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  Researchers have hitherto assumed that information supplied by the sense of sight was transmitted almost in its entirety from its entry point to higher brain areas, across which visual sensation is…

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• Bookmark Uncivilizing the PhD: for a politics of doctoral experience | ROAR Magazine

  The road to a PhD is a common source of frustration. It is time to acknowledge and contest this experience as the outcome of a disciplinarian process. As a faceless PhD…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• 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 Digital Metaphors: Editor’s Introduction | Alluvium

  Metaphor wants to be… ‘[...] metaphors work to change people’s minds. Orators have known this since Demosthenes. [...] But there’s precious little evidence that they tell you what people think. [...]…

  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,…

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• Bookmark Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute

  Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

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• Bookmark Digital Archaeology

  Anyone who can read German can read the first book ever printed. If you can read Sumerian cuneiform, you can read clay tablets that were probably the first things ever written.…

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

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• Bookmark What Is 'Evil' to Google? - Ian Bogost - The Atlantic

  Last week, another distasteful use of your personal information by Google came to light: The company plans to attach your name and likeness to advertisements delivered across its products without your…

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• Bookmark A Future Internet Might Not Use Servers

  You'd think that given how pervasive the internet is, we'd be stuck with the fundamental architecture it uses: servers that many devices connect to for their information fix. But a team…

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• Bookmark Google’s Earth

  “I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. “They want Google to tell…

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• Bookmark Media Watch: Pixelating protects identity? Think again. (09/07/2012)

  Gerard Baden-Clay Mr Baden-Clay's lawyers say he is devastated and will vigorously defend the charge. — ABC Online, 13 June, 2012 The ABC's lawyers insisted on pixelating Mr Baden-Clay's image after…

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• 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…

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• Portfolio What makes out today’s notworking is the social glitch

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• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

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• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

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• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

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• Portfolio Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  Part of an ongoing series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work but may not (yet) be well known to our readers. Nick Briz is an artist/educator/organizer living in Chicago, and co-founder of the conference and festival GLI.TC/H. This interview took…

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• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Nick Briz

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  CAPTAIN BEEFHEART - Reviews & Brand Information - Adelaide Gail Zappa Ventura, CA - Serial Number: 85695177

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• Portfolio Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

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• Furtherfield Contributions Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

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• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Is there a PDF-annotator for iPad that allows you to annotate and read? I've realized that, as great as the iPad is for academic reading, I really need to annotate the PDFs in order for things to stick.I love what Sente allows you to do on the Mac (I have a PC), in that you can…

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• Wikipedia Betteridge's law of headlines Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist,[1] although the general concept is much older.[2] The observation…

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• Bookmark The brain’s data compression mechanisms

  Researchers have hitherto assumed that information supplied by the sense of sight was transmitted almost in its entirety from its entry point to higher brain areas, across which visual sensation is…

  March 18 2014, 12:44pm | Comments

• YouTube

  March 7 2014, 4:19am | Comments

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  February 25 2014, 3:26am | Comments

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  December 17 2013, 1:19am | Comments

• Bookmark Uncivilizing the PhD: for a politics of doctoral experience | ROAR Magazine

  The road to a PhD is a common source of frustration. It is time to acknowledge and contest this experience as the outcome of a disciplinarian process. As a faceless PhD…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• 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 Digital Metaphors: Editor’s Introduction | Alluvium

  Metaphor wants to be… ‘[...] metaphors work to change people’s minds. Orators have known this since Demosthenes. [...] But there’s precious little evidence that they tell you what people think. [...]…

  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

• Bookmark Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute

  Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Archaeology

  Anyone who can read German can read the first book ever printed. If you can read Sumerian cuneiform, you can read clay tablets that were probably the first things ever written.…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

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

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

• Projects The Pharmakon

  November 26 2013, 9:31am | Comments

• Bookmark What Is 'Evil' to Google? - Ian Bogost - The Atlantic

  Last week, another distasteful use of your personal information by Google came to light: The company plans to attach your name and likeness to advertisements delivered across its products without your…

  November 24 2013, 5:12am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 15 2013, 12:01pm | Comments

• Bookmark A Future Internet Might Not Use Servers

  You'd think that given how pervasive the internet is, we'd be stuck with the fundamental architecture it uses: servers that many devices connect to for their information fix. But a team…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Google’s Earth

  “I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. “They want Google to tell…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Media Watch: Pixelating protects identity? Think again. (09/07/2012)

  Gerard Baden-Clay Mr Baden-Clay's lawyers say he is devastated and will vigorously defend the charge. — ABC Online, 13 June, 2012 The ABC's lawyers insisted on pixelating Mr Baden-Clay's image after…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | 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

• Portfolio What makes out today’s notworking is the social glitch

  November 7 2013, 7:16am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Portfolio New Sculpt

  July 24 2013, 5:32am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  Part of an ongoing series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work but may not (yet) be well known to our readers. Nick Briz is an artist/educator/organizer living in Chicago, and co-founder of the conference and festival GLI.TC/H. This interview took…

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  CAPTAIN BEEFHEART - Reviews & Brand Information - Adelaide Gail Zappa Ventura, CA - Serial Number: 85695177

  June 19 2013, 8:49am | Comments

• Portfolio Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 4:12am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 3:12am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Is there a PDF-annotator for iPad that allows you to annotate and read? I've realized that, as great as the iPad is for academic reading, I really need to annotate the PDFs in order for things to stick.I love what Sente allows you to do on the Mac (I have a PC), in that you can…

  June 3 2013, 7:02am | Comments

• Wikipedia Betteridge's law of headlines Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist,[1] although the general concept is much older.[2] The observation…

  June 2 2013, 6:54am | Comments

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

  May 22 2013, 5:14pm | Comments

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