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  Novelists Predict Future With Eerie Accuracy

  September 4 2011, 6:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark Is New Media Accepted in the Art World? Domenico Quaranta’s Media, New…

  Do institutions and galleries have a growing interest in New Media? Two weeks ago, I identified the art “internet bubble” at The L Magazine, a trend that’s currently giving new media…

  September 2 2011, 3:07pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Logic of Life by Francois Jacob

  August 31 2011, 7:31am | Comments

• Bookmark The New Atheism

  Trapped in the childhood literalism of my background, I had not entertained the possibility of Christian belief separated from the great lure and threat of heaven and hell. The New Atheism…

  August 30 2011, 8:21am | Comments

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  Media, New Media, Postmedia

  August 30 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Inside the Internet Art Bubble

  The internet finally seems to have made a dint in New York's institutional art world. Cory Arcangel, an artist who began his career manipulating old computer technologies and critiquing web culture,…

  August 17 2011, 6:26am | Comments

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  What Jaron Lanier Thinks of Technology Now : The New Yorker

  August 16 2011, 3:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Our Emergent Digital Future

  What will the digital world look like in ten years?  The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path.  The explosion in the volume…

  August 14 2011, 4:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Digital tendencies

  From 1961 to 1973, a loosely organized group of artists and scientists coalesced around the radical idea that the emerging technology of the computer could be used to make a different…

  August 12 2011, 4:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES…

  Emulators for playing older games are immensely popular online, with regular arguments breaking out over which emulator is best for which game. Today we present another point of view from a…

  August 11 2011, 4:25am | Comments

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  August 11 2011, 12:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Secularism and Its Discontents

  These are theological questions without theological answers, and, if the atheist is not supposed to entertain them, then, for slightly different reasons, neither is the religious believer. Religion assumes that they…

  August 9 2011, 3:57pm | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Bookmark New York - Empire of Evolution

  Dr. Munshi-South has joined the ranks of a small but growing number of field biologists who study urban evolution — not the rise and fall of skyscrapers and neighborhoods, but the…

  July 26 2011, 1:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark What's human? What's animal? And what of the biology in between?

  Friday's report by the Academy of Medical Sciences on the increasingly fuzzy boundaries between the human and the animal is the latest in a long series of policy reflections on how…

  July 25 2011, 3:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or the next big thing?

  There’s a new online threat to writing. Critics of the web like to blame email, texts, and chat for killing prose. Even blogs—present company included—don’t escape their wrath. But in fact…

  July 25 2011, 2:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Regulations proposed for animal–human chimaeras

  The increasingly sophisticated blending of different species to create chimaeras is pushing biology into a new ethical dimension. Last year, scientists used new stem-cell technologies to create a mouse with a…

  July 22 2011, 1:30am | Comments

• Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

  July 21 2011, 2:58am | Comments

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  The Age of Mechanical Reproduction

  July 13 2011, 2:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Neolithic Age is over!

  Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance, the…

  July 12 2011, 1:36am | Comments

• Bibliography Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Popular Classics) by Daniel Defoe

  July 8 2011, 7:36am | Comments

• Bibliography On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart

  July 8 2011, 7:36am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics

  “Nothing new under the reign of the same and under the same reign, preserved. Nothing new and nothing to be born, no nature. This is death, eternally. Nature put to death, its birth unwanted. The science of this is nothing. It is calculably nothing.…

  July 7 2011, 12:03pm | 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 How to fix horror, Part I: Stop trying to be so respectable

  My new book Shock Value: How a few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror, explores how horror went mainstream by revisiting the golden age that began…

  July 5 2011, 9:34am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Err' by artist Jeremy Hutchison

  For his new project, Err, artist Jeremy Hutchison contacted various factories around the world, and asked if one of their workers would produce an 'incorrect' version of the product they make…

  July 5 2011, 9:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Knowledge, not the way you knew it

  17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an “experiment”…

  June 28 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Knowledge, not the way you knew it 17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an “experiment” in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, nowadays constitutes the largest…

  June 28 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Perfection Is Not A Useful Concept

  Interview with Nick Bostrom Our long track record of survival–humans have been around for about 100,000 years–gives us some assurance that the natural risks have been rather small. If they have…

  June 20 2011, 9:21am | Comments

• Bookmark The Things, by Peter Watts

  I am being Blair. I escape out the back as the world comes in through the front. I am being Copper. I am rising from the dead. I am being Childs.…

  June 20 2011, 5:13am | Comments

• Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

  June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments

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  June 17 2011, 4:33am | Comments

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• Twitter Favourites

  Novelists Predict Future With Eerie Accuracy

  September 4 2011, 6:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark Is New Media Accepted in the Art World? Domenico Quaranta’s Media, New…

  Do institutions and galleries have a growing interest in New Media? Two weeks ago, I identified the art “internet bubble” at The L Magazine, a trend that’s currently giving new media…

  September 2 2011, 3:07pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Logic of Life by Francois Jacob

  August 31 2011, 7:31am | Comments

• Bookmark The New Atheism

  Trapped in the childhood literalism of my background, I had not entertained the possibility of Christian belief separated from the great lure and threat of heaven and hell. The New Atheism…

  August 30 2011, 8:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Media, New Media, Postmedia

  August 30 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Inside the Internet Art Bubble

  The internet finally seems to have made a dint in New York's institutional art world. Cory Arcangel, an artist who began his career manipulating old computer technologies and critiquing web culture,…

  August 17 2011, 6:26am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  What Jaron Lanier Thinks of Technology Now : The New Yorker

  August 16 2011, 3:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Our Emergent Digital Future

  What will the digital world look like in ten years?  The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path.  The explosion in the volume…

  August 14 2011, 4:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Digital tendencies

  From 1961 to 1973, a loosely organized group of artists and scientists coalesced around the radical idea that the emerging technology of the computer could be used to make a different…

  August 12 2011, 4:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES…

  Emulators for playing older games are immensely popular online, with regular arguments breaking out over which emulator is best for which game. Today we present another point of view from a…

  August 11 2011, 4:25am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  [map=yes]

  August 11 2011, 12:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Secularism and Its Discontents

  These are theological questions without theological answers, and, if the atheist is not supposed to entertain them, then, for slightly different reasons, neither is the religious believer. Religion assumes that they…

  August 9 2011, 3:57pm | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Bookmark New York - Empire of Evolution

  Dr. Munshi-South has joined the ranks of a small but growing number of field biologists who study urban evolution — not the rise and fall of skyscrapers and neighborhoods, but the…

  July 26 2011, 1:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark What's human? What's animal? And what of the biology in between?

  Friday's report by the Academy of Medical Sciences on the increasingly fuzzy boundaries between the human and the animal is the latest in a long series of policy reflections on how…

  July 25 2011, 3:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or the next big thing?

  There’s a new online threat to writing. Critics of the web like to blame email, texts, and chat for killing prose. Even blogs—present company included—don’t escape their wrath. But in fact…

  July 25 2011, 2:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Regulations proposed for animal–human chimaeras

  The increasingly sophisticated blending of different species to create chimaeras is pushing biology into a new ethical dimension. Last year, scientists used new stem-cell technologies to create a mouse with a…

  July 22 2011, 1:30am | Comments

• Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

  July 21 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Age of Mechanical Reproduction

  July 13 2011, 2:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Neolithic Age is over!

  Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance, the…

  July 12 2011, 1:36am | Comments

• Bibliography Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Popular Classics) by Daniel Defoe

  July 8 2011, 7:36am | Comments

• Bibliography On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart

  July 8 2011, 7:36am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics

  “Nothing new under the reign of the same and under the same reign, preserved. Nothing new and nothing to be born, no nature. This is death, eternally. Nature put to death, its birth unwanted. The science of this is nothing. It is calculably nothing.…

  July 7 2011, 12:03pm | 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 How to fix horror, Part I: Stop trying to be so respectable

  My new book Shock Value: How a few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror, explores how horror went mainstream by revisiting the golden age that began…

  July 5 2011, 9:34am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Err' by artist Jeremy Hutchison

  For his new project, Err, artist Jeremy Hutchison contacted various factories around the world, and asked if one of their workers would produce an 'incorrect' version of the product they make…

  July 5 2011, 9:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Knowledge, not the way you knew it

  17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an “experiment”…

  June 28 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Knowledge, not the way you knew it 17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an “experiment” in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, nowadays constitutes the largest…

  June 28 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Perfection Is Not A Useful Concept

  Interview with Nick Bostrom Our long track record of survival–humans have been around for about 100,000 years–gives us some assurance that the natural risks have been rather small. If they have…

  June 20 2011, 9:21am | Comments

• Bookmark The Things, by Peter Watts

  I am being Blair. I escape out the back as the world comes in through the front. I am being Copper. I am rising from the dead. I am being Childs.…

  June 20 2011, 5:13am | Comments

• Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

  June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments

• Tumblr reCAPTCHAed

  June 17 2011, 4:33am | Comments

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