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Digital tools 'to save languages'

February 18 2012, 5:35pm | Comments
Bookmark Roar so wildly: Spam, technology and language
This is the raw text output of a chat session with a bot I modified to act as an interlocutor. I use our conversation, which revolves around the history of spam,…

February 16 2012, 5:20am | Comments
Bookmark My 24 hours of watching 'The Clock'
It’s time. The winged chariot at my back, and all that. Taking a seat on one of the comfortable couches at the National Gallery in Ottawa, I mentally strap myself in.…

February 9 2012, 3:46am | Comments
Bookmark Kids, unlike adults, think technology is fundamentally human
With children so easy to embrace robotics, it’s clear that there’s a ton of potential for integrating intelligent technologies into learning environments. Besides, the idea of “exploring and creating” sounds a…

January 19 2012, 2:13am | Comments
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"How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost

January 13 2012, 2:50am | Comments
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Worth a new Mass?

December 8 2011, 7:06am | Comments
Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments
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Ruth Franklin: The Thrill Of Applying Literary Theory To Everyday Texts | The New Republic

November 18 2011, 4:36pm | Comments
Bookmark Zombie Editions: An Archaeology of POD Areopagiticas
This is a zombie edition, one of many I found for early modern texts on Amazon. Produced as cheap print-on-demand editions from EEBO or GoogleBook scans, they're listed alongside reputable scholarly…

October 16 2011, 9:06am | 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
Bookmark How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical Artifact"?
The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful to…

September 20 2011, 10:26am | Comments
Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

August 26 2011, 12:03pm | 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
Bookmark Information Wants to be Consumed
Although information spreads, virus-like, through replication, this replication, as Walter Benjamin foresaw, involves a dispersion that allows images or data to be seen in different places, in different contexts (what Benjamin…

August 3 2011, 6:00am | Comments
Bookmark Rebellion Against Pluralism
Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted responsibility for the death of seventy six innocents, is undoubtedly a madman. But madmen can be spurred on by anything in their environment they are…

July 27 2011, 3:08pm | Comments
Bookmark Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or the next big thing?
There’s a new online threat to writing. Critics of the web like to blame email, texts, and chat for killing prose. Even blogs—present company included—don’t escape their wrath. But in fact…

July 25 2011, 2:46am | Comments
Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

July 21 2011, 2:58am | Comments
Tumblr reCAPTCHAed

June 17 2011, 4:33am | Comments
Bookmark First ever direct English translation of Solaris published
The first ever direct translation into English of the Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem's most famous novel, Solaris, has just been published, removing a raft of unnecessary changes and restoring…

June 16 2011, 3:07pm | Comments
Wikipedia Experiments in the Revival of Organisms Experiments in the Revival of Organisms is a 1940 motion picture which documents Soviet research into the resuscitation of clinically dead organisms. It is available from the Prelinger Archives, and it is in the public domain. The British scientist J. B. S. Haldane…

June 15 2011, 9:12am | 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 Reading revolutions: Online digital text and implications for reading in academe
While the Internet is a text-saturated world, reading online screens tends to be significantly different from reading printed text. This review essay examines literature from a variety of disciplines on the…

June 6 2011, 1:36pm | Comments
Bookmark Is Twitter writing, or is it speech? Why we need a new…
Which begs the question: What is Twitter, actually? (No, seriously!) And what type of communication is it, finally? If we’re wondering why heated debates about Twitter’s effect on information/politics/us tend to…

June 2 2011, 1:19pm | Comments
Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments
Bookmark Graphics Interchange Format At Denison University's Mulberry ...
Since the early days of the web, users have been posting animated GIFs. Once synonymous with shoveling construction workers on parked domains, these moving images now more commonly find their way…

May 19 2011, 11:48am | Comments
foursquare checkin @ Bury Art Gallery & Museum - Text Festival: including works by Marcel Broodthaers, Christian Bök, Pavel Büchler and Holly Pester

May 19 2011, 4:52am | Comments
Portfolio Headless Research

May 15 2011, 10:26am | Comments
Bookmark How the Illusion of Being Observed Can Make You a Better Person
A group of scientists at Newcastle University, headed by Melissa Bateson and Daniel Nettle of the Center for Behavior and Evolution, conducted a field experiment demonstrating that merely hanging up posters…

May 11 2011, 3:14am | Comments
Bibliography My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts by N Katherine Hayles

April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments
Bookmark The Font of the Hand
JUST AS IN OUR DAY a fervid minority denounces the digitization of literary experience, fifteenth-century literati responded to their own depredations. In 1492, Johannes Trithemius, Abbot of Sponheim, wrote De Laude…

March 24 2011, 5:23pm | Comments
Bookmark Credit in the Straight WWW: "DDDDoomed", Berger, and the Image Aggregator
[ED: Nearly all of the text in this post is taken from R. Gerald Nelson's independently published, occasionally problematic but more often brilliantly concise treatise DDDDoomed. Anyone concerned with issues of…

March 15 2011, 8:01am | Comments
Bookmark R. Gerald Nelson’s DDDDoomed essay
R. Gerald Nelson’s DDDDoomed essay has been making the rounds lately and it sparked a healthy amount of curiosity and note-taking on my part that I felt I wanted to share…

March 15 2011, 7:59am | Comments

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