Scientific Revolution

  Dyson refutes the idea that scientific revolutions are concept-driven, a stance pioneered by Thomas Kuhn in his controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and later endorsed by other theory-driven…

  July 10 2012, 2:42am | Comments

• Bookmark An Idle Theory of Evolution

  The idea of evolution is of great antiquity. Empedocles, around 440 BC, wrote that there were once "countless tribes of mortal creatures, scattered abroad and endowed with all manner of forms,"…

  July 10 2012, 2:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Paradigms Regained

  The following is an excerpt from Ian Hacking's introduction to the new edition of Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which commemorates the book's 50th anniversary. To be published…

  June 27 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

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