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• Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia

  Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Archaeology

  Anyone who can read German can read the first book ever printed. If you can read Sumerian cuneiform, you can read clay tablets that were probably the first things ever written.…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Projects Maja Cule & Dora Budor Interviews for Arcadia Missa

  Understanding phenomena and facticity, creating an art-object for subjects within constellations of agential-realism. There are two absolutes we can never attain. One is freedom and the other is authenticity. These have simultaneously been promised as absolutes; logos, hegemonic since the commodification of identity made…

  November 27 2013, 6:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Software Is Reorganizing the World | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

  For the first time in memory, adults in the United States under age forty are now expected to be poorer than their parents. This is the kind of grim reality that…

  November 24 2013, 5:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Media Watch: Pixelating protects identity? Think again. (09/07/2012)

  Gerard Baden-Clay Mr Baden-Clay's lawyers say he is devastated and will vigorously defend the charge. — ABC Online, 13 June, 2012 The ABC's lawyers insisted on pixelating Mr Baden-Clay's image after…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Permanent death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  In role-playing video games (RPGs), permanent death (sometimes permadeath or PD) is a situation in which player characters (PCs) die permanently and are removed from the game.[1] Less common terms with…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Big Things & Little Things | ‘Digital’ in the arts

  So, returning to an old subject, about which I’ve got very annoyed in the past. Last week Arts Council England (ACE) published the second version of their 10-year strategic framework for…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Hidden History of

  The persistent glitchiness of HealthCare.gov, the website implementing the Affordable Care Act, has given us much time to ponder that peculiar little word, glitch. As it happens, some new research on…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Portfolio What makes out today’s notworking is the social glitch

  November 7 2013, 7:16am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Dogs Are People, Too - NYTimes.com

  October 6 2013, 2:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark What Is a JPEG? The Invisible Object You See Every Day -…

  You're looking at dozens of JPEGs right now. In 2012, the photograph of Barack and Michelle Obama embracing after his re-election was 'liked' over 4 million times. That photo, like the…

  September 26 2013, 12:49am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Twitter

  I sometimes think the ancients with their thinking machines had the right idea

  

  August 17 2013, 6:06am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  Part of an ongoing series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work but may not (yet) be well known to our readers. Nick Briz is an artist/educator/organizer living in Chicago, and co-founder of the conference and festival GLI.TC/H. This interview took…

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Pecking Order - NYTimes.com

  228 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $26. John Gray’s “Silence of Animals” is an attack on humanism. He condemns this widely accepted secular faith as a form of delusional self-flattery.

  July 14 2013, 4:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Rise of the Machines | Humanities

  Stephen Mitchell suffered from allergies. “When the trees come out, I can’t see. People stand around saying, ‘Isn’t it lovely,’ but I weep,” he told the New York Times in 1965.

  July 14 2013, 4:39pm | Comments

• Portfolio The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 4:16am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 3:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Borges, Paradox and Perception - NYTimes.com

  The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. books and literature, Borges, Jorge Luis, Heisenberg, Werner, Hume, David, Philosophy, physics, writing and writers

  May 12 2013, 3:37pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Singularity of Fools - By David Rieff | Foreign Policy

  Good books transcend their times; bad books reflect them. One reads Madame Bovary for its sublime writing and exploration of the human condition in all its tortuous complexity.

  May 12 2013, 3:37pm | Comments

• Projects Nicolas Cage is one of the most versatile actors of all time

  April 28 2013, 7:53am | Comments

• Portfolio Datamoshing the Land of Ooo: An Interview with David OReilly

  April 25 2013, 5:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Datamoshing the Land of Ooo

  April 25 2013, 4:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Émilie Gervais

  April 18 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Alex Myers

  April 3 2013, 9:28am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 1 2013, 9:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Philosophy of Data - NYTimes.com

  February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Ray Kurzweil Says We’re Going to Live Forever - NYTimes.com

  As a futurist, you are famous for making predictions of when technological innovations will actually occur. Are you willing to predict the year you will die? My plan is to stick…

  February 11 2013, 2:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Devastation in Meatspace

  The missile rushing over your head was processed through an Instagram filter just hours previously. As you see it pass out of sight behind the apartment block opposite some young conscript…

  December 14 2012, 3:04am | Comments

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• Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia

  Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Archaeology

  Anyone who can read German can read the first book ever printed. If you can read Sumerian cuneiform, you can read clay tablets that were probably the first things ever written.…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Projects Maja Cule & Dora Budor Interviews for Arcadia Missa

  Understanding phenomena and facticity, creating an art-object for subjects within constellations of agential-realism. There are two absolutes we can never attain. One is freedom and the other is authenticity. These have simultaneously been promised as absolutes; logos, hegemonic since the commodification of identity made…

  November 27 2013, 6:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Software Is Reorganizing the World | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

  For the first time in memory, adults in the United States under age forty are now expected to be poorer than their parents. This is the kind of grim reality that…

  November 24 2013, 5:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Media Watch: Pixelating protects identity? Think again. (09/07/2012)

  Gerard Baden-Clay Mr Baden-Clay's lawyers say he is devastated and will vigorously defend the charge. — ABC Online, 13 June, 2012 The ABC's lawyers insisted on pixelating Mr Baden-Clay's image after…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Permanent death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  In role-playing video games (RPGs), permanent death (sometimes permadeath or PD) is a situation in which player characters (PCs) die permanently and are removed from the game.[1] Less common terms with…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Big Things & Little Things | ‘Digital’ in the arts

  So, returning to an old subject, about which I’ve got very annoyed in the past. Last week Arts Council England (ACE) published the second version of their 10-year strategic framework for…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Hidden History of

  The persistent glitchiness of HealthCare.gov, the website implementing the Affordable Care Act, has given us much time to ponder that peculiar little word, glitch. As it happens, some new research on…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Portfolio What makes out today’s notworking is the social glitch

  November 7 2013, 7:16am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Dogs Are People, Too - NYTimes.com

  October 6 2013, 2:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark What Is a JPEG? The Invisible Object You See Every Day -…

  You're looking at dozens of JPEGs right now. In 2012, the photograph of Barack and Michelle Obama embracing after his re-election was 'liked' over 4 million times. That photo, like the…

  September 26 2013, 12:49am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Twitter

  I sometimes think the ancients with their thinking machines had the right idea

  

  August 17 2013, 6:06am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  Part of an ongoing series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work but may not (yet) be well known to our readers. Nick Briz is an artist/educator/organizer living in Chicago, and co-founder of the conference and festival GLI.TC/H. This interview took…

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Pecking Order - NYTimes.com

  228 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $26. John Gray’s “Silence of Animals” is an attack on humanism. He condemns this widely accepted secular faith as a form of delusional self-flattery.

  July 14 2013, 4:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Rise of the Machines | Humanities

  Stephen Mitchell suffered from allergies. “When the trees come out, I can’t see. People stand around saying, ‘Isn’t it lovely,’ but I weep,” he told the New York Times in 1965.

  July 14 2013, 4:39pm | Comments

• Portfolio The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 4:16am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 3:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Borges, Paradox and Perception - NYTimes.com

  The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. books and literature, Borges, Jorge Luis, Heisenberg, Werner, Hume, David, Philosophy, physics, writing and writers

  May 12 2013, 3:37pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Singularity of Fools - By David Rieff | Foreign Policy

  Good books transcend their times; bad books reflect them. One reads Madame Bovary for its sublime writing and exploration of the human condition in all its tortuous complexity.

  May 12 2013, 3:37pm | Comments

• Projects Nicolas Cage is one of the most versatile actors of all time

  April 28 2013, 7:53am | Comments

• Portfolio Datamoshing the Land of Ooo: An Interview with David OReilly

  April 25 2013, 5:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Datamoshing the Land of Ooo

  April 25 2013, 4:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Émilie Gervais

  April 18 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Alex Myers

  April 3 2013, 9:28am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 1 2013, 9:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Philosophy of Data - NYTimes.com

  February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Ray Kurzweil Says We’re Going to Live Forever - NYTimes.com

  As a futurist, you are famous for making predictions of when technological innovations will actually occur. Are you willing to predict the year you will die? My plan is to stick…

  February 11 2013, 2:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Devastation in Meatspace

  The missile rushing over your head was processed through an Instagram filter just hours previously. As you see it pass out of sight behind the apartment block opposite some young conscript…

  December 14 2012, 3:04am | Comments

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