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• Misc GIFbites Submission Guidelines GIFbites is a weekly podcast on/about/for animated GIFs. Each episode lasts no more than 15 seconds. If you’d like to submit your own 15 second GIFbite, for future inclusion in the show, keep these things in mind: Submissions should be no more than…

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

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

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• Metafilter Ask MeFi: How can I take advantage of the medium of VHS? I want to make a music video straight to VHS. How can I maximize the glitches and poor quality associated with the medium?

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• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

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• Bookmark “Seriality for All”: The Role of Protocols and Standards in Critical Theory

  For many years, philosophers have been casting doubt on the common identification with meaning and signification as the primary human response mechanisms to the world. If we wish to understand anything…

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• Bookmark The London Riots: On Consumerism coming Home to Roost

  These are not hunger or bread riots. These are riots of defective and disqualified consumers. Revolutions are not staple products of social inequality; but minefields are. Minefields are areas filled with…

  August 9 2011, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or the next big thing?

  There’s a new online threat to writing. Critics of the web like to blame email, texts, and chat for killing prose. Even blogs—present company included—don’t escape their wrath. But in fact…

  July 25 2011, 2:46am | Comments

• Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

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• 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 The Information Essay

  Just as this is an age of great wealth inequality, it is also an age of great inequality of knowledge or, more exactly, factual information. For all its democratic potential, the…

  April 18 2011, 9:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Francis Fukuyama on Why Analog Is Often Better Than Digital

  Visual and audio reproduction have undergone massive changes as their underlying technologies shifted from analog to digital over the past two decades. It's clear that it is far more convenient to…

  March 9 2011, 10:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Darwin Among the Machines (Samuel Butler, 1863)

  The views of machinery which we are thus feebly indicating will suggest the solution of one of the greatest and most mysterious questions of the day. We refer to the question:…

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• Bookmark In Defense of the Poor Image

  by Hito Steyerl The poor image is a copy in motion. Its quality is bad, its resolution substandard. As it accelerates, it deteriorates. It is a ghost of an image, a…

  October 28 2010, 7:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Small is Beautiful: a discussion with AAAARG architect Sean Dockray

  One of my favorite websites is the semi-obscure digital library known as AAAARG (don’t even try googling. You just get pirate-themed sites). The site is a sundry collection of critical documents…

  June 1 2010, 2:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark French magazine reportedly confirms MJ's involvement with Sonic 3 soundtrack

  One of the longest running rumors of the video game community is the claim that Michael Jackson contributed to the soundtrack for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 to some degree -- a…

  December 3 2009, 2:45pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

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• Bookmark 'Back to the Futures' Finally Compared

  In the years between Back to the Future and Back to the Future II, Michael J. Fox visibly aged and the actress playing his girlfriend was replaced by Elizabeth Shue. Thus,…

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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

• Bookmark Immortal Information

  For centuries, archivists have noted a curious relationship between “quantity” and “quality” of items in their collections. That is, typically a storage medium’s durability is inversely proportional to the amount of…

  June 16 2009, 10:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Presentation Zen: Making presentations in the TED style

  TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked to…

  May 12 2009, 3:06pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

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• Wikipedia Phaedrus (dialogue) - Wikipedia After Phaedrus concedes that this speech was certainly better than any Lysias could compose, they begin a discussion of the nature and uses of rhetoric itself. After showing that speechmaking itself isn't something reproachful, and that what is truly shameful is to engage…

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• Misc GIFbites Submission Guidelines GIFbites is a weekly podcast on/about/for animated GIFs. Each episode lasts no more than 15 seconds. If you’d like to submit your own 15 second GIFbite, for future inclusion in the show, keep these things in mind: Submissions should be no more than…

  October 31 2012, 9:00pm | Comments

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

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

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

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: How can I take advantage of the medium of VHS? I want to make a music video straight to VHS. How can I maximize the glitches and poor quality associated with the medium?

  May 18 2012, 10:32pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Pirate Bay - Physibles

  January 24 2012, 2:11pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  January 15 2012, 3:55pm | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark “Seriality for All”: The Role of Protocols and Standards in Critical Theory

  For many years, philosophers have been casting doubt on the common identification with meaning and signification as the primary human response mechanisms to the world. If we wish to understand anything…

  September 24 2011, 4:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark The London Riots: On Consumerism coming Home to Roost

  These are not hunger or bread riots. These are riots of defective and disqualified consumers. Revolutions are not staple products of social inequality; but minefields are. Minefields are areas filled with…

  August 9 2011, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or the next big thing?

  There’s a new online threat to writing. Critics of the web like to blame email, texts, and chat for killing prose. Even blogs—present company included—don’t escape their wrath. But in fact…

  July 25 2011, 2:46am | Comments

• Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

  July 21 2011, 2:58am | 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 The Information Essay

  Just as this is an age of great wealth inequality, it is also an age of great inequality of knowledge or, more exactly, factual information. For all its democratic potential, the…

  April 18 2011, 9:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Francis Fukuyama on Why Analog Is Often Better Than Digital

  Visual and audio reproduction have undergone massive changes as their underlying technologies shifted from analog to digital over the past two decades. It's clear that it is far more convenient to…

  March 9 2011, 10:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Darwin Among the Machines (Samuel Butler, 1863)

  The views of machinery which we are thus feebly indicating will suggest the solution of one of the greatest and most mysterious questions of the day. We refer to the question:…

  March 3 2011, 7:55am | Comments

• Vimeo

  January 26 2011, 3:21am | Comments

• Bookmark In Defense of the Poor Image

  by Hito Steyerl The poor image is a copy in motion. Its quality is bad, its resolution substandard. As it accelerates, it deteriorates. It is a ghost of an image, a…

  October 28 2010, 7:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Small is Beautiful: a discussion with AAAARG architect Sean Dockray

  One of my favorite websites is the semi-obscure digital library known as AAAARG (don’t even try googling. You just get pirate-themed sites). The site is a sundry collection of critical documents…

  June 1 2010, 2:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark French magazine reportedly confirms MJ's involvement with Sonic 3 soundtrack

  One of the longest running rumors of the video game community is the claim that Michael Jackson contributed to the soundtrack for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 to some degree -- a…

  December 3 2009, 2:45pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark 'Back to the Futures' Finally Compared

  In the years between Back to the Future and Back to the Future II, Michael J. Fox visibly aged and the actress playing his girlfriend was replaced by Elizabeth Shue. Thus,…

  July 27 2009, 6:10pm | Comments

• 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

• Bookmark Immortal Information

  For centuries, archivists have noted a curious relationship between “quantity” and “quality” of items in their collections. That is, typically a storage medium’s durability is inversely proportional to the amount of…

  June 16 2009, 10:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Presentation Zen: Making presentations in the TED style

  TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked to…

  May 12 2009, 3:06pm | 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

• Wikipedia Phaedrus (dialogue) - Wikipedia After Phaedrus concedes that this speech was certainly better than any Lysias could compose, they begin a discussion of the nature and uses of rhetoric itself. After showing that speechmaking itself isn't something reproachful, and that what is truly shameful is to engage…

  September 28 2008, 10:24am | Comments

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