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• Bookmark Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Indicted for Data Theft: Downloading Millions of Academic…

  For a long time, it was the folks who downloaded music or movies illegally that faced the wrath of government prosecutors. So the unsealing of an indictment today against Aaron Swartz,…

  July 20 2011, 4:10am | Comments

• Bookmark In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective

  Imagine you are falling. But there is no ground. Many contemporary philosophers have pointed out that the present moment is distinguished by a prevailing condition of groundlessness.1 We cannot assume any…

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• 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

• Bookmark Content For Users on the Move

  What is a book, really? For that matter, what is an article, a record, or a movie? For each of these, I have a very clear picture in my mind that…

  July 13 2011, 2:35am | Comments

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  The Monster Ate Vegetables

  July 13 2011, 2:26am | 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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  The Age of Mechanical Reproduction

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• Bookmark Animated GIFs Triumphant

  The facts about animated GIFs are stark. They only support a palette of 256 colors. No current browser lists support for animated GIF as a codec for the HTML5 <video> tag.…

  July 12 2011, 7:41am | Comments

• Tumblr Ubik: Philip K. Dick

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• Bookmark The Neolithic Age is over!

  Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance, the…

  July 12 2011, 1:36am | Comments

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  Two decades of the web: a utopia no longer

  July 11 2011, 11:47am | Comments

• Bookmark The Pathology of Collecting

  What I’ve learned, the hard way, is that the one thing you must never ask a collector is “why?” It’ll get you nowhere. They’ll just stare at you in baffled amazement…

  July 11 2011, 4:54am | Comments

• Bibliography On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart

  July 8 2011, 7:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Off-putting behaviour: On Writing and Procrastination

  When I began writing, distractions were all low-tech. I had to worry about typewriter ribbons and correction fluid, for God's sake. There was no possibility of spending an apparently productive day…

  July 8 2011, 1:52am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics

  “Nothing new under the reign of the same and under the same reign, preserved. Nothing new and nothing to be born, no nature. This is death, eternally. Nature put to death, its birth unwanted. The science of this is nothing. It is calculably nothing.…

  July 7 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Clinamen Clinamen is the Latin name Lucretius gave to the unpredictable swerve of atoms, in the atomistic doctrine of Epicurus. According to Lucretius, the unpredictable swerve occurs "at no fixed place or time": When atoms move straight down through the void by their own…

  July 7 2011, 11:15am | Comments

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  "If living beings disturb the order of the world, then this literally means that living beings are primarily turbulence." - Michel Serres

  July 7 2011, 7:08am | 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…

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• Bookmark #Don't Follow Twitter Art

  Twitter art bums me out. Fine, it’s a new medium that we don’t know what to do with yet, but it's receiving a growing amount of attention and most of it…

  July 6 2011, 9:23am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Barbican Art Gallery - Watch Me Move: The Animation Show

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• Bookmark Friday, by Michel Tournier

  French writer, who gained fame at the age of forty-three with his first novel, Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (1967, Friday; or, The Other Island), an ingenious reworking of the…

  July 5 2011, 9:36am | Comments

• Bookmark How to fix horror, Part I: Stop trying to be so respectable

  My new book Shock Value: How a few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror, explores how horror went mainstream by revisiting the golden age that began…

  July 5 2011, 9:34am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Err' by artist Jeremy Hutchison

  For his new project, Err, artist Jeremy Hutchison contacted various factories around the world, and asked if one of their workers would produce an 'incorrect' version of the product they make…

  July 5 2011, 9:25am | Comments

• Twitter

  "Lamed Wufniks are, without knowing it, the secret pillars of the universe. Were it not for them God would annihilate the whole of mankind."

  July 5 2011, 4:08am | Comments

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  Your Computer Really Is a Part of You

  July 5 2011, 12:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Pitchfork Interviews: Björk

  Björk's forthcoming Biophilia is an album. It's also an iPad app suite featuring interactive programs for each of its 10 songs... and a treatise on the natural world that involves everything…

  July 4 2011, 12:02pm | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus

  “All things would be visibly connected if one could discover at a single glance and in its totality the tracings of an Ariadne’s thread leading thought into its own labyrinth.” - Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus

  July 4 2011, 11:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Heaven for Atheists

  It’s human nature, I suppose, to want to survive, to resist succumbing to the same fate all living things do. It’s the reason we write books, create art, have children—we’re hardwired…

  July 4 2011, 9:01am | Comments

• Tumblr Another kind of logic

  July 4 2011, 8:51am | 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

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• Bookmark Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Indicted for Data Theft: Downloading Millions of Academic…

  For a long time, it was the folks who downloaded music or movies illegally that faced the wrath of government prosecutors. So the unsealing of an indictment today against Aaron Swartz,…

  July 20 2011, 4:10am | Comments

• Bookmark In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective

  Imagine you are falling. But there is no ground. Many contemporary philosophers have pointed out that the present moment is distinguished by a prevailing condition of groundlessness.1 We cannot assume any…

  July 19 2011, 2:49am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 15 2011, 4:47am | 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

• Bookmark Content For Users on the Move

  What is a book, really? For that matter, what is an article, a record, or a movie? For each of these, I have a very clear picture in my mind that…

  July 13 2011, 2:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Monster Ate Vegetables

  July 13 2011, 2:26am | 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

  The Age of Mechanical Reproduction

  July 13 2011, 2:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Animated GIFs Triumphant

  The facts about animated GIFs are stark. They only support a palette of 256 colors. No current browser lists support for animated GIF as a codec for the HTML5 <video> tag.…

  July 12 2011, 7:41am | Comments

• Tumblr Ubik: Philip K. Dick

  July 12 2011, 1:39am | Comments

• Bookmark The Neolithic Age is over!

  Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance, the…

  July 12 2011, 1:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Two decades of the web: a utopia no longer

  July 11 2011, 11:47am | Comments

• Bookmark The Pathology of Collecting

  What I’ve learned, the hard way, is that the one thing you must never ask a collector is “why?” It’ll get you nowhere. They’ll just stare at you in baffled amazement…

  July 11 2011, 4:54am | Comments

• Bibliography On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart

  July 8 2011, 7:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Off-putting behaviour: On Writing and Procrastination

  When I began writing, distractions were all low-tech. I had to worry about typewriter ribbons and correction fluid, for God's sake. There was no possibility of spending an apparently productive day…

  July 8 2011, 1:52am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics

  “Nothing new under the reign of the same and under the same reign, preserved. Nothing new and nothing to be born, no nature. This is death, eternally. Nature put to death, its birth unwanted. The science of this is nothing. It is calculably nothing.…

  July 7 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Clinamen Clinamen is the Latin name Lucretius gave to the unpredictable swerve of atoms, in the atomistic doctrine of Epicurus. According to Lucretius, the unpredictable swerve occurs "at no fixed place or time": When atoms move straight down through the void by their own…

  July 7 2011, 11:15am | Comments

• Twitter

  "If living beings disturb the order of the world, then this literally means that living beings are primarily turbulence." - Michel Serres

  July 7 2011, 7:08am | 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

• YouTube

  July 6 2011, 3:01pm | Comments

• Bookmark #Don't Follow Twitter Art

  Twitter art bums me out. Fine, it’s a new medium that we don’t know what to do with yet, but it's receiving a growing amount of attention and most of it…

  July 6 2011, 9:23am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Barbican Art Gallery - Watch Me Move: The Animation Show

  July 6 2011, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Friday, by Michel Tournier

  French writer, who gained fame at the age of forty-three with his first novel, Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (1967, Friday; or, The Other Island), an ingenious reworking of the…

  July 5 2011, 9:36am | Comments

• Bookmark How to fix horror, Part I: Stop trying to be so respectable

  My new book Shock Value: How a few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror, explores how horror went mainstream by revisiting the golden age that began…

  July 5 2011, 9:34am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Err' by artist Jeremy Hutchison

  For his new project, Err, artist Jeremy Hutchison contacted various factories around the world, and asked if one of their workers would produce an 'incorrect' version of the product they make…

  July 5 2011, 9:25am | Comments

• Twitter

  "Lamed Wufniks are, without knowing it, the secret pillars of the universe. Were it not for them God would annihilate the whole of mankind."

  July 5 2011, 4:08am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Your Computer Really Is a Part of You

  July 5 2011, 12:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Pitchfork Interviews: Björk

  Björk's forthcoming Biophilia is an album. It's also an iPad app suite featuring interactive programs for each of its 10 songs... and a treatise on the natural world that involves everything…

  July 4 2011, 12:02pm | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus

  “All things would be visibly connected if one could discover at a single glance and in its totality the tracings of an Ariadne’s thread leading thought into its own labyrinth.” - Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus

  July 4 2011, 11:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Heaven for Atheists

  It’s human nature, I suppose, to want to survive, to resist succumbing to the same fate all living things do. It’s the reason we write books, create art, have children—we’re hardwired…

  July 4 2011, 9:01am | Comments

• Tumblr Another kind of logic

  July 4 2011, 8:51am | 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

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