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Bookmark Please Stop Talking About the "Rise" of African Science Fiction | Literary…
Whenever I see an article that starts with “The Rise of. . .” I think of dough. When it’s applied to African science fiction, I picture an endlessly rising (and falling)…

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments
Bookmark Living in the Long: Art & Engineering Peers Into Our Future -…
When was the last time you awoke right at the first peak of day? Or put away your work simply because night was falling? We are less and less tied to…

December 14 2015, 8:44am | Comments
Portfolio Journal Contribution: Exaptation and the Digital Now

August 31 2014, 6:59am | Comments
Bookmark The Falling Man - Tom Junod - 9/11 Suicide Photograph - Esquire
In the picture, he departs from this earth like an arrow. Although he has not chosen his fate, he appears to have, in his last instants of life, embraced it. If…

June 8 2014, 2:52am | Comments
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March 6 2014, 3:01pm | Comments
Vimeo

March 1 2014, 12:12pm | 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
Portfolio Glitchometry

November 20 2013, 6:51am | Comments
Portfolio Falling into the Digital Divide: Encounters with the Work of Hito Steyerl
The highly compressed, deteriorated ‘poor image mocks the promises of digital technology. Not only is it often degraded to the point of being just a hurried blur, one even doubts whether it could be called an image at all.’ The aesthetic affect of digital…

May 21 2013, 2:58am | Comments
Bookmark The Clock: What time is it where?
Marclay assembled his edit in hour-long chunks, the 24-hour cycle giving him enormous scope, but also confining him to a minute-by-minute grid. “A 10.01 clip has to be within that minute,…

February 9 2012, 3:57am | Comments
Bookmark On Science Transfer
“Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before. Our…

September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments
Bookmark In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective
Imagine you are falling. But there is no ground. Many contemporary philosophers have pointed out that the present moment is distinguished by a prevailing condition of groundlessness.1 We cannot assume any…

July 19 2011, 2:49am | Comments
Bookmark Off-putting behaviour: On Writing and Procrastination
When I began writing, distractions were all low-tech. I had to worry about typewriter ribbons and correction fluid, for God's sake. There was no possibility of spending an apparently productive day…

July 8 2011, 1:52am | 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 Programmed for Love: The Unsettling Future of Robotics
Imagine standing in front of a robot, gazing into its wide, plastic eyes, and falling in love. Your heart revs up, and you hope this Other—this humanoid machine—turns your way again,…

January 18 2011, 3:16am | Comments

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