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Bookmark Nevolution: Metaphysical Mario
In which I string together a series of videos, links and text that use Mario as a base for Science. First is Mario and the Many World Interpretation of Quantum Physics…

May 30 2012, 1:54am | Comments
Bibliography Alien Phenomenology, or What it's Like to be a Thing (Posthumanities) by Ian Bogost

May 29 2012, 7:10am | Comments
Bibliography After the Digital Divide?: German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Media (Screen Cultures: German Film and the… by Lutz Koepnick

May 29 2012, 7:10am | Comments
Bookmark Peter Krapp: Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture (2011)
To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative reservoirs of…

May 23 2012, 9:46am | Comments
Bookmark Neanderthals Getting a Colourful Upgrade
A chorus of smart, modern minds is rising over the hills of anthropology that the ancient Neanderthals of Europe weren't anywhere nearly as dumb, insufferable and unrecognizable as everyone thought all…

May 23 2012, 9:44am | Comments
Bookmark We must set planetary boundaries wisely
As pressure on resources increases, pollution accumulates and humanity's impact on Earth escalates, global-scale governance of the environment is increasingly necessary. In June, the United Nations' Rio+20 Earth Summit in Rio…

May 23 2012, 9:39am | Comments
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Woman shouting repeatedly on 259 bus, "God!? What did I do that for God? I remember! Don't you remember?"

May 23 2012, 4:38am | Comments
Bookmark A Thomasson is any kind of "useless and defunct object attached to…
...according to Akasegawa's definition. A publisher's blurb states that this includes the "doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete... thing sprouting…

May 23 2012, 12:36am | Comments
Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher (Part 2) : Future Gnostic
In the very first lines of “Exegesis” Dick writes, “We see the Logos addressing the many living entities.” Logos is an important concept that litters the pages of “Exegesis.” It is…

May 22 2012, 3:14am | Comments
Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, Part 1
The fish pendant, on Dick’s account, began to emit a golden ray of light, and Dick suddenly experienced what he called, with a nod to Plato, anamnesis: the recollection or total…

May 22 2012, 3:05am | Comments
Bookmark Screen. Image. Text.
This moment in time, and the awareness of the possibilities electronic publishing grant, affect the manner in which we relate to texts in a way that is under constant scrutiny. But…

May 21 2012, 10:40am | Comments
Bookmark The idea of following in the age of Twitter
With regard to the relativity of value, Karl Marx expressed this function of ideology in the clearest terms in Volume I of Capital: "... one man is king only because other…

May 21 2012, 10:39am | Comments
Bookmark Digital archivists: technological custodians of human history
As paper and dyes deteriorate, acetate degenerates, and the minute magnetic flux recorded in analog tape fades with the ages, how do we preserve cultural artifacts like photographs, music, and film?…

May 21 2012, 10:38am | Comments
Bookmark The Trouble with Scientism
The conflict between the Naturwissenschaften and the Geisteswissenschaften goes back at least two centuries, and became intensified as ambitious, sometimes impatient researchers proposed to introduce natural scientific concepts and methods into…

May 17 2012, 3:42am | Comments
Bookmark Time-Lapse Expressway Into Google Search's Soul
German artist Sebastian Schmieg has devised a sort of backdoor to understanding, however, in his “Search By Image” project. You can look at a handful of said project’s iterations below, but…

May 17 2012, 3:40am | Comments
Tumblr Meet Meat Man

May 9 2012, 10:47am | Comments
Bookmark Did a Copying Mistake Build Man's Brain?
A copying error appears to be responsible for critical features of the human brain that distinguish us from our closest primate kin, new research finds. When tested out in mice, researchers…

May 9 2012, 8:14am | Comments
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May 8 2012, 2:09pm | Comments
Bookmark Reflecting the Past: Technology brings the ghosts of the past back to…
"We're trying to work out whether places have memories and if so, how can we help people relate to these memories," says Tim Cole, a lecturer in History at the University…

May 4 2012, 4:47am | Comments
Bookmark The animated history of the GIF
The GIF, or graphics interchange format, was introduced to the world by Compuserve in 1987. The compressed format was the ideal for performing image transfers across the slow modem connections of…

May 4 2012, 4:45am | Comments
Bookmark Children of Hoarders on Leaving the Cluttered Nest
In dealing with her mother’s home in Minneapolis, Ms. Sholl has spent much of her life alternating between feeling shame about its squalid condition and attempting to rid it of the…

May 4 2012, 3:45am | Comments
Bookmark Post-Digitalism and Contemporary Spanish Fiction
Postdigital literature is not centered in code, but in addressing a reality shaped by a mix of coded/uncoded reality – German Sierra (german_sierra)

April 30 2012, 10:48am | Comments
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When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?

April 29 2012, 2:07pm | Comments
Bookmark Google explains how it searches the internet in under half a second,…
Ever wonder how Google manages to search the entire web and return results in half a second? Well, RobertvH from Munich did, and Mountain View’s head of web-spam, Matt Cutts, talks…

April 25 2012, 4:49pm | Comments
Bookmark Can Artists Help Us Reboot Humanism in an Over-Connected Age?
How does aesthetic experience fare in such an environment? Within art-tech circles, the buzz these days is about something called the “New Aesthetic,” a coinage of James Bridle, who launched a…

April 25 2012, 4:44pm | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) "The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is..."
“The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is entirely external; it results from manufacture; I know what the object I have made is; I can make another one like it, but I would not be…

April 25 2012, 4:24pm | Comments
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"[H]umans are no longer monarchs of being, but are instead among beings, entangled in beings, & implicated in other beings." - Levi Bryant

April 23 2012, 11:01am | Comments
Tumblr Ultraman harakiri

April 23 2012, 5:05am | Comments
Bookmark Emergence of the Human 'SuperBrain' 75,000 Years Ago --"AI Could Blur Differences…
"Humans obviously evolved a much wider range of communication tools to express their thoughts, the most important being language," said Hoffecker, a fellow at CU's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.…

April 22 2012, 4:15pm | Comments
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Major evolutionary trend in human beings

April 22 2012, 1:03pm | Comments
Bookmark Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts
RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about…

April 21 2012, 5:37am | Comments
Bookmark Nietzsche's Posthuman: Rules for the Human Zoo
The concept of a “formless matter” [that] embodies … all that’s been thought between Hegel and Turing on the relation of “things” to “mind.” It tests out a trivalent—or multivalent—logic that’s…

April 20 2012, 12:28pm | Comments

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