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• Bookmark Children of Hoarders on Leaving the Cluttered Nest

  In dealing with her mother’s home in Minneapolis, Ms. Sholl has spent much of her life alternating between feeling shame about its squalid condition and attempting to rid it of the…

  May 4 2012, 3:45am | Comments

• Bookmark In the Zone of Alienation: Tarkovsky as Video Game

  Zona, Geoff Dyer’s recent book about Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterpiece Stalker, has been much discussed for its almost comically thorough dissection of the stately 1979 film. In an account that combines summary,…

  May 1 2012, 3:13pm | Comments

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  April 30 2012, 11:26am | Comments

• Bookmark The social cell

  A single cell, such as a bacterium, is the simplest thing that can be alive. In addition to the materials from which it is constructed, it needs three features: a way…

  April 30 2012, 10:46am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?

  April 29 2012, 2:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark Jonathan Lethem on our rapidly dematerializing culture

  The Ecstasy of Influence, now the title of his recent collection of writings, often addresses the process of integrating and "cobbling together" ideas and culture to make something new. Yet, stories…

  April 26 2012, 12:43pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Beware: The aggregator is collecting 'danger'

  April 26 2012, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Google explains how it searches the internet in under half a second,…

  Ever wonder how Google manages to search the entire web and return results in half a second? Well, RobertvH from Munich did, and Mountain View’s head of web-spam, Matt Cutts, talks…

  April 25 2012, 4:49pm | Comments

• Bookmark Can Artists Help Us Reboot Humanism in an Over-Connected Age?

  How does aesthetic experience fare in such an environment? Within art-tech circles, the buzz these days is about something called the “New Aesthetic,” a coinage of James Bridle, who launched a…

  April 25 2012, 4:44pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ian Bogost - Aliens, but definitely not as we know them

  IF WE really want to understand the nature of the universe, then we must accept two principles. First, everything is an alien to everything else. And second, the experience of "being"…

  April 25 2012, 4:41pm | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is..."

  “The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is entirely external; it results from manufacture; I know what the object I have made is; I can make another one like it, but I would not be…

  April 25 2012, 4:24pm | Comments

• Twitter

  "All shattered writing has the form of a key... All other life ceases in the life put into words." - Edmond Jabes

  April 24 2012, 6:50am | Comments

• Twitter

  "Is that a quotation?" I asked. "Of course. There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations."

  April 23 2012, 4:30pm | Comments

• Twitter

  "[H]umans are no longer monarchs of being, but are instead among beings, entangled in beings, & implicated in other beings." - Levi Bryant

  April 23 2012, 11:01am | Comments

• Tumblr revelation2220: Pictured is the Super-Kamiokande, a giant...

  April 23 2012, 7:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Emergence of the Human 'SuperBrain' 75,000 Years Ago --"AI Could Blur Differences…

  "Humans obviously evolved a much wider range of communication tools to express their thoughts, the most important being language," said Hoffecker, a fellow at CU's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.…

  April 22 2012, 4:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts

  RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about…

  April 21 2012, 5:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Synthetic Genetic Polymers Capable of Heredity and Evolution

  Genetic information storage and processing rely on just two polymers, DNA and RNA, yet whether their role reflects evolutionary history or fundamental functional constraints is currently unknown. With the use of…

  April 20 2012, 12:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark Network Science of the Game of Go

  They constructed their networks in a simple way: if one board position can lead to another, they are connected. Using a dataset of about 1,000 professional games and 4,000 amateur games,…

  April 20 2012, 12:29pm | Comments

• Bookmark Nietzsche's Posthuman: Rules for the Human Zoo

  The concept of a “formless matter” [that] embodies … all that’s been thought between Hegel and Turing on the relation of “things” to “mind.” It tests out a trivalent—or multivalent—logic that’s…

  April 20 2012, 12:28pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay?

  April 20 2012, 7:36am | Comments

• Bookmark What Is the "New Aesthetic"?

  The New Aesthetic is now subject to discussion and critique on a number of forums, blogs, twitter threads, and so forth (for a list, see bibliography on Berry 2012a, but also…

  April 19 2012, 1:21am | Comments

• Bookmark The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder

  A really new aesthetics might work differently: instead of concerning itself with the way we humans see our world differently when we begin to see it through and with computer media…

  April 18 2012, 9:33am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  THEORY BEYOND THE CODES: Doing with Icons makes Symbols; or, Jailbreaking the Perfect User Interface

  April 18 2012, 12:29am | Comments

• Twitter

  "Seen as a substance in need of energy, the world lives in the inert terror of the random, it is shattered by chance."

  April 16 2012, 9:56am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 15 2012, 10:05am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 14 2012, 6:01pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tumblr ❤ GIFs

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Google searches made by a 82 year old man = @oldmansearch : Existential twitter genius

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turing Test

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder

  April 14 2012, 8:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Large study shows little difference between human and robot essay graders

  April 13 2012, 7:30am | Comments

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• Bookmark Children of Hoarders on Leaving the Cluttered Nest

  In dealing with her mother’s home in Minneapolis, Ms. Sholl has spent much of her life alternating between feeling shame about its squalid condition and attempting to rid it of the…

  May 4 2012, 3:45am | Comments

• Bookmark In the Zone of Alienation: Tarkovsky as Video Game

  Zona, Geoff Dyer’s recent book about Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterpiece Stalker, has been much discussed for its almost comically thorough dissection of the stately 1979 film. In an account that combines summary,…

  May 1 2012, 3:13pm | Comments

• YouTube

  April 30 2012, 11:26am | Comments

• Bookmark The social cell

  A single cell, such as a bacterium, is the simplest thing that can be alive. In addition to the materials from which it is constructed, it needs three features: a way…

  April 30 2012, 10:46am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?

  April 29 2012, 2:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark Jonathan Lethem on our rapidly dematerializing culture

  The Ecstasy of Influence, now the title of his recent collection of writings, often addresses the process of integrating and "cobbling together" ideas and culture to make something new. Yet, stories…

  April 26 2012, 12:43pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Beware: The aggregator is collecting 'danger'

  April 26 2012, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Google explains how it searches the internet in under half a second,…

  Ever wonder how Google manages to search the entire web and return results in half a second? Well, RobertvH from Munich did, and Mountain View’s head of web-spam, Matt Cutts, talks…

  April 25 2012, 4:49pm | Comments

• Bookmark Can Artists Help Us Reboot Humanism in an Over-Connected Age?

  How does aesthetic experience fare in such an environment? Within art-tech circles, the buzz these days is about something called the “New Aesthetic,” a coinage of James Bridle, who launched a…

  April 25 2012, 4:44pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ian Bogost - Aliens, but definitely not as we know them

  IF WE really want to understand the nature of the universe, then we must accept two principles. First, everything is an alien to everything else. And second, the experience of "being"…

  April 25 2012, 4:41pm | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is..."

  “The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is entirely external; it results from manufacture; I know what the object I have made is; I can make another one like it, but I would not be…

  April 25 2012, 4:24pm | Comments

• Twitter

  "All shattered writing has the form of a key... All other life ceases in the life put into words." - Edmond Jabes

  April 24 2012, 6:50am | Comments

• Twitter

  "Is that a quotation?" I asked. "Of course. There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations."

  April 23 2012, 4:30pm | Comments

• Twitter

  "[H]umans are no longer monarchs of being, but are instead among beings, entangled in beings, & implicated in other beings." - Levi Bryant

  April 23 2012, 11:01am | Comments

• Tumblr revelation2220: Pictured is the Super-Kamiokande, a giant...

  April 23 2012, 7:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Emergence of the Human 'SuperBrain' 75,000 Years Ago --"AI Could Blur Differences…

  "Humans obviously evolved a much wider range of communication tools to express their thoughts, the most important being language," said Hoffecker, a fellow at CU's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.…

  April 22 2012, 4:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts

  RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about…

  April 21 2012, 5:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Synthetic Genetic Polymers Capable of Heredity and Evolution

  Genetic information storage and processing rely on just two polymers, DNA and RNA, yet whether their role reflects evolutionary history or fundamental functional constraints is currently unknown. With the use of…

  April 20 2012, 12:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark Network Science of the Game of Go

  They constructed their networks in a simple way: if one board position can lead to another, they are connected. Using a dataset of about 1,000 professional games and 4,000 amateur games,…

  April 20 2012, 12:29pm | Comments

• Bookmark Nietzsche's Posthuman: Rules for the Human Zoo

  The concept of a “formless matter” [that] embodies … all that’s been thought between Hegel and Turing on the relation of “things” to “mind.” It tests out a trivalent—or multivalent—logic that’s…

  April 20 2012, 12:28pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay?

  April 20 2012, 7:36am | Comments

• Bookmark What Is the "New Aesthetic"?

  The New Aesthetic is now subject to discussion and critique on a number of forums, blogs, twitter threads, and so forth (for a list, see bibliography on Berry 2012a, but also…

  April 19 2012, 1:21am | Comments

• Bookmark The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder

  A really new aesthetics might work differently: instead of concerning itself with the way we humans see our world differently when we begin to see it through and with computer media…

  April 18 2012, 9:33am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  THEORY BEYOND THE CODES: Doing with Icons makes Symbols; or, Jailbreaking the Perfect User Interface

  April 18 2012, 12:29am | Comments

• Twitter

  "Seen as a substance in need of energy, the world lives in the inert terror of the random, it is shattered by chance."

  April 16 2012, 9:56am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 15 2012, 10:05am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 14 2012, 6:01pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tumblr ❤ GIFs

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Google searches made by a 82 year old man = @oldmansearch : Existential twitter genius

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turing Test

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder

  April 14 2012, 8:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Large study shows little difference between human and robot essay graders

  April 13 2012, 7:30am | Comments

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