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• Bookmark A Thing Like You and Me

  by Hito Steyerl What happens to identification at this point? Who can we identify with? Of course, identification is always with an image. But ask anybody whether they’d actually like to…

  May 11 2011, 3:03am | Comments

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  The object is the agency

  May 9 2011, 11:57am | Comments

• Tumblr Takeshi Murata: Get Your Ass To Mars

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• Bookmark Radical Ethology: Jussi Parikka's Insect Media

  In a fundamental sense, technology is deeply non-human. While we might apply a humanist logic to the function and workings of technological systems, and view technological objects as extensions of the…

  April 20 2011, 3:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark “Primal Sound” by rainer maria rilke

  it must have been when i was a boy at school that the phonograph was invented. at any rate it was at that time a chief object of public wonder; this…

  March 10 2011, 9:10am | Comments

• Bookmark The Postmedia Perspective

  The starting point of the book is that the label “New Media Art” does not identify an art genre or an art movement, and cannot be viewed – as it usually…

  January 12 2011, 9:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Open Books: The E-Reader Reads You

  It’s fitting that at the end of this essay about the proliferation of e-readers, Scott McLemee invokes critic Franco Moretti, who has devoted the past decade to deromanticizing literary criticism and…

  January 6 2011, 8:17pm | Comments

• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Art for animals

  Yesterday afternoon, Matthew Fuller gave a brief but fascinating overview of artworks that make a direct address to the perceptual world of non-human animal species. As you will see quite a…

  November 27 2010, 6:44am | Comments

• Wikipedia Desert Bus Desert Bus is the best known trick minigame in the package, and was a featured part of Electronic Gaming Monthly's preview. The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a…

  November 18 2010, 2:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark Against humanism

  by Mary Midgley Does the term "humanism" really stand for a new and better form of religion? If so, what is that religion? Or is it something designed as a cure…

  November 4 2010, 6:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Do writers need paper?

  Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world. Once the words…

  October 24 2010, 5:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark Purpose-Driven Life

  Video games are worth loving, but loving them comes with shame. Not passing regret or social embarrassment, but a sharp-edged physical guilt: the hunch-backed, raw-fingered, burning-eyed pain that comes at the…

  October 6 2010, 11:42am | Comments

• Bookmark The secret messages written into the fabric of our world

  I like the BBC test card, because it's a wonderful example of how practical industrial design can develop into an enigmatic work of art. But even better is knowing that the…

  September 17 2010, 4:40am | Comments

• Bookmark The Limits of Science

  Good sense is the most fairly distributed commodity in the world, Descartes once quipped, because nobody thinks he needs any more of it than he already has. A neat illustration of…

  September 16 2010, 7:12am | Comments

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

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Twitter

  “[T]he patient forms a distinctive type of object relation based on perpetual and irresistible desire to merge (cont) tl.gd/3fa4ks

  September 3 2010, 6:25am | Comments

• Bookmark The love of the high-end (book) heist

  Books have long been the object of desire, a desire that in intensity (among the susceptible) is stronger than for sex. Bibliomania, the obsession to possess books, was first recognised as…

  August 13 2010, 4:30am | Comments

• Projects io9.com: Seeing the truth of the world via science fiction

  August 10 2010, 4:10am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark Art and Thingness, Part Two: Thingification

  by Sven Lütticken In a text written in response to the upheavals of the Russian Revolution and the early Soviet avant-garde, Carl Einstein claimed that tradition “piles up in the object”;…

  July 19 2010, 8:08am | 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

• Wikipedia Thing - Wikipedia Thing may refer to: In philosophy: * An object (philosophy), being, or entity * Thing-in-itself (or noumenon), the reality that underlies perceptions, a term coined by Immanuel Kant In history: * Thing (assembly), also transliterated as ting or þing, a historical Germanic governing…

  July 16 2010, 3:30am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

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

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis

  June 12 2010, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Frameworks for citizen responsiveness, enhanced: Toward a read/write urbanism

  Provided that, we can treat the things we encounter in urban environments as system resources, rather than a mute collection of disarticulated buildings, vehicles, sewers and sidewalks. One prospect that seems…

  April 27 2010, 6:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Brain: Look Deep Into the Mind's Eye

  When the scientists tested the mind’s eye of MX, though, the difference was stark. The researchers gave all their subjects a standardized test called the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire. They…

  March 26 2010, 5:53am | 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

• Portfolio 3quarksdaily Prize : Vote for me

  March 1 2010, 3:27am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

  February 2 2010, 6:35am | Comments

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• Bookmark A Thing Like You and Me

  by Hito Steyerl What happens to identification at this point? Who can we identify with? Of course, identification is always with an image. But ask anybody whether they’d actually like to…

  May 11 2011, 3:03am | Comments

• Twitter

  The object is the agency

  May 9 2011, 11:57am | Comments

• Tumblr Takeshi Murata: Get Your Ass To Mars

  May 6 2011, 2:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Radical Ethology: Jussi Parikka's Insect Media

  In a fundamental sense, technology is deeply non-human. While we might apply a humanist logic to the function and workings of technological systems, and view technological objects as extensions of the…

  April 20 2011, 3:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark “Primal Sound” by rainer maria rilke

  it must have been when i was a boy at school that the phonograph was invented. at any rate it was at that time a chief object of public wonder; this…

  March 10 2011, 9:10am | Comments

• Bookmark The Postmedia Perspective

  The starting point of the book is that the label “New Media Art” does not identify an art genre or an art movement, and cannot be viewed – as it usually…

  January 12 2011, 9:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Open Books: The E-Reader Reads You

  It’s fitting that at the end of this essay about the proliferation of e-readers, Scott McLemee invokes critic Franco Moretti, who has devoted the past decade to deromanticizing literary criticism and…

  January 6 2011, 8:17pm | Comments

• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Art for animals

  Yesterday afternoon, Matthew Fuller gave a brief but fascinating overview of artworks that make a direct address to the perceptual world of non-human animal species. As you will see quite a…

  November 27 2010, 6:44am | Comments

• Wikipedia Desert Bus Desert Bus is the best known trick minigame in the package, and was a featured part of Electronic Gaming Monthly's preview. The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a…

  November 18 2010, 2:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark Against humanism

  by Mary Midgley Does the term "humanism" really stand for a new and better form of religion? If so, what is that religion? Or is it something designed as a cure…

  November 4 2010, 6:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Do writers need paper?

  Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world. Once the words…

  October 24 2010, 5:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark Purpose-Driven Life

  Video games are worth loving, but loving them comes with shame. Not passing regret or social embarrassment, but a sharp-edged physical guilt: the hunch-backed, raw-fingered, burning-eyed pain that comes at the…

  October 6 2010, 11:42am | Comments

• Bookmark The secret messages written into the fabric of our world

  I like the BBC test card, because it's a wonderful example of how practical industrial design can develop into an enigmatic work of art. But even better is knowing that the…

  September 17 2010, 4:40am | Comments

• Bookmark The Limits of Science

  Good sense is the most fairly distributed commodity in the world, Descartes once quipped, because nobody thinks he needs any more of it than he already has. A neat illustration of…

  September 16 2010, 7:12am | Comments

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

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Twitter

  “[T]he patient forms a distinctive type of object relation based on perpetual and irresistible desire to merge (cont) tl.gd/3fa4ks

  September 3 2010, 6:25am | Comments

• Bookmark The love of the high-end (book) heist

  Books have long been the object of desire, a desire that in intensity (among the susceptible) is stronger than for sex. Bibliomania, the obsession to possess books, was first recognised as…

  August 13 2010, 4:30am | Comments

• Projects io9.com: Seeing the truth of the world via science fiction

  August 10 2010, 4:10am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark Art and Thingness, Part Two: Thingification

  by Sven Lütticken In a text written in response to the upheavals of the Russian Revolution and the early Soviet avant-garde, Carl Einstein claimed that tradition “piles up in the object”;…

  July 19 2010, 8:08am | 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

• Wikipedia Thing - Wikipedia Thing may refer to: In philosophy: * An object (philosophy), being, or entity * Thing-in-itself (or noumenon), the reality that underlies perceptions, a term coined by Immanuel Kant In history: * Thing (assembly), also transliterated as ting or þing, a historical Germanic governing…

  July 16 2010, 3:30am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

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

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis

  June 12 2010, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Frameworks for citizen responsiveness, enhanced: Toward a read/write urbanism

  Provided that, we can treat the things we encounter in urban environments as system resources, rather than a mute collection of disarticulated buildings, vehicles, sewers and sidewalks. One prospect that seems…

  April 27 2010, 6:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Brain: Look Deep Into the Mind's Eye

  When the scientists tested the mind’s eye of MX, though, the difference was stark. The researchers gave all their subjects a standardized test called the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire. They…

  March 26 2010, 5:53am | 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

• Portfolio 3quarksdaily Prize : Vote for me

  March 1 2010, 3:27am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

  February 2 2010, 6:35am | Comments

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