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  I think I am very close to concluding that this whole “New Atheism” movement is only a passing fad—not the cultural watershed its purveyors imagine it to be, but simply one…

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  Chris Bohn is the editor of London-based monthly music magazine The Wire. Subtitled “Adventures in Modern Music”, the magazine has covered the alternative, the underground, the experimental, the avant-garde and the…

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  The most familiar ideas of geometry were inspired by an ancient vision — a vision of the world as flat. From parallel lines that never meet, to the Pythagorean theorem discussed…

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  By drawing a diagram, a ground plan of a house, a street plan to the location of a site, or a topographic map, one draws a "logical two dimensional picture." A…

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  If Neanderthals ever walk the earth again, the primordial ooze from which they will rise is an emulsion of oil, water, and DNA capture beads engineered in the laboratory of 454…

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• Bookmark Open-Source A Movement in Search of a Philosophy

  by Manuel DeLanda The plan of the essay is as follows. I will begin with a few definitions of technical terms ("source code", "compiler", "operating system") which are necessary to follow…

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

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  Disturbing experiences that feel both familiar and strange are instances of the “uncanny,” an intuitive concept, yet one that has defied simple explanation for more than a century. Interest in the…

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

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• Ask Metafilter Innovative Book Designs Innovative Books: I am looking to compile a list of the most innovative uses of the book format. Books that break the mould in their layout and design, perhaps books that use online systems to extend their content value or push their form…

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• Bookmark On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces

  We often think of scientific ideas, such as Darwin's theory of evolution, as fixed notions that are accepted as finished. In fact, Darwin's On the Origin of Species evolved over the…

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  Drawing on philosophy and linguistics, cognitive scientists have begun to see the basic metaphors that we use all the time not just as turns of phrase, but as keys to the…

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• Bookmark How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live

  Earlier this year I attended a daylong conference in Manhattan devoted to education reform. Called Hacking Education, it was a small, private affair: 40-odd educators, entrepreneurs, scholars, philanthropists and venture capitalists,…

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• Bookmark Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss

  It Felt Like a Kiss started life as an experimental film I made for the BBC last year. My aim was to try and find a more involving and emotional way…

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  It’s hard to exaggerate just how widely Darwin’s ideas on natural selection and the evolution of human kind traveled in the cultural milieu of his day, even in the age of…

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• Flickr Schwitters, Kurt (1887-1948) - 1942-43 Collage

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• Bibliography The Open Work

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• Ask Metafilter Desire Paths/Lines: the original translation and related concepts/terms Desire Paths / Lines: a term apparently coined by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space. What was the original French he used? and are there any other terms for the act and outcome of paths that emerge through routine, reflexion and the…

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

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• Bookmark Immaterial Labour in the Digital Economy | Eleni Ikoniadou

  The Internet, arguably the most influential digital medium, has sparked an explosion of debate throughout recent years, regarding its economic, political and social status; a space where its structure is constantly…

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• Ask Metafilter New theories of Mimesis (in digital/hypertextual/ hypermedial cultures) I am looking for writings on mimesis in regards new, digital, hypertext and hypermedial technologies and cultures. I am following the redefinition of mimesis. From Plato's disregard of oral culture, through his mimesis of Socrates' dialogues in writing. Following Plato, Aristotle's theory was…

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• Wikipedia List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia This list of common misconceptions details various ideas described as widely held by the general populace, but which are fallacious or flawed. (This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.)

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• Spacecollective.org hypertext/?="The Metaphor is the Message"

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• Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

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• Bookmark Believe it or Not

  I think I am very close to concluding that this whole “New Atheism” movement is only a passing fad—not the cultural watershed its purveyors imagine it to be, but simply one…

  May 16 2010, 4:19pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ignoring the mainstream, spreading enthusiasm for difficult music and sustaining sonic subcultures:…

  Chris Bohn is the editor of London-based monthly music magazine The Wire. Subtitled “Adventures in Modern Music”, the magazine has covered the alternative, the underground, the experimental, the avant-garde and the…

  March 29 2010, 8:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Think Globally

  The most familiar ideas of geometry were inspired by an ancient vision — a vision of the world as flat. From parallel lines that never meet, to the Pythagorean theorem discussed…

  March 26 2010, 5:54am | Comments

• Bookmark A Provisional Theory of Non-Sites: Robert Smithson

  By drawing a diagram, a ground plan of a house, a street plan to the location of a site, or a topographic map, one draws a "logical two dimensional picture." A…

  March 7 2010, 3:53pm | Comments

• Bookmark Should We Clone Neanderthals?

  If Neanderthals ever walk the earth again, the primordial ooze from which they will rise is an emulsion of oil, water, and DNA capture beads engineered in the laboratory of 454…

  March 1 2010, 3:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Open-Source A Movement in Search of a Philosophy

  by Manuel DeLanda The plan of the essay is as follows. I will begin with a few definitions of technical terms ("source code", "compiler", "operating system") which are necessary to follow…

  February 19 2010, 6:37am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Into the Uncanny Valley

  Disturbing experiences that feel both familiar and strange are instances of the “uncanny,” an intuitive concept, yet one that has defied simple explanation for more than a century. Interest in the…

  December 7 2009, 5:08pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Innovative Book Designs Innovative Books: I am looking to compile a list of the most innovative uses of the book format. Books that break the mould in their layout and design, perhaps books that use online systems to extend their content value or push their form…

  November 1 2009, 4:37am | Comments

• Bookmark On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces

  We often think of scientific ideas, such as Darwin's theory of evolution, as fixed notions that are accepted as finished. In fact, Darwin's On the Origin of Species evolved over the…

  October 12 2009, 9:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Thinking literally

  Drawing on philosophy and linguistics, cognitive scientists have begun to see the basic metaphors that we use all the time not just as turns of phrase, but as keys to the…

  September 28 2009, 8:59am | Comments

• Bookmark How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live

  Earlier this year I attended a daylong conference in Manhattan devoted to education reform. Called Hacking Education, it was a small, private affair: 40-odd educators, entrepreneurs, scholars, philanthropists and venture capitalists,…

  August 8 2009, 4:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss

  It Felt Like a Kiss started life as an experimental film I made for the BBC last year. My aim was to try and find a more involving and emotional way…

  June 20 2009, 5:39am | Comments

• Bookmark The extent of Darwin’s impact on 19th-century artists

  It’s hard to exaggerate just how widely Darwin’s ideas on natural selection and the evolution of human kind traveled in the cultural milieu of his day, even in the age of…

  June 11 2009, 2:49am | Comments

• Flickr Schwitters, Kurt (1887-1948) - 1942-43 Collage

  June 10 2009, 6:55pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Open Work

  June 8 2009, 1:40am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Desire Paths/Lines: the original translation and related concepts/terms Desire Paths / Lines: a term apparently coined by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space. What was the original French he used? and are there any other terms for the act and outcome of paths that emerge through routine, reflexion and the…

  May 25 2009, 11:37am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Immaterial Labour in the Digital Economy | Eleni Ikoniadou

  The Internet, arguably the most influential digital medium, has sparked an explosion of debate throughout recent years, regarding its economic, political and social status; a space where its structure is constantly…

  March 13 2009, 5:45am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter New theories of Mimesis (in digital/hypertextual/ hypermedial cultures) I am looking for writings on mimesis in regards new, digital, hypertext and hypermedial technologies and cultures. I am following the redefinition of mimesis. From Plato's disregard of oral culture, through his mimesis of Socrates' dialogues in writing. Following Plato, Aristotle's theory was…

  February 16 2009, 7:09am | Comments

• Wikipedia List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia This list of common misconceptions details various ideas described as widely held by the general populace, but which are fallacious or flawed. (This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.)

  December 16 2008, 8:52am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org hypertext/?="The Metaphor is the Message"

  April 18 2008, 4:22am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

  March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments

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