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August 31 2012, 4:01am | Comments
Bookmark What Is Life? A 21st Century Perspective | Conversation | Edge
lecture by Craig Venter Life is code, as you heard in the introduction, was very clearly articulated by Schrodinger as code script. Perhaps even more importantly, and something I missed on…

August 8 2012, 3:25am | Comments
Bookmark Rationally Speaking: Enjoying natural selection on multiple levels
Meanwhile, Richard Dawkins was picking another fight. Normally, this would not be an occasion worthy of comment. The best way to distinguish between Professor Dawkins’ waking and sleeping states is probably…

July 10 2012, 2:53am | Comments
Bookmark Why Aren't We Reading Turing?
It's a testament to Turing's fascination with nearly everything that 76 years since his first major paper, there's still so much to write about his work. Expect this week to offer…

June 27 2012, 3:20pm | Comments
Bookmark War and Peace ebook readers find a surprise in its Nooks
A few days ago a blogger who identifies himself as just "Philip" took to his site to recount his experience of reading War and Peace – specifically, a 99¢ version as…

June 15 2012, 5:23am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Sloppy MicroChips: Can a fair comparison be made between biological and silicon entropy? Was reading about microchips that are designed to allow a few mistakes (known as 'Sloppy Chips'), and pondering equivalent kinds of 'coding' errors and entropy in biological systems. Can a fair comparison be made between the two? OK, to setup my question I…

June 5 2012, 10:05am | Comments
Bookmark Face-reading software to judge the mood of the masses
Systems that can identify emotions in images of faces might soon collate millions of peoples' reactions to events and could even replace opinion polls IF THE computers we stare at all…

May 30 2012, 1:55am | Comments
Bookmark 'Will reading in the digital era erode our ability to understand the…
Quite the opposite, so long as we grasp the fresh routes to knowledge, and connection, that technological change brings, says Nick Harkaway. These are old, old fears in a new form.…

May 17 2012, 3:38am | Comments
Bookmark Re-Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology
Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology gives us a good perspective from which to think through what has been so far said about Derrida's book. The book is a careful selection of valuable…

May 17 2012, 3:36am | Comments
Bookmark In the Zone of Alienation: Tarkovsky as Video Game
Zona, Geoff Dyer’s recent book about Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterpiece Stalker, has been much discussed for its almost comically thorough dissection of the stately 1979 film. In an account that combines summary,…

May 1 2012, 3:13pm | Comments
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Anatomy of Norbiton: labyrinthine

March 11 2012, 4:12am | Comments
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Speculative Realism Pathfinder

January 19 2012, 2:50am | Comments
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Rereading Darwin

January 17 2012, 5:06pm | Comments
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All Language Is Murder

December 14 2011, 2:50am | Comments
Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments
Bookmark VideoGames can't tell stories
Games don’t do storytelling well because they can’t deliver the four key components of story. There is no hero. Time is in the control of the player, not the creator. There…

November 24 2011, 2:53am | 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
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Which one of you is Jesus?

September 27 2011, 12:17am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Innovative websites as template for MFA research community I'm looking for examples of websites that have successfully enhanced a research community (academic or artistic) with a dynamic online/social/mutual-portfolio presence. Blog and social media based hubs, perhaps, that showcase the possibilities of web portfolio/research integration for academic and creative purposes. I've been…

September 16 2011, 7:26am | Comments
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From Scroll to Screen

September 16 2011, 6:52am | 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
Bookmark How to survive the age of distraction
The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It's being chewed by the e-book.…

June 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments
Projects Digital Autonomy

June 11 2011, 4:02am | 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
Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

May 25 2011, 5:21am | 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 Prop Theory in a Nutshell
Any time we interact with a representative art work – be it a painting, a sculpture, a song, a novel, a comic, a play, a film, or a game – it…

March 10 2011, 9:31am | Comments
Bookmark Narcissus Regards a Book
Who is the common reader now? I do not think there is any way to evade a simple answer to this question. Common readers—which is to say the great majority of…

February 1 2011, 3:26pm | Comments
Bookmark The Novel is not under threat from technology
One of the first things I did with my palm-sized glossy black pebble of the future was to download loads of free books using the app Stanza. I read The Island…

January 10 2011, 3:34am | Comments
Bookmark Earth project aims to 'simulate everything'
It could be one of the most ambitious computer projects ever conceived. An international group of scientists is aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth -…

January 8 2011, 7:50am | 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
Ask Metafilter Using a Facebook 'page' as University Research Hub My university department (art postgrad) wants to use Facebook as a community and research hub. What is the best way to go about this? In a perfect world we will use the facebook hub for: News of events and department politics Community options,…

November 18 2010, 9:12am | Comments

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