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Bookmark Adorno on Mimesis in Aesthetic Theory
Art is imitation only to the extent to which it is objective expression, far removed from psychology. There may have been a time long ago when this expressive quality of the…

July 13 2009, 7:19am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Desire Paths: Reading, Memory and Inscription

July 12 2009, 10:35pm | Comments
Metafilter Ask MeFi: How can you create a communal Yahoo Pipes feed? Can I use Yahoo Pipes to create a feed that contains a bunch of other feeds added by other people?

July 9 2009, 6:37pm | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: Last Year at Marienbad: An Intertextual Meditation "Understanding that "A" and "M", and perhaps "X", in Marienbad are all holographs would enrich our enjoyment of an otherwise incomprehensible film ... Without Morel, Last Year at Marienbad is mostly an exercise in formalism; however, with the intertextual juxtaposition of the two,…

July 6 2009, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark Last Year at Marienbad: An Intertextual Meditation
On the making of novels into films, there are two general schools of thought. Some feel that the film should be faithful to the original and are dismayed when it deviates…

July 6 2009, 9:39am | Comments
Bookmark Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage for Abundance,…
This is the power of waste. When scarce resources become abundant, smart people treat them differently, exploiting them rather than conserving them. It feels wrong, but done right it can change…

July 6 2009, 9:37am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: Blogosphere Big Bang The Early Days of Blogging - Presented at the 2009 HyperText conference, this paper is an extensively cited and well-researched narrative of the blogosphere's formative period. It delves deep into the involvement of Jorn Barger, Dave Winer, and other A-list luminaries.

July 6 2009, 9:29am | Comments
Bookmark Ant mega-colony takes over world
A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related…

July 2 2009, 9:10am | Comments
Metafilter Behind the Mask - Michael Jackson's rarest recording? Michael Jackson penned and recorded lots of songs, many of which remain unreleased. Perhaps the most infamous, and rarest recording, is his version of Behind the Mask. Legend has it that upon hearing Yellow Magic Orchestra's original track, somewhen around 1979, Quincy Jones…

July 1 2009, 11:40am | Comments
Portfolio The Movement of The Middle

June 30 2009, 9:05am | Comments
Bookmark Fifty Books for Our Times
We know it's insane. We know people will ask why on earth we think that an 1875 British satirical novel is the book you need to read right now—or, for that…

June 29 2009, 4:43pm | Comments
Bookmark Jamie Livingston's Polaroid of the Day
A collection of Polaroids, one per day, from March 31, 1979 through October 25, 1997: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/15131 There’s no author listed, no contact info, and no other indication as to where these…

June 24 2009, 3:24pm | Comments
Bookmark Exploring Empathic Space: Correlates of Perspective Transformation Ability and Biases in Spatial…
Empathy involves, in part, the ability to simulate the internal states of others. The authors hypothesized that our ability to manipulate, rotate and simulate mental representations of the physical world, including…

June 23 2009, 2:42pm | Comments
Bookmark Michel Serres's Milieux
Mediation means that which stands, comes or moves between things otherwise separated or opposed. Serres’s work has never ceased to meditate upon mediation in every possible sense: as arbitration; moderation; mediocrity;…

June 23 2009, 2:38pm | Comments
Bookmark Maastricht Ceramic Design
Petrus Regout (a name associated with worker exploitation even today) started a modern earthenware production factory in Maastricht, the capital of the far South-Eastern Dutch province of Limburg, in 1836. Sphinx…

June 22 2009, 9:08am | Comments
Metafilter Ask MeFi: Why do Japanese games go left to right? Why do so many (most?) classic Japanese side-scrolling games scroll left to right? Mario, Sonic, R-type, Megaman and plenty of other big names all go in the same direction. Why?

June 18 2009, 12:40pm | Comments
Bookmark Dual Perspectives Article
Not long ago mass media was about the only kind of culture there was. The lucky few creative works that made it into general circulation were what copyright law was supposed…

June 16 2009, 3:08pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily I discovered the ants

June 14 2009, 11:22pm | Comments
Bookmark The extent of Darwin’s impact on 19th-century artists
It’s hard to exaggerate just how widely Darwin’s ideas on natural selection and the evolution of human kind traveled in the cultural milieu of his day, even in the age of…

June 11 2009, 2:49am | Comments
Bookmark Adaptation: On Literary Darwinism
Human beings expend an enormous amount of energy doing things that don't seem to have any survival value: singing, dancing, painting caves, decorating spears and, above all, telling stories. (Think how…

June 8 2009, 12:41am | Comments
Bookmark 'On the Origin of Stories,' 'Finding Our Tongues,' 'Catching Fire' take path-breaking…
A few years ago Tufts philosopher Daniel Dennett opined that the idea of natural selection - proposed 150 years ago in Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" - was "the…

June 3 2009, 12:01pm | Comments
Bookmark Human Language Gene Changes the Sound of Mouse Squeaks
People have a deep desire to communicate with animals, as is evident from the way they converse with their dogs, enjoy myths about talking animals or devote lifetimes to teaching chimpanzees…

May 29 2009, 6:51am | Comments
Portfolio Beyond the Topology of the Book

May 27 2009, 9:01am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Desire Paths/Lines: the original translation and related concepts/terms Desire Paths / Lines: a term apparently coined by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space. What was the original French he used? and are there any other terms for the act and outcome of paths that emerge through routine, reflexion and the…

May 25 2009, 11:37am | Comments
Bookmark Positions in Flux - Panel 3: Open Source - A scheme for…
The open source movement is driven by the idea of collective, process-based, sustainable production and improvement. In software development this strategy has already proven to be valid; however can this model…

May 20 2009, 9:25am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily A Bomb Won't Go Off Here

May 17 2009, 9:15pm | Comments
Bookmark The disembodied book
In the shadows of the global financial crisis of the early 21st century, another revolution is gathering pace, whose repercussions reach far beyond the current correctable economic buckling. It impact on…

May 17 2009, 3:24am | Comments
Bookmark Evil Lair: On the Architecture of the Enemy in Videogame Worlds
Game developers are unconstrained in their designs for the enemy. Such designers will be punished with poor sales, not death in the gulag, if their designs for the overlord are unpopular.…

May 17 2009, 3:23am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments
Misc 3quarksdaily (An Eclectic Digest of Science, Art and Literature) machine says: What traditional libraries need is a more networked, discursive interface.I love the British Library. I spent half of my study time there last year, searching for specific books in the database and picking them up from the collection desks to study…

April 23 2009, 12:51am | Comments

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