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Bookmark Ways Machines Can Hurt You
Wandering the LA Convention Center at WESTEC - the ultimate manufacturing show from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers… wandering the amazing tools, waterjets, 3D printers, CNCs, microCNCs, robot arms, welding devices……

March 28 2012, 3:48am | Comments
Bookmark The Exegete
When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

March 4 2012, 5:22am | Comments
Tumblr "Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for..."

February 20 2012, 7:21am | Comments
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The Pirate Bay - Physibles

January 24 2012, 2:11pm | Comments
Bibliography The Philip K.Dick Reader by Philip K. Dick

December 8 2011, 7:31am | Comments
Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments
Bookmark Tom McCarthy: My desktop
I must belong to the only generation of writers who've written with all three of inkpen, typewriter and computer. It definitely matters: the technology colours not only the rhythm but the…

November 27 2011, 9:34am | Comments
Bookmark Zombie Editions: An Archaeology of POD Areopagiticas
This is a zombie edition, one of many I found for early modern texts on Amazon. Produced as cheap print-on-demand editions from EEBO or GoogleBook scans, they're listed alongside reputable scholarly…

October 16 2011, 9:06am | Comments
Bookmark Do Androids Dream of Electric Authors?
But the invasion of robot-books is unsettling for another reason. I think we can all agree that it’s O.K. for robots to take over unpleasant jobs — like cleaning up nuclear…

October 16 2011, 7:04am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Crusoe film adaptations and *that* footprint Robinson Crusoe film adaptations. Which are the best ones? Also, that footprint... For a project I am working on, I want to isolate the moment in Robinson Crusoe where he discovers the savage footprint, imprinted in the sand, for the first time. In…

September 29 2011, 5:31am | Comments
Bookmark Can religion tell us more than science?
In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and against…

September 20 2011, 3:12am | Comments
Bookmark Reading Life - What We Do to Books
There has always been a lot of discussion about the effect that reading books has on us. Far less attention has been paid to the effect that we (the readers) have…

August 30 2011, 8:32am | Comments
Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments
Bookmark Our Emergent Digital Future
What will the digital world look like in ten years? The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path. The explosion in the volume…

August 14 2011, 4:32am | Comments
Bookmark How Google Dominates Us
Most of the time Google does not actually have the answers. When people say, “I looked it up on Google,” they are committing a solecism. When they try to erase their…

July 31 2011, 6:17pm | Comments
Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments
Tumblr Ubik: Philip K. Dick

July 12 2011, 1:39am | Comments
Bookmark How Catholicism made Marshall McLuhan one of the twentieth century’s freest and…
APPROPRIATELY ENOUGH, a century after his birth in 1911, Marshall McLuhan has found a second life on the Internet. YouTube and other sites are a rich repository of McLuhan interviews, revealing…

June 20 2011, 9:16am | Comments
Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments
Bookmark First ever direct English translation of Solaris published
The first ever direct translation into English of the Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem's most famous novel, Solaris, has just been published, removing a raft of unnecessary changes and restoring…

June 16 2011, 3:07pm | Comments
Bookmark Post-Artifact Books and Publishing
We will always debate: the quality of the paper, the pixel density of the display; the cloth used on covers, the interface for highlighting; location by page, location by paragraph. But…

June 15 2011, 8:50am | Comments
Bookmark Cory Arcangel Goes Old School
Arcangel’s conflicted relationship with technology drives his artistic practice and pervades Pro Tools, the artist’s first solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. At 33, Arcangel will be the…

June 6 2011, 3:11pm | Comments
Bookmark Reading revolutions: Online digital text and implications for reading in academe
While the Internet is a text-saturated world, reading online screens tends to be significantly different from reading printed text. This review essay examines literature from a variety of disciplines on the…

June 6 2011, 1:36pm | Comments
foursquare checkin @ The British Library - Early print of 'Who Goes There?' by John W. Campbell (the inspiration for 'The Thing') at The Out of This World Exhibition, British Library

June 1 2011, 4:13am | Comments
Bookmark This will be the Century of Disasters
A half-mile wide twister tore through Joplin, Mo., on Sunday, killing nearly 100. The tornado was one of 68 reported across seven states this weekend. Unfortunately, this century will be a…

May 25 2011, 3:52am | Comments
Tumblr Takeshi Murata: Get Your Ass To Mars

May 6 2011, 2:36am | Comments
Bookmark The Font of the Hand
JUST AS IN OUR DAY a fervid minority denounces the digitization of literary experience, fifteenth-century literati responded to their own depredations. In 1492, Johannes Trithemius, Abbot of Sponheim, wrote De Laude…

March 24 2011, 5:23pm | Comments
Bookmark Similarities - a set on Flickr
The pairs of images in this "Similarities" set are similar visually in one way or another. They are presented without judgement as to the motives of their creators. The viewers of…

March 2 2011, 6:28am | Comments
Portfolio Errors in Things and “The Friendly Medium”

February 16 2011, 7:39am | 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
Bookmark The Third Queue
I bring all this up because the state of the themed queue - a Disney practice if there ever was one - seems to very much be in a state of…

December 11 2010, 2:11am | Comments
Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

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