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  June 3 2012, 4:01pm | Comments

• Bookmark Nakatomi Space

  While watching Die Hard the other night—one of the best architectural films of the past 25 years—I kept thinking about an essay called "Lethal Theory" by Eyal Weizman—itself one of the…

  June 2 2012, 9:31am | Comments

• Bookmark We must set planetary boundaries wisely

  As pressure on resources increases, pollution accumulates and humanity's impact on Earth escalates, global-scale governance of the environment is increasingly necessary. In June, the United Nations' Rio+20 Earth Summit in Rio…

  May 23 2012, 9:39am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: "It didn’t bother you to see the world tiny and unprotected, surrounded by darkness?” In a recent episode of Mad Men titled "Lady Lazarus," Pete Campbell has an existential crisis when he sees a picture of the Earth from space, but were there color pictures of the whole Earth in October 1966? First some background...

  May 11 2012, 12:03am | Comments

• Bookmark The Web Browser As Aesthetic Framework: Why Digital Art Today Looks Different

  Collective cultural memory is the foundation on which the significance of a creative practice stands. As summarized in Emerson Rosenthal’s post for #DIGART week, online collections and exhibition spaces have been…

  May 8 2012, 2:14pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Q&A;: The Anthropology of Searching for Aliens

  Before we can understand an alien civilization, it might be useful to understand our own. To help in this task, anthropologist Kathryn Denning of York University in Toronto, Canada studies the…

  April 6 2012, 2:07am | Comments

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  April 1 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

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  March 15 2012, 5:20pm | Comments

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  Any minute now, attack outer-space

  March 11 2012, 4:02am | Comments

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  March 10 2012, 4:13am | Comments

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  How I Found the Human Being Behind Horse_ebooks, The Internet's Favorite Spambot

  February 26 2012, 9:21am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or a damp fizzle? If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from outer space for the next hundred years, on all frequencies, how many soap operas, advertisements…

  February 23 2012, 5:09am | Comments

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  Re:Thinking Games

  January 25 2012, 3:50am | Comments

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  Why Does Our Universe Have Three Dimensions?

  January 23 2012, 7:35am | Comments

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  January 17 2012, 6:34am | Comments

• Findings quote from High Techne - Rutsky

  The position of human beings in relation to this techno-cultural un-conscious cannot, therefore, be that of the analyst (or theorist) who, standing outside this space, presumes to know or control it.It must in-stead be a relation of connection to, of interaction with, that which…

  January 6 2012, 7:52am | Comments

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  The 20 Best Videogames of 2011

  December 20 2011, 2:35pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Constraint Histories of Digital Games

  Attempts to provide a taxonomy of game genres founder on the lack of consistent criteria, and usually have to be arbitrarily assigned. Connecting ‘shooters’ into a lineage suggests scrolling shooters were…

  October 19 2011, 3:25am | Comments

• Bookmark The Millions : "I would prefer not to" (Bartleby’s Occupation of Wall…

  I was getting annoyed at the way Occupy Wall Street was being covered — as if it was insane to gather in a public space and protest. As if it had…

  October 16 2011, 11:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Innovation Starvation

  SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer) to…

  October 2 2011, 4:47am | Comments

• Bookmark The Cyberspace Real (Between Perversion and Trauma)

  Are the pessimistic cultural criticists (from Jean Baudrillard to Paul Virilio) justified in their claim that cyberspace ultimately generates a kind of proto-psychotic immersion into an imaginary universe of hallucinations, unconstrained…

  September 30 2011, 7:33am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or..."

  “Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.” - J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition…

  September 30 2011, 5:16am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Innovative websites as template for MFA research community I'm looking for examples of websites that have successfully enhanced a research community (academic or artistic) with a dynamic online/social/mutual-portfolio presence. Blog and social media based hubs, perhaps, that showcase the possibilities of web portfolio/research integration for academic and creative purposes. I've been…

  September 16 2011, 7:26am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Traces of humanity

  What aliens could learn from the stuff we’ve left in space Even in space, where none of us live, some of what we’ve left is space junk: stuff orbiting the earth…

  August 7 2011, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Google Dominates Us

  Most of the time Google does not actually have the answers. When people say, “I looked it up on Google,” they are committing a solecism. When they try to erase their…

  July 31 2011, 6:17pm | Comments

• Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

  July 21 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark The Neolithic Age is over!

  Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance, the…

  July 12 2011, 1:36am | Comments

• Wikipedia Clinamen Clinamen is the Latin name Lucretius gave to the unpredictable swerve of atoms, in the atomistic doctrine of Epicurus. According to Lucretius, the unpredictable swerve occurs "at no fixed place or time": When atoms move straight down through the void by their own…

  July 7 2011, 11:15am | Comments

• Bookmark #Don't Follow Twitter Art

  Twitter art bums me out. Fine, it’s a new medium that we don’t know what to do with yet, but it's receiving a growing amount of attention and most of it…

  July 6 2011, 9:23am | Comments

• Bookmark How to survive the age of distraction

  The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It's being chewed by the e-book.…

  June 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

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  June 3 2012, 4:01pm | Comments

• Bookmark Nakatomi Space

  While watching Die Hard the other night—one of the best architectural films of the past 25 years—I kept thinking about an essay called "Lethal Theory" by Eyal Weizman—itself one of the…

  June 2 2012, 9:31am | Comments

• Bookmark We must set planetary boundaries wisely

  As pressure on resources increases, pollution accumulates and humanity's impact on Earth escalates, global-scale governance of the environment is increasingly necessary. In June, the United Nations' Rio+20 Earth Summit in Rio…

  May 23 2012, 9:39am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: "It didn’t bother you to see the world tiny and unprotected, surrounded by darkness?” In a recent episode of Mad Men titled "Lady Lazarus," Pete Campbell has an existential crisis when he sees a picture of the Earth from space, but were there color pictures of the whole Earth in October 1966? First some background...

  May 11 2012, 12:03am | Comments

• Bookmark The Web Browser As Aesthetic Framework: Why Digital Art Today Looks Different

  Collective cultural memory is the foundation on which the significance of a creative practice stands. As summarized in Emerson Rosenthal’s post for #DIGART week, online collections and exhibition spaces have been…

  May 8 2012, 2:14pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 8 2012, 2:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark Q&A;: The Anthropology of Searching for Aliens

  Before we can understand an alien civilization, it might be useful to understand our own. To help in this task, anthropologist Kathryn Denning of York University in Toronto, Canada studies the…

  April 6 2012, 2:07am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 1 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

• YouTube

  March 15 2012, 5:20pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Any minute now, attack outer-space

  March 11 2012, 4:02am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 10 2012, 4:13am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How I Found the Human Being Behind Horse_ebooks, The Internet's Favorite Spambot

  February 26 2012, 9:21am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or a damp fizzle? If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from outer space for the next hundred years, on all frequencies, how many soap operas, advertisements…

  February 23 2012, 5:09am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Re:Thinking Games

  January 25 2012, 3:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Why Does Our Universe Have Three Dimensions?

  January 23 2012, 7:35am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 17 2012, 6:34am | Comments

• Findings quote from High Techne - Rutsky

  The position of human beings in relation to this techno-cultural un-conscious cannot, therefore, be that of the analyst (or theorist) who, standing outside this space, presumes to know or control it.It must in-stead be a relation of connection to, of interaction with, that which…

  January 6 2012, 7:52am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The 20 Best Videogames of 2011

  December 20 2011, 2:35pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Constraint Histories of Digital Games

  Attempts to provide a taxonomy of game genres founder on the lack of consistent criteria, and usually have to be arbitrarily assigned. Connecting ‘shooters’ into a lineage suggests scrolling shooters were…

  October 19 2011, 3:25am | Comments

• Bookmark The Millions : "I would prefer not to" (Bartleby’s Occupation of Wall…

  I was getting annoyed at the way Occupy Wall Street was being covered — as if it was insane to gather in a public space and protest. As if it had…

  October 16 2011, 11:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Innovation Starvation

  SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer) to…

  October 2 2011, 4:47am | Comments

• Bookmark The Cyberspace Real (Between Perversion and Trauma)

  Are the pessimistic cultural criticists (from Jean Baudrillard to Paul Virilio) justified in their claim that cyberspace ultimately generates a kind of proto-psychotic immersion into an imaginary universe of hallucinations, unconstrained…

  September 30 2011, 7:33am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or..."

  “Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.” - J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition…

  September 30 2011, 5:16am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Innovative websites as template for MFA research community I'm looking for examples of websites that have successfully enhanced a research community (academic or artistic) with a dynamic online/social/mutual-portfolio presence. Blog and social media based hubs, perhaps, that showcase the possibilities of web portfolio/research integration for academic and creative purposes. I've been…

  September 16 2011, 7:26am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Traces of humanity

  What aliens could learn from the stuff we’ve left in space Even in space, where none of us live, some of what we’ve left is space junk: stuff orbiting the earth…

  August 7 2011, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Google Dominates Us

  Most of the time Google does not actually have the answers. When people say, “I looked it up on Google,” they are committing a solecism. When they try to erase their…

  July 31 2011, 6:17pm | Comments

• Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

  July 21 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark The Neolithic Age is over!

  Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance, the…

  July 12 2011, 1:36am | Comments

• Wikipedia Clinamen Clinamen is the Latin name Lucretius gave to the unpredictable swerve of atoms, in the atomistic doctrine of Epicurus. According to Lucretius, the unpredictable swerve occurs "at no fixed place or time": When atoms move straight down through the void by their own…

  July 7 2011, 11:15am | Comments

• Bookmark #Don't Follow Twitter Art

  Twitter art bums me out. Fine, it’s a new medium that we don’t know what to do with yet, but it's receiving a growing amount of attention and most of it…

  July 6 2011, 9:23am | Comments

• Bookmark How to survive the age of distraction

  The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It's being chewed by the e-book.…

  June 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

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