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  "How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost

  January 13 2012, 2:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Tom McCarthy: My desktop

  I must belong to the only generation of writers who've written with all three of inkpen, typewriter and computer. It definitely matters: the technology colours not only the rhythm but the…

  November 27 2011, 9:34am | Comments

• Bookmark #Don't Follow Twitter Art

  Twitter art bums me out. Fine, it’s a new medium that we don’t know what to do with yet, but it's receiving a growing amount of attention and most of it…

  July 6 2011, 9:23am | Comments

• Bookmark A Medium for the Masses

  The word “meme” first appeared in Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book “The Selfish Gene.” Dawkins defined a meme as being any sort of idea that spreads from person to person within a…

  June 6 2011, 2:25am | Comments

• Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

  May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark The Principle of Notworking: Concepts in Critical Internet Culture

  Internet culture is in a permanent flux. There is no linear growth, neither up nor down. The only certainty is the steady rise, both in absolute and relative numbers of users…

  April 9 2011, 2:16am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: All Your Art Are Belong To Us All your art are belong to us. Previously, Rogert Ebert said that video games can never be art. And previously, some disagreed. In a recent opinion piece, game developer Brian Moriarty discusses the debate, and fires a fresh salvo.The piece is long winded,…

  March 16 2011, 10:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Jacques Ranciere: What Medium Can Mean

  I will present some remarks here on the use of the notion of medium in art theory and the light cast on this notion by the case of photography. The notion of…

  March 12 2011, 1:55am | Comments

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  My talk on 'Open Media' is online. Listen, watch, buy the T-shirt... Errors in Things and "The Friendly Medium" : goo.gl/XKgBB

  February 19 2011, 6:09am | Comments

• Portfolio Errors in Things and “The Friendly Medium”

  February 16 2011, 7:39am | Comments

• Bookmark The Postmedia Perspective

  The starting point of the book is that the label “New Media Art” does not identify an art genre or an art movement, and cannot be viewed – as it usually…

  January 12 2011, 9:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Lev manovich: software culture. the common grammar of media

  Professor of New Media Art at the University of California, both artist and graphic designer, Lev Manovich does not need further presentation. His first book “The language of New Media” (it…

  December 13 2010, 6:12pm | Comments

• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Do writers need paper?

  Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world. Once the words…

  October 24 2010, 5:05pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  September 30 2010, 4:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark Journalism in the Age of Data: A Film

  What bad writing has to do with war casualties and traffic over North America. It’s no secret we have a data visualization fetish, but that’s not just because we like looking…

  September 30 2010, 4:19pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Portfolio Rancière’s Ignoramus

  July 26 2010, 6:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Art and Thingness, Part Two: Thingification

  by Sven Lütticken In a text written in response to the upheavals of the Russian Revolution and the early Soviet avant-garde, Carl Einstein claimed that tradition “piles up in the object”;…

  July 19 2010, 8:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Video Games And The Philosophy Of Art

  The film critic Roger Ebert’s recent comments about video games and their potential as art, and especially the immense stir the comments caused on discussion forums all over the internet, shows…

  July 11 2010, 4:32pm | Comments

• Portfolio To crush a Morlock’s skull

  June 28 2010, 10:42am | Comments

• Misc Dispersion Type Artwork Artist Seth Price URL http://www.distributedhistory.com/Dispersion08.pdf Date 2002 Accessed 2010-06-24 10:09:31 Medium PDF

  June 24 2010, 3:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Zombie Renaissance

  Zombies are “characters” in the sense recently revived by the critic Aaron Kunin—they are a type whose existence extends beyond any one work or even medium. This is why we can…

  May 1 2010, 9:44am | Comments

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

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Video games can never be art

  Having once made the statement above, I have declined all opportunities to enlarge upon it or defend it. That seemed to be a fool's errand, especially given the volume of messages…

  April 18 2010, 3:47pm | Comments

• Bookmark Technologies of Culture: The Archive

  "'To read what was never written.' Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new kind…

  February 24 2010, 7:38am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

  February 2 2010, 6:35am | 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 Is the Internet melting our brains?

  By now the arguments are familiar: Facebook is ruining our social relationships; Google is making us dumber; texting is destroying the English language as we know it. We're facing a crisis,…

  September 28 2009, 9:01am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

  September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments

• Bibliography Critical Play

  August 6 2009, 1:28pm | Comments

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• Twitter Favourites

  "How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost

  January 13 2012, 2:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Tom McCarthy: My desktop

  I must belong to the only generation of writers who've written with all three of inkpen, typewriter and computer. It definitely matters: the technology colours not only the rhythm but the…

  November 27 2011, 9:34am | Comments

• Bookmark #Don't Follow Twitter Art

  Twitter art bums me out. Fine, it’s a new medium that we don’t know what to do with yet, but it's receiving a growing amount of attention and most of it…

  July 6 2011, 9:23am | Comments

• Bookmark A Medium for the Masses

  The word “meme” first appeared in Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book “The Selfish Gene.” Dawkins defined a meme as being any sort of idea that spreads from person to person within a…

  June 6 2011, 2:25am | Comments

• Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

  May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark The Principle of Notworking: Concepts in Critical Internet Culture

  Internet culture is in a permanent flux. There is no linear growth, neither up nor down. The only certainty is the steady rise, both in absolute and relative numbers of users…

  April 9 2011, 2:16am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: All Your Art Are Belong To Us All your art are belong to us. Previously, Rogert Ebert said that video games can never be art. And previously, some disagreed. In a recent opinion piece, game developer Brian Moriarty discusses the debate, and fires a fresh salvo.The piece is long winded,…

  March 16 2011, 10:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Jacques Ranciere: What Medium Can Mean

  I will present some remarks here on the use of the notion of medium in art theory and the light cast on this notion by the case of photography. The notion of…

  March 12 2011, 1:55am | Comments

• Twitter

  My talk on 'Open Media' is online. Listen, watch, buy the T-shirt... Errors in Things and "The Friendly Medium" : goo.gl/XKgBB

  February 19 2011, 6:09am | Comments

• Portfolio Errors in Things and “The Friendly Medium”

  February 16 2011, 7:39am | Comments

• Bookmark The Postmedia Perspective

  The starting point of the book is that the label “New Media Art” does not identify an art genre or an art movement, and cannot be viewed – as it usually…

  January 12 2011, 9:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Lev manovich: software culture. the common grammar of media

  Professor of New Media Art at the University of California, both artist and graphic designer, Lev Manovich does not need further presentation. His first book “The language of New Media” (it…

  December 13 2010, 6:12pm | Comments

• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Do writers need paper?

  Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world. Once the words…

  October 24 2010, 5:05pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  September 30 2010, 4:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark Journalism in the Age of Data: A Film

  What bad writing has to do with war casualties and traffic over North America. It’s no secret we have a data visualization fetish, but that’s not just because we like looking…

  September 30 2010, 4:19pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Portfolio Rancière’s Ignoramus

  July 26 2010, 6:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Art and Thingness, Part Two: Thingification

  by Sven Lütticken In a text written in response to the upheavals of the Russian Revolution and the early Soviet avant-garde, Carl Einstein claimed that tradition “piles up in the object”;…

  July 19 2010, 8:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Video Games And The Philosophy Of Art

  The film critic Roger Ebert’s recent comments about video games and their potential as art, and especially the immense stir the comments caused on discussion forums all over the internet, shows…

  July 11 2010, 4:32pm | Comments

• Portfolio To crush a Morlock’s skull

  June 28 2010, 10:42am | Comments

• Misc Dispersion Type Artwork Artist Seth Price URL http://www.distributedhistory.com/Dispersion08.pdf Date 2002 Accessed 2010-06-24 10:09:31 Medium PDF

  June 24 2010, 3:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Zombie Renaissance

  Zombies are “characters” in the sense recently revived by the critic Aaron Kunin—they are a type whose existence extends beyond any one work or even medium. This is why we can…

  May 1 2010, 9:44am | Comments

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

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Video games can never be art

  Having once made the statement above, I have declined all opportunities to enlarge upon it or defend it. That seemed to be a fool's errand, especially given the volume of messages…

  April 18 2010, 3:47pm | Comments

• Bookmark Technologies of Culture: The Archive

  "'To read what was never written.' Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new kind…

  February 24 2010, 7:38am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

  February 2 2010, 6:35am | 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 Is the Internet melting our brains?

  By now the arguments are familiar: Facebook is ruining our social relationships; Google is making us dumber; texting is destroying the English language as we know it. We're facing a crisis,…

  September 28 2009, 9:01am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

  September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments

• Bibliography Critical Play

  August 6 2009, 1:28pm | Comments

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