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• Bookmark A Thomasson is any kind of "useless and defunct object attached to…

  ...according to Akasegawa's definition. A publisher's blurb states that this includes the "doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete... thing sprouting…

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  Once object aphasia subsides

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• Bookmark People see sexy pictures of women as objects, not people

  Sexual objectification has been well studied, but most of the research is about looking at the effects of this objectification. "What's unclear is, we don't actually know whether people at a…

  May 17 2012, 3:28am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is..."

  “The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is entirely external; it results from manufacture; I know what the object I have made is; I can make another one like it, but I would not be…

  April 25 2012, 4:24pm | Comments

• Bookmark Nietzsche's Posthuman: Rules for the Human Zoo

  The concept of a “formless matter” [that] embodies … all that’s been thought between Hegel and Turing on the relation of “things” to “mind.” It tests out a trivalent—or multivalent—logic that’s…

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• Bookmark How Christian Marclay created “The Clock”

  “When I first started on this project, I thought it would become a public art piece,” Marclay said. “I thought, What a great thing, to be in a train station waiting…

  March 18 2012, 4:30pm | Comments

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  The Democracy of Objects

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  Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

  February 17 2012, 5:05am | Comments

• Bookmark What Immanuel Kant got right about digital piracy

  It turns out that Kant didn't think that an author could mount a strong legal case against piracy based on property rights in words. After all, even after pirates copied an…

  January 30 2012, 4:28pm | Comments

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  It's time for science to move on from materialism

  January 28 2012, 10:35am | Comments

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  The Pirate Bay - Physibles

  January 24 2012, 2:11pm | Comments

• Findings quote from High Techne - Rutsky

  The position of human beings in relation to this techno-cultural un-conscious cannot, therefore, be that of the analyst (or theorist) who, standing outside this space, presumes to know or control it.It must in-stead be a relation of connection to, of interaction with, that which…

  January 6 2012, 7:52am | Comments

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

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark On A History of the World in 100 Objects

  Objects 101 by Roger Sandall What interests me here however is something else—the profoundly paradoxical position of MacGregor himself. When resisting Greek calls for the return of the Elgin Marbles, he…

  November 14 2011, 6:59am | 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

• Tumblr (Quote) "Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or..."

  “Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.” - J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition…

  September 30 2011, 5:16am | Comments

• Bookmark How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical Artifact"?

  The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful to…

  September 20 2011, 10:26am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put…

  “What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or…

  September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Reading Life - What We Do to Books

  There has always been a lot of discussion about the effect that reading books has on us. Far less attention has been paid to the effect that we (the readers) have…

  August 30 2011, 8:32am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Sacred Contagion Sacred contagion is the belief that spiritual properties within an object, place, or person may be passed to another object, place, or person, usually by direct contact or physical proximity. While the concept of sacred contagion has existed in numerous cultures since before…

  August 12 2011, 8:08am | Comments

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

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• Tumblr The Objectuals

  July 22 2011, 1:47am | Comments

• Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

  July 21 2011, 2:58am | 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 The Pathology of Collecting

  What I’ve learned, the hard way, is that the one thing you must never ask a collector is “why?” It’ll get you nowhere. They’ll just stare at you in baffled amazement…

  July 11 2011, 4:54am | 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 The truth is in there

  “I had all these ideas,” he said, speaking slowly and searchingly, like someone looking back on life and trying to figure out where it all went wrong. “I don’t know what…

  June 16 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Projects Digital Autonomy

  June 11 2011, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Technology Provides an Alternative to Love

  Let me toss out the idea that, as our markets discover and respond to what consumers most want, our technology has become extremely adept at creating products that correspond to our…

  May 30 2011, 2:03am | Comments

• Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

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• Bookmark A Thomasson is any kind of "useless and defunct object attached to…

  ...according to Akasegawa's definition. A publisher's blurb states that this includes the "doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete... thing sprouting…

  May 23 2012, 12:36am | Comments

• Twitter

  Once object aphasia subsides

  May 17 2012, 5:39am | Comments

• Bookmark People see sexy pictures of women as objects, not people

  Sexual objectification has been well studied, but most of the research is about looking at the effects of this objectification. "What's unclear is, we don't actually know whether people at a…

  May 17 2012, 3:28am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is..."

  “The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is entirely external; it results from manufacture; I know what the object I have made is; I can make another one like it, but I would not be…

  April 25 2012, 4:24pm | Comments

• Bookmark Nietzsche's Posthuman: Rules for the Human Zoo

  The concept of a “formless matter” [that] embodies … all that’s been thought between Hegel and Turing on the relation of “things” to “mind.” It tests out a trivalent—or multivalent—logic that’s…

  April 20 2012, 12:28pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  March 28 2012, 7:38am | Comments

• Bookmark How Christian Marclay created “The Clock”

  “When I first started on this project, I thought it would become a public art piece,” Marclay said. “I thought, What a great thing, to be in a train station waiting…

  March 18 2012, 4:30pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Democracy of Objects

  March 5 2012, 3:44pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

  February 17 2012, 5:05am | Comments

• Bookmark What Immanuel Kant got right about digital piracy

  It turns out that Kant didn't think that an author could mount a strong legal case against piracy based on property rights in words. After all, even after pirates copied an…

  January 30 2012, 4:28pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  It's time for science to move on from materialism

  January 28 2012, 10:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Pirate Bay - Physibles

  January 24 2012, 2:11pm | Comments

• Findings quote from High Techne - Rutsky

  The position of human beings in relation to this techno-cultural un-conscious cannot, therefore, be that of the analyst (or theorist) who, standing outside this space, presumes to know or control it.It must in-stead be a relation of connection to, of interaction with, that which…

  January 6 2012, 7:52am | Comments

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

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark On A History of the World in 100 Objects

  Objects 101 by Roger Sandall What interests me here however is something else—the profoundly paradoxical position of MacGregor himself. When resisting Greek calls for the return of the Elgin Marbles, he…

  November 14 2011, 6:59am | 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

• Tumblr (Quote) "Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or..."

  “Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.” - J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition…

  September 30 2011, 5:16am | Comments

• Bookmark How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical Artifact"?

  The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful to…

  September 20 2011, 10:26am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put…

  “What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or…

  September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Reading Life - What We Do to Books

  There has always been a lot of discussion about the effect that reading books has on us. Far less attention has been paid to the effect that we (the readers) have…

  August 30 2011, 8:32am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Sacred Contagion Sacred contagion is the belief that spiritual properties within an object, place, or person may be passed to another object, place, or person, usually by direct contact or physical proximity. While the concept of sacred contagion has existed in numerous cultures since before…

  August 12 2011, 8:08am | Comments

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

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Tumblr The Objectuals

  July 22 2011, 1:47am | Comments

• Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

  July 21 2011, 2:58am | 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 The Pathology of Collecting

  What I’ve learned, the hard way, is that the one thing you must never ask a collector is “why?” It’ll get you nowhere. They’ll just stare at you in baffled amazement…

  July 11 2011, 4:54am | 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 The truth is in there

  “I had all these ideas,” he said, speaking slowly and searchingly, like someone looking back on life and trying to figure out where it all went wrong. “I don’t know what…

  June 16 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Projects Digital Autonomy

  June 11 2011, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Technology Provides an Alternative to Love

  Let me toss out the idea that, as our markets discover and respond to what consumers most want, our technology has become extremely adept at creating products that correspond to our…

  May 30 2011, 2:03am | Comments

• Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

  May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

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