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Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

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Bibliography Critical Play

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Bookmark Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss - The Film
This is the whole of the experimental film, It Felt Like a Kiss. It was the basis of the show [Adam Curtis] did in Manchester with Punchdrunk. The show may well…

July 27 2009, 5:52pm | Comments
Portfolio The Movement of The Middle

June 30 2009, 9:05am | Comments
Bookmark The Evolutionary Enigma of Dream Content
Boston University neuroscientist Patrick McNamara has an interesting evolutionary theory of dreaming. McNamara’s theory draws from the well-known “handicapping principle” in evolutionary biology, where some organisms have been observed to display…

June 27 2009, 4:32am | Comments
Bookmark What Skepticism Reveals about Science
“The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It’s all lies. But they’re entertaining lies, and in the end isn’t that the real truth? The…

June 24 2009, 3:26pm | 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 Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss
It Felt Like a Kiss started life as an experimental film I made for the BBC last year. My aim was to try and find a more involving and emotional way…

June 20 2009, 5:39am | 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 Immortal Information
For centuries, archivists have noted a curious relationship between “quantity” and “quality” of items in their collections. That is, typically a storage medium’s durability is inversely proportional to the amount of…

June 16 2009, 10:38am | Comments
Flickr Schwitters, Kurt (1887-1948) - 1942-43 Collage

June 10 2009, 6:55pm | Comments
Bibliography The Open Work

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Bookmark Way more about paths at UC Berkeley than you'd ever want to…
How architectural and design choices are mediated and ultimately over-ruled by user choice, reflexion, repetition and desire.

May 25 2009, 12:21pm | Comments
Bookmark The Origin of Life
How did life arise from inorganic matter? Our progress on this question has been impeded by a formidable cognitive barrier. Because we perceive a deep gap when we think about the…

May 23 2009, 4:48am | Comments
Bookmark Positions in Flux - Panel 2: New territories and cultures of the…
The panel New territories and cultures of the digital looked at the geographical shift that media culture currently undergoes. Europe, North America and Japan used to be at the forefront of…

May 20 2009, 9:24am | Comments
Bookmark The disembodied book
In the shadows of the global financial crisis of the early 21st century, another revolution is gathering pace, whose repercussions reach far beyond the current correctable economic buckling. It impact on…

May 17 2009, 3:24am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments
Bibliography The Language of New Media

April 27 2009, 10:12am | Comments
Bookmark A Society of Simulations
This essay aims to increase our understanding of simulations and their impact on our notion of reality. Following on some observations regarding the dominant role of visual representations in our culture,…

April 20 2009, 3:22pm | Comments
Wikipedia Fallacy of misplaced concreteness | Wikipedia In the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion or concept about the way things are for a physical or 'concrete' reality. Whitehead proposed the fallacy in a discussion of the…

March 12 2009, 6:08pm | Comments
Bookmark Fallacy of misplaced concreteness | Wikipedia
In the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion or concept about the way things are for a physical…

March 12 2009, 6:08pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter New theories of Mimesis (in digital/hypertextual/ hypermedial cultures) I am looking for writings on mimesis in regards new, digital, hypertext and hypermedial technologies and cultures. I am following the redefinition of mimesis. From Plato's disregard of oral culture, through his mimesis of Socrates' dialogues in writing. Following Plato, Aristotle's theory was…

February 16 2009, 7:09am | Comments
Bookmark Dick Higgins: Statement on Intermedia
Art is one of the ways that people communicate. It is difficult for me to imagine a serious person attacking any means of communication per se. Our real enemies are the…

January 30 2009, 6:03am | Comments
Ask Metafilter The phenomenology of text The phenomenology / ontology of text: has anyone examined this issue directly in philosophical, literary and/or critical terms? I am interested in the experience and perception of text, both within readership and on an abstract (more holistic level perhaps) as the archetypical mediator…

September 18 2008, 8:21am | Comments
Wikipedia Textual criticism - Wikipedia Textual criticism (or lower criticism) is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts. Ancient scribes often made errors or alterations, while copying manuscripts by hand.[1] Given a manuscript copy,…

September 16 2008, 11:23am | Comments
Spacecollective.org How Technology "Reveals" the World

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Spacecollective.org The Metaphor is the Message Part II: Palimpsests Palimpsests Palimpsests

April 24 2008, 8:57am | Comments
Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments

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