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  "The Rise of the Tweet takes place amid an internet-induced cheapening of language, in both good & bad senses" It’s possible to have a clear attitude toward Twitter if you’re not…

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  There are really two points. The first is a bit of technical background you can ignore if you like, and skip to the next paragraph. It’s the idea of “relative entropy”…

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• 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)

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  Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?

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• Ask Metafilter Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or a damp fizzle? If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from outer space for the next hundred years, on all frequencies, how many soap operas, advertisements…

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  Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

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• Bookmark A Conversation with film-maker Adam Curtis

  Since the early 1990s Adam Curtis has made a number of serial documentaries and films for the BBC using a playful mix of journalistic reportage and a wide range of avant-garde…

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  File Sharing Is Now an Official Religion In Sweden

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  You, like me, probably have a mirror face. It’s close to my “photo face,” but it’s a separate beast. My face contorts itself not because it will be recorded for Facebook…

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  I admit it. I'm a junkie for animated gifs. The animated gif has a deservedly mixed reputation. It's a vestige of the early web, a grainy reminder of badly animated banners…

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  "Risks are always interesting," writes George Dyson," especially in this case where you have such a mix of probabilities — the earthquake/tsunami that most agree was unpredictable, if inevitable, and the…

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• Metafilter The Soul Niche Swimming around in a mixture of language and matter, humans occupy a particular evolutionary niche mediated by something we call 'consciousness'. To Professor Nicholas Humphrey we're made up of "soul dust": "a kind of theatre... an entertainment which we put on for ourselves…

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  "On January 18th 2004, Strictly Kev premiered the original 'Raiding The 20th Century' on XFM's 'The Remix' show in London. It was a 40 minute attempt to catalogue the history of…

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• Bookmark In Defense of the Poor Image

  by Hito Steyerl The poor image is a copy in motion. Its quality is bad, its resolution substandard. As it accelerates, it deteriorates. It is a ghost of an image, a…

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• Bookmark Language as Thought: Watch out for the Hype

  Judging from how the Times magazine’s excerpt from Guy Deutscher’s new book has been one of the most read pieces in the paper for over a week now, the book is…

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  The world's first known human cannibals ate each other to satisfy their nutritional needs, concludes a new study of the remains of cannibal feasts consumed about one million years ago. The…

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• Bookmark Essay: Technology changes how art is created and perceived

  It used to be so simple. A book had an author; a film, a screenwriter and director; a piece of music, a composer and performer; a painting or sculpture, an artist;…

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

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  One of the most beautiful aspects of the genetic code is its simplicity: three letters of DNA combine in 64 different ways, easily spelled out in a handy table, to encode…

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  A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving. Andrew Cleland…

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

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  In the 'deep web', Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography. The modern internet is often thought of as a miracle of openness…

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• Bookmark Please RT

  "The Rise of the Tweet takes place amid an internet-induced cheapening of language, in both good & bad senses" It’s possible to have a clear attitude toward Twitter if you’re not…

  June 27 2012, 3:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Evolution, Entropy, and Information

  There are really two points. The first is a bit of technical background you can ignore if you like, and skip to the next paragraph. It’s the idea of “relative entropy”…

  June 15 2012, 5:19am | Comments

• YouTube

  June 3 2012, 4:01pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 8 2012, 2:09pm | 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

• Vimeo

  March 28 2012, 7:38am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 15 2012, 5:20pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?

  March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or a damp fizzle? If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from outer space for the next hundred years, on all frequencies, how many soap operas, advertisements…

  February 23 2012, 5:09am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

  February 17 2012, 5:05am | Comments

• Bookmark A Conversation with film-maker Adam Curtis

  Since the early 1990s Adam Curtis has made a number of serial documentaries and films for the BBC using a playful mix of journalistic reportage and a wide range of avant-garde…

  February 12 2012, 4:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  File Sharing Is Now an Official Religion In Sweden

  January 4 2012, 9:52am | Comments

• Tumblr thomforsyth: BIRD RIB Paintings | Maurizio Bongiovanni My work...

  October 2 2011, 4:52am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Mirror-Slave Dialectic

  You, like me, probably have a mirror face. It’s close to my “photo face,” but it’s a separate beast. My face contorts itself not because it will be recorded for Facebook…

  June 12 2011, 5:33am | Comments

• Portfolio Overlapping Magisteria

  April 26 2011, 8:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Gif art without the glitch

  I admit it. I'm a junkie for animated gifs. The animated gif has a deservedly mixed reputation. It's a vestige of the early web, a grainy reminder of badly animated banners…

  April 25 2011, 5:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark What we cannot predict

  "Risks are always interesting," writes George Dyson," especially in this case where you have such a mix of probabilities — the earthquake/tsunami that most agree was unpredictable, if inevitable, and the…

  March 30 2011, 2:28am | Comments

• Metafilter The Soul Niche Swimming around in a mixture of language and matter, humans occupy a particular evolutionary niche mediated by something we call 'consciousness'. To Professor Nicholas Humphrey we're made up of "soul dust": "a kind of theatre... an entertainment which we put on for ourselves…

  February 4 2011, 2:46am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 27 2011, 9:21am | Comments

• Bookmark UBUWeb Sound - DJ Food: Raiding the 20th Century

  "On January 18th 2004, Strictly Kev premiered the original 'Raiding The 20th Century' on XFM's 'The Remix' show in London. It was a 40 minute attempt to catalogue the history of…

  November 6 2010, 6:07pm | Comments

• Portfolio The Clock

  November 5 2010, 10:11am | Comments

• Bookmark In Defense of the Poor Image

  by Hito Steyerl The poor image is a copy in motion. Its quality is bad, its resolution substandard. As it accelerates, it deteriorates. It is a ghost of an image, a…

  October 28 2010, 7:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Language as Thought: Watch out for the Hype

  Judging from how the Times magazine’s excerpt from Guy Deutscher’s new book has been one of the most read pieces in the paper for over a week now, the book is…

  September 23 2010, 5:05am | Comments

• Bookmark First Cannibals Ate Each Other for Extra Nutrition

  The world's first known human cannibals ate each other to satisfy their nutritional needs, concludes a new study of the remains of cannibal feasts consumed about one million years ago. The…

  August 30 2010, 10:11am | Comments

• Bookmark Essay: Technology changes how art is created and perceived

  It used to be so simple. A book had an author; a film, a screenwriter and director; a piece of music, a composer and performer; a painting or sculpture, an artist;…

  July 18 2010, 5:20am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark The code within the code

  One of the most beautiful aspects of the genetic code is its simplicity: three letters of DNA combine in 64 different ways, easily spelled out in a handy table, to encode…

  May 7 2010, 2:12am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 3 2010, 3:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Scientists supersize quantum mechanics

  A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving. Andrew Cleland…

  March 21 2010, 12:51pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark The dark side of the internet

  In the 'deep web', Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography. The modern internet is often thought of as a miracle of openness…

  December 8 2009, 7:14am | Comments

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