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  Revolutions are often thought of in terms of conflict and disorder, but they just as often come on waves of peaceful obsolescence. The old way of doing things is allowed to…

  May 17 2012, 3:32am | Comments

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  Sexual objectification has been well studied, but most of the research is about looking at the effects of this objectification. "What's unclear is, we don't actually know whether people at a…

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• Bookmark The Arrow of Time (Debategraph)

  The debate about the nature of time and its passage is a long and venerable one. The issues addressed by pre-Socratic philosophers such as Heraclitus and Parmenides about whether time 'flows'…

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• Bookmark Children of Hoarders on Leaving the Cluttered Nest

  In dealing with her mother’s home in Minneapolis, Ms. Sholl has spent much of her life alternating between feeling shame about its squalid condition and attempting to rid it of the…

  May 4 2012, 3:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Jonathan Lethem on our rapidly dematerializing culture

  The Ecstasy of Influence, now the title of his recent collection of writings, often addresses the process of integrating and "cobbling together" ideas and culture to make something new. Yet, stories…

  April 26 2012, 12:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ian Bogost - Aliens, but definitely not as we know them

  IF WE really want to understand the nature of the universe, then we must accept two principles. First, everything is an alien to everything else. And second, the experience of "being"…

  April 25 2012, 4:41pm | Comments

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  Just how big are porn sites?

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  Buying the Body of Christ

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  Next What?

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  Digging in the Gates: The Digital Socratic Shift

  April 3 2012, 12:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Image in Mind: Theism, Naturalism, and the Imagination

  Written jointly by philosopher of religion Charles Taliaferro and visual artist Jil Evans, The Image in Mind takes up a suggestion of Suzanne Langer that religious thought operates primarily with images…

  April 2 2012, 2:34pm | Comments

• Bookmark John Gray on Critiques of Utopia and Apocalypse

  There are those who say that utopian projects, while they can never be achieved, are valuable because they spur human advance. That’s not my view. My view is that the attempt…

  March 28 2012, 1:43am | Comments

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  Oldest Alien Planets Found—Born at Dawn of Universe

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• Bookmark Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s “The Thing” and You

  This monster’s talent for mimicry provokes some of the darkest questions. By foregrounding this capability and coupling it with our inability to discern mimics from the remaining men, The Thing focuses…

  March 26 2012, 3:37am | Comments

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  Does It Matter Whether God Exists?

  March 23 2012, 1:51am | Comments

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  The Enlightenment, Naturalism, And The Secularization Of Values

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  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

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  When independent thought flourishes

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  Crazy Friend by Jonathan Lethem

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  Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?

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  Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

  March 9 2012, 2:48am | Comments

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  The Democracy of Objects

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  When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

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  Philip K. Dick : To the best of our KNOWLEDGE

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  The Exegesis of Philip K Dick with Erik Davis

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  The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician

  February 22 2012, 4:21pm | Comments

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  Games within videogames: Hoarding

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  E-books Can't Burn

  February 16 2012, 3:50pm | Comments

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• Bookmark A Conversation with film-maker Adam Curtis

  Since the early 1990s Adam Curtis has made a number of serial documentaries and films for the BBC using a playful mix of journalistic reportage and a wide range of avant-garde…

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• Bookmark "Videogames are the experience of being ruled"

  Revolutions are often thought of in terms of conflict and disorder, but they just as often come on waves of peaceful obsolescence. The old way of doing things is allowed to…

  May 17 2012, 3:32am | Comments

• Bookmark People see sexy pictures of women as objects, not people

  Sexual objectification has been well studied, but most of the research is about looking at the effects of this objectification. "What's unclear is, we don't actually know whether people at a…

  May 17 2012, 3:28am | Comments

• Bookmark The Arrow of Time (Debategraph)

  The debate about the nature of time and its passage is a long and venerable one. The issues addressed by pre-Socratic philosophers such as Heraclitus and Parmenides about whether time 'flows'…

  May 11 2012, 8:12am | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 11 2012, 4:11am | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 8 2012, 2:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark Children of Hoarders on Leaving the Cluttered Nest

  In dealing with her mother’s home in Minneapolis, Ms. Sholl has spent much of her life alternating between feeling shame about its squalid condition and attempting to rid it of the…

  May 4 2012, 3:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Jonathan Lethem on our rapidly dematerializing culture

  The Ecstasy of Influence, now the title of his recent collection of writings, often addresses the process of integrating and "cobbling together" ideas and culture to make something new. Yet, stories…

  April 26 2012, 12:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ian Bogost - Aliens, but definitely not as we know them

  IF WE really want to understand the nature of the universe, then we must accept two principles. First, everything is an alien to everything else. And second, the experience of "being"…

  April 25 2012, 4:41pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Just how big are porn sites?

  April 10 2012, 8:06am | Comments

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  Buying the Body of Christ

  April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Next What?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Digging in the Gates: The Digital Socratic Shift

  April 3 2012, 12:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Image in Mind: Theism, Naturalism, and the Imagination

  Written jointly by philosopher of religion Charles Taliaferro and visual artist Jil Evans, The Image in Mind takes up a suggestion of Suzanne Langer that religious thought operates primarily with images…

  April 2 2012, 2:34pm | Comments

• Bookmark John Gray on Critiques of Utopia and Apocalypse

  There are those who say that utopian projects, while they can never be achieved, are valuable because they spur human advance. That’s not my view. My view is that the attempt…

  March 28 2012, 1:43am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Oldest Alien Planets Found—Born at Dawn of Universe

  March 27 2012, 2:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s “The Thing” and You

  This monster’s talent for mimicry provokes some of the darkest questions. By foregrounding this capability and coupling it with our inability to discern mimics from the remaining men, The Thing focuses…

  March 26 2012, 3:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Does It Matter Whether God Exists?

  March 23 2012, 1:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Enlightenment, Naturalism, And The Secularization Of Values

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  When independent thought flourishes

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Crazy Friend by Jonathan Lethem

  March 12 2012, 12:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?

  March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

  March 9 2012, 2:48am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Democracy of Objects

  March 5 2012, 3:44pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Exegete

  When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

  March 4 2012, 5:22am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Philip K. Dick : To the best of our KNOWLEDGE

  March 4 2012, 1:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Exegesis of Philip K Dick with Erik Davis

  March 3 2012, 12:05pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician

  February 22 2012, 4:21pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Games within videogames: Hoarding

  February 20 2012, 7:05am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  E-books Can't Burn

  February 16 2012, 3:50pm | Comments

• YouTube

  February 14 2012, 5:24am | Comments

• Bookmark A Conversation with film-maker Adam Curtis

  Since the early 1990s Adam Curtis has made a number of serial documentaries and films for the BBC using a playful mix of journalistic reportage and a wide range of avant-garde…

  February 12 2012, 4:36am | Comments

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