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Ask Metafilter A taxonomy of GAMES / game types? Types of Games: I have come across various attempts to catalogue the possible varieties of stories that exist. The basic assumption being that all plots (narratives?) can be be boiled down to one among only a few types e.g. Hero leaves the kingdom;…

March 10 2010, 8:39am | Comments
Bookmark Symphony in J flat
What prevents Bohlen-Pierce from becoming unpleasant, dissonant noise is the fact that is not merely an avant-garde musician taking a hacksaw to our current musical system for sheer destructive glee. In…

March 9 2010, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Chtodelat? / What is to be done?
Chto delat? / What is to be done? was founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod (see…

March 9 2010, 10:10am | Comments
Bookmark Your Reality is out of Date
These slow-changing facts are what I term “mesofacts.” Mesofacts are the facts that change neither too quickly nor too slowly, that lie in this difficult-to-comprehend middle, or meso-, scale. Often, we…

March 5 2010, 5:14am | Comments
Bookmark Human Culture Plays a Role in Natural Selection
As with any other species, human populations are shaped by the usual forces of natural selection, like famine, disease or climate. A new force is now coming into focus. It is…

March 2 2010, 4:38pm | Comments
Bookmark Incredible Journeys
Some animals can instinctively solve navigational problems that have baffled humans for centuries. Now, researchers are uncovering how. The nervous system of the desert ant Cataglyphis fortis, with around 100,000 neurons,…

March 1 2010, 9:17am | 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
Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

February 2 2010, 6:35am | Comments
Bookmark Leonardo da Vinci's Resume
From the Codex Atlanticus, this is a letter that Leonardo da Vinci wrote in 1482 to the Duke of Milan advertising his services as a "skilled contriver of instruments of war".…

January 29 2010, 1:31pm | Comments
Bookmark For The Love Of Culture
In early 2002, the filmmaker Grace Guggenheim--the daughter of the late Charles Guggenheim, one of America’s greatest documentarians, and the sister of the filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, who made An Inconvenient Truth-decided…

January 27 2010, 2:17pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments
Wikipedia Cargo cult A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults are focused on obtaining the material wealth (the "cargo") of the advanced culture through magical thinking…

January 8 2010, 9:51am | Comments
Bookmark The 99 Best Free Games Of 2009
Gamasutra is teaming up with game criticism weblog Critical Distance to present Christopher Hyde's round-up of the wealth of excellent games being produced outside the realm of 'AAA' titles in 2009,…

January 5 2010, 7:50am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments
Bookmark Digital Technology is Not the End of Artistic Trends
The Wall Street Journal’s Terry Teachout thinks future generations will consider itunes, youtube, and Kindle a more important cultural development than anything it distributes. He’s right to point out the huge…

December 23 2009, 3:49am | Comments
Bookmark The cognitive benefits of time-space synaesthesia
SYNAESTHESIA is a neurological condition in which there is a merging of the senses, so that activity in one sensory modality elicits sensations in another. Although first described by Francis Galton…

December 7 2009, 5:11pm | 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
Bookmark A reader’s guide to the art of science
There is something stirring in the world of science writing. Since it emerged as a labelled corner of the bookshop, the genre has been dominated by practising scientists who also write;…

December 7 2009, 5:07pm | Comments
Bookmark French magazine reportedly confirms MJ's involvement with Sonic 3 soundtrack
One of the longest running rumors of the video game community is the claim that Michael Jackson contributed to the soundtrack for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 to some degree -- a…

December 3 2009, 2:45pm | Comments
Wikipedia Profanity The original meaning of the adjective profane (Latin: "in front of", "outside the temple") referred to items not belonging to the church, e.g. "The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest…

November 30 2009, 7:12am | Comments
Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments
Bookmark How we read: an investigation
A classical, although often implicit, view in social science is that the human brain, unlike that of other animals, is a learning machine which can adapt to essentially any novel cultural…

November 23 2009, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Whitechapel - Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing
Saturday 21 November, 6pm Until 11pm Showcasing UK artists and writers, this parley-based event speculates on the materialisation and dematerialisation of art writing through newly commissioned works, together with readings drawn…

November 21 2009, 4:43am | Comments
Bookmark What happened to Second Life?
Not long ago Second Life was everywhere, with businesses opening branches and bands playing gigs in this virtual world. Today you'd be forgiven for asking if it's still going. Once upon…

November 21 2009, 4:20am | Comments
Portfolio Simulating Kim Jong Il

November 6 2009, 9:28am | Comments
Bookmark IMG MGMT: Teen Image
IMG MGMT is an annual image-based artist essay series. Today’s invited artist, Seth Price presents an essay challenging the traditional photo essay format. Ritualized Unknowing People keep trying to get a…

November 5 2009, 2:06am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments
Bookmark Beauty, Art, and Darwin
It is possible that we have a kind of built-in moral resistance to the runaway pathologies now visible in the arts. Where did that resistance come from? Judging from his new…

November 1 2009, 3:37am | Comments
Bookmark Monsters and the Moral Imagination
Monsters are on the rise. People can't seem to get enough of vampires lately, and zombies have a new lease on life. This year and next we have the release of…

October 27 2009, 12:01pm | Comments
Bookmark Serpentine Gallery: Poetry Marathon - Holly Pester
Holly Pester is a performance poet currently working on a project with the Barry Museum in Manchester. I, raven, the is about the relationship between words and sound, and the title…

October 18 2009, 3:29pm | Comments
Wikipedia Petrichor Petrichor (pronounced /ˈpɛtrɨkər/; from Greek petros "stone" + ichor "the fluid that is supposed to flow in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology") is the name of the scent of rain on dry earth. The term was coined in 1964 by…

October 15 2009, 3:36pm | Comments

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