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• Bookmark The case for reconciling the scientific with the divine -- and against…

  As a both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious…

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  John Gray: "Science may be the cumulative elimination of error, but the human fondness for toxic ideas is remarkably constant."

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• Metafilter MeFi: Dominoes, move over. This is a stick bomb. This is an AWESOME STICK BOMB. This is an awesome kid showing you how to make your own stick bomb. This is another really great stick bomb, but it's not done by that awesome little kid, so it's…

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• Tumblr thomforsyth: BIRD RIB Paintings | Maurizio Bongiovanni My work...

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• 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

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• 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 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

• Ask Metafilter Crusoe film adaptations and *that* footprint Robinson Crusoe film adaptations. Which are the best ones? Also, that footprint... For a project I am working on, I want to isolate the moment in Robinson Crusoe where he discovers the savage footprint, imprinted in the sand, for the first time. In…

  September 29 2011, 5:31am | 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

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  Which one of you is Jesus?

  September 27 2011, 12:17am | Comments

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  How the refrigerator got its hum

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• Bookmark “Seriality for All”: The Role of Protocols and Standards in Critical Theory

  For many years, philosophers have been casting doubt on the common identification with meaning and signification as the primary human response mechanisms to the world. If we wish to understand anything…

  September 24 2011, 4:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark The ancient cloud

  The crowd-sourced, wikinomic cloud is the new, new thing that all management consultants are now telling their clients to embrace. Yet the cloud is not a new thing at all. It…

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• Bookmark Postmodernism: from the cutting edge to the museum | Art and design…

  Postmodernism: Was this pre-digital phenomenon killed off by the Internet? http://t.co/KLWldzzq #x #exhibition #culture #digital

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• 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

• Bookmark Can religion tell us more than science?

  In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and against…

  September 20 2011, 3:12am | 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

  Postmodernism: from the cutting edge to the museum

  September 17 2011, 2:03am | 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

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  From Scroll to Screen

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• Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put…

  “What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or…

  September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments

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  Bataille: I dont know what the being is that I am nor do I know what the world is & I would not be able to produce another one by any means

  September 7 2011, 6:27am | Comments

• Tumblr The Astronaut Suicides

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  The Elusive Big Idea - NYTimes.com

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• Bookmark The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age

  Berry’s book is less one specific philosophical argument of what software is and what code does, but consists of chapters that illuminate different ways one can approach software and software culture…

  September 6 2011, 4:15am | 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

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• Bookmark The case for reconciling the scientific with the divine -- and against…

  As a both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious…

  October 8 2011, 10:01am | Comments

• Tumblr The Isolator

  October 6 2011, 7:38am | Comments

• Twitter

  John Gray: "Science may be the cumulative elimination of error, but the human fondness for toxic ideas is remarkably constant."

  October 6 2011, 5:23am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Dominoes, move over. This is a stick bomb. This is an AWESOME STICK BOMB. This is an awesome kid showing you how to make your own stick bomb. This is another really great stick bomb, but it's not done by that awesome little kid, so it's…

  October 5 2011, 11:17am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 2 2011, 2:40pm | Comments

• Tumblr thomforsyth: BIRD RIB Paintings | Maurizio Bongiovanni My work...

  October 2 2011, 4:52am | 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

• YouTube

  September 30 2011, 7:09am | 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 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

• Ask Metafilter Crusoe film adaptations and *that* footprint Robinson Crusoe film adaptations. Which are the best ones? Also, that footprint... For a project I am working on, I want to isolate the moment in Robinson Crusoe where he discovers the savage footprint, imprinted in the sand, for the first time. In…

  September 29 2011, 5:31am | 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

  How the refrigerator got its hum

  September 26 2011, 4:54am | Comments

• Bookmark “Seriality for All”: The Role of Protocols and Standards in Critical Theory

  For many years, philosophers have been casting doubt on the common identification with meaning and signification as the primary human response mechanisms to the world. If we wish to understand anything…

  September 24 2011, 4:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark The ancient cloud

  The crowd-sourced, wikinomic cloud is the new, new thing that all management consultants are now telling their clients to embrace. Yet the cloud is not a new thing at all. It…

  September 24 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Postmodernism: from the cutting edge to the museum | Art and design…

  Postmodernism: Was this pre-digital phenomenon killed off by the Internet? http://t.co/KLWldzzq #x #exhibition #culture #digital

  September 20 2011, 10:48pm | Comments

• YouTube

  September 20 2011, 4:27pm | 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

• Bookmark Can religion tell us more than science?

  In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and against…

  September 20 2011, 3:12am | 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

  Postmodernism: from the cutting edge to the museum

  September 17 2011, 2:03am | 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

• Twitter Favourites

  From Scroll to Screen

  September 16 2011, 6:52am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put…

  “What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or…

  September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments

• Twitter

  Bataille: I dont know what the being is that I am nor do I know what the world is & I would not be able to produce another one by any means

  September 7 2011, 6:27am | Comments

• Tumblr The Astronaut Suicides

  September 6 2011, 4:53am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Elusive Big Idea - NYTimes.com

  September 6 2011, 4:43am | Comments

• Bookmark The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age

  Berry’s book is less one specific philosophical argument of what software is and what code does, but consists of chapters that illuminate different ways one can approach software and software culture…

  September 6 2011, 4:15am | 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

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