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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

• Twitter

  Every word, and the whole of language

  April 12 2011, 9:19am | Comments

• Bookmark The Principle of Notworking: Concepts in Critical Internet Culture

  Internet culture is in a permanent flux. There is no linear growth, neither up nor down. The only certainty is the steady rise, both in absolute and relative numbers of users…

  April 9 2011, 2:16am | Comments

• Bookmark The Unbearable Wholeness of Beings

  If you try to describe the living processes of the cell in a rather more living language than is typically found in the literature of molecular biology — if you resort…

  April 6 2011, 1:48pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter (Contemporary) Japanese karaoke hits Karaoke in Japanese. Am looking for tracks with a karaoke version on YouTube for an event. This old post has some great ideas, but sadly half of them have been removed from YouTube. What Japanese language songs do you sing at karaoke at…

  April 1 2011, 3:41am | Comments

• Metafilter Projects: GLTI.CH Karaoke is a virtual jukebox oozing with time-delayed, glitchy fun. Streaming live over the web, London and Kumamoto will be joined in a sing off to end all sing offs. The first GLTI.CH KARAOKE event will laugh in the face of the nine hour…

  March 25 2011, 11:17am | Comments

• Projects GLTI.CH Karaoke

  March 25 2011, 9:38am | Comments

• Bookmark The Exodus Story and Western Conceptions of Progress, Movement, Revolution

  Movement. How did we come to politicize the concept of “movement” in our Western lexicon to begin with? Walzer interprets this as a product of Exodus thinking, where “the movement across…

  March 20 2011, 5:35am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 11 2011, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Realer than Real: The Simulacrum According to Deleuze and Guattari

  There is a seductive image of contemporary culture circulating today. Our world, Jean Baudrillard tells us, has been launched into hyperspace in a kind of postmodern apocalypse. The airless atmosphere has…

  March 8 2011, 9:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Humanities in the Digital Age

  Reports of the demise of the humanities are exaggerated, suggest these panelists, but there may be reason to fear its loss of relevance. Three scholars whose work touches a variety of…

  March 6 2011, 12:02pm | 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

• Metafilter The Soul Niche Swimming around in a mixture of language and matter, humans occupy a particular evolutionary niche mediated by something we call 'consciousness'. To Professor Nicholas Humphrey we're made up of "soul dust": "a kind of theatre... an entertainment which we put on for ourselves…

  February 4 2011, 2:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Explain yourself: George-Lakoff, cognitive linguist

  As part of our research on explanatory journalism, we’re interviewing experts in fields outside journalism about their approaches to explaining complex systems to non-specialtists. Our first expert is cognitive linguist George Lakoff,…

  February 4 2011, 2:26am | Comments

• Bookmark The Temporary Autonomous Zone

  I believe that by extrapolating from past and future stories about "islands in the net" we may collect evidence to suggest that a certain kind of "free enclave" is not only…

  January 22 2011, 5:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Lev manovich: software culture. the common grammar of media

  Professor of New Media Art at the University of California, both artist and graphic designer, Lev Manovich does not need further presentation. His first book “The language of New Media” (it…

  December 13 2010, 6:12pm | Comments

• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

• Misc Besides/In a paradigmatic way Type Journal Article Author Yve Lomax URL http://www.nafae.org.uk/journals/jvap-7-3/page-205/ Volume 7.3 Publication The Journal of Visual Art Practice Date December 2008 Accessed 2010-11-26 11:58:07 Abstract This text starts with critique as that which does not rest content with the given,and starting here it embraces…

  November 26 2010, 3:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Myths of a Near Future: Simon Sellars, Bruce Sterling and V. Vale…

  Two years ago, I appeared on a panel, ‘Myths of a Near Future’, with writer Bruce Sterling and V. Vale of RE/Search Publications to discuss the work of J.G. Ballard. Held…

  November 15 2010, 2:31am | Comments

• Vimeo

  November 11 2010, 2:08am | Comments

• Portfolio The Clock

  November 5 2010, 10:11am | Comments

• Tumblr The Language of Beards Poets Ranked by Beard Weight is a classic...

  October 12 2010, 4:37pm | Comments

• Bookmark Cancer is something you 'Do'

  We make a mistake when we think of cancer as a noun. It is not something you have, it is something you do. Your body is probably cancering all the time.…

  September 23 2010, 5:06am | 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 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

• Bookmark What concepts do not exist in the English language?

  Carl Honoré (In Praise of Slow) says Canada's Baffin Island Inuit "use the same word—'uvatiarru'—to mean both 'in the distant past' and 'in the distant future.' Time, in such cultures, is…

  September 10 2010, 4:17am | Comments

• Bookmark The First Church of Robotics

  THE news of the day often includes an item about some development in artificial intelligence: a machine that smiles, a program that can predict human tastes in mates or music, a…

  August 28 2010, 6:43am | Comments

• Bibliography The Language of New Media (Leonardo) by L Manovich

  August 16 2010, 3:50am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Portfolio Rancière’s Ignoramus

  July 26 2010, 6:43am | Comments

• Bookmark "Lost" Languages to Be Resurrected by Computers?

  A new computer program has quickly deciphered a written language last used in Biblical times—possibly opening the door to "resurrecting" ancient texts that are no longer understood, scientists announced last week.…

  July 20 2010, 3:56am | Comments

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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

• Twitter

  Every word, and the whole of language

  April 12 2011, 9:19am | Comments

• Bookmark The Principle of Notworking: Concepts in Critical Internet Culture

  Internet culture is in a permanent flux. There is no linear growth, neither up nor down. The only certainty is the steady rise, both in absolute and relative numbers of users…

  April 9 2011, 2:16am | Comments

• Bookmark The Unbearable Wholeness of Beings

  If you try to describe the living processes of the cell in a rather more living language than is typically found in the literature of molecular biology — if you resort…

  April 6 2011, 1:48pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter (Contemporary) Japanese karaoke hits Karaoke in Japanese. Am looking for tracks with a karaoke version on YouTube for an event. This old post has some great ideas, but sadly half of them have been removed from YouTube. What Japanese language songs do you sing at karaoke at…

  April 1 2011, 3:41am | Comments

• Metafilter Projects: GLTI.CH Karaoke is a virtual jukebox oozing with time-delayed, glitchy fun. Streaming live over the web, London and Kumamoto will be joined in a sing off to end all sing offs. The first GLTI.CH KARAOKE event will laugh in the face of the nine hour…

  March 25 2011, 11:17am | Comments

• Projects GLTI.CH Karaoke

  March 25 2011, 9:38am | Comments

• Bookmark The Exodus Story and Western Conceptions of Progress, Movement, Revolution

  Movement. How did we come to politicize the concept of “movement” in our Western lexicon to begin with? Walzer interprets this as a product of Exodus thinking, where “the movement across…

  March 20 2011, 5:35am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 11 2011, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Realer than Real: The Simulacrum According to Deleuze and Guattari

  There is a seductive image of contemporary culture circulating today. Our world, Jean Baudrillard tells us, has been launched into hyperspace in a kind of postmodern apocalypse. The airless atmosphere has…

  March 8 2011, 9:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Humanities in the Digital Age

  Reports of the demise of the humanities are exaggerated, suggest these panelists, but there may be reason to fear its loss of relevance. Three scholars whose work touches a variety of…

  March 6 2011, 12:02pm | 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

• Metafilter The Soul Niche Swimming around in a mixture of language and matter, humans occupy a particular evolutionary niche mediated by something we call 'consciousness'. To Professor Nicholas Humphrey we're made up of "soul dust": "a kind of theatre... an entertainment which we put on for ourselves…

  February 4 2011, 2:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Explain yourself: George-Lakoff, cognitive linguist

  As part of our research on explanatory journalism, we’re interviewing experts in fields outside journalism about their approaches to explaining complex systems to non-specialtists. Our first expert is cognitive linguist George Lakoff,…

  February 4 2011, 2:26am | Comments

• Bookmark The Temporary Autonomous Zone

  I believe that by extrapolating from past and future stories about "islands in the net" we may collect evidence to suggest that a certain kind of "free enclave" is not only…

  January 22 2011, 5:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Lev manovich: software culture. the common grammar of media

  Professor of New Media Art at the University of California, both artist and graphic designer, Lev Manovich does not need further presentation. His first book “The language of New Media” (it…

  December 13 2010, 6:12pm | Comments

• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

• Misc Besides/In a paradigmatic way Type Journal Article Author Yve Lomax URL http://www.nafae.org.uk/journals/jvap-7-3/page-205/ Volume 7.3 Publication The Journal of Visual Art Practice Date December 2008 Accessed 2010-11-26 11:58:07 Abstract This text starts with critique as that which does not rest content with the given,and starting here it embraces…

  November 26 2010, 3:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Myths of a Near Future: Simon Sellars, Bruce Sterling and V. Vale…

  Two years ago, I appeared on a panel, ‘Myths of a Near Future’, with writer Bruce Sterling and V. Vale of RE/Search Publications to discuss the work of J.G. Ballard. Held…

  November 15 2010, 2:31am | Comments

• Vimeo

  November 11 2010, 2:08am | Comments

• Portfolio The Clock

  November 5 2010, 10:11am | Comments

• Tumblr The Language of Beards Poets Ranked by Beard Weight is a classic...

  October 12 2010, 4:37pm | Comments

• Bookmark Cancer is something you 'Do'

  We make a mistake when we think of cancer as a noun. It is not something you have, it is something you do. Your body is probably cancering all the time.…

  September 23 2010, 5:06am | 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 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

• Bookmark What concepts do not exist in the English language?

  Carl Honoré (In Praise of Slow) says Canada's Baffin Island Inuit "use the same word—'uvatiarru'—to mean both 'in the distant past' and 'in the distant future.' Time, in such cultures, is…

  September 10 2010, 4:17am | Comments

• Bookmark The First Church of Robotics

  THE news of the day often includes an item about some development in artificial intelligence: a machine that smiles, a program that can predict human tastes in mates or music, a…

  August 28 2010, 6:43am | Comments

• Bibliography The Language of New Media (Leonardo) by L Manovich

  August 16 2010, 3:50am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Portfolio Rancière’s Ignoramus

  July 26 2010, 6:43am | Comments

• Bookmark "Lost" Languages to Be Resurrected by Computers?

  A new computer program has quickly deciphered a written language last used in Biblical times—possibly opening the door to "resurrecting" ancient texts that are no longer understood, scientists announced last week.…

  July 20 2010, 3:56am | Comments

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