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• Bookmark how to write drone fiction | THE STATE

  Earlier this week, Teju Cole posted seven short stories about drones on his twitter account. Here they are, reprinted from The New Inquiry: 1. Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the…

  February 21 2013, 4:08pm | Comments

• Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

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  Synthetic Biology: Designing a “Metaphysical” Chicken

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• Bookmark Synthetic Biology: Designing a “Metaphysical” Chicken

  The ultimate design material is one that understands what it is to become. By way of an example, I’d like to think about how we might design a chicken. Think of…

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

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• Bookmark An Idle Theory of Evolution

  The idea of evolution is of great antiquity. Empedocles, around 440 BC, wrote that there were once "countless tribes of mortal creatures, scattered abroad and endowed with all manner of forms,"…

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• Bookmark After the Last Man: Images and Ethics of Becoming Otherwise

  Huddled within one of the most influential theories of human desire and the destiny of democracy is an image of history and its future. This image is of a horizon. In…

  June 15 2012, 5:25am | Comments

• Bookmark The Case for Computers at Top Chess Tournaments

  Grandmasters of comparable skill now come to championship games with computer-generated analysis of their opponents’ opening lines and likely moves. Home preparation has always been important, but computers have made it…

  June 6 2012, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark The Arrow of Time (Debategraph)

  The debate about the nature of time and its passage is a long and venerable one. The issues addressed by pre-Socratic philosophers such as Heraclitus and Parmenides about whether time 'flows'…

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• Bookmark Ian Bogost - Aliens, but definitely not as we know them

  IF WE really want to understand the nature of the universe, then we must accept two principles. First, everything is an alien to everything else. And second, the experience of "being"…

  April 25 2012, 4:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Synthetic Genetic Polymers Capable of Heredity and Evolution

  Genetic information storage and processing rely on just two polymers, DNA and RNA, yet whether their role reflects evolutionary history or fundamental functional constraints is currently unknown. With the use of…

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  "One must not imitate nature; but nature, assigning its rules to genius, folds itself, returns to itself, reflects itself through art."

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• Bookmark A universe without purpose

  The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. Everywhere we look, it appears that the world…

  April 2 2012, 2:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s “The Thing” and You

  This monster’s talent for mimicry provokes some of the darkest questions. By foregrounding this capability and coupling it with our inability to discern mimics from the remaining men, The Thing focuses…

  March 26 2012, 3:37am | Comments

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  Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature

  March 9 2012, 4:34am | Comments

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  ANY ATTEMPT TO DECIPHER NATURE AND REVEAL ITS ORDER REQUIRES CERTAINTY THAT THE GRID WILL NOT CHANGE IN THE COURSE OF THE OPERATION.

  March 9 2012, 3:33am | Comments

• Bookmark We live in a "more-than-human" universe

  The new political ecology is thus emerging from a call for greater humility toward the world and all the life forms it may hold, both literally and figuratively. Rather than contrasting…

  February 13 2012, 2:09am | Comments

• Bookmark The meaning of monsters, magic and miracles

  Monsters demonstrate, monsters alert us: whether or not the etymologies relating the word to both “monstro” (I show) and “moneo” (I warn), are correct, monsters act as a moral compass. The…

  February 9 2012, 10:33am | Comments

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  Spaghetti western reveals differences between human and monkey brains

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• Bookmark Nature, nurture and liberal values

  Biology determines our behaviour more than it suits many to acknowledge. But people—and politics and morality—cannot be described just by neural impulses

  January 25 2012, 10:35am | Comments

• Bookmark The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith

  The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and…

  December 22 2011, 12:24pm | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

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  What Is the Future of Knowledge in the Internet Age?

  November 29 2011, 6:37am | Comments

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  “Any attempt to decipher nature and reveal its order requires certainty that the grid will not change in the course of the operation. There must be an assurance of regularity in the phenomena of nature… Otherwise there is no science. … [I]f a man…

  November 9 2011, 2:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Does Pinker’s “Better Angels” Undermine Religious Morality?

  It is often argued that religion makes individuals and the world more just and moral, that it builds character and provides a foundation from which we understand right from wrong, good…

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• Bookmark The Scariest Zombies in Nature

  Once the fungus invades its victim’s body, it’s already too late. The invader spreads through the host in a matter of days. The victim, unaware of what is happening, becomes driven…

  October 29 2011, 4:45pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Trap street A trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for the purpose of "trapping" potential copyright violators of the map, who will be unable to justify the…

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• Bookmark how to write drone fiction | THE STATE

  Earlier this week, Teju Cole posted seven short stories about drones on his twitter account. Here they are, reprinted from The New Inquiry: 1. Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the…

  February 21 2013, 4:08pm | Comments

• Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Synthetic Biology: Designing a “Metaphysical” Chicken

  September 5 2012, 1:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Synthetic Biology: Designing a “Metaphysical” Chicken

  The ultimate design material is one that understands what it is to become. By way of an example, I’d like to think about how we might design a chicken. Think of…

  September 5 2012, 1:20am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 29 2012, 3:44am | Comments

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

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark An Idle Theory of Evolution

  The idea of evolution is of great antiquity. Empedocles, around 440 BC, wrote that there were once "countless tribes of mortal creatures, scattered abroad and endowed with all manner of forms,"…

  July 10 2012, 2:40am | Comments

• Bookmark After the Last Man: Images and Ethics of Becoming Otherwise

  Huddled within one of the most influential theories of human desire and the destiny of democracy is an image of history and its future. This image is of a horizon. In…

  June 15 2012, 5:25am | Comments

• Bookmark The Case for Computers at Top Chess Tournaments

  Grandmasters of comparable skill now come to championship games with computer-generated analysis of their opponents’ opening lines and likely moves. Home preparation has always been important, but computers have made it…

  June 6 2012, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark The Arrow of Time (Debategraph)

  The debate about the nature of time and its passage is a long and venerable one. The issues addressed by pre-Socratic philosophers such as Heraclitus and Parmenides about whether time 'flows'…

  May 11 2012, 8:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Ian Bogost - Aliens, but definitely not as we know them

  IF WE really want to understand the nature of the universe, then we must accept two principles. First, everything is an alien to everything else. And second, the experience of "being"…

  April 25 2012, 4:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Synthetic Genetic Polymers Capable of Heredity and Evolution

  Genetic information storage and processing rely on just two polymers, DNA and RNA, yet whether their role reflects evolutionary history or fundamental functional constraints is currently unknown. With the use of…

  April 20 2012, 12:31pm | Comments

• Twitter

  "One must not imitate nature; but nature, assigning its rules to genius, folds itself, returns to itself, reflects itself through art."

  April 14 2012, 5:48pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Next What?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark A universe without purpose

  The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. Everywhere we look, it appears that the world…

  April 2 2012, 2:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s “The Thing” and You

  This monster’s talent for mimicry provokes some of the darkest questions. By foregrounding this capability and coupling it with our inability to discern mimics from the remaining men, The Thing focuses…

  March 26 2012, 3:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature

  March 9 2012, 4:34am | Comments

• Twitter

  ANY ATTEMPT TO DECIPHER NATURE AND REVEAL ITS ORDER REQUIRES CERTAINTY THAT THE GRID WILL NOT CHANGE IN THE COURSE OF THE OPERATION.

  March 9 2012, 3:33am | Comments

• Bookmark We live in a "more-than-human" universe

  The new political ecology is thus emerging from a call for greater humility toward the world and all the life forms it may hold, both literally and figuratively. Rather than contrasting…

  February 13 2012, 2:09am | Comments

• Bookmark The meaning of monsters, magic and miracles

  Monsters demonstrate, monsters alert us: whether or not the etymologies relating the word to both “monstro” (I show) and “moneo” (I warn), are correct, monsters act as a moral compass. The…

  February 9 2012, 10:33am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Spaghetti western reveals differences between human and monkey brains

  February 6 2012, 1:21am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark Nature, nurture and liberal values

  Biology determines our behaviour more than it suits many to acknowledge. But people—and politics and morality—cannot be described just by neural impulses

  January 25 2012, 10:35am | Comments

• Bookmark The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith

  The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and…

  December 22 2011, 12:24pm | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  What Is the Future of Knowledge in the Internet Age?

  November 29 2011, 6:37am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Any attempt to decipher nature and reveal its order requires certainty that the grid will not change..."

  “Any attempt to decipher nature and reveal its order requires certainty that the grid will not change in the course of the operation. There must be an assurance of regularity in the phenomena of nature… Otherwise there is no science. … [I]f a man…

  November 9 2011, 2:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Does Pinker’s “Better Angels” Undermine Religious Morality?

  It is often argued that religion makes individuals and the world more just and moral, that it builds character and provides a foundation from which we understand right from wrong, good…

  November 2 2011, 6:58am | Comments

• Bookmark The Scariest Zombies in Nature

  Once the fungus invades its victim’s body, it’s already too late. The invader spreads through the host in a matter of days. The victim, unaware of what is happening, becomes driven…

  October 29 2011, 4:45pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Trap street A trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for the purpose of "trapping" potential copyright violators of the map, who will be unable to justify the…

  October 16 2011, 9:10am | Comments

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

  October 2 2011, 4:52am | Comments

• Tumblr How Computational Complexity Will Revolutionise Philosophy

  August 10 2011, 5:31am | Comments

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