Daniel Rourke /stream

• Bookmark Digital archivists: technological custodians of human history

  As paper and dyes deteriorate, acetate degenerates, and the minute magnetic flux recorded in analog tape fades with the ages, how do we preserve cultural artifacts like photographs, music, and film?…

  May 21 2012, 10:38am | Comments

• Twitter

  "Is that a quotation?" I asked. "Of course. There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations."

  April 23 2012, 4:30pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Digging in the Gates: The Digital Socratic Shift

  April 3 2012, 12:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark A universe without purpose

  The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. Everywhere we look, it appears that the world…

  April 2 2012, 2:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Christian Marclay created “The Clock”

  “When I first started on this project, I thought it would become a public art piece,” Marclay said. “I thought, What a great thing, to be in a train station waiting…

  March 18 2012, 4:30pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature

  March 9 2012, 4:34am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Democracy of Objects

  March 5 2012, 3:44pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Body Counter: A statistician’s guide to mass atrocities

  March 1 2012, 9:59am | Comments

• Twitter

  elsewhere in the solar system life of a very different kind was seeking, in its own strange manner, ends incomprehensible to mankind

  February 26 2012, 2:42pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Computer viruses infecting worms to create hybrid 'Frankenmalware'

  January 28 2012, 10:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  It's time for science to move on from materialism

  January 28 2012, 10:35am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 23 2012, 7:58am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark What happens to a caterpillar's brain during metamorphosis?

  Basically, three things can happen to any given neuron in the central nervous system. It's a really complex proccess! A) some neurons are born very early in the caterpillar's life (embryonically)…

  November 30 2011, 11:50am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Any attempt to decipher nature and reveal its order requires certainty that the grid will not change..."

  “Any attempt to decipher nature and reveal its order requires certainty that the grid will not change in the course of the operation. There must be an assurance of regularity in the phenomena of nature… Otherwise there is no science. … [I]f a man…

  November 9 2011, 2:01am | Comments

• Bookmark The Roots of Religion: Myth, Play and Human Evolution

  Robert Bellah, one of America's most distinguished sociologists, caps off his luminous academic career with "Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age" , a near 800-page magnum…

  October 19 2011, 3:17am | 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 Meaning/time=? [e-flux on Coked-Out, Motherless Robots]

  Are we moving too fast for meaning? That’s the argument put together by Franco Berardi in his essay Time, Acceleration, and Violence, published on e-flux. It’s the latest in an expanding…

  September 29 2011, 7:29am | Comments

• Bookmark On Science Transfer

  “Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before. Our…

  September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Which one of you is Jesus?

  September 27 2011, 12:17am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Next Step Infinity

  September 19 2011, 4:21am | Comments

• Bookmark The Battle Over Zomia

  Over the past two millennia, "runaway" communities have put the "friction of terrain" between themselves and the people who remained in the lowlands, he writes. The highland groups adopted a swidden…

  September 5 2011, 5:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Violence at the Edge: Tottenham, Athens, Paris

  "The everyday experience of liberal capitalism rests upon the violent defence of the boundaries against the other that the system itself produces. That banal and pacifying phrase ‘social exclusion’ allows us…

  August 9 2011, 4:39am | Comments

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

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | 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

• Wikipedia GlitchWiki This is the research wiki-webring for Glitch and other glitch/noise related content GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media practitioners in Chicago & Amsterdam from September 29 thru October 03, 2010! GLI.TC/H is a physical and virtual assembly of artists,…

  June 12 2011, 3:59pm | Comments

• Bookmark Georges Bataille Electronic Library

  Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was by profession a librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. In his off hours, however, he was also a fringe Surrealist, vanguard intellectual, and writer of a…

  June 1 2011, 4:18pm | Comments

• Bookmark Biomathematics: The formula of life

  Biology used to be about plants, animals and insects, but five great revolutions have changed the way that scientists think about life: the invention of the microscope, the systematic classification of…

  May 11 2011, 3:32am | Comments

• Bookmark We are as gods and have to get good at it

  The shift that has happened in 40 years which mainly has to do with climate change. Forty years ago, I could say in the Whole Earth Catalog, "we are as gods,…

  April 28 2011, 3:27am | Comments

• Bibliography Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems by Paul Cilliers

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

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

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

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• Bookmark Digital archivists: technological custodians of human history

  As paper and dyes deteriorate, acetate degenerates, and the minute magnetic flux recorded in analog tape fades with the ages, how do we preserve cultural artifacts like photographs, music, and film?…

  May 21 2012, 10:38am | Comments

• Twitter

  "Is that a quotation?" I asked. "Of course. There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations."

  April 23 2012, 4:30pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Digging in the Gates: The Digital Socratic Shift

  April 3 2012, 12:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark A universe without purpose

  The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. Everywhere we look, it appears that the world…

  April 2 2012, 2:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Christian Marclay created “The Clock”

  “When I first started on this project, I thought it would become a public art piece,” Marclay said. “I thought, What a great thing, to be in a train station waiting…

  March 18 2012, 4:30pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature

  March 9 2012, 4:34am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Democracy of Objects

  March 5 2012, 3:44pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Body Counter: A statistician’s guide to mass atrocities

  March 1 2012, 9:59am | Comments

• Twitter

  elsewhere in the solar system life of a very different kind was seeking, in its own strange manner, ends incomprehensible to mankind

  February 26 2012, 2:42pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Computer viruses infecting worms to create hybrid 'Frankenmalware'

  January 28 2012, 10:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  It's time for science to move on from materialism

  January 28 2012, 10:35am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 23 2012, 7:58am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark What happens to a caterpillar's brain during metamorphosis?

  Basically, three things can happen to any given neuron in the central nervous system. It's a really complex proccess! A) some neurons are born very early in the caterpillar's life (embryonically)…

  November 30 2011, 11:50am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Any attempt to decipher nature and reveal its order requires certainty that the grid will not change..."

  “Any attempt to decipher nature and reveal its order requires certainty that the grid will not change in the course of the operation. There must be an assurance of regularity in the phenomena of nature… Otherwise there is no science. … [I]f a man…

  November 9 2011, 2:01am | Comments

• Bookmark The Roots of Religion: Myth, Play and Human Evolution

  Robert Bellah, one of America's most distinguished sociologists, caps off his luminous academic career with "Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age" , a near 800-page magnum…

  October 19 2011, 3:17am | 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 Meaning/time=? [e-flux on Coked-Out, Motherless Robots]

  Are we moving too fast for meaning? That’s the argument put together by Franco Berardi in his essay Time, Acceleration, and Violence, published on e-flux. It’s the latest in an expanding…

  September 29 2011, 7:29am | Comments

• Bookmark On Science Transfer

  “Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before. Our…

  September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Which one of you is Jesus?

  September 27 2011, 12:17am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Next Step Infinity

  September 19 2011, 4:21am | Comments

• Bookmark The Battle Over Zomia

  Over the past two millennia, "runaway" communities have put the "friction of terrain" between themselves and the people who remained in the lowlands, he writes. The highland groups adopted a swidden…

  September 5 2011, 5:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Violence at the Edge: Tottenham, Athens, Paris

  "The everyday experience of liberal capitalism rests upon the violent defence of the boundaries against the other that the system itself produces. That banal and pacifying phrase ‘social exclusion’ allows us…

  August 9 2011, 4:39am | Comments

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

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | 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

• Wikipedia GlitchWiki This is the research wiki-webring for Glitch and other glitch/noise related content GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media practitioners in Chicago & Amsterdam from September 29 thru October 03, 2010! GLI.TC/H is a physical and virtual assembly of artists,…

  June 12 2011, 3:59pm | Comments

• Bookmark Georges Bataille Electronic Library

  Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was by profession a librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. In his off hours, however, he was also a fringe Surrealist, vanguard intellectual, and writer of a…

  June 1 2011, 4:18pm | Comments

• Bookmark Biomathematics: The formula of life

  Biology used to be about plants, animals and insects, but five great revolutions have changed the way that scientists think about life: the invention of the microscope, the systematic classification of…

  May 11 2011, 3:32am | Comments

• Bookmark We are as gods and have to get good at it

  The shift that has happened in 40 years which mainly has to do with climate change. Forty years ago, I could say in the Whole Earth Catalog, "we are as gods,…

  April 28 2011, 3:27am | Comments

• Bibliography Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems by Paul Cilliers

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

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

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

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