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  Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

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  Rereading Darwin

  January 17 2012, 5:06pm | Comments

• Bibliography Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings by Walter Benjamin

  December 8 2011, 7:31am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bibliography Error: Glitch, Noise, and Jam in New Media Cultures by Mark Nunes

  October 20 2011, 4:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Information Wants to be Consumed

   Although information spreads, virus-like, through replication, this replication, as Walter Benjamin foresaw, involves a dispersion that allows images or data to be seen in different places, in different contexts (what Benjamin…

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• Tumblr acecalhoun is worthy of a few jams for this one: “Lastly, and...

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• Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

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  Walter Benjamin, Doctrine of the Similar

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• Bookmark Neandertal hybridization & Haldane’s rule

  Mr. James Winters at A Replicated Typo pointed me to a short hypothesis paper, Neanderthal-human Hybrids. This paper argues that selective mating of Neandertal males with females of human populations which had…

  April 28 2011, 3:15am | Comments

• Bibliography Illuminations by Walter Benjamin

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• Bibliography Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin

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• Bookmark When the King Saved God

  Four hundred years ago, just as William Shakespeare was reaching the height of his powers and showing the new scope and variety of the English language, and just as “England” itself…

  April 12 2011, 3:57pm | Comments

• Bookmark James Gleick’s History of Information

  Gleick makes his case in a sweeping survey that covers the five millenniums of humanity’s engagement with information, from the invention of writing in Sumer to the elevation of information to…

  March 20 2011, 5:41am | Comments

• Bookmark North Korea’s Digital Underground

  The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the very archetype of a “closed society.” It ranks dead last—196th out of 196 countries—in Freedom House’s Freedom of the Press index. Unlike the…

  March 9 2011, 6:11am | Comments

• Bookmark Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter or Energy—It’s Data

  Information flows everywhere, through wires and genes, through brain cells and quarks. But while it may appear ubiquitous to us now, until recently we had no awareness of what information was…

  March 6 2011, 3:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Is It Time to Welcome Our New Computer Overlords?

  "Watson is a computer that uncovers meaning in our language, and pinpoints the right answer, instantly. It uses deep analytics to answer questions computers never could before, even the ones on…

  February 17 2011, 3:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark 400 years of the King James Bible

  The King James Bible is a book that attracts superlatives. To David Norton it is “the most important book in English religion and culture”, to Gordon Campbell “the most celebrated book…

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• Bookmark How to Make Anything Signify Anything

  It is unlikely that Bacon’s cipher system was ever used for the transmission of military secrets, in the seventeenth century or in the twentieth. But for roughly a century from 1850,…

  February 10 2011, 4:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark F/X PORN: David Foster Wallace

  What's the difference between a Hollywood special-effects blockbuster like "Terminator 2" and a hard-core porn film? Very little, claims novelist, essayist and footnote fetishist David Foster Wallace. 1990s moviegoers who have…

  January 18 2011, 3:57am | Comments

• Bookmark The decline of the serial killer

  The number of serial murders seems to be dwindling, as does the public's fascination with them. "It does seem the golden age of serial murderers is probably past," says Harold Schechter,…

  January 6 2011, 7:55pm | Comments

• Misc Error : glitch, noise, and jam in new media cultures Type Book Author Mark Nunes Place New York Publisher Continuum ISBN 9781441121202

  November 26 2010, 4:18am | Comments

• Misc On the Mimetic Faculty Type Book Section Author Walter Benjamin Place New York Publisher Schoclen Books Pages 333-336 Accessed 2010-11-26 11:28:18 Book Title Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

  November 26 2010, 3:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Language as Thought: Watch out for the Hype

  Judging from how the Times magazine’s excerpt from Guy Deutscher’s new book has been one of the most read pieces in the paper for over a week now, the book is…

  September 23 2010, 5:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Outskirts of Progress

  Much of your life is now spent traveling along the American Northeast, from Baltimore to Boston. Like many who’ve plowed back and forth along this route, you’ve grown overly familiar with…

  July 17 2010, 12:37pm | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Ledbury - Ledbury Poetry Festival, Holly Pester and James Wilkes perform at 9.30pm

  July 2 2010, 10:02am | Comments

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

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark The code within the code

  One of the most beautiful aspects of the genetic code is its simplicity: three letters of DNA combine in 64 different ways, easily spelled out in a handy table, to encode…

  May 7 2010, 2:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Chimpanzees Mourn Their Dead

  Two reports of chimpanzees tending their dead provide poignant examples of how humanity’s closest relatives grieve for the dead, a behavior once thought unique to humans. In one report, two mothers…

  April 27 2010, 6:58am | Comments

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• Twitter Favourites

  Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

  March 9 2012, 2:48am | Comments

• Tumblr "Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for..."

  February 20 2012, 7:21am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 16 2012, 5:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Rereading Darwin

  January 17 2012, 5:06pm | Comments

• Bibliography Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings by Walter Benjamin

  December 8 2011, 7:31am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bibliography Error: Glitch, Noise, and Jam in New Media Cultures by Mark Nunes

  October 20 2011, 4:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Information Wants to be Consumed

   Although information spreads, virus-like, through replication, this replication, as Walter Benjamin foresaw, involves a dispersion that allows images or data to be seen in different places, in different contexts (what Benjamin…

  August 3 2011, 6:00am | Comments

• Tumblr acecalhoun is worthy of a few jams for this one: “Lastly, and...

  June 17 2011, 12:36pm | Comments

• Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

  May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Walter Benjamin, Doctrine of the Similar

  May 16 2011, 8:06am | Comments

• Bookmark Neandertal hybridization & Haldane’s rule

  Mr. James Winters at A Replicated Typo pointed me to a short hypothesis paper, Neanderthal-human Hybrids. This paper argues that selective mating of Neandertal males with females of human populations which had…

  April 28 2011, 3:15am | Comments

• Bibliography Illuminations by Walter Benjamin

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bookmark When the King Saved God

  Four hundred years ago, just as William Shakespeare was reaching the height of his powers and showing the new scope and variety of the English language, and just as “England” itself…

  April 12 2011, 3:57pm | Comments

• Bookmark James Gleick’s History of Information

  Gleick makes his case in a sweeping survey that covers the five millenniums of humanity’s engagement with information, from the invention of writing in Sumer to the elevation of information to…

  March 20 2011, 5:41am | Comments

• Bookmark North Korea’s Digital Underground

  The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the very archetype of a “closed society.” It ranks dead last—196th out of 196 countries—in Freedom House’s Freedom of the Press index. Unlike the…

  March 9 2011, 6:11am | Comments

• Bookmark Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter or Energy—It’s Data

  Information flows everywhere, through wires and genes, through brain cells and quarks. But while it may appear ubiquitous to us now, until recently we had no awareness of what information was…

  March 6 2011, 3:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Is It Time to Welcome Our New Computer Overlords?

  "Watson is a computer that uncovers meaning in our language, and pinpoints the right answer, instantly. It uses deep analytics to answer questions computers never could before, even the ones on…

  February 17 2011, 3:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark 400 years of the King James Bible

  The King James Bible is a book that attracts superlatives. To David Norton it is “the most important book in English religion and culture”, to Gordon Campbell “the most celebrated book…

  February 11 2011, 3:43am | Comments

• Bookmark How to Make Anything Signify Anything

  It is unlikely that Bacon’s cipher system was ever used for the transmission of military secrets, in the seventeenth century or in the twentieth. But for roughly a century from 1850,…

  February 10 2011, 4:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark F/X PORN: David Foster Wallace

  What's the difference between a Hollywood special-effects blockbuster like "Terminator 2" and a hard-core porn film? Very little, claims novelist, essayist and footnote fetishist David Foster Wallace. 1990s moviegoers who have…

  January 18 2011, 3:57am | Comments

• Bookmark The decline of the serial killer

  The number of serial murders seems to be dwindling, as does the public's fascination with them. "It does seem the golden age of serial murderers is probably past," says Harold Schechter,…

  January 6 2011, 7:55pm | Comments

• Misc Error : glitch, noise, and jam in new media cultures Type Book Author Mark Nunes Place New York Publisher Continuum ISBN 9781441121202

  November 26 2010, 4:18am | Comments

• Misc On the Mimetic Faculty Type Book Section Author Walter Benjamin Place New York Publisher Schoclen Books Pages 333-336 Accessed 2010-11-26 11:28:18 Book Title Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

  November 26 2010, 3:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Language as Thought: Watch out for the Hype

  Judging from how the Times magazine’s excerpt from Guy Deutscher’s new book has been one of the most read pieces in the paper for over a week now, the book is…

  September 23 2010, 5:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Outskirts of Progress

  Much of your life is now spent traveling along the American Northeast, from Baltimore to Boston. Like many who’ve plowed back and forth along this route, you’ve grown overly familiar with…

  July 17 2010, 12:37pm | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Ledbury - Ledbury Poetry Festival, Holly Pester and James Wilkes perform at 9.30pm

  July 2 2010, 10:02am | Comments

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

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark The code within the code

  One of the most beautiful aspects of the genetic code is its simplicity: three letters of DNA combine in 64 different ways, easily spelled out in a handy table, to encode…

  May 7 2010, 2:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Chimpanzees Mourn Their Dead

  Two reports of chimpanzees tending their dead provide poignant examples of how humanity’s closest relatives grieve for the dead, a behavior once thought unique to humans. In one report, two mothers…

  April 27 2010, 6:58am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 6 2010, 5:12am | Comments

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