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• 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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  The Enlightenment, Naturalism, And The Secularization Of Values

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

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  Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature

  March 9 2012, 4:34am | Comments

• Bookmark The God wars

  Atheism is just one-third of this exotic ideological cocktail. Secularism, the political wing of the movement, is another third. Neo-atheists often assume that the two are the same thing; in fact,…

  March 7 2012, 2:42pm | Comments

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  The Exegesis of Philip K Dick with Erik Davis

  March 3 2012, 12:05pm | Comments

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  How We Won the Hominid Wars, and All the Others Died Out

  February 25 2012, 9:35am | Comments

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  In the very near future the act of remembering will become a choice.

  February 18 2012, 6:21am | Comments

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  How did we forget about mutually assured destruction?

  February 15 2012, 5:51am | Comments

• Bookmark The Clock: What time is it where?

  Marclay assembled his edit in hour-long chunks, the 24-hour cycle giving him enormous scope, but also confining him to a minute-by-minute grid. “A 10.01 clip has to be within that minute,…

  February 9 2012, 3:57am | Comments

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  Freud: The last great Enlightenment thinker

  January 22 2012, 11:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Kids, unlike adults, think technology is fundamentally human

  With children so easy to embrace robotics, it’s clear that there’s a ton of potential for integrating intelligent technologies into learning environments. Besides, the idea of “exploring and creating” sounds a…

  January 19 2012, 2:13am | Comments

• Bookmark It’s Only Humanist

  To me it tastes like a desire to locate man’s place in a world that he perceives primarily with the aid of machines. The art of the Greeks has been used…

  January 4 2012, 9:16am | Comments

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  All Language Is Murder

  December 14 2011, 2:50am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

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  It Does Take a Village

  December 1 2011, 3:37am | Comments

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  'We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to' - Features - Books - The Independent

  November 27 2011, 3:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark Neuroscience Challenges Old Ideas about Free Will: "Human knowledge can’t help itself…

  Do we have free will? It is an age-old question which has attracted the attention of philosophers, theologians, lawyers and political theorists. Now it is attracting the attention of neuroscience, explains…

  November 23 2011, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthal Neuroscience

  As scientists began to build a database of human DNA in the 1990s, it became possible to test these ideas with genes. In his talk, Paabo described how he and his…

  November 21 2011, 2:09am | Comments

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  October 31 2011, 6:42am | Comments

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  Atheists, theists, and gnostics, oh my!

  October 24 2011, 4:36pm | Comments

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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 “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 The Artist is Present (a video game about waiting in line at…

  Writing articles about video games is so much fun that we often have to stop, wipe the manic grins off our faces and find something really boring to do. Sometimes we…

  September 19 2011, 1:39am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Innovative websites as template for MFA research community I'm looking for examples of websites that have successfully enhanced a research community (academic or artistic) with a dynamic online/social/mutual-portfolio presence. Blog and social media based hubs, perhaps, that showcase the possibilities of web portfolio/research integration for academic and creative purposes. I've been…

  September 16 2011, 7:26am | Comments

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  The Elusive Big Idea - NYTimes.com

  September 6 2011, 4:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Death Is Not the End (Long Live theory!)

  Was theory a gigantic hoax? On the contrary. It was the only salvation, for a twenty year period, from two colossal abdications by American thinkers and writers. From about 1975 to…

  August 18 2011, 1:48am | Comments

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  Opinion: Design as law - Edge Magazine

  August 15 2011, 7:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Digital tendencies

  From 1961 to 1973, a loosely organized group of artists and scientists coalesced around the radical idea that the emerging technology of the computer could be used to make a different…

  August 12 2011, 4:59am | 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 How Computational Complexity Will Revolutionise Philosophy

  August 10 2011, 5:31am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

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• 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

  The Enlightenment, Naturalism, And The Secularization Of Values

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature

  March 9 2012, 4:34am | Comments

• Bookmark The God wars

  Atheism is just one-third of this exotic ideological cocktail. Secularism, the political wing of the movement, is another third. Neo-atheists often assume that the two are the same thing; in fact,…

  March 7 2012, 2:42pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Exegesis of Philip K Dick with Erik Davis

  March 3 2012, 12:05pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How We Won the Hominid Wars, and All the Others Died Out

  February 25 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  In the very near future the act of remembering will become a choice.

  February 18 2012, 6:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How did we forget about mutually assured destruction?

  February 15 2012, 5:51am | Comments

• Bookmark The Clock: What time is it where?

  Marclay assembled his edit in hour-long chunks, the 24-hour cycle giving him enormous scope, but also confining him to a minute-by-minute grid. “A 10.01 clip has to be within that minute,…

  February 9 2012, 3:57am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Freud: The last great Enlightenment thinker

  January 22 2012, 11:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Kids, unlike adults, think technology is fundamentally human

  With children so easy to embrace robotics, it’s clear that there’s a ton of potential for integrating intelligent technologies into learning environments. Besides, the idea of “exploring and creating” sounds a…

  January 19 2012, 2:13am | Comments

• Bookmark It’s Only Humanist

  To me it tastes like a desire to locate man’s place in a world that he perceives primarily with the aid of machines. The art of the Greeks has been used…

  January 4 2012, 9:16am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  All Language Is Murder

  December 14 2011, 2:50am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  It Does Take a Village

  December 1 2011, 3:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  'We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to' - Features - Books - The Independent

  November 27 2011, 3:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark Neuroscience Challenges Old Ideas about Free Will: "Human knowledge can’t help itself…

  Do we have free will? It is an age-old question which has attracted the attention of philosophers, theologians, lawyers and political theorists. Now it is attracting the attention of neuroscience, explains…

  November 23 2011, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthal Neuroscience

  As scientists began to build a database of human DNA in the 1990s, it became possible to test these ideas with genes. In his talk, Paabo described how he and his…

  November 21 2011, 2:09am | Comments

• Tumblr Electrical Model illustrating a Mind having a Will but capable...

  October 31 2011, 6:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Atheists, theists, and gnostics, oh my!

  October 24 2011, 4:36pm | Comments

• Twitter

  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 “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 The Artist is Present (a video game about waiting in line at…

  Writing articles about video games is so much fun that we often have to stop, wipe the manic grins off our faces and find something really boring to do. Sometimes we…

  September 19 2011, 1:39am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Innovative websites as template for MFA research community I'm looking for examples of websites that have successfully enhanced a research community (academic or artistic) with a dynamic online/social/mutual-portfolio presence. Blog and social media based hubs, perhaps, that showcase the possibilities of web portfolio/research integration for academic and creative purposes. I've been…

  September 16 2011, 7:26am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Elusive Big Idea - NYTimes.com

  September 6 2011, 4:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Death Is Not the End (Long Live theory!)

  Was theory a gigantic hoax? On the contrary. It was the only salvation, for a twenty year period, from two colossal abdications by American thinkers and writers. From about 1975 to…

  August 18 2011, 1:48am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Opinion: Design as law - Edge Magazine

  August 15 2011, 7:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Digital tendencies

  From 1961 to 1973, a loosely organized group of artists and scientists coalesced around the radical idea that the emerging technology of the computer could be used to make a different…

  August 12 2011, 4:59am | 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 How Computational Complexity Will Revolutionise Philosophy

  August 10 2011, 5:31am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

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