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• Bookmark Computer simulation fills in the blanks of Neanderthal extinction | Ars Technica

  For a long time, archaeologists have suggested that modern humans wiped out Neanderthals because we had greater technological and cultural development, which allowed us to find and exploit resources more readily than Neanderthals…

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• Wikipedia Spandrel (biology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In evolutionary biology, a spandrel is a phenotypic characteristic that is a byproduct of the evolution of some other characteristic, rather than a direct product of adaptive selection.

  February 1 2016, 4:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Humans have made so much plastic it will probably show up in…

  Future archeologists aren’t just going to be digging up old bones: Looks like they’re also going to be sifting though old fossilized plastics. For years, scientists have questioned whether or not…

  January 31 2016, 9:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Even Transhumanist Elites Are Worried Only the Rich Will Be Able to…

  The story of Z was supposed to be about how biohacking had allowed her to become immortal. She lived in the year 2040, and by most measures her life was happy.…

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• Bookmark Frieze Magazine | Archive | Loop the Loop

  If an annual award for the ‘hottest digital image format online’ existed, this year’s winner would be the Graphics Interchange Format or gif: an eight-bit, 256-colour bitmap picture file that can…

  January 30 2016, 9:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Bioart and the Gnawing Invisible | Popular Science

  In my life as a curator, only twice have a pair of eyes in an artwork ever really mesmerized me. The first pair gazed out from a painting by German surrealist…

  January 30 2016, 3:34am | Comments

• Additivism #Additivism selected for Vilém Flusser Residency Program for Artistic Research 2016

  Additivism selected for Vilém Flusser Residency Program for Artistic Research 2016 We are extremely excited to announce that our project #Additivism was accepted as recipient of the Vilém Flusser Residency Program for Artistic Research 2016. You can read the jury statement here:Morehshin Allahyari’s and…

  January 29 2016, 10:37am | Comments

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• Additivism Sonic Acts #Additivism Workshop (29 Feb - 1 Mar, 2016)

  Sign up: Sonic Acts #Additivism Workshop (29 Feb - 1 Mar, 2016) There are still places available for our #Additivism Workshop at Sonic Acts Academy, on the theme of ‘Post-Nature’. Sign up!Workshop The 2-day 3D Additivism workshop, which will take place immediately after the…

  January 28 2016, 6:04am | Comments

• Additivism In Acts of Resistance, Artists and Scholars Digitally...

  In Acts of Resistance, Artists and Scholars Digitally Reconstruct the Past In the past year alone, members of ISIS have marred cultural treasures in Iraq and Syria, taking sledgehammers and drills to statues at the Mosul Museum and delivering numerous blows to the ancient site of…

  January 27 2016, 3:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why humans find it hard to do away with religion

  The new atheists decry religion as a poisonous set of lies. But what if a belief in the supernatural is natural?

  January 27 2016, 11:02am | Comments

• Bookmark In a Huge Breakthrough, Google's AI Beats a Top Player at the…

  In a major breakthrough for artificial intelligence, a computing system developed by Google researchers in Great Britain has beaten a top human player at the game of Go, the ancient Eastern…

  January 27 2016, 11:02am | Comments

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  January 27 2016, 9:58am | Comments

• Metafilter A few seconds closer to Midnight? Today The Doomsday Clock will have its time recalibrated. In 2015 the scientists set the hands to 23.57 - "due to climate change, the modernization of nuclear weapons in the United States and Russia, and the problem of nuclear waste." Is the apocalypse…

  January 26 2016, 6:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Keep your scythe, the real green future is high-tech, democratic, and radical…

  "Radical ecology" has come to mean a kind of left-wing back-to-the-landism that throws off consumer culture and mass production for a pastoral low-tech lifestyle.

  January 24 2016, 2:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why Martian Concrete Might Be The Best Building Material In The Solar…

  To colonize Mars, researchers are developing a new kind of concrete that doesn't require water and is more than twice as strong. Concrete has been critical to the colonization of our…

  January 24 2016, 2:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ants Write Architectural Plans Into The Walls of Their Buildings – Phenomena:…

  Imagine constructing a building with no blueprints or architects, and no inkling of what the finished edifice should look like. It sounds like a recipe for disaster, and yet that’s what…

  January 24 2016, 2:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Tidying up: The life-changing magic of simplistic solutions to complex problems |…

  TIDYING up is serious business. “Life truly begins only after you have put your house in order,” says Marie Kondo, whose bestseller “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying” has elevated a household…

  January 24 2016, 2:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Is Resistance Futile? Are we already Borg?

  From the days of the Acheulean hand-axe on, humans have always had a symbiotic relationship with technology. How far will that relationship go? One haunting vision of the future is provided…

  January 24 2016, 2:32pm | Comments

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  January 21 2016, 10:10pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Hi, I'm a digital junkie, and I suffer from infomania Infomania, defined by the Oxford dictionary as "the compulsive desire to check or accumulate news and information, typically via mobile phone or computer." "I was recently described, to my face, as a 'modern digital junkie.' This diagnosis was given to me, half in…

  January 20 2016, 9:44am | Comments

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• Bibliography Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century by Scott Bukatman

  January 19 2016, 7:50am | Comments

• Bibliography Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies 2015 (Critical Climate… by Heather Davis

  January 19 2016, 7:50am | Comments

• Bibliography Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols by Tom Cohen, Claire Colebrook, and J. Hillis Miller

  January 19 2016, 7:49am | Comments

• Bibliography In the dust of this planet by Eugene Thacker

  January 19 2016, 7:49am | Comments

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  January 18 2016, 2:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Dialogical Avatar: a presentation with Donna Haraway&&& Journal

  as the central speaker and facilitator. Aside from the Cyborg Manifesto, it constitutes one of Haraway’s most extended engagements with science fiction, and with a specific work of science fiction cinema…

  January 14 2016, 5:42am | Comments

• Bookmark We need to talk about TED | Benjamin Bratton | Opinion |…

  In our culture, talking about the future is sometimes a polite way of saying things about the present that would otherwise be rude or risky. But have you ever wondered why…

  January 14 2016, 5:42am | Comments

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  Then a final over the top declaration

  

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• Bookmark Computer simulation fills in the blanks of Neanderthal extinction | Ars Technica

  For a long time, archaeologists have suggested that modern humans wiped out Neanderthals because we had greater technological and cultural development, which allowed us to find and exploit resources more readily than Neanderthals…

  February 7 2016, 3:43am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 5 2016, 10:00am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 1 2016, 9:01am | Comments

• Wikipedia Spandrel (biology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In evolutionary biology, a spandrel is a phenotypic characteristic that is a byproduct of the evolution of some other characteristic, rather than a direct product of adaptive selection.

  February 1 2016, 4:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Humans have made so much plastic it will probably show up in…

  Future archeologists aren’t just going to be digging up old bones: Looks like they’re also going to be sifting though old fossilized plastics. For years, scientists have questioned whether or not…

  January 31 2016, 9:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Even Transhumanist Elites Are Worried Only the Rich Will Be Able to…

  The story of Z was supposed to be about how biohacking had allowed her to become immortal. She lived in the year 2040, and by most measures her life was happy.…

  January 31 2016, 9:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Frieze Magazine | Archive | Loop the Loop

  If an annual award for the ‘hottest digital image format online’ existed, this year’s winner would be the Graphics Interchange Format or gif: an eight-bit, 256-colour bitmap picture file that can…

  January 30 2016, 9:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Bioart and the Gnawing Invisible | Popular Science

  In my life as a curator, only twice have a pair of eyes in an artwork ever really mesmerized me. The first pair gazed out from a painting by German surrealist…

  January 30 2016, 3:34am | Comments

• Additivism #Additivism selected for Vilém Flusser Residency Program for Artistic Research 2016

  Additivism selected for Vilém Flusser Residency Program for Artistic Research 2016 We are extremely excited to announce that our project #Additivism was accepted as recipient of the Vilém Flusser Residency Program for Artistic Research 2016. You can read the jury statement here:Morehshin Allahyari’s and…

  January 29 2016, 10:37am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 28 2016, 1:48pm | Comments

• Additivism Sonic Acts #Additivism Workshop (29 Feb - 1 Mar, 2016)

  Sign up: Sonic Acts #Additivism Workshop (29 Feb - 1 Mar, 2016) There are still places available for our #Additivism Workshop at Sonic Acts Academy, on the theme of ‘Post-Nature’. Sign up!Workshop The 2-day 3D Additivism workshop, which will take place immediately after the…

  January 28 2016, 6:04am | Comments

• Additivism In Acts of Resistance, Artists and Scholars Digitally...

  In Acts of Resistance, Artists and Scholars Digitally Reconstruct the Past In the past year alone, members of ISIS have marred cultural treasures in Iraq and Syria, taking sledgehammers and drills to statues at the Mosul Museum and delivering numerous blows to the ancient site of…

  January 27 2016, 3:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why humans find it hard to do away with religion

  The new atheists decry religion as a poisonous set of lies. But what if a belief in the supernatural is natural?

  January 27 2016, 11:02am | Comments

• Bookmark In a Huge Breakthrough, Google's AI Beats a Top Player at the…

  In a major breakthrough for artificial intelligence, a computing system developed by Google researchers in Great Britain has beaten a top human player at the game of Go, the ancient Eastern…

  January 27 2016, 11:02am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 27 2016, 9:58am | Comments

• Metafilter A few seconds closer to Midnight? Today The Doomsday Clock will have its time recalibrated. In 2015 the scientists set the hands to 23.57 - "due to climate change, the modernization of nuclear weapons in the United States and Russia, and the problem of nuclear waste." Is the apocalypse…

  January 26 2016, 6:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Keep your scythe, the real green future is high-tech, democratic, and radical…

  "Radical ecology" has come to mean a kind of left-wing back-to-the-landism that throws off consumer culture and mass production for a pastoral low-tech lifestyle.

  January 24 2016, 2:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why Martian Concrete Might Be The Best Building Material In The Solar…

  To colonize Mars, researchers are developing a new kind of concrete that doesn't require water and is more than twice as strong. Concrete has been critical to the colonization of our…

  January 24 2016, 2:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ants Write Architectural Plans Into The Walls of Their Buildings – Phenomena:…

  Imagine constructing a building with no blueprints or architects, and no inkling of what the finished edifice should look like. It sounds like a recipe for disaster, and yet that’s what…

  January 24 2016, 2:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Tidying up: The life-changing magic of simplistic solutions to complex problems |…

  TIDYING up is serious business. “Life truly begins only after you have put your house in order,” says Marie Kondo, whose bestseller “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying” has elevated a household…

  January 24 2016, 2:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Is Resistance Futile? Are we already Borg?

  From the days of the Acheulean hand-axe on, humans have always had a symbiotic relationship with technology. How far will that relationship go? One haunting vision of the future is provided…

  January 24 2016, 2:32pm | Comments

• YouTube

  January 21 2016, 10:10pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Hi, I'm a digital junkie, and I suffer from infomania Infomania, defined by the Oxford dictionary as "the compulsive desire to check or accumulate news and information, typically via mobile phone or computer." "I was recently described, to my face, as a 'modern digital junkie.' This diagnosis was given to me, half in…

  January 20 2016, 9:44am | Comments

• Vimeo

  January 19 2016, 8:31am | Comments

• Bibliography Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century by Scott Bukatman

  January 19 2016, 7:50am | Comments

• Bibliography Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies 2015 (Critical Climate… by Heather Davis

  January 19 2016, 7:50am | Comments

• Bibliography Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols by Tom Cohen, Claire Colebrook, and J. Hillis Miller

  January 19 2016, 7:49am | Comments

• Bibliography In the dust of this planet by Eugene Thacker

  January 19 2016, 7:49am | Comments

• Vimeo

  January 18 2016, 2:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Dialogical Avatar: a presentation with Donna Haraway&&& Journal

  as the central speaker and facilitator. Aside from the Cyborg Manifesto, it constitutes one of Haraway’s most extended engagements with science fiction, and with a specific work of science fiction cinema…

  January 14 2016, 5:42am | Comments

• Bookmark We need to talk about TED | Benjamin Bratton | Opinion |…

  In our culture, talking about the future is sometimes a polite way of saying things about the present that would otherwise be rude or risky. But have you ever wondered why…

  January 14 2016, 5:42am | Comments

• Twitter

  Then a final over the top declaration

  

  January 13 2016, 7:55am | Comments

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