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• Bookmark Second Life Still Has 600,000 Regular Users - The Atlantic

  Second Life was supposed to be the future of the internet, but then Facebook came along. Yet many people still spend hours each day inhabiting this virtual realm. Their stories—and the…

  November 26 2017, 10:30am | Comments

• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Goodbye, Turing Test; Bring on the Turing Decathlon - Facts So Romantic…

  How many researchers does it take to change a test of artificial intelligence? Sixty-five years ago, famed mathematician and WWII code-breaker Alan Turing unveiled the “Imitation Game,” a playful scenario designed to…

  February 10 2015, 4:11am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Turing Machines and (Gothic) Horror I am interested in any writings connecting (Universal) Turing Machines and horror. The idea of computers being able to imitate the behaviour of anything speaks to me of the monsters and doppelgängers from the Gothic tradition onwards. Know any writings on this? Alan…

  December 3 2014, 4:44am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 9:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 8:00am | Comments

• Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Modify/hack a Google Hangout "feature": Press to Talk I want to use a Google Hangout "On Air" for a project, but a tiny limitation is getting in the way. I would like to bypass the 'Press to Talk' functionality with a tiny browser script/hack/modification. My programming knowledge is tiny, but I…

  October 1 2013, 7:22am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthals smart enough to copy humans

  Fossils and artefacts pulled from the Grotte du Renne cave in central France present anthropologists with a Pleistocene puzzle. Strewn among the remains of prehistoric mammals are the bones of Neanderthals,…

  December 31 2012, 6:52am | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation

  In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a very…

  July 19 2012, 8:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, Part 1

  The fish pendant, on Dick’s account, began to emit a golden ray of light, and Dick suddenly experienced what he called, with a nod to Plato, anamnesis: the recollection or total…

  May 22 2012, 3:05am | Comments

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• Bookmark On Location with John Carpenter’s THE THING

  From the July 1982 issue of Omni. As with all the other commissioned pieces I wrote for the Arts section of that magazine, this originally ran without a title; I’ve also…

  June 20 2011, 5:20am | Comments

• Bookmark A Guide To Enjoying (And Making Your Own) GIF Art

  You can satisfy your low-brow GIF cravings on sites like 4chan or the countless GIF-glorifying Tumblrs like GIF Party and Fuck Yeah GIFs. A step above is the image-based chat site…

  May 19 2011, 11:50am | Comments

• Portfolio The Clock

  November 5 2010, 10:11am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Portfolio To crush a Morlock’s skull

  June 28 2010, 10:42am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  January 6 2010, 4:40am | Comments

• Portfolio Profane Prisms

  November 5 2009, 1:14pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  October 13 2009, 2:59pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

  October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Adorno on Mimesis in Aesthetic Theory

  Art is imitation only to the extent to which it is objective expression, far removed from psychology. There may have been a time long ago when this expressive quality of the…

  July 13 2009, 7:19am | Comments

• Bookmark What do Amnesia, Immortality, and Mind Control have to do with Game…

  What breaks your sense of presence in a story? The culture of video game playing has developed a tolerance for the common practices and limitations in designing and producing games. We’ve…

  July 11 2009, 6:53am | Comments

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

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

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

  April 18 2008, 4:22am | Comments

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• Bookmark Second Life Still Has 600,000 Regular Users - The Atlantic

  Second Life was supposed to be the future of the internet, but then Facebook came along. Yet many people still spend hours each day inhabiting this virtual realm. Their stories—and the…

  November 26 2017, 10:30am | Comments

• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Goodbye, Turing Test; Bring on the Turing Decathlon - Facts So Romantic…

  How many researchers does it take to change a test of artificial intelligence? Sixty-five years ago, famed mathematician and WWII code-breaker Alan Turing unveiled the “Imitation Game,” a playful scenario designed to…

  February 10 2015, 4:11am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Turing Machines and (Gothic) Horror I am interested in any writings connecting (Universal) Turing Machines and horror. The idea of computers being able to imitate the behaviour of anything speaks to me of the monsters and doppelgängers from the Gothic tradition onwards. Know any writings on this? Alan…

  December 3 2014, 4:44am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 9:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 8:00am | Comments

• Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Modify/hack a Google Hangout "feature": Press to Talk I want to use a Google Hangout "On Air" for a project, but a tiny limitation is getting in the way. I would like to bypass the 'Press to Talk' functionality with a tiny browser script/hack/modification. My programming knowledge is tiny, but I…

  October 1 2013, 7:22am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthals smart enough to copy humans

  Fossils and artefacts pulled from the Grotte du Renne cave in central France present anthropologists with a Pleistocene puzzle. Strewn among the remains of prehistoric mammals are the bones of Neanderthals,…

  December 31 2012, 6:52am | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation

  In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a very…

  July 19 2012, 8:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, Part 1

  The fish pendant, on Dick’s account, began to emit a golden ray of light, and Dick suddenly experienced what he called, with a nod to Plato, anamnesis: the recollection or total…

  May 22 2012, 3:05am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 1 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark On Location with John Carpenter’s THE THING

  From the July 1982 issue of Omni. As with all the other commissioned pieces I wrote for the Arts section of that magazine, this originally ran without a title; I’ve also…

  June 20 2011, 5:20am | Comments

• Bookmark A Guide To Enjoying (And Making Your Own) GIF Art

  You can satisfy your low-brow GIF cravings on sites like 4chan or the countless GIF-glorifying Tumblrs like GIF Party and Fuck Yeah GIFs. A step above is the image-based chat site…

  May 19 2011, 11:50am | Comments

• Portfolio The Clock

  November 5 2010, 10:11am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Portfolio To crush a Morlock’s skull

  June 28 2010, 10:42am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  January 6 2010, 4:40am | Comments

• Portfolio Profane Prisms

  November 5 2009, 1:14pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  October 13 2009, 2:59pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

  October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Adorno on Mimesis in Aesthetic Theory

  Art is imitation only to the extent to which it is objective expression, far removed from psychology. There may have been a time long ago when this expressive quality of the…

  July 13 2009, 7:19am | Comments

• Bookmark What do Amnesia, Immortality, and Mind Control have to do with Game…

  What breaks your sense of presence in a story? The culture of video game playing has developed a tolerance for the common practices and limitations in designing and producing games. We’ve…

  July 11 2009, 6:53am | Comments

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

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

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

  April 18 2008, 4:22am | Comments

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