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Bookmark Where Memes Really Come From
Though history will probably remember Richard Dawkins as the activist who spearheaded a new atheist movement, there is something far more famous and important that he invented — and few people…

January 29 2013, 3:08pm | Comments
Bookmark The Fallacy of Dumb Superintelligence
This is what a New Yorker article has to say on the subject of “Moral Machines”: “An all-powerful computer that was programmed to maximize human pleasure, for example, might consign us…

December 14 2012, 3:03am | Comments
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MANIFESTO FOR A THEORY OF THE ‘NEW AESTHETIC’

October 11 2012, 3:23pm | Comments
Bookmark At ROFLCon, watching memes go mainstream
What is ROFLCon? It's a biennial convention (this year was its third) held to celebrate and discuss internet memes and the celebrity that is often created alongside them. This year's invited…

May 8 2012, 2:17pm | Comments
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March 10 2012, 4:13am | Comments
Bookmark The Clock: What time is it where?
Marclay assembled his edit in hour-long chunks, the 24-hour cycle giving him enormous scope, but also confining him to a minute-by-minute grid. “A 10.01 clip has to be within that minute,…

February 9 2012, 3:57am | 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
Ask Metafilter GIF Archaeology I'm writing a paper on (animated) GIFs and am trying to track down some of the most (in)famous. I suppose I am talking memes, but I'm more interested in the GIF as an archaeological reference point. I frequent sites like dump.fm, tumblr etc.…

May 16 2011, 8:17am | Comments
Twitter
...in particular I'd like to track down some REALLY (in)famous GIFs. Both individually & as memes spinning out of their originator's control

May 16 2011, 7:02am | Comments
Flickr the lost childhood

May 7 2010, 7:04am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments
Bookmark Digital Technology is Not the End of Artistic Trends
The Wall Street Journal’s Terry Teachout thinks future generations will consider itunes, youtube, and Kindle a more important cultural development than anything it distributes. He’s right to point out the huge…

December 23 2009, 3:49am | Comments
Spacecollective.org hypertext/?="The Metaphor is the Message"

April 18 2008, 4:22am | Comments

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