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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…

November 1 2009, 4:37am | 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 The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English
In depicting the emergence of the world’s languages as a curse of gibberish, the biblical tale of the Tower of Babel makes us moderns smile. Yet, considering the headache that 6,000…

November 1 2009, 3:32am | Comments
Bookmark The Library in the New Age
Information is exploding so furiously around us and information technology is changing at such bewildering speed that we face a fundamental problem: How to orient ourselves in the new landscape? What,…

October 31 2009, 5:19am | Comments
Bookmark Troubling new revelations about Arendt and Heidegger
Will we ever be able to think of Hannah Arendt in the same way again? Two new and damning critiques, one of Arendt and one of her longtime Nazi-sycophant lover, the…

October 30 2009, 6:20pm | Comments
Portfolio Announcing: MachineMachine Radio!

October 30 2009, 5:18am | 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 Who’s afraid of the avant-garde?
There's a reason why we find it easier to "get" modern art than avant-garde music, and it's not just about our natural conservatism and love of Mozart... Arts & books Who’s…

October 27 2009, 11:53am | Comments
Bookmark Luis Camnitzer, ALPHABETIZATION, Part Two: Hegemonic Language and Arbitrary Order
In all the traditional approaches to pedagogy, both in art and in literacy, the possibility of perceiving the transitional nature of the space produced by text or image—the common space for…

October 27 2009, 11:51am | Comments
Ask Metafilter The alternate 'Testament of Doctor Mabuse' - Fritz Lang's German and French versions Having recently learned that Fritz Lang filmed an entirely different, French language, version of The Testament of Doctor Mabuse alongside the 'original' German version, I set out to find it. The only way to get hold of it seems to be via the…

October 22 2009, 2:55am | Comments
Bookmark Left vs Right | Information Is Beautiful
A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th). Of course,…

October 21 2009, 3:28pm | Comments
Bookmark 42 Essential 3rd Act Twists
Dresden Codak's handy comic-chart of '42 Essential Third-Act Twists' for writers.

October 21 2009, 3:19pm | Comments
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October 19 2009, 5:48am | Comments
Bookmark Seriousness is the New Black: The Turner Prize at Tate Britain and…
Many factors have lead to London’s pre-eminence in the contemporary art world: the importance of Goldsmith’s College to the Hirst generation of YBAs, Saatchi’s ubiquitous influence as a collector, Jay Joplin’s…

October 19 2009, 3:50am | 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
Bookmark -R-G-B-
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October 16 2009, 7:59am | 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
Bookmark Atheism: class is a distraction
For some reasons it seems to be anathema to say that there might be an intrinsic reason for the correlation between educational level and the rejection of religion: atheism takes training,…

October 15 2009, 8:14am | Comments
Bookmark Spooky Signals from the Future Telling Us to Cancel the LHC!
A recent essay in the New York Times by Dennis Overbye has managed to attract quite a bit of attention around the internets — most of it not very positive. It…

October 15 2009, 8:13am | Comments
Bookmark The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
Dr. Nielsen and Dr. Ninomiya have proposed a kind of test: that CERN engage in a game of chance, a “card-drawing” exercise using perhaps a random-number generator, in order to discern…

October 15 2009, 8:12am | Comments
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October 13 2009, 2:59pm | 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 The Origin of the Work of Art
In his article, Heidegger explains the essence of art in terms of the concepts of being and truth. He argues that art is not only a way of expressing the element…

October 8 2009, 9:35am | Comments
Bookmark Posthumous Novels by Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace and Ralph Ellison
After author David Foster Wallace committed suicide last September, his longtime agent, Bonnie Nadell, found herself lost in a maze of words. Scattered on two different computers and in hard copies…

October 8 2009, 9:05am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments
Bookmark Stunning Images of Herds from Above [PICS]
Though the term “herd behaviour” today is most often used when talking about financial markets, it originally described individuals in a group acting together without direction – for example an animal…

October 4 2009, 5:16pm | Comments
Bookmark An Interview with W. Brian Arthur
Technology so pervades our culture that it's sobering to consider how poorly we understand it. How do new tools and techniques arise? What principles guide their evolution? And how does their…

October 4 2009, 4:26pm | Comments
Bookmark Altermodern: A Conversation with Nicholas Bourriaud
Independent curator and critic Bartholomew Ryan interviews Nicholas Bourriaud, author of the seminal book Relational Aesthetics and curator of the fourth Tate Triennial, Altermodern, which remains on view in London at…

October 3 2009, 8:36am | Comments
Bookmark lose/lose
Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien, the…

October 1 2009, 5:30am | Comments
Bookmark Don Tapscott on the ways the Net Generation learn differently
The author of Grown Up Digital, Don Tapscott, refutes the belief that the internet is turning today's youth into "the dumbest generation". Tapscott illustrates how the net has changed the way…

September 29 2009, 11:27pm | Comments
Wikipedia Wikipedia enters a new chapter Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English. It's all…

September 28 2009, 9:10am | Comments
Wikipedia Wikipedia enters a new chapter Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English. It's all…

September 28 2009, 9:10am | Comments

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