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  Oldest Alien Planets Found—Born at Dawn of Universe

  March 27 2012, 2:05pm | 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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  Does It Matter Whether God Exists?

  March 23 2012, 1:51am | Comments

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  February 9 2012, 3:41am | Comments

• Metafilter John Frankenheimer's "Seconds" Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966) is a disturbing film to watch. With its unresolved, horrific ending, it’s possibly one of the most depressing films ever made [SPOILER].

  January 22 2012, 3:21pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Necessity of Errors by John Roberts

  January 19 2012, 4:33am | Comments

• Bookmark The Roots of Religion: Myth, Play and Human Evolution

  Robert Bellah, one of America's most distinguished sociologists, caps off his luminous academic career with "Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age" , a near 800-page magnum…

  October 19 2011, 3:17am | Comments

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  John Gray: "Science may be the cumulative elimination of error, but the human fondness for toxic ideas is remarkably constant."

  October 6 2011, 5:23am | Comments

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  Delusions of Peace

  October 6 2011, 2:37am | Comments

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• Metafilter MeFi: Intriguing analysis for the lead up to and ending of "The Thing" Was Child's Infected? (Part1) (Part 2) An in depth analysis of John Carpenter's 1982 film The Thing, focusing on the alien assimilation timeline, and, perhaps more intriguingly, an ending that may be less ambiguous than you would initially believe.

  August 21 2011, 3:13pm | Comments

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  July 21 2011, 2:58am | 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

• Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

  June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments

• Bookmark First ever direct English translation of Solaris published

  The first ever direct translation into English of the Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem's most famous novel, Solaris, has just been published, removing a raft of unnecessary changes and restoring…

  June 16 2011, 3:07pm | Comments

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  A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou: “Who Goes There”

  June 2 2011, 4:09am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ The British Library - Early print of 'Who Goes There?' by John W. Campbell (the inspiration for 'The Thing') at The Out of This World Exhibition, British Library

  June 1 2011, 4:13am | Comments

• Misc The Thing Type Film Director John Carpenter Scriptwriter Bill Lancaster Contributor John W. Campbell Jr. Producer David Foster Date 1982 Distributor Universal Pictures Genre Sci-Fi Horror

  April 12 2011, 7:35am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Whitechapel Gallery - John Stezaker retrospective

  February 25 2011, 5:55am | Comments

• Bookmark The First Folio of 1623

  Of all the beneficiaries of literary luck, Timon of Athens is perhaps the luckiest. All of Shakespeare's plays that appear in the First Folio would have been lost had the playwright's…

  February 16 2011, 7:02am | Comments

• Bookmark B.S.Johnson - Albert Angelo

  Albert Angelo is the second novel written by the experimental novelist B. S. Johnson (1933–1973). Published in 1964, the book achieved fame for having holes cut in several pages as a…

  February 16 2011, 6:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Narcissus Regards a Book

  Who is the common reader now? I do not think there is any way to evade a simple answer to this question. Common readers—which is to say the great majority of…

  February 1 2011, 3:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark John Gray on humanity's quest for immortality

  How do we deal with a purposeless universe and the finality of death? From Victorian séances to the embalming of Lenin's corpse to schemes for uploading our minds into cyberspace, there…

  January 9 2011, 3:38pm | Comments

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• Bookmark When new narratives meet old brains

  We're hard-wired to turn our lives into stories - how will we cope with the dizzying digital fictions of the future, ask John Bickle and Sean Keating "We are our narratives"…

  November 25 2010, 8:29am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Huddersfield Art Gallery - 12 hour performance of John Cage's 'Music for Piano 4-84' at hcmf.co.uk

  November 20 2010, 7:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Conflict or Cooperation?

  Among the theorists who jumped into the market for models of the future, three stood out: Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, and John Mearsheimer. Each made a splash with a controversial article,…

  November 5 2010, 5:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Serpentine-Edge Map Marathon Gallery

  Three years ago, Edge collaborated with The Serpentine Gallery in London in a program of "table-top experiments" as part of the Serpentine's Experiment Marathon . This live event was featured along…

  October 15 2010, 6:52am | Comments

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  September 30 2010, 4:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark Analysis: Portal and the Deconstruction of the Institution

  In this in-depth analysis, Daniel Johnson discusses games, language and sociology with regard to Valve's Portal - please note that the article contains story spoilers for the game. In 1959 Erving…

  September 10 2010, 7:33am | Comments

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

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

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• Twitter Favourites

  Oldest Alien Planets Found—Born at Dawn of Universe

  March 27 2012, 2:05pm | 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

• Twitter Favourites

  Does It Matter Whether God Exists?

  March 23 2012, 1:51am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 9 2012, 3:41am | Comments

• Metafilter John Frankenheimer's "Seconds" Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966) is a disturbing film to watch. With its unresolved, horrific ending, it’s possibly one of the most depressing films ever made [SPOILER].

  January 22 2012, 3:21pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Necessity of Errors by John Roberts

  January 19 2012, 4:33am | Comments

• Bookmark The Roots of Religion: Myth, Play and Human Evolution

  Robert Bellah, one of America's most distinguished sociologists, caps off his luminous academic career with "Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age" , a near 800-page magnum…

  October 19 2011, 3:17am | Comments

• Twitter

  John Gray: "Science may be the cumulative elimination of error, but the human fondness for toxic ideas is remarkably constant."

  October 6 2011, 5:23am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Delusions of Peace

  October 6 2011, 2:37am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 20 2011, 4:27pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Intriguing analysis for the lead up to and ending of "The Thing" Was Child's Infected? (Part1) (Part 2) An in depth analysis of John Carpenter's 1982 film The Thing, focusing on the alien assimilation timeline, and, perhaps more intriguingly, an ending that may be less ambiguous than you would initially believe.

  August 21 2011, 3:13pm | Comments

• YouTube

  August 19 2011, 2:16pm | Comments

• Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

  July 21 2011, 2:58am | 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

• Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

  June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments

• Bookmark First ever direct English translation of Solaris published

  The first ever direct translation into English of the Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem's most famous novel, Solaris, has just been published, removing a raft of unnecessary changes and restoring…

  June 16 2011, 3:07pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou: “Who Goes There”

  June 2 2011, 4:09am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ The British Library - Early print of 'Who Goes There?' by John W. Campbell (the inspiration for 'The Thing') at The Out of This World Exhibition, British Library

  June 1 2011, 4:13am | Comments

• Misc The Thing Type Film Director John Carpenter Scriptwriter Bill Lancaster Contributor John W. Campbell Jr. Producer David Foster Date 1982 Distributor Universal Pictures Genre Sci-Fi Horror

  April 12 2011, 7:35am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Whitechapel Gallery - John Stezaker retrospective

  February 25 2011, 5:55am | Comments

• Bookmark The First Folio of 1623

  Of all the beneficiaries of literary luck, Timon of Athens is perhaps the luckiest. All of Shakespeare's plays that appear in the First Folio would have been lost had the playwright's…

  February 16 2011, 7:02am | Comments

• Bookmark B.S.Johnson - Albert Angelo

  Albert Angelo is the second novel written by the experimental novelist B. S. Johnson (1933–1973). Published in 1964, the book achieved fame for having holes cut in several pages as a…

  February 16 2011, 6:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Narcissus Regards a Book

  Who is the common reader now? I do not think there is any way to evade a simple answer to this question. Common readers—which is to say the great majority of…

  February 1 2011, 3:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark John Gray on humanity's quest for immortality

  How do we deal with a purposeless universe and the finality of death? From Victorian séances to the embalming of Lenin's corpse to schemes for uploading our minds into cyberspace, there…

  January 9 2011, 3:38pm | Comments

• YouTube

  December 8 2010, 8:05am | Comments

• Bookmark When new narratives meet old brains

  We're hard-wired to turn our lives into stories - how will we cope with the dizzying digital fictions of the future, ask John Bickle and Sean Keating "We are our narratives"…

  November 25 2010, 8:29am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Huddersfield Art Gallery - 12 hour performance of John Cage's 'Music for Piano 4-84' at hcmf.co.uk

  November 20 2010, 7:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Conflict or Cooperation?

  Among the theorists who jumped into the market for models of the future, three stood out: Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, and John Mearsheimer. Each made a splash with a controversial article,…

  November 5 2010, 5:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Serpentine-Edge Map Marathon Gallery

  Three years ago, Edge collaborated with The Serpentine Gallery in London in a program of "table-top experiments" as part of the Serpentine's Experiment Marathon . This live event was featured along…

  October 15 2010, 6:52am | Comments

• Vimeo

  September 30 2010, 4:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark Analysis: Portal and the Deconstruction of the Institution

  In this in-depth analysis, Daniel Johnson discusses games, language and sociology with regard to Valve's Portal - please note that the article contains story spoilers for the game. In 1959 Erving…

  September 10 2010, 7:33am | Comments

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

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

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