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• Bookmark Diversity Training Company Uses White Actors In VR Sims

  Mursion tells big corporate clients that its VR simulations will help teach racial sensitivity. But the actors playing its Black characters are often white.

  February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments

• Bookmark New hypothesis argues the universe simulates itself into existence - Big Think

  How real are you? What if everything you are, everything you know, all the people in your life as well as all the events were not physically there but just a…

  December 3 2021, 2:51pm | Comments

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  September 17 2020, 10:08am | Comments

• Bookmark The Men Who Are Convinced We’re All Living in a Simulation

  Dale Baker was introduced to simulation theory five years ago as an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Iowa. The idea that our reality may be nothing more than a computer-generated…

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

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

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Computer simulation fills in the blanks of Neanderthal extinction | Ars Technica

  For a long time, archaeologists have suggested that modern humans wiped out Neanderthals because we had greater technological and cultural development, which allowed us to find and exploit resources more readily than Neanderthals…

  February 7 2016, 3:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Phys.Org Mobile: Bee brain simulation used to pilot a drone

  Bee brain simulation used to pilot a drone Apr 14, Technology/Hi Tech & Innovation Full size image Credit: Green Brain Project The team of researchers working on the The Green Brain…

  April 23 2015, 12:26am | Comments

• Portfolio “Please don’t call me uncanny”: Cécile B. Evans at Seventeen Gallery

  December 4 2014, 1:17pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions "Please don't call me uncanny": Cécile B. Evans at Seventeen Gallery

  December 4 2014, 12:17pm | Comments

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  March 18 2014, 10:30am | Comments

• Portfolio Apophenia

  January 29 2014, 7:46am | 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

• Portfolio Glitchometry

  November 20 2013, 6:51am | Comments

• Bookmark "The Precession of Simulacra" by Jean Baudrillard, Translated from English into American…

  Originally appeared in Baudrillard’s Simulations and Simulacra, 1981. This adaptation is based on an English translation by Paul Foss and Paul Patton. You think you understand the fucking real, man? Try…

  October 31 2013, 4:24pm | 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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  Abstract Encounters: a Modern Media Simulation | Alien Fiction

  May 16 2013, 9:42am | 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

• 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 DISSIMULATIONS by Andy Cameron

  The form of the story permeates every aspect of our cultural life. History, politics, memories, even subjectivity, our sense of identity, are all representations in narrative form, signifiers chained together in…

  June 2 2012, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Billion Dollar Brain in a box

  Officially, the Swiss Academy of Sciences meeting in Bern on 20 January was an overview of large-scale computer modelling in neuroscience. Unofficially, it was neuroscientists' first real chance to get answers…

  February 24 2012, 3:33pm | Comments

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  "How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost

  January 13 2012, 2:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Three arguments against the singularity

  This is my take on the singularity: we're not going to see a hard take-off, or a slow take-off, or any kind of AI-mediated exponential outburst. What we're going to see…

  June 23 2011, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Realer than Real: The Simulacrum According to Deleuze and Guattari

  There is a seductive image of contemporary culture circulating today. Our world, Jean Baudrillard tells us, has been launched into hyperspace in a kind of postmodern apocalypse. The airless atmosphere has…

  March 8 2011, 9:46am | Comments

• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

• Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis

  June 12 2010, 9:50am | Comments

• Portfolio Raising Neanderthals

  March 11 2010, 8:35am | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Portfolio Simulating Kim Jong Il

  November 6 2009, 9:28am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily I discovered the ants

  June 14 2009, 11:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark A Society of Simulations

  This essay aims to increase our understanding of simulations and their impact on our notion of reality. Following on some observations regarding the dominant role of visual representations in our culture,…

  April 20 2009, 3:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark Readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations

  A new brain-imaging study is shedding light on what it means to "get lost" in a good book — suggesting that readers create vivid mental simulations of the sounds, sights, tastes…

  January 29 2009, 6:04am | Comments

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• Bookmark Diversity Training Company Uses White Actors In VR Sims

  Mursion tells big corporate clients that its VR simulations will help teach racial sensitivity. But the actors playing its Black characters are often white.

  February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments

• Bookmark New hypothesis argues the universe simulates itself into existence - Big Think

  How real are you? What if everything you are, everything you know, all the people in your life as well as all the events were not physically there but just a…

  December 3 2021, 2:51pm | Comments

• YouTube

  September 17 2020, 10:08am | Comments

• Bookmark The Men Who Are Convinced We’re All Living in a Simulation

  Dale Baker was introduced to simulation theory five years ago as an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Iowa. The idea that our reality may be nothing more than a computer-generated…

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

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

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Computer simulation fills in the blanks of Neanderthal extinction | Ars Technica

  For a long time, archaeologists have suggested that modern humans wiped out Neanderthals because we had greater technological and cultural development, which allowed us to find and exploit resources more readily than Neanderthals…

  February 7 2016, 3:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Phys.Org Mobile: Bee brain simulation used to pilot a drone

  Bee brain simulation used to pilot a drone Apr 14, Technology/Hi Tech & Innovation Full size image Credit: Green Brain Project The team of researchers working on the The Green Brain…

  April 23 2015, 12:26am | Comments

• Portfolio “Please don’t call me uncanny”: Cécile B. Evans at Seventeen Gallery

  December 4 2014, 1:17pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions "Please don't call me uncanny": Cécile B. Evans at Seventeen Gallery

  December 4 2014, 12:17pm | Comments

• YouTube

  March 18 2014, 10:30am | Comments

• Portfolio Apophenia

  January 29 2014, 7:46am | 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

• Portfolio Glitchometry

  November 20 2013, 6:51am | Comments

• Bookmark "The Precession of Simulacra" by Jean Baudrillard, Translated from English into American…

  Originally appeared in Baudrillard’s Simulations and Simulacra, 1981. This adaptation is based on an English translation by Paul Foss and Paul Patton. You think you understand the fucking real, man? Try…

  October 31 2013, 4:24pm | 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

  Abstract Encounters: a Modern Media Simulation | Alien Fiction

  May 16 2013, 9:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

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

  October 8 2012, 3:38pm | 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 DISSIMULATIONS by Andy Cameron

  The form of the story permeates every aspect of our cultural life. History, politics, memories, even subjectivity, our sense of identity, are all representations in narrative form, signifiers chained together in…

  June 2 2012, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Billion Dollar Brain in a box

  Officially, the Swiss Academy of Sciences meeting in Bern on 20 January was an overview of large-scale computer modelling in neuroscience. Unofficially, it was neuroscientists' first real chance to get answers…

  February 24 2012, 3:33pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  "How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost

  January 13 2012, 2:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Three arguments against the singularity

  This is my take on the singularity: we're not going to see a hard take-off, or a slow take-off, or any kind of AI-mediated exponential outburst. What we're going to see…

  June 23 2011, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Realer than Real: The Simulacrum According to Deleuze and Guattari

  There is a seductive image of contemporary culture circulating today. Our world, Jean Baudrillard tells us, has been launched into hyperspace in a kind of postmodern apocalypse. The airless atmosphere has…

  March 8 2011, 9:46am | Comments

• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

• Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis

  June 12 2010, 9:50am | Comments

• Portfolio Raising Neanderthals

  March 11 2010, 8:35am | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Portfolio Simulating Kim Jong Il

  November 6 2009, 9:28am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily I discovered the ants

  June 14 2009, 11:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark A Society of Simulations

  This essay aims to increase our understanding of simulations and their impact on our notion of reality. Following on some observations regarding the dominant role of visual representations in our culture,…

  April 20 2009, 3:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark Readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations

  A new brain-imaging study is shedding light on what it means to "get lost" in a good book — suggesting that readers create vivid mental simulations of the sounds, sights, tastes…

  January 29 2009, 6:04am | Comments

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