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• Bookmark The Myth of Cyberspace – The New Inquiry

  In the early 1980s, when personal computing first became a reality, the faces of glowing terminals had an almost magical aura, transubstantiating arcane passages of 1s and 0s into sensory experience.

  September 26 2013, 12:49am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Interview with a writer: John Gray » Spectator Blogs

  In his new book The Silence of Animals, the philosopher John Gray explores why human beings continue to use myth to give purpose to their lives. Drawing from the material of…

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Portfolio Binary Nomination

  July 19 2012, 9:32am | Comments

• Bookmark An extended breakdown of the Christian symbolism in Prometheus

  Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in…

  June 27 2012, 3:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark Prometheus Unbound: What The Movie Was Actually About

  Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in…

  June 15 2012, 5:29am | Comments

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  Does It Matter Whether God Exists?

  March 23 2012, 1:51am | Comments

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  Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

  March 9 2012, 2:48am | Comments

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  Freud: The last great Enlightenment thinker

  January 22 2012, 11:07am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  It Does Take a Village

  December 1 2011, 3:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Roots of Religion: Myth, Play and Human Evolution

  Robert Bellah, one of America's most distinguished sociologists, caps off his luminous academic career with "Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age" , a near 800-page magnum…

  October 19 2011, 3:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Can religion tell us more than science?

  In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and against…

  September 20 2011, 3:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Steven Pinker on the History and decline (and myth of) Violence

  Some of the evidence has been under our nose all along. Conventional history has long shown that, in many ways, we have been getting kinder and gentler. Cruelty as entertainment, human…

  September 20 2011, 3:05am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective

  Imagine you are falling. But there is no ground. Many contemporary philosophers have pointed out that the present moment is distinguished by a prevailing condition of groundlessness.1 We cannot assume any…

  July 19 2011, 2:49am | Comments

• Bookmark Friday, by Michel Tournier

  French writer, who gained fame at the age of forty-three with his first novel, Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (1967, Friday; or, The Other Island), an ingenious reworking of the…

  July 5 2011, 9:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Unnatural: the Heretical Idea of Making People

  We human beings persist in thinking of ourselves as a unique species, endowed with special insight into a universe that we can manipulate. In fact, this notion is based on unexamined…

  February 21 2011, 1:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Of Other Spaces: Heterotopias

  (Michel Foucault, 1967) The great obsession of the nineteenth century was, as we know, history: with its themes of development and of suspension, of crisis, and cycle, themes of the ever-accumulating…

  January 19 2011, 4:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Myths of a Near Future: Simon Sellars, Bruce Sterling and V. Vale…

  Two years ago, I appeared on a panel, ‘Myths of a Near Future’, with writer Bruce Sterling and V. Vale of RE/Search Publications to discuss the work of J.G. Ballard. Held…

  November 15 2010, 2:31am | Comments

• Bookmark The Myth of Separate Magisteria

  By now, nearly everyone with a passing interest in science or religion is familiar with Stephen Jay Gould’s description of the two disciplines as “non-overlapping magisteria” with separate domains — science…

  November 10 2010, 5:17am | 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

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

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Portfolio To crush a Morlock’s skull

  June 28 2010, 10:42am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Portfolio Raising Neanderthals

  March 11 2010, 8:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

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

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

• Metafilter Arcangel and the future of digi/net art Corey Arcangel is perhaps the internet's most infamous hack, masher-upper, digi/net artist. His work stands for a growing culture of artists who run wildly through animated GIF landscapes populated with corrupted data-compressed bunny rabbits and tinny, MIDI renditions of Savage Garden ballads. As…

  December 8 2009, 5:44am | Comments

• Bookmark IMG MGMT: Hubris/Nemesis/Whatever

  Another binary myth fundamental to Western culture is the eternally popular hubris/nemesis complex. According to this idea, those who transgress against the natural order always get their just desserts. Hubris is…

  November 13 2009, 4:22pm | Comments

• Portfolio Simulating Kim Jong Il

  November 6 2009, 9:28am | Comments

• Portfolio Profane Prisms

  November 5 2009, 1:14pm | Comments

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• Bookmark The Myth of Cyberspace – The New Inquiry

  In the early 1980s, when personal computing first became a reality, the faces of glowing terminals had an almost magical aura, transubstantiating arcane passages of 1s and 0s into sensory experience.

  September 26 2013, 12:49am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Interview with a writer: John Gray » Spectator Blogs

  In his new book The Silence of Animals, the philosopher John Gray explores why human beings continue to use myth to give purpose to their lives. Drawing from the material of…

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Portfolio Binary Nomination

  July 19 2012, 9:32am | Comments

• Bookmark An extended breakdown of the Christian symbolism in Prometheus

  Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in…

  June 27 2012, 3:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark Prometheus Unbound: What The Movie Was Actually About

  Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in…

  June 15 2012, 5:29am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Does It Matter Whether God Exists?

  March 23 2012, 1:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

  March 9 2012, 2:48am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Freud: The last great Enlightenment thinker

  January 22 2012, 11:07am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  It Does Take a Village

  December 1 2011, 3:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Roots of Religion: Myth, Play and Human Evolution

  Robert Bellah, one of America's most distinguished sociologists, caps off his luminous academic career with "Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age" , a near 800-page magnum…

  October 19 2011, 3:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Can religion tell us more than science?

  In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and against…

  September 20 2011, 3:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Steven Pinker on the History and decline (and myth of) Violence

  Some of the evidence has been under our nose all along. Conventional history has long shown that, in many ways, we have been getting kinder and gentler. Cruelty as entertainment, human…

  September 20 2011, 3:05am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective

  Imagine you are falling. But there is no ground. Many contemporary philosophers have pointed out that the present moment is distinguished by a prevailing condition of groundlessness.1 We cannot assume any…

  July 19 2011, 2:49am | Comments

• Bookmark Friday, by Michel Tournier

  French writer, who gained fame at the age of forty-three with his first novel, Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (1967, Friday; or, The Other Island), an ingenious reworking of the…

  July 5 2011, 9:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Unnatural: the Heretical Idea of Making People

  We human beings persist in thinking of ourselves as a unique species, endowed with special insight into a universe that we can manipulate. In fact, this notion is based on unexamined…

  February 21 2011, 1:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Of Other Spaces: Heterotopias

  (Michel Foucault, 1967) The great obsession of the nineteenth century was, as we know, history: with its themes of development and of suspension, of crisis, and cycle, themes of the ever-accumulating…

  January 19 2011, 4:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Myths of a Near Future: Simon Sellars, Bruce Sterling and V. Vale…

  Two years ago, I appeared on a panel, ‘Myths of a Near Future’, with writer Bruce Sterling and V. Vale of RE/Search Publications to discuss the work of J.G. Ballard. Held…

  November 15 2010, 2:31am | Comments

• Bookmark The Myth of Separate Magisteria

  By now, nearly everyone with a passing interest in science or religion is familiar with Stephen Jay Gould’s description of the two disciplines as “non-overlapping magisteria” with separate domains — science…

  November 10 2010, 5:17am | 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

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

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Portfolio To crush a Morlock’s skull

  June 28 2010, 10:42am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Portfolio Raising Neanderthals

  March 11 2010, 8:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

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

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

• Metafilter Arcangel and the future of digi/net art Corey Arcangel is perhaps the internet's most infamous hack, masher-upper, digi/net artist. His work stands for a growing culture of artists who run wildly through animated GIF landscapes populated with corrupted data-compressed bunny rabbits and tinny, MIDI renditions of Savage Garden ballads. As…

  December 8 2009, 5:44am | Comments

• Bookmark IMG MGMT: Hubris/Nemesis/Whatever

  Another binary myth fundamental to Western culture is the eternally popular hubris/nemesis complex. According to this idea, those who transgress against the natural order always get their just desserts. Hubris is…

  November 13 2009, 4:22pm | Comments

• Portfolio Simulating Kim Jong Il

  November 6 2009, 9:28am | Comments

• Portfolio Profane Prisms

  November 5 2009, 1:14pm | Comments

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