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Bibliography My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts by N Katherine Hayles

April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments
Bibliography Friday, or the Other Island by Michel Tournier

April 26 2011, 8:51am | Comments
Portfolio Overlapping Magisteria

April 26 2011, 8:33am | Comments
Bookmark Gif art without the glitch
I admit it. I'm a junkie for animated gifs. The animated gif has a deservedly mixed reputation. It's a vestige of the early web, a grainy reminder of badly animated banners…

April 25 2011, 5:07pm | Comments
Bookmark Analogue artists defying the digital age
Dusty vinyl records, vintage film cameras, rickety typewriters and antiquated recording equipment … these are the creative tools being used by some emerging artists. Pure nostalgia? Or a laudable refusal to…

April 24 2011, 6:39am | Comments
Bookmark Gigantic New SuperOrganism with 'Social Intelligence' is Devouring the Titanic
In 2000, Roy Cullimore, a microbial ecologist and Charles Pellegrino, scientist and author of Ghosts of the Titanic discovered that the Titanic --which sank in the Atlantic Ocean 97 years ago…

April 24 2011, 2:53am | Comments
Bookmark Connecting Science and Art: A Conversation
Science and art often seem to develop in separate silos, but many thinkers are inspired by both. Novelist Cormac McCarthy, filmmaker Werner Herzog and physicist Lawrence Krauss discuss science as inspiration…

April 21 2011, 3:31pm | Comments
Metafilter Ask MeFi: Why is entropy necessary for there to be memory? In the From Eternity to Here episode of the Science Talk podcast, Sean Carroll says that without entropy there could be no memory. Could you provide an explanation of why that is to somebody who's very much a layperson when it comes to…

April 21 2011, 3:06pm | Comments
Bookmark The Philosophy of Insomnia
Philosophy is no friend of sleep. In his Laws (circa 350 BC), Plato platonized, "When a man is asleep, he is no better than if he were dead; and he who…

April 21 2011, 2:44am | Comments
Bookmark Radical Ethology: Jussi Parikka's Insect Media
In a fundamental sense, technology is deeply non-human. While we might apply a humanist logic to the function and workings of technological systems, and view technological objects as extensions of the…

April 20 2011, 3:25pm | Comments
Bookmark The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science
A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to…

April 18 2011, 11:14am | Comments
Bookmark The Information Essay
Just as this is an age of great wealth inequality, it is also an age of great inequality of knowledge or, more exactly, factual information. For all its democratic potential, the…

April 18 2011, 9:42am | Comments
YouTube

April 15 2011, 7:58am | Comments
Misc The Principle of Notworking Concepts in Critical Internet Culture Type Conference Paper Author Geert Lovink URL: hva.nl/lectoraten/documenten/ol09-050224-lovink.pdf Place Hogeschool van Amsterdam Date 24 Februari 2005 Accessed 2011-04-13 Abstract Lector Interactieve Media in het Digitaal Publiek Domein Instituut voor Interactieve Media

April 13 2011, 8:24am | Comments
Bookmark When the King Saved God
Four hundred years ago, just as William Shakespeare was reaching the height of his powers and showing the new scope and variety of the English language, and just as “England” itself…

April 12 2011, 3:57pm | Comments
Twitter
Every word, and the whole of language

April 12 2011, 9:19am | Comments
Misc The Thing Type Film Director John Carpenter Scriptwriter Bill Lancaster Contributor John W. Campbell Jr. Producer David Foster Date 1982 Distributor Universal Pictures Genre Sci-Fi Horror

April 12 2011, 7:35am | Comments
YouTube

April 12 2011, 12:37am | Comments
Bookmark Loving the Ghost in the Machine: Aesthetics of Interruption
In science fiction, ghosts in machines always appear as malfunctions, glitches, interruptions in the normal flow of things. Something unexpected appears seemingly out of nothing and from nowhere. Through a malfunction,…

April 9 2011, 2:17am | Comments
Bookmark The Principle of Notworking: Concepts in Critical Internet Culture
Internet culture is in a permanent flux. There is no linear growth, neither up nor down. The only certainty is the steady rise, both in absolute and relative numbers of users…

April 9 2011, 2:16am | Comments
Bookmark Views on Evolution, Intelligent Design Hinge on Death Anxiety
It may be the foundation of modern biology, but fewer than 40 percent of Americans say they believe in the theory of evolution. While frustrated scientists sometimes blame religion for this…

April 7 2011, 3:39am | Comments
Bookmark The Unbearable Wholeness of Beings
If you try to describe the living processes of the cell in a rather more living language than is typically found in the literature of molecular biology — if you resort…

April 6 2011, 1:48pm | Comments
Bookmark To Have Is to Owe
We need to understand what philosophers in the Middle Ages, from Italy to India to China, already understood perfectly well: Money is not a thing, and is certainly not a scarce…

April 5 2011, 1:36am | Comments
Bookmark The last stand of the Amazon
The best way to think about the remaining tribes in 2011 is to imagine a series of concentric circles, all of which interact on each boundary. There are the tribes that…

April 4 2011, 12:07pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter (Contemporary) Japanese karaoke hits Karaoke in Japanese. Am looking for tracks with a karaoke version on YouTube for an event. This old post has some great ideas, but sadly half of them have been removed from YouTube. What Japanese language songs do you sing at karaoke at…

April 1 2011, 3:41am | Comments
Bookmark Capitalism's Dismal Future
A remarkable feature of the commentary on today's economic troubles is that, despite constant reference to the Great Depression of the 1930s, as well as to the many downturns since World…

March 30 2011, 2:30am | Comments
Bookmark What we cannot predict
"Risks are always interesting," writes George Dyson," especially in this case where you have such a mix of probabilities — the earthquake/tsunami that most agree was unpredictable, if inevitable, and the…

March 30 2011, 2:28am | Comments
Bookmark Japanese people need our solidarity, not a blame game
The earthquake confirms that a pre‑Enlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback. The Japanese proverb ‘fix the problem, not the blame’ captures an attitude towards…

March 26 2011, 1:48pm | Comments
Metafilter Projects: GLTI.CH Karaoke is a virtual jukebox oozing with time-delayed, glitchy fun. Streaming live over the web, London and Kumamoto will be joined in a sing off to end all sing offs. The first GLTI.CH KARAOKE event will laugh in the face of the nine hour…

March 25 2011, 11:17am | Comments
Projects GLTI.CH Karaoke

March 25 2011, 9:38am | 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 Clovis People Weren’t First in Americas
Archaeologists and other scientists report in Friday’s issue of the journal Science that excavations show hunter-gatherers were living at the Buttermilk Creek site and making projectile points, blades, choppers and other…

March 24 2011, 4:00pm | Comments

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