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• Bookmark The Evolutionary Enigma of Dream Content

  Boston University neuroscientist Patrick McNamara has an interesting evolutionary theory of dreaming. McNamara’s theory draws from the well-known “handicapping principle” in evolutionary biology, where some organisms have been observed to display…

  June 27 2009, 4:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Michel Serres's Milieux

  Mediation means that which stands, comes or moves between things otherwise separated or opposed. Serres’s work has never ceased to meditate upon mediation in every possible sense: as arbitration; moderation; mediocrity;…

  June 23 2009, 2:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark The extent of Darwin’s impact on 19th-century artists

  It’s hard to exaggerate just how widely Darwin’s ideas on natural selection and the evolution of human kind traveled in the cultural milieu of his day, even in the age of…

  June 11 2009, 2:49am | Comments

• Misc Voiceworks | Holly Pester A collaborartion between Joshua Kaye (composer) and Holly Pester (poet and text artist) Presidents Birds and Even At the conception of this project Kaye and Pester created a system of exchange and translation, developing shared concerns for chance operations, periphery speech sounds and…

  June 11 2009, 12:08am | Comments

• Bibliography The Open Work

  June 8 2009, 1:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Grumpy Gamer Stuff and Things and Monkey Island

  About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank at Hothead Games, I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to refresh…

  June 6 2009, 9:31am | Comments

• Portfolio Beyond the Topology of the Book

  May 27 2009, 9:01am | Comments

• Twitter

  The act of engagement with art is itself an object, an artefact, in need of reflection

  May 26 2009, 8:50am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Bomb Won't Go Off Here

  May 17 2009, 9:15pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

  May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

• Misc 3quarksdaily (An Eclectic Digest of Science, Art and Literature) machine says: What traditional libraries need is a more networked, discursive interface.I love the British Library. I spent half of my study time there last year, searching for specific books in the database and picking them up from the collection desks to study…

  April 23 2009, 12:51am | Comments

• Writing for 3quarksdaily Writing (Hyper)text and Image

  A Polyptychal Discursion: This text, designed with its own concerns in mind, diverges on many trajectories, crossing over itself, intersecting its arguments and statements with images and forms which question the traditional logic of the essay. This text will become enabled not through a…

  February 23 2009, 7:07am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org Traversing the Altermodern: Tate Britain’s 4th Triennial

  February 18 2009, 6:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark Liam Gillick: The Discursive | Journal / e-flux

  A discursive model of praxis has developed within the critical art context over the last twenty years. It is the offspring of critical theory and improvised, self-organized structures. It is the…

  February 16 2009, 5:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Is Google Making Us Stupid? | The Atlantic

  I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the…

  February 2 2009, 4:58pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Phaedrus (dialogue) - Wikipedia After Phaedrus concedes that this speech was certainly better than any Lysias could compose, they begin a discussion of the nature and uses of rhetoric itself. After showing that speechmaking itself isn't something reproachful, and that what is truly shameful is to engage…

  September 28 2008, 10:24am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org How Technology "Reveals" the World

  July 11 2008, 4:19am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Metaphor is the Message Part II: Palimpsests Palimpsests Palimpsests

  April 24 2008, 8:57am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org hypertext/?="The Metaphor is the Message"

  April 18 2008, 4:22am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

  March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments

• Wikipedia The map is not the territory - Wikipedia The map is not the territory is a remark by Alfred Korzybski, encapsulating his view that an abstraction derived from something, or a reaction to it, is not the thing itself

  January 19 2008, 9:57am | Comments

• Wikipedia How to Persuade an Atheist to Become Christian - wikiHow Dealing with a friend that has different beliefs than you can be frustrating for both yourself and the non-believer. Learning how to deal with it can be extremely difficult and you might want to convert them.

  November 13 2007, 2:39am | Comments

• Metafilter Switching off self-awareness Researchers have found that prolonged concentration on a difficult task actually switches off a person's self awareness. Fancy experiencing this sensation for yourself? That would be an oxymoron in existence. Just lay back and let the orgasm take hold.

  April 20 2006, 8:16pm | Comments

• Metafilter The concept of the Transhuman: human, the self, consciousness and their effects on the law Whether or not you believe humans are set to evolve into gods, or AI is destined to achieve self-awareness the idea of the Transhuman is a thought provoking concept. Philosophers have debated the nature of the self, of the human for millennia. Is…

  December 13 2005, 5:43pm | Comments

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• Bookmark The Evolutionary Enigma of Dream Content

  Boston University neuroscientist Patrick McNamara has an interesting evolutionary theory of dreaming. McNamara’s theory draws from the well-known “handicapping principle” in evolutionary biology, where some organisms have been observed to display…

  June 27 2009, 4:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Michel Serres's Milieux

  Mediation means that which stands, comes or moves between things otherwise separated or opposed. Serres’s work has never ceased to meditate upon mediation in every possible sense: as arbitration; moderation; mediocrity;…

  June 23 2009, 2:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark The extent of Darwin’s impact on 19th-century artists

  It’s hard to exaggerate just how widely Darwin’s ideas on natural selection and the evolution of human kind traveled in the cultural milieu of his day, even in the age of…

  June 11 2009, 2:49am | Comments

• Misc Voiceworks | Holly Pester A collaborartion between Joshua Kaye (composer) and Holly Pester (poet and text artist) Presidents Birds and Even At the conception of this project Kaye and Pester created a system of exchange and translation, developing shared concerns for chance operations, periphery speech sounds and…

  June 11 2009, 12:08am | Comments

• Bibliography The Open Work

  June 8 2009, 1:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Grumpy Gamer Stuff and Things and Monkey Island

  About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank at Hothead Games, I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to refresh…

  June 6 2009, 9:31am | Comments

• Portfolio Beyond the Topology of the Book

  May 27 2009, 9:01am | Comments

• Twitter

  The act of engagement with art is itself an object, an artefact, in need of reflection

  May 26 2009, 8:50am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Bomb Won't Go Off Here

  May 17 2009, 9:15pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

  May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

• Misc 3quarksdaily (An Eclectic Digest of Science, Art and Literature) machine says: What traditional libraries need is a more networked, discursive interface.I love the British Library. I spent half of my study time there last year, searching for specific books in the database and picking them up from the collection desks to study…

  April 23 2009, 12:51am | Comments

• Writing for 3quarksdaily Writing (Hyper)text and Image

  A Polyptychal Discursion: This text, designed with its own concerns in mind, diverges on many trajectories, crossing over itself, intersecting its arguments and statements with images and forms which question the traditional logic of the essay. This text will become enabled not through a…

  February 23 2009, 7:07am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org Traversing the Altermodern: Tate Britain’s 4th Triennial

  February 18 2009, 6:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark Liam Gillick: The Discursive | Journal / e-flux

  A discursive model of praxis has developed within the critical art context over the last twenty years. It is the offspring of critical theory and improvised, self-organized structures. It is the…

  February 16 2009, 5:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Is Google Making Us Stupid? | The Atlantic

  I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the…

  February 2 2009, 4:58pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Phaedrus (dialogue) - Wikipedia After Phaedrus concedes that this speech was certainly better than any Lysias could compose, they begin a discussion of the nature and uses of rhetoric itself. After showing that speechmaking itself isn't something reproachful, and that what is truly shameful is to engage…

  September 28 2008, 10:24am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org How Technology "Reveals" the World

  July 11 2008, 4:19am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Metaphor is the Message Part II: Palimpsests Palimpsests Palimpsests

  April 24 2008, 8:57am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org hypertext/?="The Metaphor is the Message"

  April 18 2008, 4:22am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

  March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments

• Wikipedia The map is not the territory - Wikipedia The map is not the territory is a remark by Alfred Korzybski, encapsulating his view that an abstraction derived from something, or a reaction to it, is not the thing itself

  January 19 2008, 9:57am | Comments

• Wikipedia How to Persuade an Atheist to Become Christian - wikiHow Dealing with a friend that has different beliefs than you can be frustrating for both yourself and the non-believer. Learning how to deal with it can be extremely difficult and you might want to convert them.

  November 13 2007, 2:39am | Comments

• Metafilter Switching off self-awareness Researchers have found that prolonged concentration on a difficult task actually switches off a person's self awareness. Fancy experiencing this sensation for yourself? That would be an oxymoron in existence. Just lay back and let the orgasm take hold.

  April 20 2006, 8:16pm | Comments

• Metafilter The concept of the Transhuman: human, the self, consciousness and their effects on the law Whether or not you believe humans are set to evolve into gods, or AI is destined to achieve self-awareness the idea of the Transhuman is a thought provoking concept. Philosophers have debated the nature of the self, of the human for millennia. Is…

  December 13 2005, 5:43pm | Comments

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