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• Tumblr (Quote) "Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or..."

  “Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.” - J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition…

  September 30 2011, 5:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Meaning/time=? [e-flux on Coked-Out, Motherless Robots]

  Are we moving too fast for meaning? That’s the argument put together by Franco Berardi in his essay Time, Acceleration, and Violence, published on e-flux. It’s the latest in an expanding…

  September 29 2011, 7:29am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Crusoe film adaptations and *that* footprint Robinson Crusoe film adaptations. Which are the best ones? Also, that footprint... For a project I am working on, I want to isolate the moment in Robinson Crusoe where he discovers the savage footprint, imprinted in the sand, for the first time. In…

  September 29 2011, 5:31am | Comments

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  Which one of you is Jesus?

  September 27 2011, 12:17am | Comments

• Bookmark The Artist is Present (a video game about waiting in line at…

  Writing articles about video games is so much fun that we often have to stop, wipe the manic grins off our faces and find something really boring to do. Sometimes we…

  September 19 2011, 1:39am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put…

  “What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or…

  September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Elusive Big Idea - NYTimes.com

  September 6 2011, 4:43am | Comments

• Bookmark The Battle Over Zomia

  Over the past two millennia, "runaway" communities have put the "friction of terrain" between themselves and the people who remained in the lowlands, he writes. The highland groups adopted a swidden…

  September 5 2011, 5:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Spy Party : Turing, eat your heart out

  September 3 2011, 4:30am | Comments

• Bookmark The New Atheism

  Trapped in the childhood literalism of my background, I had not entertained the possibility of Christian belief separated from the great lure and threat of heaven and hell. The New Atheism…

  August 30 2011, 8:21am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Intriguing analysis for the lead up to and ending of "The Thing" Was Child's Infected? (Part1) (Part 2) An in depth analysis of John Carpenter's 1982 film The Thing, focusing on the alien assimilation timeline, and, perhaps more intriguingly, an ending that may be less ambiguous than you would initially believe.

  August 21 2011, 3:13pm | Comments

• Bookmark Our Emergent Digital Future

  What will the digital world look like in ten years?  The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path.  The explosion in the volume…

  August 14 2011, 4:32am | Comments

• Bookmark The London Riots: On Consumerism coming Home to Roost

  These are not hunger or bread riots. These are riots of defective and disqualified consumers. Revolutions are not staple products of social inequality; but minefields are. Minefields are areas filled with…

  August 9 2011, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Google Dominates Us

  Most of the time Google does not actually have the answers. When people say, “I looked it up on Google,” they are committing a solecism. When they try to erase their…

  July 31 2011, 6:17pm | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

  July 21 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Indicted for Data Theft: Downloading Millions of Academic…

  For a long time, it was the folks who downloaded music or movies illegally that faced the wrath of government prosecutors. So the unsealing of an indictment today against Aaron Swartz,…

  July 20 2011, 4:10am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Monster Ate Vegetables

  July 13 2011, 2:26am | Comments

• Bookmark The Pathology of Collecting

  What I’ve learned, the hard way, is that the one thing you must never ask a collector is “why?” It’ll get you nowhere. They’ll just stare at you in baffled amazement…

  July 11 2011, 4:54am | Comments

• Wikipedia Clinamen Clinamen is the Latin name Lucretius gave to the unpredictable swerve of atoms, in the atomistic doctrine of Epicurus. According to Lucretius, the unpredictable swerve occurs "at no fixed place or time": When atoms move straight down through the void by their own…

  July 7 2011, 11:15am | Comments

• Bookmark #Don't Follow Twitter Art

  Twitter art bums me out. Fine, it’s a new medium that we don’t know what to do with yet, but it's receiving a growing amount of attention and most of it…

  July 6 2011, 9:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Friday, by Michel Tournier

  French writer, who gained fame at the age of forty-three with his first novel, Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (1967, Friday; or, The Other Island), an ingenious reworking of the…

  July 5 2011, 9:36am | Comments

• Bookmark How to fix horror, Part I: Stop trying to be so respectable

  My new book Shock Value: How a few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror, explores how horror went mainstream by revisiting the golden age that began…

  July 5 2011, 9:34am | Comments

• Tumblr City Pulse un-gif-dans-ta-gueule: NYC - Time Lapse Source...

  July 2 2011, 7:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Knowledge, not the way you knew it

  17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an “experiment”…

  June 28 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Knowledge, not the way you knew it 17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an “experiment” in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, nowadays constitutes the largest…

  June 28 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark How to survive the age of distraction

  The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It's being chewed by the e-book.…

  June 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

• Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

  June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments

• Bookmark First ever direct English translation of Solaris published

  The first ever direct translation into English of the Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem's most famous novel, Solaris, has just been published, removing a raft of unnecessary changes and restoring…

  June 16 2011, 3:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark Post-Artifact Books and Publishing

  We will always debate: the quality of the paper, the pixel density of the display; the cloth used on covers, the interface for highlighting; location by page, location by paragraph. But…

  June 15 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Wikipedia GlitchWiki This is the research wiki-webring for Glitch and other glitch/noise related content GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media practitioners in Chicago & Amsterdam from September 29 thru October 03, 2010! GLI.TC/H is a physical and virtual assembly of artists,…

  June 12 2011, 3:59pm | Comments

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• Tumblr (Quote) "Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or..."

  “Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.” - J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition…

  September 30 2011, 5:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Meaning/time=? [e-flux on Coked-Out, Motherless Robots]

  Are we moving too fast for meaning? That’s the argument put together by Franco Berardi in his essay Time, Acceleration, and Violence, published on e-flux. It’s the latest in an expanding…

  September 29 2011, 7:29am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Crusoe film adaptations and *that* footprint Robinson Crusoe film adaptations. Which are the best ones? Also, that footprint... For a project I am working on, I want to isolate the moment in Robinson Crusoe where he discovers the savage footprint, imprinted in the sand, for the first time. In…

  September 29 2011, 5:31am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Which one of you is Jesus?

  September 27 2011, 12:17am | Comments

• Bookmark The Artist is Present (a video game about waiting in line at…

  Writing articles about video games is so much fun that we often have to stop, wipe the manic grins off our faces and find something really boring to do. Sometimes we…

  September 19 2011, 1:39am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put…

  “What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or…

  September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Elusive Big Idea - NYTimes.com

  September 6 2011, 4:43am | Comments

• Bookmark The Battle Over Zomia

  Over the past two millennia, "runaway" communities have put the "friction of terrain" between themselves and the people who remained in the lowlands, he writes. The highland groups adopted a swidden…

  September 5 2011, 5:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Spy Party : Turing, eat your heart out

  September 3 2011, 4:30am | Comments

• Bookmark The New Atheism

  Trapped in the childhood literalism of my background, I had not entertained the possibility of Christian belief separated from the great lure and threat of heaven and hell. The New Atheism…

  August 30 2011, 8:21am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Intriguing analysis for the lead up to and ending of "The Thing" Was Child's Infected? (Part1) (Part 2) An in depth analysis of John Carpenter's 1982 film The Thing, focusing on the alien assimilation timeline, and, perhaps more intriguingly, an ending that may be less ambiguous than you would initially believe.

  August 21 2011, 3:13pm | Comments

• Bookmark Our Emergent Digital Future

  What will the digital world look like in ten years?  The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path.  The explosion in the volume…

  August 14 2011, 4:32am | Comments

• Bookmark The London Riots: On Consumerism coming Home to Roost

  These are not hunger or bread riots. These are riots of defective and disqualified consumers. Revolutions are not staple products of social inequality; but minefields are. Minefields are areas filled with…

  August 9 2011, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Google Dominates Us

  Most of the time Google does not actually have the answers. When people say, “I looked it up on Google,” they are committing a solecism. When they try to erase their…

  July 31 2011, 6:17pm | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

  July 21 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Indicted for Data Theft: Downloading Millions of Academic…

  For a long time, it was the folks who downloaded music or movies illegally that faced the wrath of government prosecutors. So the unsealing of an indictment today against Aaron Swartz,…

  July 20 2011, 4:10am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Monster Ate Vegetables

  July 13 2011, 2:26am | Comments

• Bookmark The Pathology of Collecting

  What I’ve learned, the hard way, is that the one thing you must never ask a collector is “why?” It’ll get you nowhere. They’ll just stare at you in baffled amazement…

  July 11 2011, 4:54am | Comments

• Wikipedia Clinamen Clinamen is the Latin name Lucretius gave to the unpredictable swerve of atoms, in the atomistic doctrine of Epicurus. According to Lucretius, the unpredictable swerve occurs "at no fixed place or time": When atoms move straight down through the void by their own…

  July 7 2011, 11:15am | Comments

• Bookmark #Don't Follow Twitter Art

  Twitter art bums me out. Fine, it’s a new medium that we don’t know what to do with yet, but it's receiving a growing amount of attention and most of it…

  July 6 2011, 9:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Friday, by Michel Tournier

  French writer, who gained fame at the age of forty-three with his first novel, Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (1967, Friday; or, The Other Island), an ingenious reworking of the…

  July 5 2011, 9:36am | Comments

• Bookmark How to fix horror, Part I: Stop trying to be so respectable

  My new book Shock Value: How a few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror, explores how horror went mainstream by revisiting the golden age that began…

  July 5 2011, 9:34am | Comments

• Tumblr City Pulse un-gif-dans-ta-gueule: NYC - Time Lapse Source...

  July 2 2011, 7:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Knowledge, not the way you knew it

  17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an “experiment”…

  June 28 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Knowledge, not the way you knew it 17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an “experiment” in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, nowadays constitutes the largest…

  June 28 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark How to survive the age of distraction

  The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It's being chewed by the e-book.…

  June 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

• Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

  June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments

• Bookmark First ever direct English translation of Solaris published

  The first ever direct translation into English of the Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem's most famous novel, Solaris, has just been published, removing a raft of unnecessary changes and restoring…

  June 16 2011, 3:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark Post-Artifact Books and Publishing

  We will always debate: the quality of the paper, the pixel density of the display; the cloth used on covers, the interface for highlighting; location by page, location by paragraph. But…

  June 15 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Wikipedia GlitchWiki This is the research wiki-webring for Glitch and other glitch/noise related content GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media practitioners in Chicago & Amsterdam from September 29 thru October 03, 2010! GLI.TC/H is a physical and virtual assembly of artists,…

  June 12 2011, 3:59pm | Comments

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