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• Bookmark Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic

  Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time: In research the story is similar. PhD students and contract staff known as “postdocs”, described by one student as “the ugly…

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  My hero, Captain Beefheart, dies at 69 ... The world shall mourn

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• Bookmark On Resilience

  A key feature of complex adaptive systems is their ability to self-organize along a number of different pathways with possible sudden shifts between states: A lake, for example, can exist in…

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• Bookmark Lev manovich: software culture. the common grammar of media

  Professor of New Media Art at the University of California, both artist and graphic designer, Lev Manovich does not need further presentation. His first book “The language of New Media” (it…

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  I bring all this up because the state of the themed queue - a Disney practice if there ever was one - seems to very much be in a state of…

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• Bookmark How Video Games Are Infiltrating—and Improving—Every Part of Our Lives

  Games are sneaking into every part of our lives -- at home, school, and work. Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and even the Army depend on games. and Pretty soon, you'll be a…

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• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

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• Bookmark Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior

  Pac-Man is one of the most iconic video games of all time, and most people (even non-gamers) have at least a passing familiarity with it. The purpose of the game is…

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  Is there a secular body? Or, in somewhat different terms, is there a particular configuration of the human sensorium—of sensibilities, affects, embodied dispositions—specific to secular subjects, and thus constitutive of what…

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• Bookmark The Men Who Stole the World

  A decade ago, four young men changed the way the world works. They did this not with laws or guns or money but with software: they had radical, disruptive ideas, which…

  December 1 2010, 4:22am | Comments

• Bookmark Art for animals

  Yesterday afternoon, Matthew Fuller gave a brief but fascinating overview of artworks that make a direct address to the perceptual world of non-human animal species. As you will see quite a…

  November 27 2010, 6:44am | Comments

• Misc Besides/In a paradigmatic way Type Journal Article Author Yve Lomax URL http://www.nafae.org.uk/journals/jvap-7-3/page-205/ Volume 7.3 Publication The Journal of Visual Art Practice Date December 2008 Accessed 2010-11-26 11:58:07 Abstract This text starts with critique as that which does not rest content with the given,and starting here it embraces…

  November 26 2010, 3:58am | Comments

• Misc On the Mimetic Faculty Type Book Section Author Walter Benjamin Place New York Publisher Schoclen Books Pages 333-336 Accessed 2010-11-26 11:28:18 Book Title Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

  November 26 2010, 3:28am | Comments

• Bookmark When new narratives meet old brains

  We're hard-wired to turn our lives into stories - how will we cope with the dizzying digital fictions of the future, ask John Bickle and Sean Keating "We are our narratives"…

  November 25 2010, 8:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Ants mimic liquids to stay afloat

  Rain may seem a harmless nuisance to us humans, but for ants, it's a big deal. They can get trapped by just a single drop and risk drowning. Paradoxically, it's by…

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• Bookmark Kubrick on 2001

  You begin with an artifact left on earth four million years ago by extraterrestrial explorers who observed the behavior of the man-apes of the time and decided to influence their evolutionary…

  November 19 2010, 2:29am | Comments

• Wikipedia Desert Bus Desert Bus is the best known trick minigame in the package, and was a featured part of Electronic Gaming Monthly's preview. The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a…

  November 18 2010, 2:02pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Using a Facebook 'page' as University Research Hub My university department (art postgrad) wants to use Facebook as a community and research hub. What is the best way to go about this? In a perfect world we will use the facebook hub for: News of events and department politics Community options,…

  November 18 2010, 9:12am | Comments

• Bookmark The Shadow Scholar

  In the past year, I've written roughly 5,000 pages of scholarly literature, most on very tight deadlines. But you won't find my name on a single paper. I've written toward a…

  November 17 2010, 2:56pm | Comments

• Bookmark Myths of a Near Future: Simon Sellars, Bruce Sterling and V. Vale…

  Two years ago, I appeared on a panel, ‘Myths of a Near Future’, with writer Bruce Sterling and V. Vale of RE/Search Publications to discuss the work of J.G. Ballard. Held…

  November 15 2010, 2:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Talks Tree of Codes and Conceptual Art

  There’s something about Jonathan Safran Foer that drives a certain breed of dyspeptic New York writer/blogger to drink—more so than usual, anyway. They chafe at the six-figure advances, the visiting professor…

  November 13 2010, 3:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Danger of Cosmic Genius

  Freeman Dyson is one of those force-of-nature intellects whose brilliance can be fully grasped by only a tiny subset of humanity, that handful of thinkers capable of following his equations. His…

  November 13 2010, 5:07am | Comments

• Bookmark The Cognitive Program of Constructivism and a Reality that Remains Unknown

  by Niklas Luhmann The source of a distinction's guaranteeing reality lies in its own operative unity. It is, however, precisely as this unity that the distinction cannot be observed--except by means…

  November 12 2010, 7:10am | Comments

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  December 20 2010, 12:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic

  Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time: In research the story is similar. PhD students and contract staff known as “postdocs”, described by one student as “the ugly…

  December 20 2010, 9:47am | Comments

• Twitter

  Whole kit 'n kaboodle 'n the kitchen sink #Beefheart

  December 18 2010, 2:59am | Comments

• Twitter

  My hero, Captain Beefheart, dies at 69 ... The world shall mourn

  December 17 2010, 6:12pm | Comments

• YouTube

  December 17 2010, 11:13am | Comments

• Bookmark On Resilience

  A key feature of complex adaptive systems is their ability to self-organize along a number of different pathways with possible sudden shifts between states: A lake, for example, can exist in…

  December 16 2010, 3:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Lev manovich: software culture. the common grammar of media

  Professor of New Media Art at the University of California, both artist and graphic designer, Lev Manovich does not need further presentation. His first book “The language of New Media” (it…

  December 13 2010, 6:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Third Queue

  I bring all this up because the state of the themed queue - a Disney practice if there ever was one - seems to very much be in a state of…

  December 11 2010, 2:11am | Comments

• Vimeo

  December 10 2010, 12:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Video Games Are Infiltrating—and Improving—Every Part of Our Lives

  Games are sneaking into every part of our lives -- at home, school, and work. Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and even the Army depend on games. and Pretty soon, you'll be a…

  December 8 2010, 7:46am | Comments

• Vimeo

  December 8 2010, 7:05am | Comments

• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior

  Pac-Man is one of the most iconic video games of all time, and most people (even non-gamers) have at least a passing familiarity with it. The purpose of the game is…

  December 5 2010, 4:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Is there a secular body?

  Is there a secular body? Or, in somewhat different terms, is there a particular configuration of the human sensorium—of sensibilities, affects, embodied dispositions—specific to secular subjects, and thus constitutive of what…

  December 3 2010, 8:47am | Comments

• Bookmark The Men Who Stole the World

  A decade ago, four young men changed the way the world works. They did this not with laws or guns or money but with software: they had radical, disruptive ideas, which…

  December 1 2010, 4:22am | Comments

• Bookmark Art for animals

  Yesterday afternoon, Matthew Fuller gave a brief but fascinating overview of artworks that make a direct address to the perceptual world of non-human animal species. As you will see quite a…

  November 27 2010, 6:44am | Comments

• Misc Besides/In a paradigmatic way Type Journal Article Author Yve Lomax URL http://www.nafae.org.uk/journals/jvap-7-3/page-205/ Volume 7.3 Publication The Journal of Visual Art Practice Date December 2008 Accessed 2010-11-26 11:58:07 Abstract This text starts with critique as that which does not rest content with the given,and starting here it embraces…

  November 26 2010, 3:58am | Comments

• Misc On the Mimetic Faculty Type Book Section Author Walter Benjamin Place New York Publisher Schoclen Books Pages 333-336 Accessed 2010-11-26 11:28:18 Book Title Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

  November 26 2010, 3:28am | Comments

• Bookmark When new narratives meet old brains

  We're hard-wired to turn our lives into stories - how will we cope with the dizzying digital fictions of the future, ask John Bickle and Sean Keating "We are our narratives"…

  November 25 2010, 8:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Ants mimic liquids to stay afloat

  Rain may seem a harmless nuisance to us humans, but for ants, it's a big deal. They can get trapped by just a single drop and risk drowning. Paradoxically, it's by…

  November 25 2010, 3:36am | Comments

• Flickr Presaka al habil? / In a hurry?/ Tienes prisa?

  November 23 2010, 2:56pm | Comments

• Flickr Santa Monica Mountains Boney Mountain Poppies

  November 22 2010, 2:51pm | Comments

• YouTube

  November 19 2010, 4:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Kubrick on 2001

  You begin with an artifact left on earth four million years ago by extraterrestrial explorers who observed the behavior of the man-apes of the time and decided to influence their evolutionary…

  November 19 2010, 2:29am | Comments

• Wikipedia Desert Bus Desert Bus is the best known trick minigame in the package, and was a featured part of Electronic Gaming Monthly's preview. The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a…

  November 18 2010, 2:02pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Using a Facebook 'page' as University Research Hub My university department (art postgrad) wants to use Facebook as a community and research hub. What is the best way to go about this? In a perfect world we will use the facebook hub for: News of events and department politics Community options,…

  November 18 2010, 9:12am | Comments

• Bookmark The Shadow Scholar

  In the past year, I've written roughly 5,000 pages of scholarly literature, most on very tight deadlines. But you won't find my name on a single paper. I've written toward a…

  November 17 2010, 2:56pm | Comments

• Bookmark Myths of a Near Future: Simon Sellars, Bruce Sterling and V. Vale…

  Two years ago, I appeared on a panel, ‘Myths of a Near Future’, with writer Bruce Sterling and V. Vale of RE/Search Publications to discuss the work of J.G. Ballard. Held…

  November 15 2010, 2:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Talks Tree of Codes and Conceptual Art

  There’s something about Jonathan Safran Foer that drives a certain breed of dyspeptic New York writer/blogger to drink—more so than usual, anyway. They chafe at the six-figure advances, the visiting professor…

  November 13 2010, 3:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Danger of Cosmic Genius

  Freeman Dyson is one of those force-of-nature intellects whose brilliance can be fully grasped by only a tiny subset of humanity, that handful of thinkers capable of following his equations. His…

  November 13 2010, 5:07am | Comments

• Bookmark The Cognitive Program of Constructivism and a Reality that Remains Unknown

  by Niklas Luhmann The source of a distinction's guaranteeing reality lies in its own operative unity. It is, however, precisely as this unity that the distinction cannot be observed--except by means…

  November 12 2010, 7:10am | Comments

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  spelunking in the library

  November 12 2010, 4:11am | Comments

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