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• Portfolio Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 9:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark h+ Magazine | Covering technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing…

  During writing a paper for the 100 Year Starship Symposium, I wished to convince the starship designers that they should  acknowledge the dynamics of high-technology economy, which may be crucial for…

  December 29 2013, 9:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Four Notes Towards Post-Digital Propaganda | post-digital-research

  “Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments and to integrate the individual into a technological world” (Ellul xvii). How might future research into digital…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Archaeology

  Anyone who can read German can read the first book ever printed. If you can read Sumerian cuneiform, you can read clay tablets that were probably the first things ever written.…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Media Watch: Pixelating protects identity? Think again. (09/07/2012)

  Gerard Baden-Clay Mr Baden-Clay's lawyers say he is devastated and will vigorously defend the charge. — ABC Online, 13 June, 2012 The ABC's lawyers insisted on pixelating Mr Baden-Clay's image after…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Big Things & Little Things | ‘Digital’ in the arts

  So, returning to an old subject, about which I’ve got very annoyed in the past. Last week Arts Council England (ACE) published the second version of their 10-year strategic framework for…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Hidden History of

  The persistent glitchiness of HealthCare.gov, the website implementing the Affordable Care Act, has given us much time to ponder that peculiar little word, glitch. As it happens, some new research on…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Are species theoretical objects? | Evolving Thoughts

  [Note: this is a paper that has sat in my drawer for a while now. I am posting it to follow from my last post on the theological origins of species.

  October 28 2013, 8:37am | Comments

• Portfolio Conference Paper: How GIFs “Language” and What They Might Mean

  International Conference on the Image, ‘How GIFs “Language” and What They Might Mean’, University Center Chicago, October 18th-19th 2013

  October 18 2013, 8:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Referencing a Tweet in an Academic Paper? Here's an Automatic Citation Generator…

  Say you're writing a paper on Twitter during the 2012 U.S. presidential election. How do you cite all those tweets you'll be referencing? The Modern Language Association (MLA) has an answer…

  September 26 2013, 12:49am | Comments

• Bibliography Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero by Grant Morrison

  September 10 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Bibliography Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing (Studies in Literature & Science) by Mark B.N. Hansen

  September 10 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Bibliography Cinema 1: The Movement Image (Continuum Impacts) by Gilles Deleuze

  September 10 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Beyond Google Glass: Good writings on Augmented Reality I want to read about Augmented Reality. Tech developments IRL; techno-utopian / transhuman dreams, and hard-fought aspirations; and any sci-fictional dystopian nightmares you know of. Articles and academic papers especially welcome, but what sci-fi stories have dealt imaginatively with Augmented Reality? Where's it…

  September 4 2013, 6:33am | Comments

• Wikipedia Betteridge's law of headlines Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist,[1] although the general concept is much older.[2] The observation…

  June 2 2013, 6:54am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 1 2013, 9:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Bigfoot genome paper “conclusively proves” that Sasquatch is real | Ars Technica

  It's not often you come across a scientific paper which notes that the information it covers is like something "seen on the television series Monster Quest.

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments

• Bibliography Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre by SUVIN

  January 23 2013, 5:35am | Comments

• Bibliography The Art of Creative Nonfiction: Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality (Wiley Books for Writers) by Lee Gutkind

  January 23 2013, 5:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Why we want to build Charles Babbage's Victorian computer

  To understand why it's worth building an almost 200-year-old mechanical computer, it's necessary to first understand what a computer is. Although Babbage's analytical engine is entirely mechanical, it has the same…

  October 24 2012, 3:35am | Comments

• Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The ENCODE delusion

  September 25 2012, 3:41am | Comments

• Bibliography Ubik by Philip K. Dick

  September 3 2012, 6:57am | Comments

• Bibliography Encyclopedia of World Biography: Supplement: 28 by Gale

  September 3 2012, 6:56am | Comments

• Bibliography Profiles of the Future by Arthur C. Clarke

  September 3 2012, 6:56am | Comments

• Bibliography The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S Kuhn

  September 3 2012, 6:56am | Comments

• Bibliography Things by Bill Brown

  September 3 2012, 6:56am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Portfolio Binary Nomination

  July 19 2012, 9:32am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

  July 17 2012, 8:10am | Comments

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• Portfolio Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 9:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark h+ Magazine | Covering technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing…

  During writing a paper for the 100 Year Starship Symposium, I wished to convince the starship designers that they should  acknowledge the dynamics of high-technology economy, which may be crucial for…

  December 29 2013, 9:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Four Notes Towards Post-Digital Propaganda | post-digital-research

  “Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments and to integrate the individual into a technological world” (Ellul xvii). How might future research into digital…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Archaeology

  Anyone who can read German can read the first book ever printed. If you can read Sumerian cuneiform, you can read clay tablets that were probably the first things ever written.…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Media Watch: Pixelating protects identity? Think again. (09/07/2012)

  Gerard Baden-Clay Mr Baden-Clay's lawyers say he is devastated and will vigorously defend the charge. — ABC Online, 13 June, 2012 The ABC's lawyers insisted on pixelating Mr Baden-Clay's image after…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Big Things & Little Things | ‘Digital’ in the arts

  So, returning to an old subject, about which I’ve got very annoyed in the past. Last week Arts Council England (ACE) published the second version of their 10-year strategic framework for…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Hidden History of

  The persistent glitchiness of HealthCare.gov, the website implementing the Affordable Care Act, has given us much time to ponder that peculiar little word, glitch. As it happens, some new research on…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Are species theoretical objects? | Evolving Thoughts

  [Note: this is a paper that has sat in my drawer for a while now. I am posting it to follow from my last post on the theological origins of species.

  October 28 2013, 8:37am | Comments

• Portfolio Conference Paper: How GIFs “Language” and What They Might Mean

  International Conference on the Image, ‘How GIFs “Language” and What They Might Mean’, University Center Chicago, October 18th-19th 2013

  October 18 2013, 8:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Referencing a Tweet in an Academic Paper? Here's an Automatic Citation Generator…

  Say you're writing a paper on Twitter during the 2012 U.S. presidential election. How do you cite all those tweets you'll be referencing? The Modern Language Association (MLA) has an answer…

  September 26 2013, 12:49am | Comments

• Bibliography Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero by Grant Morrison

  September 10 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Bibliography Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing (Studies in Literature & Science) by Mark B.N. Hansen

  September 10 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Bibliography Cinema 1: The Movement Image (Continuum Impacts) by Gilles Deleuze

  September 10 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Beyond Google Glass: Good writings on Augmented Reality I want to read about Augmented Reality. Tech developments IRL; techno-utopian / transhuman dreams, and hard-fought aspirations; and any sci-fictional dystopian nightmares you know of. Articles and academic papers especially welcome, but what sci-fi stories have dealt imaginatively with Augmented Reality? Where's it…

  September 4 2013, 6:33am | Comments

• Wikipedia Betteridge's law of headlines Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist,[1] although the general concept is much older.[2] The observation…

  June 2 2013, 6:54am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 1 2013, 9:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Bigfoot genome paper “conclusively proves” that Sasquatch is real | Ars Technica

  It's not often you come across a scientific paper which notes that the information it covers is like something "seen on the television series Monster Quest.

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments

• Bibliography Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre by SUVIN

  January 23 2013, 5:35am | Comments

• Bibliography The Art of Creative Nonfiction: Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality (Wiley Books for Writers) by Lee Gutkind

  January 23 2013, 5:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Why we want to build Charles Babbage's Victorian computer

  To understand why it's worth building an almost 200-year-old mechanical computer, it's necessary to first understand what a computer is. Although Babbage's analytical engine is entirely mechanical, it has the same…

  October 24 2012, 3:35am | Comments

• Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The ENCODE delusion

  September 25 2012, 3:41am | Comments

• Bibliography Ubik by Philip K. Dick

  September 3 2012, 6:57am | Comments

• Bibliography Encyclopedia of World Biography: Supplement: 28 by Gale

  September 3 2012, 6:56am | Comments

• Bibliography Profiles of the Future by Arthur C. Clarke

  September 3 2012, 6:56am | Comments

• Bibliography The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S Kuhn

  September 3 2012, 6:56am | Comments

• Bibliography Things by Bill Brown

  September 3 2012, 6:56am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Portfolio Binary Nomination

  July 19 2012, 9:32am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

  July 17 2012, 8:10am | Comments

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