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  June 6 2012, 10:31am | Comments

• Bookmark The Case for Computers at Top Chess Tournaments

  Grandmasters of comparable skill now come to championship games with computer-generated analysis of their opponents’ opening lines and likely moves. Home preparation has always been important, but computers have made it…

  June 6 2012, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Energizing Futures: How SciFi Fuels Itself

  Virtual worlds. Terraforming complexes. Star-spanning generation ships. Science fiction is chock-full of massive technological artifacts born of humankind's desire to create, to explore. What do they all have in common? They…

  June 2 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Bibliography Limited Inc by Jacques Derrida

  May 29 2012, 7:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthals Getting a Colourful Upgrade

  A chorus of smart, modern minds is rising over the hills of anthropology that the ancient Neanderthals of Europe weren't anywhere nearly as dumb, insufferable and unrecognizable as everyone thought all…

  May 23 2012, 9:44am | Comments

• Bookmark We must set planetary boundaries wisely

  As pressure on resources increases, pollution accumulates and humanity's impact on Earth escalates, global-scale governance of the environment is increasingly necessary. In June, the United Nations' Rio+20 Earth Summit in Rio…

  May 23 2012, 9:39am | Comments

• Bookmark A Thomasson is any kind of "useless and defunct object attached to…

  ...according to Akasegawa's definition. A publisher's blurb states that this includes the "doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete... thing sprouting…

  May 23 2012, 12:36am | 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

• Bookmark Methods for Studying Coincidences

  With a large enough sample, any outrageous thing is likely to happen. The point is that truly rare events, say events that occur only once in a million [as the mathematician…

  May 21 2012, 10:44am | Comments

• Bookmark At ROFLCon, watching memes go mainstream

  What is ROFLCon? It's a biennial convention (this year was its third) held to celebrate and discuss internet memes and the celebrity that is often created alongside them. This year's invited…

  May 8 2012, 2:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Web Browser As Aesthetic Framework: Why Digital Art Today Looks Different

  Collective cultural memory is the foundation on which the significance of a creative practice stands. As summarized in Emerson Rosenthal’s post for #DIGART week, online collections and exhibition spaces have been…

  May 8 2012, 2:14pm | Comments

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  May 8 2012, 2:09pm | 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

• Tumblr (Quote) "The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is..."

  “The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is entirely external; it results from manufacture; I know what the object I have made is; I can make another one like it, but I would not be…

  April 25 2012, 4:24pm | Comments

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  THEORY BEYOND THE CODES: Doing with Icons makes Symbols; or, Jailbreaking the Perfect User Interface

  April 18 2012, 12:29am | Comments

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  April 14 2012, 6:01pm | Comments

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  Tumblr ❤ GIFs

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

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  An Essay on the New Aesthetic

  April 5 2012, 3:02am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter What is the Folk Web? I'm looking for 'Folk' Web Cultures. I am thinking of the recent take-down of Geocities, which seemed to refresh people's love of the naff, kitsch aesthetic it was famous for, as a prime example. What are some other folk cultures still lingering in…

  April 4 2012, 6:41am | Comments

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  Next What?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

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  Should we clone Neanderthals?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

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  Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark A universe without purpose

  The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. Everywhere we look, it appears that the world…

  April 2 2012, 2:38pm | 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

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  April 1 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

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  Atheists as "Other": Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership - http://t.co/ePMMKhgW #PDF via @3qd

  March 30 2012, 7:00am | Comments

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  Marx at 193

  March 29 2012, 3:17pm | 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

• 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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  March 21 2012, 9:51am | Comments

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  Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'

  March 21 2012, 9:35am | Comments

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  The Enlightenment, Naturalism, And The Secularization Of Values

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

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• YouTube

  June 6 2012, 10:31am | Comments

• Bookmark The Case for Computers at Top Chess Tournaments

  Grandmasters of comparable skill now come to championship games with computer-generated analysis of their opponents’ opening lines and likely moves. Home preparation has always been important, but computers have made it…

  June 6 2012, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Energizing Futures: How SciFi Fuels Itself

  Virtual worlds. Terraforming complexes. Star-spanning generation ships. Science fiction is chock-full of massive technological artifacts born of humankind's desire to create, to explore. What do they all have in common? They…

  June 2 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Bibliography Limited Inc by Jacques Derrida

  May 29 2012, 7:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthals Getting a Colourful Upgrade

  A chorus of smart, modern minds is rising over the hills of anthropology that the ancient Neanderthals of Europe weren't anywhere nearly as dumb, insufferable and unrecognizable as everyone thought all…

  May 23 2012, 9:44am | Comments

• Bookmark We must set planetary boundaries wisely

  As pressure on resources increases, pollution accumulates and humanity's impact on Earth escalates, global-scale governance of the environment is increasingly necessary. In June, the United Nations' Rio+20 Earth Summit in Rio…

  May 23 2012, 9:39am | Comments

• Bookmark A Thomasson is any kind of "useless and defunct object attached to…

  ...according to Akasegawa's definition. A publisher's blurb states that this includes the "doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete... thing sprouting…

  May 23 2012, 12:36am | 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

• Bookmark Methods for Studying Coincidences

  With a large enough sample, any outrageous thing is likely to happen. The point is that truly rare events, say events that occur only once in a million [as the mathematician…

  May 21 2012, 10:44am | Comments

• Bookmark At ROFLCon, watching memes go mainstream

  What is ROFLCon? It's a biennial convention (this year was its third) held to celebrate and discuss internet memes and the celebrity that is often created alongside them. This year's invited…

  May 8 2012, 2:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Web Browser As Aesthetic Framework: Why Digital Art Today Looks Different

  Collective cultural memory is the foundation on which the significance of a creative practice stands. As summarized in Emerson Rosenthal’s post for #DIGART week, online collections and exhibition spaces have been…

  May 8 2012, 2:14pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 8 2012, 2:09pm | 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

• Tumblr (Quote) "The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is..."

  “The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is entirely external; it results from manufacture; I know what the object I have made is; I can make another one like it, but I would not be…

  April 25 2012, 4:24pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  THEORY BEYOND THE CODES: Doing with Icons makes Symbols; or, Jailbreaking the Perfect User Interface

  April 18 2012, 12:29am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 14 2012, 6:01pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tumblr ❤ GIFs

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  An Essay on the New Aesthetic

  April 5 2012, 3:02am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter What is the Folk Web? I'm looking for 'Folk' Web Cultures. I am thinking of the recent take-down of Geocities, which seemed to refresh people's love of the naff, kitsch aesthetic it was famous for, as a prime example. What are some other folk cultures still lingering in…

  April 4 2012, 6:41am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Next What?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Should we clone Neanderthals?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark A universe without purpose

  The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. Everywhere we look, it appears that the world…

  April 2 2012, 2:38pm | 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

• Vimeo

  April 1 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Atheists as "Other": Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership - http://t.co/ePMMKhgW #PDF via @3qd

  March 30 2012, 7:00am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Marx at 193

  March 29 2012, 3:17pm | 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

• 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

• YouTube

  March 21 2012, 9:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'

  March 21 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Enlightenment, Naturalism, And The Secularization Of Values

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

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