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• Bookmark Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard

  Writers have long been fascinated by machinery – what it gives and what it takes away. Tom McCarthy, whose experimental work has been hailed as the future of fiction, charts literature's…

  July 25 2010, 7:13am | 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

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Portfolio To crush a Morlock’s skull

  June 28 2010, 10:42am | Comments

• Bookmark The Chess Master and the Computer

  In 1985, in Hamburg, I played against thirty-two different chess computers at the same time in what is known as a simultaneous exhibition. I walked from one machine to the next,…

  June 20 2010, 3:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Smarter Than You Think - I.B.M.'s Supercomputer

  For the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been developing what they expect will be the world’s most advanced “question answering” machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday human…

  June 17 2010, 3:31am | Comments

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

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Opposition Paradigm (Together Again for the First Time)

  May 16 2010, 9:15pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark 'A Thousand Years of Non Linear History' : reVIEW

  A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History is one the most intelligent, stimulating, and rewarding books I have read in a long time - it even surpasses De Landa's previous War in…

  March 24 2010, 10:25am | Comments

• Bibliography A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

  March 24 2010, 10:07am | Comments

• Vimeo

  March 13 2010, 2:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Triumph of the Cyborg Composer

  Along with his work on synthesis, or using machines to create sounds, Cope had dabbled in the use of software to compose music. Inspired by the field of artificial intelligence, he…

  March 12 2010, 3:09am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark When the Meganovel Shrank

  It seems significant, somehow, that Infinite Jest—the big buzzy signature meganovel of the nineties—was set at the end of the aughts. Most of the book’s action appears to take place in…

  January 8 2010, 5:21am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark Kurt Andersen on the Large Hadron Collider

  Among the defining attributes of now are ever tinier gadgets, ever shorter attention spans, and the privileging of marketplace values above all. Life is manically parceled into financial quarters, three-minute YouTube…

  December 25 2009, 6:54pm | Comments

• Portfolio Podcasts Ahoy!

  December 7 2009, 11:44am | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Bookmark How we read: an investigation

  A classical, although often implicit, view in social science is that the human brain, unlike that of other animals, is a learning machine which can adapt to essentially any novel cultural…

  November 23 2009, 7:55am | Comments

• Flickr Kim Jong Il and?

  November 6 2009, 3:18am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Portfolio Announcing: MachineMachine Radio!

  October 30 2009, 5:18am | 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

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

  October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments

• YouTube

  September 28 2009, 8:44am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

  September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark Smart machines: What's the worst that could happen?

  An invasion led by artificially intelligent machines. Conscious computers. A smartphone virus so smart that it can start mimicking you. You might think that such scenarios are laughably futuristic, but some…

  July 30 2009, 1:45pm | Comments

• Bookmark Michel Serres's Milieux

  Mediation means that which stands, comes or moves between things otherwise separated or opposed. Serres’s work has never ceased to meditate upon mediation in every possible sense: as arbitration; moderation; mediocrity;…

  June 23 2009, 2:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark Dual Perspectives Article

  Not long ago mass media was about the only kind of culture there was. The lucky few creative works that made it into general circulation were what copyright law was supposed…

  June 16 2009, 3:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark MachineAnimalCollages

  Fantastic meat landscapes and animals made of machinery

  May 5 2009, 1:02am | Comments

• Bibliography The Language of New Media

  April 27 2009, 10:12am | Comments

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• Bookmark Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard

  Writers have long been fascinated by machinery – what it gives and what it takes away. Tom McCarthy, whose experimental work has been hailed as the future of fiction, charts literature's…

  July 25 2010, 7:13am | 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

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Portfolio To crush a Morlock’s skull

  June 28 2010, 10:42am | Comments

• Bookmark The Chess Master and the Computer

  In 1985, in Hamburg, I played against thirty-two different chess computers at the same time in what is known as a simultaneous exhibition. I walked from one machine to the next,…

  June 20 2010, 3:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Smarter Than You Think - I.B.M.'s Supercomputer

  For the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been developing what they expect will be the world’s most advanced “question answering” machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday human…

  June 17 2010, 3:31am | Comments

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

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Opposition Paradigm (Together Again for the First Time)

  May 16 2010, 9:15pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark 'A Thousand Years of Non Linear History' : reVIEW

  A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History is one the most intelligent, stimulating, and rewarding books I have read in a long time - it even surpasses De Landa's previous War in…

  March 24 2010, 10:25am | Comments

• Bibliography A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

  March 24 2010, 10:07am | Comments

• Vimeo

  March 13 2010, 2:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Triumph of the Cyborg Composer

  Along with his work on synthesis, or using machines to create sounds, Cope had dabbled in the use of software to compose music. Inspired by the field of artificial intelligence, he…

  March 12 2010, 3:09am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark When the Meganovel Shrank

  It seems significant, somehow, that Infinite Jest—the big buzzy signature meganovel of the nineties—was set at the end of the aughts. Most of the book’s action appears to take place in…

  January 8 2010, 5:21am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark Kurt Andersen on the Large Hadron Collider

  Among the defining attributes of now are ever tinier gadgets, ever shorter attention spans, and the privileging of marketplace values above all. Life is manically parceled into financial quarters, three-minute YouTube…

  December 25 2009, 6:54pm | Comments

• Portfolio Podcasts Ahoy!

  December 7 2009, 11:44am | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Bookmark How we read: an investigation

  A classical, although often implicit, view in social science is that the human brain, unlike that of other animals, is a learning machine which can adapt to essentially any novel cultural…

  November 23 2009, 7:55am | Comments

• Flickr Kim Jong Il and?

  November 6 2009, 3:18am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Portfolio Announcing: MachineMachine Radio!

  October 30 2009, 5:18am | 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

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

  October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments

• YouTube

  September 28 2009, 8:44am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

  September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark Smart machines: What's the worst that could happen?

  An invasion led by artificially intelligent machines. Conscious computers. A smartphone virus so smart that it can start mimicking you. You might think that such scenarios are laughably futuristic, but some…

  July 30 2009, 1:45pm | Comments

• Bookmark Michel Serres's Milieux

  Mediation means that which stands, comes or moves between things otherwise separated or opposed. Serres’s work has never ceased to meditate upon mediation in every possible sense: as arbitration; moderation; mediocrity;…

  June 23 2009, 2:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark Dual Perspectives Article

  Not long ago mass media was about the only kind of culture there was. The lucky few creative works that made it into general circulation were what copyright law was supposed…

  June 16 2009, 3:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark MachineAnimalCollages

  Fantastic meat landscapes and animals made of machinery

  May 5 2009, 1:02am | Comments

• Bibliography The Language of New Media

  April 27 2009, 10:12am | Comments

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