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• 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 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

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  A History Of Violence

  September 29 2011, 2:52am | Comments

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  How the refrigerator got its hum

  September 26 2011, 4:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Steven Pinker on the History and decline (and myth of) Violence

  Some of the evidence has been under our nose all along. Conventional history has long shown that, in many ways, we have been getting kinder and gentler. Cruelty as entertainment, human…

  September 20 2011, 3:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Artist is Present (a video game about waiting in line at…

  Writing articles about video games is so much fun that we often have to stop, wipe the manic grins off our faces and find something really boring to do. Sometimes we…

  September 19 2011, 1:39am | Comments

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  From Scroll to Screen

  September 16 2011, 6:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Is New Media Accepted in the Art World? Domenico Quaranta’s Media, New…

  Do institutions and galleries have a growing interest in New Media? Two weeks ago, I identified the art “internet bubble” at The L Magazine, a trend that’s currently giving new media…

  September 2 2011, 3:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ancient DNA reveals secrets of human history

  By comparing individual DNA letters in multiple modern human genomes with those in the Neanderthal genome, the date of that interbreeding has now been pinned down to 65,000–90,000 years ago. Montgomery…

  August 15 2011, 2:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Our Emergent Digital Future

  What will the digital world look like in ten years?  The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path.  The explosion in the volume…

  August 14 2011, 4:32am | Comments

• Wikipedia Sacred Contagion Sacred contagion is the belief that spiritual properties within an object, place, or person may be passed to another object, place, or person, usually by direct contact or physical proximity. While the concept of sacred contagion has existed in numerous cultures since before…

  August 12 2011, 8:08am | Comments

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  The riots at the end of history | Prospect Magazine

  August 10 2011, 3:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Brute force or intelligence? The slow rise of computer chess

  When you visit the History of Computer Chess exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the first machine you see is "The Turk." In 1770, a Hungarian engineer…

  August 8 2011, 8:39am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Bookmark How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History

  On June 17, 2010, Sergey Ulasen was in his office in Belarus sifting through e-mail when a report caught his eye. A computer belonging to a customer in Iran was caught…

  July 13 2011, 3:09am | Comments

• Twitter

  @TheHorrorMaster Biologically #TheThing changed a lot from Campbell's story, to the BMovie, to your version. Where will the prequel take it?

  July 13 2011, 2:15am | Comments

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  Two decades of the web: a utopia no longer

  July 11 2011, 11:47am | Comments

• Bookmark Michel Serres on the word 'human'

  Son of a barge man, Michel Serres joined the Ecole Navale in 1949 and the Ecole Normale supérieure in 1952 where he obtained the aggregation of philosophy in 1955. From 1956…

  July 6 2011, 3:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why we must remember to delete - and forget - in the…

  In Delete, Mayer-Schönberger traces the history of such external memories – cave paintings, scrolls, photographic slides, diaries – and their importance to the flourishing of human knowledge. "Since the early days…

  July 1 2011, 3:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Being human

  Please respect FT.com's ts&cs and copyright policy which allow you to: share links; copy content for personal use; & redistribute limited extracts. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights or use this…

  June 25 2011, 8:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Perfection Is Not A Useful Concept

  Interview with Nick Bostrom Our long track record of survival–humans have been around for about 100,000 years–gives us some assurance that the natural risks have been rather small. If they have…

  June 20 2011, 9:21am | Comments

• Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

  June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments

• Bibliography Materiality (Politics, History, and Culture) by Daniel Miller

  June 19 2011, 5:11am | Comments

• Bookmark The truth is in there

  “I had all these ideas,” he said, speaking slowly and searchingly, like someone looking back on life and trying to figure out where it all went wrong. “I don’t know what…

  June 16 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter GIF Archaeology I'm writing a paper on (animated) GIFs and am trying to track down some of the most (in)famous. I suppose I am talking memes, but I'm more interested in the GIF as an archaeological reference point. I frequent sites like dump.fm, tumblr etc.…

  May 16 2011, 8:17am | Comments

• Tumblr We by Evgeny Zamyatin: Images from Other Worlds

  May 16 2011, 3:02am | Comments

• Wikipedia Alien space bats Alien space bats (ASBs) is a neologism for plot devices used in alternate history to create a point of divergence that would otherwise be implausible. [edit]Definition "Alien space bats" originally was used as a sarcastic attack on poorly written alternate histories due to…

  May 3 2011, 12:27pm | Comments

• YouTube

  April 30 2011, 7:01pm | Comments

• YouTube

  April 30 2011, 6:35pm | Comments

• Bibliography Systems of Art: Art, History and Systems Theory by Francis Halsall

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Capitalism's Dismal Future

  A remarkable feature of the commentary on today's economic troubles is that, despite constant reference to the Great Depression of the 1930s, as well as to the many downturns since World…

  March 30 2011, 2:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Japanese people need our solidarity, not a blame game

  The earthquake confirms that a pre‑Enlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback. The Japanese proverb ‘fix the problem, not the blame’ captures an attitude towards…

  March 26 2011, 1:48pm | Comments

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• 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 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

• Twitter Favourites

  A History Of Violence

  September 29 2011, 2:52am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How the refrigerator got its hum

  September 26 2011, 4:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Steven Pinker on the History and decline (and myth of) Violence

  Some of the evidence has been under our nose all along. Conventional history has long shown that, in many ways, we have been getting kinder and gentler. Cruelty as entertainment, human…

  September 20 2011, 3:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Artist is Present (a video game about waiting in line at…

  Writing articles about video games is so much fun that we often have to stop, wipe the manic grins off our faces and find something really boring to do. Sometimes we…

  September 19 2011, 1:39am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  From Scroll to Screen

  September 16 2011, 6:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Is New Media Accepted in the Art World? Domenico Quaranta’s Media, New…

  Do institutions and galleries have a growing interest in New Media? Two weeks ago, I identified the art “internet bubble” at The L Magazine, a trend that’s currently giving new media…

  September 2 2011, 3:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ancient DNA reveals secrets of human history

  By comparing individual DNA letters in multiple modern human genomes with those in the Neanderthal genome, the date of that interbreeding has now been pinned down to 65,000–90,000 years ago. Montgomery…

  August 15 2011, 2:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Our Emergent Digital Future

  What will the digital world look like in ten years?  The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path.  The explosion in the volume…

  August 14 2011, 4:32am | Comments

• Wikipedia Sacred Contagion Sacred contagion is the belief that spiritual properties within an object, place, or person may be passed to another object, place, or person, usually by direct contact or physical proximity. While the concept of sacred contagion has existed in numerous cultures since before…

  August 12 2011, 8:08am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The riots at the end of history | Prospect Magazine

  August 10 2011, 3:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Brute force or intelligence? The slow rise of computer chess

  When you visit the History of Computer Chess exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the first machine you see is "The Turk." In 1770, a Hungarian engineer…

  August 8 2011, 8:39am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Bookmark How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History

  On June 17, 2010, Sergey Ulasen was in his office in Belarus sifting through e-mail when a report caught his eye. A computer belonging to a customer in Iran was caught…

  July 13 2011, 3:09am | Comments

• Twitter

  @TheHorrorMaster Biologically #TheThing changed a lot from Campbell's story, to the BMovie, to your version. Where will the prequel take it?

  July 13 2011, 2:15am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Two decades of the web: a utopia no longer

  July 11 2011, 11:47am | Comments

• Bookmark Michel Serres on the word 'human'

  Son of a barge man, Michel Serres joined the Ecole Navale in 1949 and the Ecole Normale supérieure in 1952 where he obtained the aggregation of philosophy in 1955. From 1956…

  July 6 2011, 3:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why we must remember to delete - and forget - in the…

  In Delete, Mayer-Schönberger traces the history of such external memories – cave paintings, scrolls, photographic slides, diaries – and their importance to the flourishing of human knowledge. "Since the early days…

  July 1 2011, 3:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Being human

  Please respect FT.com's ts&cs and copyright policy which allow you to: share links; copy content for personal use; & redistribute limited extracts. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights or use this…

  June 25 2011, 8:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Perfection Is Not A Useful Concept

  Interview with Nick Bostrom Our long track record of survival–humans have been around for about 100,000 years–gives us some assurance that the natural risks have been rather small. If they have…

  June 20 2011, 9:21am | Comments

• Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

  June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments

• Bibliography Materiality (Politics, History, and Culture) by Daniel Miller

  June 19 2011, 5:11am | Comments

• Bookmark The truth is in there

  “I had all these ideas,” he said, speaking slowly and searchingly, like someone looking back on life and trying to figure out where it all went wrong. “I don’t know what…

  June 16 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter GIF Archaeology I'm writing a paper on (animated) GIFs and am trying to track down some of the most (in)famous. I suppose I am talking memes, but I'm more interested in the GIF as an archaeological reference point. I frequent sites like dump.fm, tumblr etc.…

  May 16 2011, 8:17am | Comments

• Tumblr We by Evgeny Zamyatin: Images from Other Worlds

  May 16 2011, 3:02am | Comments

• Wikipedia Alien space bats Alien space bats (ASBs) is a neologism for plot devices used in alternate history to create a point of divergence that would otherwise be implausible. [edit]Definition "Alien space bats" originally was used as a sarcastic attack on poorly written alternate histories due to…

  May 3 2011, 12:27pm | Comments

• YouTube

  April 30 2011, 7:01pm | Comments

• YouTube

  April 30 2011, 6:35pm | Comments

• Bibliography Systems of Art: Art, History and Systems Theory by Francis Halsall

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Capitalism's Dismal Future

  A remarkable feature of the commentary on today's economic troubles is that, despite constant reference to the Great Depression of the 1930s, as well as to the many downturns since World…

  March 30 2011, 2:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Japanese people need our solidarity, not a blame game

  The earthquake confirms that a pre‑Enlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback. The Japanese proverb ‘fix the problem, not the blame’ captures an attitude towards…

  March 26 2011, 1:48pm | Comments

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