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• Bookmark Why we should not fear AI. Yet (Wired UK)

  Nigel Shadbolt, professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Southampton and cofounder of the Open Data Institute, will be debating the future of AI on 24 May at HowTheLightGetsIn, a philosophy and music…

  May 14 2015, 5:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Call of Things: Jane Bennett Talks About Hoarders at the Vera…

  “Les chose sont contre nous” ("Things are against us") is the wry slogan of Paul Jennings’ parodic philosophy resistentialism*. But Professor Jane Bennett of Johns Hopkins University doesn’t think so.

  February 18 2015, 2:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Deadly Algorithms | Radical Philosophy

  Algorithms have long adjudicated over vital processes that help to ensure our well-being and survival, from pacemakers that maintain the natural rhythms of the heart, and genetic algorithms that optimise emergency…

  September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Weird Philosophy | berfrois

  by Ben Woodard /0/ – Introduction I want to propose, as a trajectory into the philosophically weird, an absurd theoretical claim and pursue it, or perhaps more accurately, construct it as…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark p-zombies are inconceivable. With notes on the idea of metaphysical possibility. «…

  Philosophy of mind and the nature of consciousness are fascinating topics, which recur both here at Scientia Salon [1] and at my former writing outlet, Rationally Speaking [2].

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | 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 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…

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• Bookmark The Gray Zone | The Nation

  If there is one issue in contemporary life that supposedly defines the progressive nature of liberal societies, it is gay rights. Over the past half-century, most of the world’s Western democracies…

  December 11 2013, 3:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark Entering Posthumanism: Ihab Hassan and Neil Badmington | Simulation Space

  In “Prometheus as Performer: Toward a Posthumanist Culture?” Ihab Hassan uses the metaphor of the mythological Prometheus to frame his discussion on posthumanism and positions him as a trickster with a…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Explaining it All: How We Became the Center of the Universe

  David Deutsch’s “Beginning of Infinity” is a brilliant and exhilarating and profoundly eccentric book. It’s about everything: art, science, philosophy, history, politics, evil, death, the future, infinity, bugs, thumbs, what have…

  October 28 2013, 8:37am | Comments

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• Portfolio Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  Part of an ongoing series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work but may not (yet) be well known to our readers. Nick Briz is an artist/educator/organizer living in Chicago, and co-founder of the conference and festival GLI.TC/H. This interview took…

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Nick Briz

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• Bookmark Borges, Paradox and Perception - NYTimes.com

  The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. books and literature, Borges, Jorge Luis, Heisenberg, Werner, Hume, David, Philosophy, physics, writing and writers

  May 12 2013, 3:37pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Émilie Gervais

  April 18 2013, 8:00am | Comments

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  Has Physics Made Philosophy and Religion Obsolete? - Ross Andersen - The Atlantic

  April 17 2013, 4:02am | Comments

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  April 11 2013, 6:26am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Alex Myers

  April 3 2013, 9:28am | Comments

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  ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Anti-Laruelle Ray Gun

  March 30 2013, 5:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Philosophy of Data - NYTimes.com

  February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Roger Scruton – A culture of fake originality

  A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a shared frame of reference among educated people. High culture…

  January 22 2013, 5:16am | Comments

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  Meaning as gloss

  November 14 2012, 4:39am | Comments

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

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

• Bookmark The Walled City: Cannot one dream of a ‘computer hypothesis’? | Radical…

  This essay is in many ways a companion piece to Gary Hall’s ‘Pirate Radical Philosophy’ in RP 173 (May/June 2012). Consider it a prequel, or something akin to a video game’s…

  August 29 2012, 2:11am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Speculative Realism 101 Speculative Realism: What are the key texts I need to read. I am interested in Speculative Realism (SR) (and Speculative Materialism (SM)) as attempts to overcome 'Philosophies of access' (those which privilege the human being over other entities; anthropocentrism). Also, any texts that…

  July 26 2012, 7:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Pirate Radical Philosophy

  Much has been written about the ‘crisis of capitalism’ and the associated events known, for short, as the ‘Arab Spring’, ‘student protests’, ‘Occupy’ and ‘August riots’. Yet to what extent does…

  June 15 2012, 5:17am | Comments

• Bookmark The Art of War

  The Israeli Defence Forces have been heavily influenced by contemporary philosophy, highlighting the fact that there is considerable overlap among theoretical texts deemed essential by military academies and architectural schools The…

  June 2 2012, 9:41am | Comments

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• Bookmark Why we should not fear AI. Yet (Wired UK)

  Nigel Shadbolt, professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Southampton and cofounder of the Open Data Institute, will be debating the future of AI on 24 May at HowTheLightGetsIn, a philosophy and music…

  May 14 2015, 5:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Call of Things: Jane Bennett Talks About Hoarders at the Vera…

  “Les chose sont contre nous” ("Things are against us") is the wry slogan of Paul Jennings’ parodic philosophy resistentialism*. But Professor Jane Bennett of Johns Hopkins University doesn’t think so.

  February 18 2015, 2:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Deadly Algorithms | Radical Philosophy

  Algorithms have long adjudicated over vital processes that help to ensure our well-being and survival, from pacemakers that maintain the natural rhythms of the heart, and genetic algorithms that optimise emergency…

  September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Weird Philosophy | berfrois

  by Ben Woodard /0/ – Introduction I want to propose, as a trajectory into the philosophically weird, an absurd theoretical claim and pursue it, or perhaps more accurately, construct it as…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark p-zombies are inconceivable. With notes on the idea of metaphysical possibility. «…

  Philosophy of mind and the nature of consciousness are fascinating topics, which recur both here at Scientia Salon [1] and at my former writing outlet, Rationally Speaking [2].

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | 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 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

• YouTube

  March 7 2014, 4:19am | Comments

• Vimeo

  January 31 2014, 5:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Gray Zone | The Nation

  If there is one issue in contemporary life that supposedly defines the progressive nature of liberal societies, it is gay rights. Over the past half-century, most of the world’s Western democracies…

  December 11 2013, 3:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark Entering Posthumanism: Ihab Hassan and Neil Badmington | Simulation Space

  In “Prometheus as Performer: Toward a Posthumanist Culture?” Ihab Hassan uses the metaphor of the mythological Prometheus to frame his discussion on posthumanism and positions him as a trickster with a…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Explaining it All: How We Became the Center of the Universe

  David Deutsch’s “Beginning of Infinity” is a brilliant and exhilarating and profoundly eccentric book. It’s about everything: art, science, philosophy, history, politics, evil, death, the future, infinity, bugs, thumbs, what have…

  October 28 2013, 8:37am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 19 2013, 6:18am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  Part of an ongoing series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work but may not (yet) be well known to our readers. Nick Briz is an artist/educator/organizer living in Chicago, and co-founder of the conference and festival GLI.TC/H. This interview took…

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Borges, Paradox and Perception - NYTimes.com

  The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. books and literature, Borges, Jorge Luis, Heisenberg, Werner, Hume, David, Philosophy, physics, writing and writers

  May 12 2013, 3:37pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Émilie Gervais

  April 18 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Has Physics Made Philosophy and Religion Obsolete? - Ross Andersen - The Atlantic

  April 17 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Lovely Lustig Latency

  April 11 2013, 6:26am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Alex Myers

  April 3 2013, 9:28am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Anti-Laruelle Ray Gun

  March 30 2013, 5:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Philosophy of Data - NYTimes.com

  February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Roger Scruton – A culture of fake originality

  A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a shared frame of reference among educated people. High culture…

  January 22 2013, 5:16am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Meaning as gloss

  November 14 2012, 4:39am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Why OOO?

  November 14 2012, 4:38am | Comments

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

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

• Bookmark The Walled City: Cannot one dream of a ‘computer hypothesis’? | Radical…

  This essay is in many ways a companion piece to Gary Hall’s ‘Pirate Radical Philosophy’ in RP 173 (May/June 2012). Consider it a prequel, or something akin to a video game’s…

  August 29 2012, 2:11am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Speculative Realism 101 Speculative Realism: What are the key texts I need to read. I am interested in Speculative Realism (SR) (and Speculative Materialism (SM)) as attempts to overcome 'Philosophies of access' (those which privilege the human being over other entities; anthropocentrism). Also, any texts that…

  July 26 2012, 7:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Pirate Radical Philosophy

  Much has been written about the ‘crisis of capitalism’ and the associated events known, for short, as the ‘Arab Spring’, ‘student protests’, ‘Occupy’ and ‘August riots’. Yet to what extent does…

  June 15 2012, 5:17am | Comments

• Bookmark The Art of War

  The Israeli Defence Forces have been heavily influenced by contemporary philosophy, highlighting the fact that there is considerable overlap among theoretical texts deemed essential by military academies and architectural schools The…

  June 2 2012, 9:41am | Comments

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