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• 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 Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute

  Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Archaeology

  Anyone who can read German can read the first book ever printed. If you can read Sumerian cuneiform, you can read clay tablets that were probably the first things ever written.…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Evolution's Other Narrative » American Scientist

  Why science would benefit from a symbiosis-driven history of speciation. During a recent meal with a friend who happens to be a successful engineer, I found myself drawn, as usual, into…

  November 24 2013, 5:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Google’s Earth

  “I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. “They want Google to tell…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Explaining it All: How We Became the Center of the Universe

  David Deutsch’s “Beginning of Infinity” is a brilliant and exhilarating and profoundly eccentric book. It’s about everything: art, science, philosophy, history, politics, evil, death, the future, infinity, bugs, thumbs, what have…

  October 28 2013, 8:37am | Comments

• Projects This Mess is a Place

  October 26 2013, 11:52pm | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Can the multiverse explain human history? – Andrew Crumey – Aeon

  Andy Murray’s unexpectedly strong start against Roger Federer in the Wimbledon 2012 final put the Daily Telegraph columnist Matthew Norman in a science-fiction mood.

  September 18 2013, 6:12am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Beyond Google Glass: Good writings on Augmented Reality I want to read about Augmented Reality. Tech developments IRL; techno-utopian / transhuman dreams, and hard-fought aspirations; and any sci-fictional dystopian nightmares you know of. Articles and academic papers especially welcome, but what sci-fi stories have dealt imaginatively with Augmented Reality? Where's it…

  September 4 2013, 6:33am | Comments

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  The Science Fiction of Everyday Objects

  

  August 23 2013, 7:52am | Comments

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  100 Science Fiction Films by Barry Keith Grant – review | Books | The Guardian

  August 9 2013, 12:32pm | 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

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Bookmark The Future, Probably – The New Inquiry

  Clichés crop up for a reason. It has become one to say of William Gibson’s near-future novels that he has a genius for picking out the seeds of future in the…

  July 14 2013, 4:40pm | Comments

• Portfolio Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 4:12am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 3:12am | Comments

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  Why Efforts to Bring Extinct Species Back from the Dead Miss the Point: Scientific American

  May 27 2013, 5:15am | Comments

• Portfolio The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 4:16am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 3:16am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Émilie Gervais

  April 18 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Alex Myers

  April 3 2013, 9:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Synthetic Biology Comes Down to Earth - The Chronicle Review - The…

  Let's make one thing clear: Jim Collins won't grow you a house any time soon. More than a decade ago, Collins, a decorated scientist at Boston University, helped give birth to…

  March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark Cloning Woolly Mammoths: It’s the Ecology, Stupid | Guest Blog, Scientific American…

  As an ecologist of ice age giants, I long ago came to terms with the fact that I will never look my study organisms in the eye.

  March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark "Biological Intelligence is a Fleeting Phase in the Evolution of the Universe"…

  Before the year 2020, scientists are expected to launch intelligent space robots that will venture out to explore the universe for us. "Robotic exploration probably will always be the trail blazer…

  March 8 2013, 3:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Bigfoot genome paper “conclusively proves” that Sasquatch is real | Ars Technica

  It's not often you come across a scientific paper which notes that the information it covers is like something "seen on the television series Monster Quest.

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments

• Bibliography Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre by SUVIN

  January 23 2013, 5:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Matthew Fuller » Giffed Economy

  Why look at animated GIFs now? They are one of the first forms of image native to computer networks making them charmingly passé, a characteristic that gives them contradictory longevity. Animated…

  December 31 2012, 6:59am | Comments

• Bookmark How scientists recreated Neanderthal man

  In 1909, excavations at La Ferrassie cave in the Dordogne unearthed the remains of a group of Neanderthals. One of the skeletons in that group was that of an adult male,…

  December 31 2012, 6:48am | Comments

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• 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 Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute

  Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Archaeology

  Anyone who can read German can read the first book ever printed. If you can read Sumerian cuneiform, you can read clay tablets that were probably the first things ever written.…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Evolution's Other Narrative » American Scientist

  Why science would benefit from a symbiosis-driven history of speciation. During a recent meal with a friend who happens to be a successful engineer, I found myself drawn, as usual, into…

  November 24 2013, 5:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Google’s Earth

  “I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. “They want Google to tell…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Explaining it All: How We Became the Center of the Universe

  David Deutsch’s “Beginning of Infinity” is a brilliant and exhilarating and profoundly eccentric book. It’s about everything: art, science, philosophy, history, politics, evil, death, the future, infinity, bugs, thumbs, what have…

  October 28 2013, 8:37am | Comments

• Projects This Mess is a Place

  October 26 2013, 11:52pm | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Can the multiverse explain human history? – Andrew Crumey – Aeon

  Andy Murray’s unexpectedly strong start against Roger Federer in the Wimbledon 2012 final put the Daily Telegraph columnist Matthew Norman in a science-fiction mood.

  September 18 2013, 6:12am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Beyond Google Glass: Good writings on Augmented Reality I want to read about Augmented Reality. Tech developments IRL; techno-utopian / transhuman dreams, and hard-fought aspirations; and any sci-fictional dystopian nightmares you know of. Articles and academic papers especially welcome, but what sci-fi stories have dealt imaginatively with Augmented Reality? Where's it…

  September 4 2013, 6:33am | Comments

• Twitter

  The Science Fiction of Everyday Objects

  

  August 23 2013, 7:52am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  100 Science Fiction Films by Barry Keith Grant – review | Books | The Guardian

  August 9 2013, 12:32pm | 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

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Bookmark The Future, Probably – The New Inquiry

  Clichés crop up for a reason. It has become one to say of William Gibson’s near-future novels that he has a genius for picking out the seeds of future in the…

  July 14 2013, 4:40pm | Comments

• Portfolio Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 4:12am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 3:12am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Why Efforts to Bring Extinct Species Back from the Dead Miss the Point: Scientific American

  May 27 2013, 5:15am | Comments

• Portfolio The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 4:16am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 3:16am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Émilie Gervais

  April 18 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Alex Myers

  April 3 2013, 9:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Synthetic Biology Comes Down to Earth - The Chronicle Review - The…

  Let's make one thing clear: Jim Collins won't grow you a house any time soon. More than a decade ago, Collins, a decorated scientist at Boston University, helped give birth to…

  March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark Cloning Woolly Mammoths: It’s the Ecology, Stupid | Guest Blog, Scientific American…

  As an ecologist of ice age giants, I long ago came to terms with the fact that I will never look my study organisms in the eye.

  March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark "Biological Intelligence is a Fleeting Phase in the Evolution of the Universe"…

  Before the year 2020, scientists are expected to launch intelligent space robots that will venture out to explore the universe for us. "Robotic exploration probably will always be the trail blazer…

  March 8 2013, 3:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Bigfoot genome paper “conclusively proves” that Sasquatch is real | Ars Technica

  It's not often you come across a scientific paper which notes that the information it covers is like something "seen on the television series Monster Quest.

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments

• Bibliography Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre by SUVIN

  January 23 2013, 5:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Matthew Fuller » Giffed Economy

  Why look at animated GIFs now? They are one of the first forms of image native to computer networks making them charmingly passé, a characteristic that gives them contradictory longevity. Animated…

  December 31 2012, 6:59am | Comments

• Bookmark How scientists recreated Neanderthal man

  In 1909, excavations at La Ferrassie cave in the Dordogne unearthed the remains of a group of Neanderthals. One of the skeletons in that group was that of an adult male,…

  December 31 2012, 6:48am | Comments

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