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foursquare checkin @ The British Library - Early print of 'Who Goes There?' by John W. Campbell (the inspiration for 'The Thing') at The Out of This World Exhibition, British Library

June 1 2011, 4:13am | Comments
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Thing-oriented ontology?

May 31 2011, 3:42pm | Comments
Wikipedia Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert It's high time people stopped kvetching about Wikipedia, which has long been the best encyclopedia available in English, and started figuring out what it portends instead. For one thing, Wikipedia is forcing us to confront the paradox inherent in the idea of learners…

May 30 2011, 2:04am | Comments
Bookmark Technology Provides an Alternative to Love
Let me toss out the idea that, as our markets discover and respond to what consumers most want, our technology has become extremely adept at creating products that correspond to our…

May 30 2011, 2:03am | Comments
Bookmark Depicting Relationships: The limits of language
The heart of the english sentence (and equivalent sentential forms in other natural languages) lies in connecting ideas together and creating meaning. Like placing two portals from the recent hit sequel…

May 29 2011, 3:28pm | Comments
Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments
Bookmark This will be the Century of Disasters
A half-mile wide twister tore through Joplin, Mo., on Sunday, killing nearly 100. The tornado was one of 68 reported across seven states this weekend. Unfortunately, this century will be a…

May 25 2011, 3:52am | Comments
Bookmark The glorious GIF renaissance
GIFs (the name stands for graphics interchange format and can be pronounced with either a hard or soft G) began life in the mid-'80s, image files so efficiently compressed that sluggish…

May 17 2011, 2:46am | Comments
Tumblr The First Zombie-Proof House

May 14 2011, 4:48am | Comments
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May 11 2011, 9:36am | Comments
Bookmark How the Illusion of Being Observed Can Make You a Better Person
A group of scientists at Newcastle University, headed by Melissa Bateson and Daniel Nettle of the Center for Behavior and Evolution, conducted a field experiment demonstrating that merely hanging up posters…

May 11 2011, 3:14am | Comments
Bookmark A Thing Like You and Me
by Hito Steyerl What happens to identification at this point? Who can we identify with? Of course, identification is always with an image. But ask anybody whether they’d actually like to…

May 11 2011, 3:03am | Comments
Bibliography Signature of All Things by Giorgio Agamben

April 27 2011, 1:46am | Comments
Bibliography The Order of Things (Routledge Classics): Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault

April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments
foursquare checkin @ Wellcome Collection - 'Dirt' exhibition: "Nothing is so sacred that it cannot become profane. Gravity pulls us into dirt." - Meghna Haldar

April 14 2011, 7:46am | 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
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 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 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
Bookmark James Gleick’s History of Information
Gleick makes his case in a sweeping survey that covers the five millenniums of humanity’s engagement with information, from the invention of writing in Sumer to the elevation of information to…

March 20 2011, 5:41am | Comments
Bookmark Can the Brain Explain Your Mind?
Is studying the brain a good way to understand the mind? Does psychology stand to brain anatomy as physiology stands to body anatomy? In the case of the body, physiological functions—walking,…

March 16 2011, 11:30am | Comments
Bookmark Credit in the Straight WWW: "DDDDoomed", Berger, and the Image Aggregator
[ED: Nearly all of the text in this post is taken from R. Gerald Nelson's independently published, occasionally problematic but more often brilliantly concise treatise DDDDoomed. Anyone concerned with issues of…

March 15 2011, 8:01am | Comments
Bookmark Jacques Ranciere: What Medium Can Mean
I will present some remarks here on the use of the notion of medium in art theory and the light cast on this notion by the case of photography. The notion of…

March 12 2011, 1:55am | Comments
Bookmark “Primal Sound” by rainer maria rilke
it must have been when i was a boy at school that the phonograph was invented. at any rate it was at that time a chief object of public wonder; this…

March 10 2011, 9:10am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Webcam Karaoke I would like to display Karaoke lyrics over a live webcam feed. This means I might need a skype (or equivalent) plugin that plays the music & lyrics, or find some karaoke software with the ability to display lyrics over a transparent background.…

March 10 2011, 5:05am | Comments
Bookmark Francis Fukuyama on Why Analog Is Often Better Than Digital
Visual and audio reproduction have undergone massive changes as their underlying technologies shifted from analog to digital over the past two decades. It's clear that it is far more convenient to…

March 9 2011, 10:02am | Comments
Bookmark Realer than Real: The Simulacrum According to Deleuze and Guattari
There is a seductive image of contemporary culture circulating today. Our world, Jean Baudrillard tells us, has been launched into hyperspace in a kind of postmodern apocalypse. The airless atmosphere has…

March 8 2011, 9:46am | Comments
Bookmark Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter or Energy—It’s Data
Information flows everywhere, through wires and genes, through brain cells and quarks. But while it may appear ubiquitous to us now, until recently we had no awareness of what information was…

March 6 2011, 3:43am | Comments
Bookmark Gif and Take: dump.fm
Dump.fm is a digital version of the old Surrealist genre of the exquisite corpse, a “show and tell” for the polymorphously perverse. The art of dump.fm is genuinely interactive. Social relations…

March 2 2011, 3:05pm | Comments
Bookmark I, for One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords
In case you haven’t heard, the newest champion of "Jeopardy!," the popular TV game show, is a computer. Watson, an enormous computer developed by researchers at IBM, was pitted against the…

February 19 2011, 5:15pm | Comments

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