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• Bookmark A vested interest in palimpsest

  The English language contains certain meaning-rich words that command attention and stir controversy. “Paradigm,” for instance: When Thomas Kuhn used it in 1966 to describe accepted scientific theories, and gave us…

  December 20 2012, 3:45am | Comments

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  You’re Not As Special As You Think | The Thoughtful Animal, Scientific American Blog Network

  December 7 2012, 7:00pm | Comments

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  Software archaeology of the GIF by Matthew Fuller

  November 18 2012, 11:25pm | Comments

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  Meaning as gloss

  November 14 2012, 4:39am | Comments

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  Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain

  November 11 2012, 9:23pm | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but..."

  “Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but revealingly confused. It refers at once to metaphysics, to methods, and to morals. We slide effortlessly from statements about the ‘objective truth’ of a scientific claim, to those about the ‘objective…

  October 24 2012, 5:33am | Comments

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

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

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  As We May Think: A 1945 Essay on Information Overload, "Curation," and Open

  October 15 2012, 1:37am | Comments

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  New project aims to upload a honey bee's brain into a flying insectobot by

  October 8 2012, 3:38pm | Comments

• Portfolio Sampling, Acclimatisation, and the ‘Die Hard’ Method

  October 7 2012, 3:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark Artificially intelligent game bots pass the Turing test on Turing's centenary

  An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created by computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like…

  September 29 2012, 4:28am | Comments

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  Errormancy: Glitch as Divination – A New Essay by Kim Cascone

  September 29 2012, 4:14am | Comments

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  The ENCODE delusion

  September 25 2012, 3:41am | Comments

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  IS ONTOLOGY MAKING US STUPID?

  September 20 2012, 7:35am | Comments

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  Geologists drive golden spike toward Anthropocene's base

  September 18 2012, 4:23am | Comments

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  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

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  Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

  September 8 2012, 6:05am | Comments

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  September 5 2012, 10:27pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S Kuhn

  September 3 2012, 6:56am | Comments

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

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘Time-wars’ by Mark Fisher

  Time rather than money is the currency in the recent science fiction film In Time. At the age of 25, the citizens in the future world the film depicts are given…

  August 14 2012, 3:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Ian Bogost on understanding what it's like to be a thing

  In a New Yorker essay a few weeks back, Laura Miller considered the various ways in which science fiction writers have imagined aliens, from the 18th century through today. Perhaps inevitably,…

  August 8 2012, 3:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Stanford and Venter Institute Simulate an Entire Organism With Software

  For medical researchers and biochemists, simulation software will vastly speed the early stages of screening for new compounds. And for molecular biologists, models that are of sufficient accuracy will yield new…

  July 23 2012, 8:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Is SETI at risk of downloading a malicious virus from outer space?

  We take it for granted that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a safe endeavor. Seriously, what could possibly go wrong with passively searching for interstellar radio signals? Unfortunately, the…

  July 10 2012, 2:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Freeman Dyson on Tool-Creation, Technology, and What Makes a Scientific Revolution

  Dyson refutes the idea that scientific revolutions are concept-driven, a stance pioneered by Thomas Kuhn in his controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and later endorsed by other theory-driven…

  July 10 2012, 2:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Paradigms Regained

  The following is an excerpt from Ian Hacking's introduction to the new edition of Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which commemorates the book's 50th anniversary. To be published…

  June 27 2012, 3:22pm | 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 On the Natural History of Surveillance

  Upon hearing the phrase, we may not know exactly what a “cephalic sniffer” is, nor whether it is a real piece of technology. However, as to what such a nefarious device…

  June 15 2012, 5:21am | Comments

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  June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Energizing Futures: How SciFi Fuels Itself

  Virtual worlds. Terraforming complexes. Star-spanning generation ships. Science fiction is chock-full of massive technological artifacts born of humankind's desire to create, to explore. What do they all have in common? They…

  June 2 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific “Truth"

  “Look,” Thomas Kuhn said. The word was weighted with weariness, as if Kuhn was resigned to the fact that I would misinterpret him, but he was still going to try—no doubt…

  May 30 2012, 2:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Nevolution: Metaphysical Mario

  In which I string together a series of videos, links and text that use Mario as a base for Science. First is Mario and the Many World Interpretation of Quantum Physics…

  May 30 2012, 1:54am | Comments

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• Bookmark A vested interest in palimpsest

  The English language contains certain meaning-rich words that command attention and stir controversy. “Paradigm,” for instance: When Thomas Kuhn used it in 1966 to describe accepted scientific theories, and gave us…

  December 20 2012, 3:45am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  You’re Not As Special As You Think | The Thoughtful Animal, Scientific American Blog Network

  December 7 2012, 7:00pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Software archaeology of the GIF by Matthew Fuller

  November 18 2012, 11:25pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Meaning as gloss

  November 14 2012, 4:39am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain

  November 11 2012, 9:23pm | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but..."

  “Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but revealingly confused. It refers at once to metaphysics, to methods, and to morals. We slide effortlessly from statements about the ‘objective truth’ of a scientific claim, to those about the ‘objective…

  October 24 2012, 5:33am | Comments

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

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  As We May Think: A 1945 Essay on Information Overload, "Curation," and Open

  October 15 2012, 1:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  New project aims to upload a honey bee's brain into a flying insectobot by

  October 8 2012, 3:38pm | Comments

• Portfolio Sampling, Acclimatisation, and the ‘Die Hard’ Method

  October 7 2012, 3:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark Artificially intelligent game bots pass the Turing test on Turing's centenary

  An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created by computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like…

  September 29 2012, 4:28am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Errormancy: Glitch as Divination – A New Essay by Kim Cascone

  September 29 2012, 4:14am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The ENCODE delusion

  September 25 2012, 3:41am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  IS ONTOLOGY MAKING US STUPID?

  September 20 2012, 7:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Geologists drive golden spike toward Anthropocene's base

  September 18 2012, 4:23am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

  September 8 2012, 6:05am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 5 2012, 10:27pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S Kuhn

  September 3 2012, 6:56am | Comments

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

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘Time-wars’ by Mark Fisher

  Time rather than money is the currency in the recent science fiction film In Time. At the age of 25, the citizens in the future world the film depicts are given…

  August 14 2012, 3:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Ian Bogost on understanding what it's like to be a thing

  In a New Yorker essay a few weeks back, Laura Miller considered the various ways in which science fiction writers have imagined aliens, from the 18th century through today. Perhaps inevitably,…

  August 8 2012, 3:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Stanford and Venter Institute Simulate an Entire Organism With Software

  For medical researchers and biochemists, simulation software will vastly speed the early stages of screening for new compounds. And for molecular biologists, models that are of sufficient accuracy will yield new…

  July 23 2012, 8:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Is SETI at risk of downloading a malicious virus from outer space?

  We take it for granted that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a safe endeavor. Seriously, what could possibly go wrong with passively searching for interstellar radio signals? Unfortunately, the…

  July 10 2012, 2:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Freeman Dyson on Tool-Creation, Technology, and What Makes a Scientific Revolution

  Dyson refutes the idea that scientific revolutions are concept-driven, a stance pioneered by Thomas Kuhn in his controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and later endorsed by other theory-driven…

  July 10 2012, 2:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Paradigms Regained

  The following is an excerpt from Ian Hacking's introduction to the new edition of Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which commemorates the book's 50th anniversary. To be published…

  June 27 2012, 3:22pm | 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 On the Natural History of Surveillance

  Upon hearing the phrase, we may not know exactly what a “cephalic sniffer” is, nor whether it is a real piece of technology. However, as to what such a nefarious device…

  June 15 2012, 5:21am | Comments

• Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

  June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Energizing Futures: How SciFi Fuels Itself

  Virtual worlds. Terraforming complexes. Star-spanning generation ships. Science fiction is chock-full of massive technological artifacts born of humankind's desire to create, to explore. What do they all have in common? They…

  June 2 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific “Truth"

  “Look,” Thomas Kuhn said. The word was weighted with weariness, as if Kuhn was resigned to the fact that I would misinterpret him, but he was still going to try—no doubt…

  May 30 2012, 2:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Nevolution: Metaphysical Mario

  In which I string together a series of videos, links and text that use Mario as a base for Science. First is Mario and the Many World Interpretation of Quantum Physics…

  May 30 2012, 1:54am | Comments

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