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• Bookmark Julian Savulescu: The Philosopher Who Says We Should Play God

  Australian bioethicist Julian Savulescu has a knack for provocation. Take human cloning. He says most of us would readily accept it if it benefited us.

  September 9 2015, 11:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking - Issue 24: Error -…

  Julian Jaynes was living out of a couple of suitcases in a Princeton dorm in the early 1970s. He must have been an odd sight there among the undergraduates, some of…

  May 31 2015, 5:38am | Comments

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  December 1 2014, 2:48am | Comments

• Projects 'Ways Of Something' Episode 2 Premiere at Transfer Gallery

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• YouTube

  August 26 2014, 12:36pm | 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 It’s the End of the World as We Know It . .…

  Late one night last August, on the chalk downlands of southern England, Paul Kingsnorth stood in a field beside an old-growth forest, two yurts and a composting toilet. Kingsnorth is 41,…

  May 1 2014, 1:40pm | Comments

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• Portfolio Black Diamond

  April 28 2014, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark There's Not Much 'Glitch' In Glitch Art | Motherboard

  Artist Daniel Temkin has been creating and discussing glitch art for over seven years. In that time, he's exhibited in solo and group shows, and had his work featured in Rhizome…

  March 18 2014, 12:45pm | Comments

• Bookmark KALEIDOSCOPE

  The memorable reveal of the man behind the curtain twiddling knobs and simulating the booming, god-like voice of Oz by rascally Toto the dog is an apt metaphor for how the…

  February 26 2014, 9:06am | 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

• Bookmark Jerry Saltz on Kanye, Kim, and ‘the New Uncanny’ -- Vulture

  Lou Reed got Kanye West's Yeezus absolutely right. "No one's near doing what he's doing,” Reed wrote in a review just a few weeks before he died. “It's not even the…

  November 25 2013, 4:01pm | 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

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Bibliography Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero by Grant Morrison

  September 10 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 22 2013, 4:38pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: GIANT GOD WARRIOR APPEARS IN TOKYO Studio Ghibli presents Giant God Warrior Appears In Tokyo, a short tokusatsu film. (In Japanese, no subtitles.)

  April 24 2013, 5:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark God and The Transcendental Object At The End Of History - disinformation

  Preparing a moka pot of coffee this morning, I decided to continue my reading of Joseph Campbell’s book, The Hero With A Thousand Faces. The primary thrust of the book is…

  April 18 2013, 4:54pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Alex Myers

  April 3 2013, 9:28am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Meaning as gloss

  November 14 2012, 4:39am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but..."

  “Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but revealingly confused. It refers at once to metaphysics, to methods, and to morals. We slide effortlessly from statements about the ‘objective truth’ of a scientific claim, to those about the ‘objective…

  October 24 2012, 5:33am | Comments

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

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

• Bookmark An extended breakdown of the Christian symbolism in Prometheus

  Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in…

  June 27 2012, 3:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark Prometheus Unbound: What The Movie Was Actually About

  Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in…

  June 15 2012, 5:29am | Comments

• Twitter

  Woman shouting repeatedly on 259 bus, "God!? What did I do that for God? I remember! Don't you remember?"

  May 23 2012, 4:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, Part 1

  The fish pendant, on Dick’s account, began to emit a golden ray of light, and Dick suddenly experienced what he called, with a nod to Plato, anamnesis: the recollection or total…

  May 22 2012, 3:05am | Comments

• Bookmark A challenge to God-guided mutations

  The renowned philosopher of science Elliott Sober has, in recent weeks, given a talk and written a paper that both make the same points: Evolution is totally silent on the idea…

  May 17 2012, 3:35am | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 11 2012, 4:11am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Does It Matter Whether God Exists?

  March 23 2012, 1:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  God and the New Physics by Paul Davies

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Tumblr “Never grovel. God, or whatever superior being it is...

  March 18 2012, 5:23pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Julian Savulescu: The Philosopher Who Says We Should Play God

  Australian bioethicist Julian Savulescu has a knack for provocation. Take human cloning. He says most of us would readily accept it if it benefited us.

  September 9 2015, 11:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking - Issue 24: Error -…

  Julian Jaynes was living out of a couple of suitcases in a Princeton dorm in the early 1970s. He must have been an odd sight there among the undergraduates, some of…

  May 31 2015, 5:38am | Comments

• Vimeo

  December 1 2014, 2:48am | Comments

• Projects 'Ways Of Something' Episode 2 Premiere at Transfer Gallery

  September 3 2014, 6:07am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 26 2014, 12:36pm | 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 It’s the End of the World as We Know It . .…

  Late one night last August, on the chalk downlands of southern England, Paul Kingsnorth stood in a field beside an old-growth forest, two yurts and a composting toilet. Kingsnorth is 41,…

  May 1 2014, 1:40pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 30 2014, 12:39am | Comments

• Portfolio Black Diamond

  April 28 2014, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark There's Not Much 'Glitch' In Glitch Art | Motherboard

  Artist Daniel Temkin has been creating and discussing glitch art for over seven years. In that time, he's exhibited in solo and group shows, and had his work featured in Rhizome…

  March 18 2014, 12:45pm | Comments

• Bookmark KALEIDOSCOPE

  The memorable reveal of the man behind the curtain twiddling knobs and simulating the booming, god-like voice of Oz by rascally Toto the dog is an apt metaphor for how the…

  February 26 2014, 9:06am | 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

• Bookmark Jerry Saltz on Kanye, Kim, and ‘the New Uncanny’ -- Vulture

  Lou Reed got Kanye West's Yeezus absolutely right. "No one's near doing what he's doing,” Reed wrote in a review just a few weeks before he died. “It's not even the…

  November 25 2013, 4:01pm | 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

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Bibliography Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero by Grant Morrison

  September 10 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 22 2013, 4:38pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: GIANT GOD WARRIOR APPEARS IN TOKYO Studio Ghibli presents Giant God Warrior Appears In Tokyo, a short tokusatsu film. (In Japanese, no subtitles.)

  April 24 2013, 5:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark God and The Transcendental Object At The End Of History - disinformation

  Preparing a moka pot of coffee this morning, I decided to continue my reading of Joseph Campbell’s book, The Hero With A Thousand Faces. The primary thrust of the book is…

  April 18 2013, 4:54pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Alex Myers

  April 3 2013, 9:28am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Meaning as gloss

  November 14 2012, 4:39am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but..."

  “Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but revealingly confused. It refers at once to metaphysics, to methods, and to morals. We slide effortlessly from statements about the ‘objective truth’ of a scientific claim, to those about the ‘objective…

  October 24 2012, 5:33am | Comments

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

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

• Bookmark An extended breakdown of the Christian symbolism in Prometheus

  Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in…

  June 27 2012, 3:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark Prometheus Unbound: What The Movie Was Actually About

  Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in…

  June 15 2012, 5:29am | Comments

• Twitter

  Woman shouting repeatedly on 259 bus, "God!? What did I do that for God? I remember! Don't you remember?"

  May 23 2012, 4:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, Part 1

  The fish pendant, on Dick’s account, began to emit a golden ray of light, and Dick suddenly experienced what he called, with a nod to Plato, anamnesis: the recollection or total…

  May 22 2012, 3:05am | Comments

• Bookmark A challenge to God-guided mutations

  The renowned philosopher of science Elliott Sober has, in recent weeks, given a talk and written a paper that both make the same points: Evolution is totally silent on the idea…

  May 17 2012, 3:35am | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 11 2012, 4:11am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Does It Matter Whether God Exists?

  March 23 2012, 1:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  God and the New Physics by Paul Davies

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Tumblr “Never grovel. God, or whatever superior being it is...

  March 18 2012, 5:23pm | Comments

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