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  ‘Each of us constructs and lives a “narrative”,’ wrote the British neurologist Oliver Sacks, ‘this narrative is us’. Likewise the American cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner: ‘Self is a perpetually rewritten story.

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  In the May 15, 2014, edition of the journal Nature, Floyd Romesberg’s chemistry lab at San Diego’s Scripps Research Institute published a paper titled “A Semi-Synthetic Organism with an Expanded Genetic…

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  In David Cronenberg’s 1983 film Videodrome, the president of a cable company discovers, on a pirate satellite, a plotless show (the titular “Videodrome”) depicting the graphic torture and murder of anonymous…

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  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…

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  Screenshot courtsey of Garrett Lockhart In July of this year, the video artist Mark Leckey gave an informal lecture at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London on an ephemeral concept…

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• Ask Metafilter Modify/hack a Google Hangout "feature": Press to Talk I want to use a Google Hangout "On Air" for a project, but a tiny limitation is getting in the way. I would like to bypass the 'Press to Talk' functionality with a tiny browser script/hack/modification. My programming knowledge is tiny, but I…

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  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…

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  Just this year, researchers have estimated that gene flow from Neanderthals to humans occurred between 80,000 and 50,000 years ago (ScienceDaily May, 2010). Researchers have long wondered if Neanderthals were an…

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• Bookmark Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

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  September 4 2017, 8:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Let’s ditch the dangerous idea that life is a story | Aeon…

  ‘Each of us constructs and lives a “narrative”,’ wrote the British neurologist Oliver Sacks, ‘this narrative is us’. Likewise the American cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner: ‘Self is a perpetually rewritten story.

  August 20 2017, 6:44pm | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Bookmark At Synthorx, Synthetic Biologists Put Artificial Life Forms to Work | MIT…

  In the May 15, 2014, edition of the journal Nature, Floyd Romesberg’s chemistry lab at San Diego’s Scripps Research Institute published a paper titled “A Semi-Synthetic Organism with an Expanded Genetic…

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

• Portfolio 'Ways of Something' curated by Lorna Mills

  February 4 2015, 2:47pm | Comments

• Bookmark What Is A Television (Tele-Vision) And Will Your Children Even Care? -…

  In David Cronenberg’s 1983 film Videodrome, the president of a cable company discovers, on a pirate satellite, a plotless show (the titular “Videodrome”) depicting the graphic torture and murder of anonymous…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | 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 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 Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia

  Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Today, cyber means war.

  Today, cyber means war. But back in the 1990s, it meant sex — at least, the kind of sex you can have in a chat room. Why did the word change,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Rhizome | Chrome & Flesh: An Interview with Mark Leckey

  Screenshot courtsey of Garrett Lockhart In July of this year, the video artist Mark Leckey gave an informal lecture at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London on an ephemeral concept…

  October 31 2013, 4:24pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Modify/hack a Google Hangout "feature": Press to Talk I want to use a Google Hangout "On Air" for a project, but a tiny limitation is getting in the way. I would like to bypass the 'Press to Talk' functionality with a tiny browser script/hack/modification. My programming knowledge is tiny, but I…

  October 1 2013, 7:22am | Comments

• Bookmark Omni Reboot | NETWORK OF BLOOD

  Videodrome is the best movie ever made about Facebook.

  August 27 2013, 7:39am | 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

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  Phantom Transaction Syndrome

  September 29 2012, 1:02pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Do Artists Actually Confront Our New Technological Reality?

  September 8 2012, 6:07am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Bookmark An extended breakdown of the Christian symbolism in Prometheus

  Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in…

  June 27 2012, 3:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark Prometheus Unbound: What The Movie Was Actually About

  Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in…

  June 15 2012, 5:29am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes

  March 27 2012, 7:58am | Comments

• Bookmark The Scariest Zombies in Nature

  Once the fungus invades its victim’s body, it’s already too late. The invader spreads through the host in a matter of days. The victim, unaware of what is happening, becomes driven…

  October 29 2011, 4:45pm | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘World Wide Mind’

  Imagine it: a flower blossoming inside the brain, nanometer stalks splitting away from a micrometer stem. Expanding into every available capillary, touching every cubic millimeter of the brain, collecting terabytes of…

  February 17 2011, 3:40pm | Comments

• YouTube

  February 16 2011, 7:38am | Comments

• Bookmark The Neanderthal Romeo and Human Juliet hypothesis

  Just this year, researchers have estimated that gene flow from Neanderthals to humans occurred between 80,000 and 50,000 years ago (ScienceDaily May, 2010). Researchers have long wondered if Neanderthals were an…

  October 28 2010, 3:49am | Comments

• Bookmark Ken Goldberg Discusses Telerobots, Androids, and Heidegger

  This year saw the invasion of telepresence robots—electromechanical avatars that allow you to be there without actually being there. Today, half a dozen companies are selling, or will start selling, these…

  October 8 2010, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Reclaiming the Imagination

  Imagine being a slave in ancient Rome. Now remember being one. The second task, unlike the first, is crazy. If, as I’m guessing, you never were a slave in ancient Rome,…

  August 18 2010, 2:12am | Comments

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