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  Silicon Valley’s sunny outlook on technology and opportunity ignores systematic inequalities. Just over a century ago, an electric company in Minnesota took out a full-page newspaper advertisement and listed 1,000 uses…

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• Additivism #Additivism on Disnovation Research panel @ Transmediale 2016

  Additivism on Disnovation Research panel @ Transmediale, Berlin (4th Feb 2016)#Additivism will be part of the Disnovation Research Panel at the upcoming Transmediale Festival. Disnovation Research is a project by Nicolas Maigret inquiring into the mechanics and rhetoric of innovation. Considering the “propaganda of innovation”…

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  In the May 15, 2014, edition of the journal Nature, Floyd Romesberg’s chemistry lab at San Diego’s Scripps Research Institute published a paper titled “A Semi-Synthetic Organism with an Expanded Genetic…

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• Ask Metafilter Annotating online content + read later: new app solutions? I read a lot of content from articles/essays I save online. Sometimes I want to annotate these articles and organise them for research purposes. At the moment the best way to do this is Evernote, but I find the iPad / Android app…

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• Bookmark The Moral Imperative of Human Spaceflight | Grand Strategy: The View from…

  The text below is a paper I wrote to correspond to my presentation at the first 100YSS Symposium in 2011. 0. Preamble1. The case against civilization2. The evils of civilization3. The…

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• Portfolio Algorithmic Narratives and Synthetic Subjects (paper)

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• Instagram Summary of my paper at #TtW15 tomorrow

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• Furtherfield Contributions Resolution Disputes: A Conversation Between Rosa Menkman and Daniel Rourke

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• Bookmark Toward a History (and Future) of the Artist Statement – Paper Monument

  From Paper Monument Number Four. Click here to order your copy. Google artist statement, and you will find a good dozen instructional websites enjoining artists to “follow these easy steps” to…

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• Bookmark The university as a hackerspace - The Lincoln Repository

  In a paper published last year, I argued for a different way of understanding the emergence of hacker culture.

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  If you dread a robot revolt, stop worrying about killer computers, and start worrying about ... paper clips? Nick Bostrom is explaining to me how superintelligent AIs could destroy the human…

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• Bookmark Uvula Audio: At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft : SFFaudio

  Uvula Audio‘s James Campanella has added a complete reading of H.P. Lovecraft’s “quintessential work of horror” to his podcast feed. In China Miéville’s introduction to the Modern Library paperback edition of…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark 'A Perfect and Beautiful Machine': What Darwin's Theory of Evolution Reveals About…

  Charles Darwin and Alan Turing, in their different ways, both homed in on the same idea: the existence of competence without comprehension. Francis Crick and James Watson closed their epoch-making paper…

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  The Incredible Effects of The Thing, Cinefantastique issue detailing the design and implementation of many of The Thing’s effects sequences. The visuals of both the desolate Antarctic and the ever-morphing alien…

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• Bibliography Foucault (Continuum Impacts) by Gilles Deleuze

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• Bibliography The Posthuman by Rosi Braidotti

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  n 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other,…

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• Bookmark The New Manifestos: 6 Artist Texts That Are Defining Today's Avant-Garde |…

  Once upon a time, you couldn't flip through a European newspaper without coming across the polemical manifesto of a budding avant garde artists' movement.

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  Late one night last August, on the chalk downlands of southern England, Paul Kingsnorth stood in a field beside an old-growth forest, two yurts and a composting toilet. Kingsnorth is 41,…

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  Google has cracked the CAPTCHA. In a paper published this week, Google researchers say that they've developed an algorithm that can accurately solve Google's own CAPTCHA puzzles — those obfuscated jumbles…

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• Bookmark There's Not Much 'Glitch' In Glitch Art | Motherboard

  Artist Daniel Temkin has been creating and discussing glitch art for over seven years. In that time, he's exhibited in solo and group shows, and had his work featured in Rhizome…

  March 18 2014, 12:45pm | Comments

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  It used to be simpler. You woke up, and there was one newspaper you could read. It printed on pulp and delivered to your driveway. You got in your car, and…

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• Bibliography Violence and the Sacred (Continuum Impacts) by Ren Girard

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• Bibliography The Cinema of John Carpenter: The Technique of Terror by Ian Conrich

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  In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they were studying in a common bacterium. They mentioned them in the…

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• Bookmark Why Is Academic Writing So Academic? : The New Yorker

  A few years ago, when I was a graduate student in English, I presented a paper at my department’s American Literature Colloquium. (A colloquium is a sort of writing workshop for…

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• Bookmark Technology Is for Rich People - The Atlantic

  Silicon Valley’s sunny outlook on technology and opportunity ignores systematic inequalities. Just over a century ago, an electric company in Minnesota took out a full-page newspaper advertisement and listed 1,000 uses…

  April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 31 2016, 4:29am | Comments

• Additivism #Additivism on Disnovation Research panel @ Transmediale 2016

  Additivism on Disnovation Research panel @ Transmediale, Berlin (4th Feb 2016)#Additivism will be part of the Disnovation Research Panel at the upcoming Transmediale Festival. Disnovation Research is a project by Nicolas Maigret inquiring into the mechanics and rhetoric of innovation. Considering the “propaganda of innovation”…

  January 7 2016, 4:28am | Comments

• Bookmark At Synthorx, Synthetic Biologists Put Artificial Life Forms to Work | MIT…

  In the May 15, 2014, edition of the journal Nature, Floyd Romesberg’s chemistry lab at San Diego’s Scripps Research Institute published a paper titled “A Semi-Synthetic Organism with an Expanded Genetic…

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Annotating online content + read later: new app solutions? I read a lot of content from articles/essays I save online. Sometimes I want to annotate these articles and organise them for research purposes. At the moment the best way to do this is Evernote, but I find the iPad / Android app…

  November 6 2015, 3:04am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 18 2015, 7:56am | Comments

• Bookmark The Moral Imperative of Human Spaceflight | Grand Strategy: The View from…

  The text below is a paper I wrote to correspond to my presentation at the first 100YSS Symposium in 2011. 0. Preamble1. The case against civilization2. The evils of civilization3. The…

  August 21 2015, 12:36pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 25 2015, 2:14am | Comments

• Portfolio Algorithmic Narratives and Synthetic Subjects (paper)

  May 8 2015, 4:02am | Comments

• Instagram Summary of my paper at #TtW15 tomorrow

  April 17 2015, 3:40pm | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Resolution Disputes: A Conversation Between Rosa Menkman and Daniel Rourke

  April 13 2015, 5:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Toward a History (and Future) of the Artist Statement – Paper Monument

  From Paper Monument Number Four. Click here to order your copy. Google artist statement, and you will find a good dozen instructional websites enjoining artists to “follow these easy steps” to…

  February 23 2015, 7:45am | Comments

• Bookmark The university as a hackerspace - The Lincoln Repository

  In a paper published last year, I argued for a different way of understanding the emergence of hacker culture.

  October 8 2014, 1:54am | Comments

• Portfolio Journal Contribution: Exaptation and the Digital Now

  August 31 2014, 6:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Our weird robot apocalypse: How paper clips could bring about the end…

  If you dread a robot revolt, stop worrying about killer computers, and start worrying about ... paper clips? Nick Bostrom is explaining to me how superintelligent AIs could destroy the human…

  August 18 2014, 5:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark Uvula Audio: At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft : SFFaudio

  Uvula Audio‘s James Campanella has added a complete reading of H.P. Lovecraft’s “quintessential work of horror” to his podcast feed. In China Miéville’s introduction to the Modern Library paperback edition of…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark 'A Perfect and Beautiful Machine': What Darwin's Theory of Evolution Reveals About…

  Charles Darwin and Alan Turing, in their different ways, both homed in on the same idea: the existence of competence without comprehension. Francis Crick and James Watson closed their epoch-making paper…

  July 29 2014, 3:06am | Comments

• Bookmark Cinephilia and Beyond: The Incredible Effects of The Thing

  The Incredible Effects of The Thing, Cinefantastique issue detailing the design and implementation of many of The Thing’s effects sequences. The visuals of both the desolate Antarctic and the ever-morphing alien…

  July 14 2014, 12:43am | Comments

• Bibliography Foucault (Continuum Impacts) by Gilles Deleuze

  June 30 2014, 1:03pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Posthuman by Rosi Braidotti

  June 30 2014, 1:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Meet the Father of Digital Life

  n 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other,…

  June 20 2014, 6:08am | Comments

• Bookmark The New Manifestos: 6 Artist Texts That Are Defining Today's Avant-Garde |…

  Once upon a time, you couldn't flip through a European newspaper without coming across the polemical manifesto of a budding avant garde artists' movement.

  May 21 2014, 1:29pm | Comments

• Bookmark It’s the End of the World as We Know It . .…

  Late one night last August, on the chalk downlands of southern England, Paul Kingsnorth stood in a field beside an old-growth forest, two yurts and a composting toilet. Kingsnorth is 41,…

  May 1 2014, 1:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark Google develops computer vision accurate enough to solve its own CAPTCHAs |…

  Google has cracked the CAPTCHA. In a paper published this week, Google researchers say that they've developed an algorithm that can accurately solve Google's own CAPTCHA puzzles — those obfuscated jumbles…

  April 21 2014, 8:25am | Comments

• Bookmark There's Not Much 'Glitch' In Glitch Art | Motherboard

  Artist Daniel Temkin has been creating and discussing glitch art for over seven years. In that time, he's exhibited in solo and group shows, and had his work featured in Rhizome…

  March 18 2014, 12:45pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Algorithm Economy: Inside the Formulas of Facebook and Amazon - Atlantic…

  It used to be simpler. You woke up, and there was one newspaper you could read. It printed on pulp and delivered to your driveway. You got in your car, and…

  March 18 2014, 12:44pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Nature, the IT Wizard - Issue 7: Waste - Nautilus

  March 9 2014, 9:29am | Comments

• Bibliography Violence and the Sacred (Continuum Impacts) by Ren Girard

  March 8 2014, 8:41am | Comments

• Bibliography The Cinema of John Carpenter: The Technique of Terror by Ian Conrich

  March 8 2014, 8:41am | Comments

• Vimeo

  March 6 2014, 3:01pm | Comments

• Bookmark “The biological significance of these sequences is not known.”

  In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they were studying in a common bacterium. They mentioned them in the…

  March 4 2014, 2:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why Is Academic Writing So Academic? : The New Yorker

  A few years ago, when I was a graduate student in English, I presented a paper at my department’s American Literature Colloquium. (A colloquium is a sort of writing workshop for…

  February 24 2014, 6:24pm | Comments

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