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• Metafilter MeFi: Some People Can't See Mental Images - The Consequences Are Profound Aphantasia - an interesting variant in human experience (New Yorker archive link) Nick knew that whenever Zeman talked about aphantasia he was at pains to emphasize that it was not a disorder, or even a bad thing... Some people he interviewed were unbothered—there…

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• Bookmark Lord Dunsany's chess variant is grim and kind of brilliant | Eurogamer.net

  I first read about Lord Dunsany - I am happy to report his full name was Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett - in a collection of Arthur C. Clarke's non-fiction.

  July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark The Horror of the World | Dr. Rinaldi's Horror Cabinet

  “What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds…

  July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Lord Dunsany's chess variant is grim and kind of brilliant | Eurogamer.net

  I first read about Lord Dunsany - I am happy to report his full name was Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett - in a collection of Arthur C. Clarke's non-fiction.

  July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Horror of the World | Dr. Rinaldi's Horror Cabinet

  “What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds…

  July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments

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• Syllabus Cache Race After Technology

  If you decide to teach either one of these books next academic yr, I’d be more than happy to Skype into the discussion.

  March 7 2019, 4:59pm | Comments

• Bookmark Even Transhumanist Elites Are Worried Only the Rich Will Be Able to…

  The story of Z was supposed to be about how biohacking had allowed her to become immortal. She lived in the year 2040, and by most measures her life was happy.…

  January 31 2016, 9:14am | Comments

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• Furtherfield Contributions Interview with Domenico Quaranta

  April 8 2015, 3:57am | Comments

• Bookmark The Data Sublime

  The sublime unknowability of Big Data lets us fall in love with our own domination. I have a memory from childhood, a happy memory — one of complete trust and comfort.…

  February 2 2015, 11:13am | 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

• GLTI.CH Karaoke How to join the DOOM GLTI.CH WAN Party

  January 23 2014, 6:30am | 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 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

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  October 31 2013, 12:45pm | 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

• Portfolio Datamoshing the Land of Ooo: An Interview with David OReilly

  April 25 2013, 5:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Datamoshing the Land of Ooo

  April 25 2013, 4:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Fallacy of Dumb Superintelligence

  This is what a New Yorker article has to say on the subject of “Moral Machines”: “An all-powerful computer that was programmed to maximize human pleasure, for example, might consign us…

  December 14 2012, 3:03am | Comments

• Tumblr Happy 25th Birthday to the GIF!

  June 15 2012, 7:02am | Comments

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  Borges: The Task of Art

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• Tumblr Happy Valentine

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• 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

• Bookmark The Dudleys

  THE DUDLEYS! takes the adolescent memories of a man and translates them into a malfunctioning 8-bit video game, the kind he used to play as a young adult. But instead of…

  July 28 2010, 3:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Should This Be the Last Generation?

  Have you ever thought about whether to have a child? If so, what factors entered into your decision? Was it whether having children would be good for you, your partner and…

  June 10 2010, 2:45am | Comments

• Hello Grandad By mapping smile clusters in a small region of Happy Space, one becomes aware of the finescale structure of the…

  May 10 2010, 10:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Could a Mini Horse Be Bred Small Enough to Fit in Your…

  The world’s smallest horse was born in late April on a farm in New Hampshire. Weighing in at 6 pounds at birth, Einstein appears to have beaten the previous record holder…

  May 4 2010, 2:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Is "Science Fiction Humanism" A Contradiction In Terms?

  People talk about science fiction as the literature of humanism. But actually, science fiction's explorations put it into conflict with humanism's tenets. The best science fiction questions the nature of humanity,…

  March 10 2010, 9:54am | Comments

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• Metafilter MeFi: Some People Can't See Mental Images - The Consequences Are Profound Aphantasia - an interesting variant in human experience (New Yorker archive link) Nick knew that whenever Zeman talked about aphantasia he was at pains to emphasize that it was not a disorder, or even a bad thing... Some people he interviewed were unbothered—there…

  November 8 2025, 2:59pm | Comments

• Bookmark Lord Dunsany's chess variant is grim and kind of brilliant | Eurogamer.net

  I first read about Lord Dunsany - I am happy to report his full name was Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett - in a collection of Arthur C. Clarke's non-fiction.

  July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark The Horror of the World | Dr. Rinaldi's Horror Cabinet

  “What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds…

  July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Lord Dunsany's chess variant is grim and kind of brilliant | Eurogamer.net

  I first read about Lord Dunsany - I am happy to report his full name was Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett - in a collection of Arthur C. Clarke's non-fiction.

  July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Horror of the World | Dr. Rinaldi's Horror Cabinet

  “What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds…

  July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments

• YouTube

  May 16 2021, 10:00am | Comments

• Instagram Happy inauguration day

  January 20 2021, 9:55am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Race After Technology

  If you decide to teach either one of these books next academic yr, I’d be more than happy to Skype into the discussion.

  March 7 2019, 4:59pm | Comments

• Bookmark Even Transhumanist Elites Are Worried Only the Rich Will Be Able to…

  The story of Z was supposed to be about how biohacking had allowed her to become immortal. She lived in the year 2040, and by most measures her life was happy.…

  January 31 2016, 9:14am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 8 2016, 7:36pm | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Interview with Domenico Quaranta

  April 8 2015, 3:57am | Comments

• Bookmark The Data Sublime

  The sublime unknowability of Big Data lets us fall in love with our own domination. I have a memory from childhood, a happy memory — one of complete trust and comfort.…

  February 2 2015, 11:13am | 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

• GLTI.CH Karaoke How to join the DOOM GLTI.CH WAN Party

  January 23 2014, 6:30am | 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 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

• YouTube

  December 2 2013, 1:04pm | Comments

• YouTube

  October 31 2013, 12:45pm | 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

• Portfolio Datamoshing the Land of Ooo: An Interview with David OReilly

  April 25 2013, 5:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Datamoshing the Land of Ooo

  April 25 2013, 4:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Fallacy of Dumb Superintelligence

  This is what a New Yorker article has to say on the subject of “Moral Machines”: “An all-powerful computer that was programmed to maximize human pleasure, for example, might consign us…

  December 14 2012, 3:03am | Comments

• Tumblr Happy 25th Birthday to the GIF!

  June 15 2012, 7:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Borges: The Task of Art

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Tumblr Happy Valentine

  February 13 2012, 3:51pm | 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

• Bookmark The Dudleys

  THE DUDLEYS! takes the adolescent memories of a man and translates them into a malfunctioning 8-bit video game, the kind he used to play as a young adult. But instead of…

  July 28 2010, 3:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Should This Be the Last Generation?

  Have you ever thought about whether to have a child? If so, what factors entered into your decision? Was it whether having children would be good for you, your partner and…

  June 10 2010, 2:45am | Comments

• Hello Grandad By mapping smile clusters in a small region of Happy Space, one becomes aware of the finescale structure of the…

  May 10 2010, 10:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Could a Mini Horse Be Bred Small Enough to Fit in Your…

  The world’s smallest horse was born in late April on a farm in New Hampshire. Weighing in at 6 pounds at birth, Einstein appears to have beaten the previous record holder…

  May 4 2010, 2:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Is "Science Fiction Humanism" A Contradiction In Terms?

  People talk about science fiction as the literature of humanism. But actually, science fiction's explorations put it into conflict with humanism's tenets. The best science fiction questions the nature of humanity,…

  March 10 2010, 9:54am | Comments

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