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John Gray: "Science may be the cumulative elimination of error, but the human fondness for toxic ideas is remarkably constant."

October 6 2011, 5:23am | Comments
Bookmark Being Human (Blame it on Andy)
Being human offers homo sapiens variety, or some elasticity, in social life, though sociologists claim that people’s personalities disappear with no one else around. Imagining this evacuation, I see a person…

September 29 2011, 3:55am | Comments
Bookmark “Seriality for All”: The Role of Protocols and Standards in Critical Theory
For many years, philosophers have been casting doubt on the common identification with meaning and signification as the primary human response mechanisms to the world. If we wish to understand anything…

September 24 2011, 4:36pm | Comments
Bookmark The ancient cloud
The crowd-sourced, wikinomic cloud is the new, new thing that all management consultants are now telling their clients to embrace. Yet the cloud is not a new thing at all. It…

September 24 2011, 8:50am | Comments
Bookmark How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical Artifact"?
The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful to…

September 20 2011, 10:26am | Comments
Bookmark Can religion tell us more than science?
In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and against…

September 20 2011, 3:12am | Comments
Bookmark Steven Pinker on the History and decline (and myth of) Violence
Some of the evidence has been under our nose all along. Conventional history has long shown that, in many ways, we have been getting kinder and gentler. Cruelty as entertainment, human…

September 20 2011, 3:05am | Comments
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September 19 2011, 4:21am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put…
“What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or…

September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments
Bookmark The Battle Over Zomia
Over the past two millennia, "runaway" communities have put the "friction of terrain" between themselves and the people who remained in the lowlands, he writes. The highland groups adopted a swidden…

September 5 2011, 5:20am | Comments
Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments
Bookmark Ancient DNA reveals secrets of human history
By comparing individual DNA letters in multiple modern human genomes with those in the Neanderthal genome, the date of that interbreeding has now been pinned down to 65,000–90,000 years ago. Montgomery…

August 15 2011, 2:45am | Comments
Bookmark Humanism / After Humanism
n this essay, I want to explore some dimensions of what the term “humanism” means—what it meant in the past and what it means today. In particular, I would like to…

August 11 2011, 11:30am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community
“The novelty of the coming politics is that it will no longer be a struggle for the conquest or control of the State, but a struggle between the State and the non-state (humanity), an insurmountable disjunction between whatever singularity and the State organization.” -…

August 9 2011, 4:27pm | Comments
Bookmark Traces of humanity
What aliens could learn from the stuff we’ve left in space Even in space, where none of us live, some of what we’ve left is space junk: stuff orbiting the earth…

August 7 2011, 3:32pm | Comments
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A Trick of the Mind - Reason Magazine

August 6 2011, 5:02am | Comments
Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments
Bookmark What's human? What's animal? And what of the biology in between?
Friday's report by the Academy of Medical Sciences on the increasingly fuzzy boundaries between the human and the animal is the latest in a long series of policy reflections on how…

July 25 2011, 3:20pm | Comments
Bookmark Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to be a Religion
How do you make a videogame that, in some sense, is a religion, especially if you’re an atheist? Rohrer began by defining the sort of spiritual practice that interested him, which…

July 24 2011, 4:03am | Comments
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July 22 2011, 1:47am | Comments
Bookmark Regulations proposed for animal–human chimaeras
The increasingly sophisticated blending of different species to create chimaeras is pushing biology into a new ethical dimension. Last year, scientists used new stem-cell technologies to create a mouse with a…

July 22 2011, 1:30am | Comments
Bookmark The Neolithic Age is over!
Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance, the…

July 12 2011, 1:36am | Comments
Bookmark The Pathology of Collecting
What I’ve learned, the hard way, is that the one thing you must never ask a collector is “why?” It’ll get you nowhere. They’ll just stare at you in baffled amazement…

July 11 2011, 4:54am | Comments
Bookmark Michel Serres on the word 'human'
Son of a barge man, Michel Serres joined the Ecole Navale in 1949 and the Ecole Normale supérieure in 1952 where he obtained the aggregation of philosophy in 1955. From 1956…

July 6 2011, 3:15pm | 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 Why we must remember to delete - and forget - in the…
In Delete, Mayer-Schönberger traces the history of such external memories – cave paintings, scrolls, photographic slides, diaries – and their importance to the flourishing of human knowledge. "Since the early days…

July 1 2011, 3:46am | Comments
Wikipedia Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth Risks to civilization, humans, and planet Earth are existential risks that could threaten humankind as a whole, have adverse consequences for the course of human civilization, or even cause the end of planet Earth.[1] The concept is expressed in various phrases such as…

June 26 2011, 11:00am | Comments
Bookmark Being human
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June 25 2011, 8:55am | Comments
Bookmark Perfection Is Not A Useful Concept
Interview with Nick Bostrom Our long track record of survival–humans have been around for about 100,000 years–gives us some assurance that the natural risks have been rather small. If they have…

June 20 2011, 9:21am | Comments
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June 17 2011, 4:33am | 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 The Origin of Our Species
"If there has been no spiritual change of kind / Within our species since Cro-Magnon Man . . ." The poet Louis MacNeice was voicing a commonplace that was accepted by…

June 16 2011, 4:18pm | Comments

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