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• Ask Metafilter Critical reviews/writing on Tears of the Kingdom So, we all love the latest Zelda game (Tears of the Kingdom - TOTK), and so do the critics. But now that we and the game journalists all have hundreds of hours of playtime under our belts, have any thoughtful, well written critical…

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• Bookmark Crypto-Colonialists Use the Most Vulnerable People in the World as Guinea Pigs

  Vanuatu is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, with an estimated population of just over 300,000.

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• Bookmark When Futurism Led to Fascism—and Why It Could Happen Again | WIRED

  In 1909, a poet named Filippo Marinetti was driving along in his brand new Fiat when he came across two cyclists in the road. Marinetti swerved to avoid hitting his fellow…

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• Bookmark Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism? - Los Angeles Review of Books

  IN CAPITAL IS DEAD, McKenzie Wark asks: What if we’re not in capitalism anymore but something worse? The question is provocative, sacrilegious, unsettling as it forces anti-capitalists to confront an unacknowledged…

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• Syllabus Cache Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to…

  To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.

  March 26 2020, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Apocalypse Whatever — Real Life

  Among the white nationalists on 4chan’s “politically incorrect,” or /pol/ board and on “alt-right” Twitter — or anywhere you might run into a picture of Pepe the Frog — there is…

  November 18 2019, 5:26am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache History of Computing Timeline

  As part of a series of posts that I’ve been calling “Open Source PhD,” I’m posting some of the materials that I prepared as I was studying for my comprehensive exams. You can see the reading lists for…

  July 27 2019, 4:56pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why HBO's "Chernobyl" Gets Nuclear So Wrong

  Since the start of HBO’s mini-series about the 1986 nuclear disaster, “Chernobyl,” journalists have praised the series for getting the facts of the event right, even if its creators took some…

  June 10 2019, 5:44pm | Comments

• Bookmark No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime - The Atlantic

  At first glance, the hagfish—a sinuous, tubular animal with pink-grey skin and a paddle-shaped tail—looks very much like an eel. Naturalists can tell the two apart because hagfish, unlike other fish,…

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Palmyra and the Political History of Archaeology in Syria: from Colonialists to…

  Archaeology was institutionalized by a reification of the past into governmental branding, such as through images of Palmyra on the national currency, or school textbooks. Although Palmyrans wrote and probably spoke…

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• Bookmark We Went to the Weird Reality Symposium To Find The Limits of…

  Evangelists of virtual reality believe it creates the ultimate empathy machine—this idea was wildly contested at the Weird Reality symposium this past October.

  February 10 2017, 5:01am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

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• Bookmark Apocalypse Whatever — Real Life

  Among the white nationalists on 4chan’s “politically incorrect,” or /pol/ board and on “alt-right” Twitter — or anywhere you might run into a picture of Pepe the Frog — there is…

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• Additivism The 3D Additivist Manifesto is a finalist for Screengrab 7

  The 3D Additivist Manifesto is a finalist for Screengrab 7 International Media Arts Award (Dec 2015 - Feb 2016)We’re excited and honoured to be among finalists for #Screengrab7: International Media Arts Award, on the theme of #Resistance:Screengrab7 contains works that not only interrogate the…

  December 29 2015, 11:00am | Comments

• Bookmark B.J. Novak's New App: The Perfect Thing for a Moment Obsessed With…

  The 10 Commandments. The 95 Theses. The 127 Hours and the 27 Dresses and the 10 Things I Hate About You. The mix tape. The menu. The card catalog. The grocery…

  October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments

• Portfolio Algorithmic Narratives and Synthetic Subjects (paper)

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• Bookmark Why I Am Teaching a Course Called “Wasting Time on the Internet”…

  The Surrealists’ ideal state for making art was the twilight between wakefulness and sleep, when they would dredge up images from the murky subconscious and throw them onto the page or…

  November 22 2014, 5:23am | Comments

• Bookmark It’s the End of the World as We Know It . .…

  Late one night last August, on the chalk downlands of southern England, Paul Kingsnorth stood in a field beside an old-growth forest, two yurts and a composting toilet. Kingsnorth is 41,…

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• Portfolio Internet of Our Dreams

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• Bookmark Entering Posthumanism: Ihab Hassan and Neil Badmington | Simulation Space

  In “Prometheus as Performer: Toward a Posthumanist Culture?” Ihab Hassan uses the metaphor of the mythological Prometheus to frame his discussion on posthumanism and positions him as a trickster with a…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Media Watch: Pixelating protects identity? Think again. (09/07/2012)

  Gerard Baden-Clay Mr Baden-Clay's lawyers say he is devastated and will vigorously defend the charge. — ABC Online, 13 June, 2012 The ABC's lawyers insisted on pixelating Mr Baden-Clay's image after…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark 10 Paragraphs About Lists You Need in Your Life Right Now :…

  Recently, a close friend sent me an e-mail with the subject line “Things I’ve Noticed As I Get Older.

  September 26 2013, 12:49am | Comments

• Portfolio Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

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• Ask Metafilter Critical reviews/writing on Tears of the Kingdom So, we all love the latest Zelda game (Tears of the Kingdom - TOTK), and so do the critics. But now that we and the game journalists all have hundreds of hours of playtime under our belts, have any thoughtful, well written critical…

  June 12 2023, 6:21am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 3 2022, 10:00am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 31 2022, 8:00am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 1 2021, 10:57am | Comments

• Bookmark Crypto-Colonialists Use the Most Vulnerable People in the World as Guinea Pigs

  Vanuatu is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, with an estimated population of just over 300,000.

  July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark When Futurism Led to Fascism—and Why It Could Happen Again | WIRED

  In 1909, a poet named Filippo Marinetti was driving along in his brand new Fiat when he came across two cyclists in the road. Marinetti swerved to avoid hitting his fellow…

  January 18 2021, 6:55am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 11 2020, 1:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism? - Los Angeles Review of Books

  IN CAPITAL IS DEAD, McKenzie Wark asks: What if we’re not in capitalism anymore but something worse? The question is provocative, sacrilegious, unsettling as it forces anti-capitalists to confront an unacknowledged…

  August 11 2020, 10:13pm | Comments

• YouTube

  April 2 2020, 9:00am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to…

  To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.

  March 26 2020, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Apocalypse Whatever — Real Life

  Among the white nationalists on 4chan’s “politically incorrect,” or /pol/ board and on “alt-right” Twitter — or anywhere you might run into a picture of Pepe the Frog — there is…

  November 18 2019, 5:26am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache History of Computing Timeline

  As part of a series of posts that I’ve been calling “Open Source PhD,” I’m posting some of the materials that I prepared as I was studying for my comprehensive exams. You can see the reading lists for…

  July 27 2019, 4:56pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why HBO's "Chernobyl" Gets Nuclear So Wrong

  Since the start of HBO’s mini-series about the 1986 nuclear disaster, “Chernobyl,” journalists have praised the series for getting the facts of the event right, even if its creators took some…

  June 10 2019, 5:44pm | Comments

• Bookmark No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime - The Atlantic

  At first glance, the hagfish—a sinuous, tubular animal with pink-grey skin and a paddle-shaped tail—looks very much like an eel. Naturalists can tell the two apart because hagfish, unlike other fish,…

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Palmyra and the Political History of Archaeology in Syria: from Colonialists to…

  Archaeology was institutionalized by a reification of the past into governmental branding, such as through images of Palmyra on the national currency, or school textbooks. Although Palmyrans wrote and probably spoke…

  April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 1 2017, 6:10am | Comments

• Bookmark We Went to the Weird Reality Symposium To Find The Limits of…

  Evangelists of virtual reality believe it creates the ultimate empathy machine—this idea was wildly contested at the Weird Reality symposium this past October.

  February 10 2017, 5:01am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Apocalypse Whatever — Real Life

  Among the white nationalists on 4chan’s “politically incorrect,” or /pol/ board and on “alt-right” Twitter — or anywhere you might run into a picture of Pepe the Frog — there is…

  December 14 2016, 9:56am | Comments

• Vimeo

  July 3 2016, 9:44am | Comments

• Additivism The 3D Additivist Manifesto is a finalist for Screengrab 7

  The 3D Additivist Manifesto is a finalist for Screengrab 7 International Media Arts Award (Dec 2015 - Feb 2016)We’re excited and honoured to be among finalists for #Screengrab7: International Media Arts Award, on the theme of #Resistance:Screengrab7 contains works that not only interrogate the…

  December 29 2015, 11:00am | Comments

• Bookmark B.J. Novak's New App: The Perfect Thing for a Moment Obsessed With…

  The 10 Commandments. The 95 Theses. The 127 Hours and the 27 Dresses and the 10 Things I Hate About You. The mix tape. The menu. The card catalog. The grocery…

  October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments

• Portfolio Algorithmic Narratives and Synthetic Subjects (paper)

  May 8 2015, 4:02am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 26 2015, 5:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Why I Am Teaching a Course Called “Wasting Time on the Internet”…

  The Surrealists’ ideal state for making art was the twilight between wakefulness and sleep, when they would dredge up images from the murky subconscious and throw them onto the page or…

  November 22 2014, 5:23am | Comments

• Bookmark It’s the End of the World as We Know It . .…

  Late one night last August, on the chalk downlands of southern England, Paul Kingsnorth stood in a field beside an old-growth forest, two yurts and a composting toilet. Kingsnorth is 41,…

  May 1 2014, 1:40pm | Comments

• Portfolio Internet of Our Dreams

  March 30 2014, 2:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark Entering Posthumanism: Ihab Hassan and Neil Badmington | Simulation Space

  In “Prometheus as Performer: Toward a Posthumanist Culture?” Ihab Hassan uses the metaphor of the mythological Prometheus to frame his discussion on posthumanism and positions him as a trickster with a…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Media Watch: Pixelating protects identity? Think again. (09/07/2012)

  Gerard Baden-Clay Mr Baden-Clay's lawyers say he is devastated and will vigorously defend the charge. — ABC Online, 13 June, 2012 The ABC's lawyers insisted on pixelating Mr Baden-Clay's image after…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark 10 Paragraphs About Lists You Need in Your Life Right Now :…

  Recently, a close friend sent me an e-mail with the subject line “Things I’ve Noticed As I Get Older.

  September 26 2013, 12:49am | Comments

• Portfolio Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 4:12am | Comments

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