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  In 807 the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad, Harun al-Rashid, sent Charlemagne a gift the like of which had never been seen in the Christian empire: a brass water clock. It chimed…

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  From A – Z: Abracadabra to Zombies A to Z: Abracadabra to Zombies currently on display at the Pollock Gallery is a phantasmagoria of the now, with our own neuroses as specter.  Here, YouTube rabbit-holes have become otherworldly and the Internet is the stage…

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• Bookmark The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination - The Atlantic

  Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone. Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is…

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• Reddit Can anyone suggest me a book wherein a character undergoes a SLOW/ GRADUAL permanent transformation into a creature/animal/monster/ hybrid I've seen my fair share of novels wherein characters transform into werewolves or animals but the transformations I've encountered almost always seems to happen rather instantaneously and in the case of shapeshifters, well they could always revert back to their human forms so…

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• Bookmark Practical Magic: Assimilating John Carpenter’s The Thing | VHS Revival

  In an era of countless reboots, we have come to regard the whole process as a cynical exercise whose primary goal is to slash expenditure, but that was not always the…

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• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

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

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• Bookmark Is America Prepared for Meme Warfare? - Motherboard

  Memes, as any alt-right Pepe sorcerer will tell you, are not just frivolous entertainment. They are magic, the stuff by which reality is made and manipulated.

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• Bookmark Medieval technology, indistinguishable from magic | Aeon Essays

  In 807 the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad, Harun al-Rashid, sent Charlemagne a gift the like of which had never been seen in the Christian empire: a brass water clock. It chimed…

  November 4 2016, 11:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Marie Kondo's Life-Changing Magic and Hoarders - The Atlantic

  CHICAGO—It was Nordstrom’s anniversary sale, and Marnie couldn’t help herself. She ran to the shoe display, and, with a swooping bear hug, grabbed up an entire row of gemstone-hued Nikes. Marnie…

  September 29 2016, 7:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Tidying up: The life-changing magic of simplistic solutions to complex problems |…

  TIDYING up is serious business. “Life truly begins only after you have put your house in order,” says Marie Kondo, whose bestseller “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying” has elevated a household…

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• Bookmark e-flux journal 56th Venice Biennale – SUPERCOMMUNITY – Carolyn L. Kane

  Plastics ... A Way to a Better More Carefree Life. Plastic, wrote Roland Barthes circa 1954, is “the first magical substance that consents to be prosaic.”2Roland Barthes, Mythologies, trans. Annette Lavers (New…

  November 7 2015, 9:06am | Comments

• Additivism From A – Z: Abracadabra to ZombiesA to Z: Abracadabra to...

  From A – Z: Abracadabra to Zombies A to Z: Abracadabra to Zombies currently on display at the Pollock Gallery is a phantasmagoria of the now, with our own neuroses as specter.  Here, YouTube rabbit-holes have become otherworldly and the Internet is the stage…

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• Bookmark Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information | The Los…

  Erik Davis’s TechGnosis is considered the classic text on the relation between technology and the occult. This “Afterword 2.0” was written for a new edition, just out from North Atlantic Books.

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• Portfolio “Please don’t call me uncanny”: Cécile B. Evans at Seventeen Gallery

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• Rhizome Contributions "Please don't call me uncanny": Cécile B. Evans at Seventeen Gallery

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• GIFbites ‘ashamed of her monstrous form, the beast concealed...

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• GIFbites Magic Dust by Erica Scourti / @erica_scourti Part of the...

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• Bookmark Lucasfilm shows off the future of filmmaking? Scenes get rendered out in…

  OVER THE NEXT DECADE video game engines will be used in film-making, with the two disciplines combining to eliminate the movie post-production process. That rather ambitious claim comes from Lucasfilm, the…

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• Bookmark The Myth of Cyberspace – The New Inquiry

  In the early 1980s, when personal computing first became a reality, the faces of glowing terminals had an almost magical aura, transubstantiating arcane passages of 1s and 0s into sensory experience.

  September 26 2013, 12:49am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

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• Bookmark The Object is Always Magic: Narrative as Collection

  The lesson here is this: stories come from fragment and from ellipsis. At the same time I got the glass eyeballs I was collecting junk. Mostly what I collected was rusted…

  December 14 2012, 3:00am | Comments

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  Magic: The Gathering is Turing complete

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• GLTI.CH Karaoke Like Karaoke Machines in Manchester Meatspace

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• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark An extended breakdown of the Christian symbolism in Prometheus

  Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in…

  June 27 2012, 3:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark Prometheus Unbound: What The Movie Was Actually About

  Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in…

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