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• Bookmark Today, cyber means war.

  Today, cyber means war. But back in the 1990s, it meant sex — at least, the kind of sex you can have in a chat room. Why did the word change,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute

  Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Archaeology

  Anyone who can read German can read the first book ever printed. If you can read Sumerian cuneiform, you can read clay tablets that were probably the first things ever written.…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark the algorithmic turn | William Uricchio - Academia.edu

  The digital turn, and with it increased use of location-aware technologies, has yieldedinnovative image applications and posed new questions about the status and value of theimage. These applications rely on algorithmically…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Hidden History of

  The persistent glitchiness of HealthCare.gov, the website implementing the Affordable Care Act, has given us much time to ponder that peculiar little word, glitch. As it happens, some new research on…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Projects This Mess is a Place

  October 26 2013, 11:52pm | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

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• Bookmark Spy Kids - By Charles Stross | Foreign Policy

  In the 21st century, the U.S. National Security Agency (and other espionage agencies) face a storm of system-wide problems that I haven't seen anybody talking about. The problems are sociological, and…

  August 29 2013, 7:39am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) wwwtxt: Here’s my idea: a museum that consists of ancient softwares and operating systems. ☯94SEP

  wwwtxt: Here’s my idea: a museum that consists of ancient softwares and operating systems. ☯94SEP

  August 13 2013, 5:15am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  Part of an ongoing series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work but may not (yet) be well known to our readers. Nick Briz is an artist/educator/organizer living in Chicago, and co-founder of the conference and festival GLI.TC/H. This interview took…

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | 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

• Portfolio Datamoshing the Land of Ooo: An Interview with David OReilly

  April 25 2013, 5:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Datamoshing the Land of Ooo

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• Vimeo

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• Tumblr t3chn0ir: ‘He’s not a man - a machine. A Terminator. A...

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• Tumblr spaceplasma: This image of Neptune was taken on 11 August 2006...

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  Meaning as gloss

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

  September 29 2012, 4:14am | Comments

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  How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything

  September 12 2012, 3:23pm | Comments

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  The Latest : 35-year-old Voyager 1 skirts solar system edge with an 8-track and 68K of memory | 89.3 KPCC

  September 5 2012, 1:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Latest : 35-year-old Voyager 1 skirts solar system edge with an…

  With an eight-track tape recorder and 100,000 times less memory than an iPod, Voyager 1 is celebrating its 35th birthday at the edge of the solar system. Traipsing through a giant,…

  September 5 2012, 1:05am | Comments

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

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark We Are Viral From the Beginning

  Viruses are constantly swarming into our bodies. Sometimes they make us sick; sometimes our immune systems vanquish them; and sometimes they become a part of ourselves. A type of virus called…

  June 27 2012, 3:32pm | 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

• Bookmark Evolution, Entropy, and Information

  There are really two points. The first is a bit of technical background you can ignore if you like, and skip to the next paragraph. It’s the idea of “relative entropy”…

  June 15 2012, 5:19am | Comments

• Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

  June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Sloppy MicroChips: Can a fair comparison be made between biological and silicon entropy? Was reading about microchips that are designed to allow a few mistakes (known as 'Sloppy Chips'), and pondering equivalent kinds of 'coding' errors and entropy in biological systems. Can a fair comparison be made between the two? OK, to setup my question I…

  June 5 2012, 10:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Face-reading software to judge the mood of the masses

  Systems that can identify emotions in images of faces might soon collate millions of peoples' reactions to events and could even replace opinion polls IF THE computers we stare at all…

  May 30 2012, 1:55am | Comments

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  “Most people have experienced some kind of computer error in their life – a file that doesn’t open, a CD that can’t be read – but we have ways to correct…

  May 21 2012, 10:43am | Comments

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• Bookmark Today, cyber means war.

  Today, cyber means war. But back in the 1990s, it meant sex — at least, the kind of sex you can have in a chat room. Why did the word change,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute

  Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Archaeology

  Anyone who can read German can read the first book ever printed. If you can read Sumerian cuneiform, you can read clay tablets that were probably the first things ever written.…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark the algorithmic turn | William Uricchio - Academia.edu

  The digital turn, and with it increased use of location-aware technologies, has yieldedinnovative image applications and posed new questions about the status and value of theimage. These applications rely on algorithmically…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Hidden History of

  The persistent glitchiness of HealthCare.gov, the website implementing the Affordable Care Act, has given us much time to ponder that peculiar little word, glitch. As it happens, some new research on…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Projects This Mess is a Place

  October 26 2013, 11:52pm | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Spy Kids - By Charles Stross | Foreign Policy

  In the 21st century, the U.S. National Security Agency (and other espionage agencies) face a storm of system-wide problems that I haven't seen anybody talking about. The problems are sociological, and…

  August 29 2013, 7:39am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) wwwtxt: Here’s my idea: a museum that consists of ancient softwares and operating systems. ☯94SEP

  wwwtxt: Here’s my idea: a museum that consists of ancient softwares and operating systems. ☯94SEP

  August 13 2013, 5:15am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  Part of an ongoing series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work but may not (yet) be well known to our readers. Nick Briz is an artist/educator/organizer living in Chicago, and co-founder of the conference and festival GLI.TC/H. This interview took…

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | 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

• Portfolio Datamoshing the Land of Ooo: An Interview with David OReilly

  April 25 2013, 5:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Datamoshing the Land of Ooo

  April 25 2013, 4:00am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 1 2013, 9:00am | Comments

• Tumblr t3chn0ir: ‘He’s not a man - a machine. A Terminator. A...

  February 21 2013, 2:54am | Comments

• Tumblr spaceplasma: This image of Neptune was taken on 11 August 2006...

  January 26 2013, 7:40am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Meaning as gloss

  November 14 2012, 4:39am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

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

  September 29 2012, 4:14am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything

  September 12 2012, 3:23pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Latest : 35-year-old Voyager 1 skirts solar system edge with an 8-track and 68K of memory | 89.3 KPCC

  September 5 2012, 1:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Latest : 35-year-old Voyager 1 skirts solar system edge with an…

  With an eight-track tape recorder and 100,000 times less memory than an iPod, Voyager 1 is celebrating its 35th birthday at the edge of the solar system. Traipsing through a giant,…

  September 5 2012, 1:05am | Comments

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

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark We Are Viral From the Beginning

  Viruses are constantly swarming into our bodies. Sometimes they make us sick; sometimes our immune systems vanquish them; and sometimes they become a part of ourselves. A type of virus called…

  June 27 2012, 3:32pm | 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

• Bookmark Evolution, Entropy, and Information

  There are really two points. The first is a bit of technical background you can ignore if you like, and skip to the next paragraph. It’s the idea of “relative entropy”…

  June 15 2012, 5:19am | Comments

• Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

  June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Sloppy MicroChips: Can a fair comparison be made between biological and silicon entropy? Was reading about microchips that are designed to allow a few mistakes (known as 'Sloppy Chips'), and pondering equivalent kinds of 'coding' errors and entropy in biological systems. Can a fair comparison be made between the two? OK, to setup my question I…

  June 5 2012, 10:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Face-reading software to judge the mood of the masses

  Systems that can identify emotions in images of faces might soon collate millions of peoples' reactions to events and could even replace opinion polls IF THE computers we stare at all…

  May 30 2012, 1:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Quantum computer leap

  “Most people have experienced some kind of computer error in their life – a file that doesn’t open, a CD that can’t be read – but we have ways to correct…

  May 21 2012, 10:43am | Comments

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