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  In the very near future the act of remembering will become a choice.

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  "Everyone with no experiences can enjoy making the perfectly filtered coffee bring out all the coffee aroma and flavor without bitter"

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  The Dark Sides of Our Digital Self

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  All Language Is Murder

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  "I began to realize that the ‘control’ animals used for research studies throughout the world are couch potatoes," he tells me. It's been shown that mice living under standard laboratory conditions…

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  Latour talked a lot of sense tonight. I could feel the "We CAN change the world" camp shifting uncomfortably in their seats

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  I was getting annoyed at the way Occupy Wall Street was being covered — as if it was insane to gather in a public space and protest. As if it had…

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  How to Read Lacan - Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer of Alien

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  There has always been a lot of discussion about the effect that reading books has on us. Far less attention has been paid to the effect that we (the readers) have…

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  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

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  On June 17, 2010, Sergey Ulasen was in his office in Belarus sifting through e-mail when a report caught his eye. A computer belonging to a customer in Iran was caught…

  July 13 2011, 3:09am | Comments

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  It’s human nature, I suppose, to want to survive, to resist succumbing to the same fate all living things do. It’s the reason we write books, create art, have children—we’re hardwired…

  July 4 2011, 9:01am | Comments

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  The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It's being chewed by the e-book.…

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  Mountains of coffee and 2 pints of bacon, sausage, beans, toast and mushrooms

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  Let me toss out the idea that, as our markets discover and respond to what consumers most want, our technology has become extremely adept at creating products that correspond to our…

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  We need to understand what philosophers in the Middle Ages, from Italy to India to China, already understood perfectly well: Money is not a thing, and is certainly not a scarce…

  April 5 2011, 1:36am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Webcam Karaoke I would like to display Karaoke lyrics over a live webcam feed. This means I might need a skype (or equivalent) plugin that plays the music & lyrics, or find some karaoke software with the ability to display lyrics over a transparent background.…

  March 10 2011, 5:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Darwin Among the Machines (Samuel Butler, 1863)

  The views of machinery which we are thus feebly indicating will suggest the solution of one of the greatest and most mysterious questions of the day. We refer to the question:…

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  Dump.fm is a digital version of the old Surrealist genre of the exquisite corpse, a “show and tell” for the polymorphously perverse. The art of dump.fm is genuinely interactive. Social relations…

  March 2 2011, 3:05pm | Comments

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  Neuroscientists have yet to find anything in the brain they are happy calling consciousness, and philosophers are far from agreement over a way of talking about what happens after we wake…

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  Rain may seem a harmless nuisance to us humans, but for ants, it's a big deal. They can get trapped by just a single drop and risk drowning. Paradoxically, it's by…

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  One day in December 1919, the twenty-year-old Jorge Luis Borges, during a short stay in Seville, wrote a letter, in French, to his friend Maurice Abramowicz in Geneva, in which, almost…

  October 21 2010, 3:52am | Comments

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  In the very near future the act of remembering will become a choice.

  February 18 2012, 6:21am | Comments

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  "Everyone with no experiences can enjoy making the perfectly filtered coffee bring out all the coffee aroma and flavor without bitter"

  February 18 2012, 2:59am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 16 2012, 5:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Dark Sides of Our Digital Self

  December 18 2011, 3:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  All Language Is Murder

  December 14 2011, 2:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Mouse Trap: The dangers of using one lab animal to study every…

  "I began to realize that the ‘control’ animals used for research studies throughout the world are couch potatoes," he tells me. It's been shown that mice living under standard laboratory conditions…

  December 13 2011, 12:34pm | Comments

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

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Twitter

  Latour talked a lot of sense tonight. I could feel the "We CAN change the world" camp shifting uncomfortably in their seats

  November 21 2011, 11:58am | Comments

• Bookmark The Millions : "I would prefer not to" (Bartleby’s Occupation of Wall…

  I was getting annoyed at the way Occupy Wall Street was being covered — as if it was insane to gather in a public space and protest. As if it had…

  October 16 2011, 11:38am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 18 2011, 4:21am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Innovative websites as template for MFA research community I'm looking for examples of websites that have successfully enhanced a research community (academic or artistic) with a dynamic online/social/mutual-portfolio presence. Blog and social media based hubs, perhaps, that showcase the possibilities of web portfolio/research integration for academic and creative purposes. I've been…

  September 16 2011, 7:26am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How to Read Lacan - Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer of Alien

  September 5 2011, 12:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Reading Life - What We Do to Books

  There has always been a lot of discussion about the effect that reading books has on us. Far less attention has been paid to the effect that we (the readers) have…

  August 30 2011, 8:32am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Flickr Morning coffee

  August 9 2011, 10:15am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | 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 How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History

  On June 17, 2010, Sergey Ulasen was in his office in Belarus sifting through e-mail when a report caught his eye. A computer belonging to a customer in Iran was caught…

  July 13 2011, 3:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Heaven for Atheists

  It’s human nature, I suppose, to want to survive, to resist succumbing to the same fate all living things do. It’s the reason we write books, create art, have children—we’re hardwired…

  July 4 2011, 9:01am | Comments

• Bookmark How to survive the age of distraction

  The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It's being chewed by the e-book.…

  June 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

• Twitter

  Mountains of coffee and 2 pints of bacon, sausage, beans, toast and mushrooms

  June 19 2011, 2:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Oh, Infinite Stream of Data and Light

  Visitors enter the dark, gargantuan room and take up postures of reverence in front of a massive screen, which towers 40 feet above them. They take off their shoes at the…

  June 16 2011, 4:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark Technology Provides an Alternative to Love

  Let me toss out the idea that, as our markets discover and respond to what consumers most want, our technology has become extremely adept at creating products that correspond to our…

  May 30 2011, 2:03am | Comments

• YouTube

  May 2 2011, 3:11am | Comments

• Bookmark To Have Is to Owe

  We need to understand what philosophers in the Middle Ages, from Italy to India to China, already understood perfectly well: Money is not a thing, and is certainly not a scarce…

  April 5 2011, 1:36am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Webcam Karaoke I would like to display Karaoke lyrics over a live webcam feed. This means I might need a skype (or equivalent) plugin that plays the music & lyrics, or find some karaoke software with the ability to display lyrics over a transparent background.…

  March 10 2011, 5:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Darwin Among the Machines (Samuel Butler, 1863)

  The views of machinery which we are thus feebly indicating will suggest the solution of one of the greatest and most mysterious questions of the day. We refer to the question:…

  March 3 2011, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Gif and Take: dump.fm

  Dump.fm is a digital version of the old Surrealist genre of the exquisite corpse, a “show and tell” for the polymorphously perverse. The art of dump.fm is genuinely interactive. Social relations…

  March 2 2011, 3:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Soul Niche

  Neuroscientists have yet to find anything in the brain they are happy calling consciousness, and philosophers are far from agreement over a way of talking about what happens after we wake…

  February 4 2011, 1:59am | Comments

• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ants mimic liquids to stay afloat

  Rain may seem a harmless nuisance to us humans, but for ants, it's a big deal. They can get trapped by just a single drop and risk drowning. Paradoxically, it's by…

  November 25 2010, 3:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Manguel, Muse of Impossibility

  One day in December 1919, the twenty-year-old Jorge Luis Borges, during a short stay in Seville, wrote a letter, in French, to his friend Maurice Abramowicz in Geneva, in which, almost…

  October 21 2010, 3:52am | Comments

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