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It's time for science to move on from materialism

January 28 2012, 10:35am | Comments
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The Pirate Bay - Physibles

January 24 2012, 2:11pm | Comments
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January 23 2012, 7:58am | Comments
Bookmark The Mystery of the Five Wounds
Why, though, to begin with, did stigmata materialize in 13th-century Italy? Part of the answer seems to lie in the theological trends of the time. The Catholic Church of St. Francis’s…

November 21 2011, 12:07pm | Comments
Bookmark The Constraint Histories of Digital Games
Attempts to provide a taxonomy of game genres founder on the lack of consistent criteria, and usually have to be arbitrarily assigned. Connecting ‘shooters’ into a lineage suggests scrolling shooters were…

October 19 2011, 3:25am | Comments
Bookmark Music moved on after modernism, but whatever happened to fiction?
The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy – rather like a long-term marriage. At the securely…

October 12 2011, 9:54am | Comments
Tumblr thomforsyth: BIRD RIB Paintings | Maurizio Bongiovanni My work...

October 2 2011, 4:52am | Comments
Bookmark The Battle Over Zomia
Over the past two millennia, "runaway" communities have put the "friction of terrain" between themselves and the people who remained in the lowlands, he writes. The highland groups adopted a swidden…

September 5 2011, 5:20am | Comments
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How to Read Lacan - Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer of Alien

September 5 2011, 12:41am | Comments
Bookmark The New Atheism
Trapped in the childhood literalism of my background, I had not entertained the possibility of Christian belief separated from the great lure and threat of heaven and hell. The New Atheism…

August 30 2011, 8:21am | Comments
Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments
Bookmark New York - Empire of Evolution
Dr. Munshi-South has joined the ranks of a small but growing number of field biologists who study urban evolution — not the rise and fall of skyscrapers and neighborhoods, but the…

July 26 2011, 1:55pm | Comments
Bookmark YooouuuTuuube
Create your own trip in sound and animation using YouTube video clips (this one features Alice in Wonderland)

July 19 2011, 4:15pm | Comments
Bookmark On Location with John Carpenter’s THE THING
From the July 1982 issue of Omni. As with all the other commissioned pieces I wrote for the Arts section of that magazine, this originally ran without a title; I’ve also…

June 20 2011, 5:20am | Comments
Bookmark Oh, Infinite Stream of Data and Light
Visitors enter the dark, gargantuan room and take up postures of reverence in front of a massive screen, which towers 40 feet above them. They take off their shoes at the…

June 16 2011, 4:22pm | Comments
Bookmark GlitchBot
GlitchBot is an automated glitch creation / distribution program and persona. GlitchBot maintains an active presence on flickr, including a profile and photostream, with new images created and uploaded daily. GlitchBot…

May 30 2011, 2:17am | Comments
Bookmark A Guide To Enjoying (And Making Your Own) GIF Art
You can satisfy your low-brow GIF cravings on sites like 4chan or the countless GIF-glorifying Tumblrs like GIF Party and Fuck Yeah GIFs. A step above is the image-based chat site…

May 19 2011, 11:50am | Comments
Tumblr Takeshi Murata: Get Your Ass To Mars

May 6 2011, 2:36am | Comments
Wikipedia Alien space bats Alien space bats (ASBs) is a neologism for plot devices used in alternate history to create a point of divergence that would otherwise be implausible. [edit]Definition "Alien space bats" originally was used as a sarcastic attack on poorly written alternate histories due to…

May 3 2011, 12:27pm | Comments
Bookmark The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science
A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to…

April 18 2011, 11:14am | Comments
Misc The Thing Type Film Director John Carpenter Scriptwriter Bill Lancaster Contributor John W. Campbell Jr. Producer David Foster Date 1982 Distributor Universal Pictures Genre Sci-Fi Horror

April 12 2011, 7:35am | Comments
Bookmark The Principle of Notworking: Concepts in Critical Internet Culture
Internet culture is in a permanent flux. There is no linear growth, neither up nor down. The only certainty is the steady rise, both in absolute and relative numbers of users…

April 9 2011, 2:16am | Comments
Bookmark To Have Is to Owe
We need to understand what philosophers in the Middle Ages, from Italy to India to China, already understood perfectly well: Money is not a thing, and is certainly not a scarce…

April 5 2011, 1:36am | 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 Infinite Glitch.com
Every day an incomprehensible number of new digital media files are uploaded to hosting sites across the internet. Far too many for any one person to consume. Infinite Glitch is a…

March 9 2011, 5:50am | Comments
Bookmark 400 years of the King James Bible
The King James Bible is a book that attracts superlatives. To David Norton it is “the most important book in English religion and culture”, to Gordon Campbell “the most celebrated book…

February 11 2011, 3:43am | Comments
Bookmark Slavoj Žižek · Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks
So far, the WikiLeaks story has been represented as a struggle between WikiLeaks and the US empire: is the publishing of confidential US state documents an act in support of the…

January 18 2011, 4:01am | Comments
Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments
Wikipedia Desert Bus Desert Bus is the best known trick minigame in the package, and was a featured part of Electronic Gaming Monthly's preview. The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a…

November 18 2010, 2:02pm | Comments
Bookmark The Myth of Separate Magisteria
By now, nearly everyone with a passing interest in science or religion is familiar with Stephen Jay Gould’s description of the two disciplines as “non-overlapping magisteria” with separate domains — science…

November 10 2010, 5:17am | 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
Wikipedia Transition (literary journal) - Wikipedia Tired of the spectacle of short stories, novels, poems and plays still under the hegemony of the banal word, monotonous syntax, static psychology, descriptive naturalism, and desirous of crystallizing a viewpoint… Narrative is not mere anecdote, but the projection of a metamorphosis of…

October 12 2010, 5:09pm | Comments

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