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• Bibliography Points...: Interviews, 1976-93 (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Jacques Derrida

  December 8 2011, 7:31am | Comments

• Bibliography Genesis (Studies in Literature & Science) by Michel Serres

  December 8 2011, 7:31am | Comments

• Bibliography Poetry and the Fate of the Senses by Susan Stewart

  December 8 2011, 7:31am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Neuroscience Challenges Old Ideas about Free Will: "Human knowledge can’t help itself…

  Do we have free will? It is an age-old question which has attracted the attention of philosophers, theologians, lawyers and political theorists. Now it is attracting the attention of neuroscience, explains…

  November 23 2011, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark The Roots of Religion: Myth, Play and Human Evolution

  Robert Bellah, one of America's most distinguished sociologists, caps off his luminous academic career with "Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age" , a near 800-page magnum…

  October 19 2011, 3:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Zombie Editions: An Archaeology of POD Areopagiticas

  This is a zombie edition, one of many I found for early modern texts on Amazon. Produced as cheap print-on-demand editions from EEBO or GoogleBook scans, they're listed alongside reputable scholarly…

  October 16 2011, 9:06am | 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

• Vimeo

  September 5 2011, 3:29am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ancient DNA reveals secrets of human history

  By comparing individual DNA letters in multiple modern human genomes with those in the Neanderthal genome, the date of that interbreeding has now been pinned down to 65,000–90,000 years ago. Montgomery…

  August 15 2011, 2:45am | Comments

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  Samir Chopra and Laurence F. White: A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents, University of Michigan Press

  August 15 2011, 1:47am | Comments

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

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Bibliography On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart

  July 8 2011, 7:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Michel Serres on the word 'human'

  Son of a barge man, Michel Serres joined the Ecole Navale in 1949 and the Ecole Normale supérieure in 1952 where he obtained the aggregation of philosophy in 1955. From 1956…

  July 6 2011, 3:15pm | Comments

• Bibliography Materiality (Politics, History, and Culture) by Daniel Miller

  June 19 2011, 5:11am | 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 Reading revolutions: Online digital text and implications for reading in academe

  While the Internet is a text-saturated world, reading online screens tends to be significantly different from reading printed text. This review essay examines literature from a variety of disciplines on the…

  June 6 2011, 1:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark Graphics Interchange Format At Denison University's Mulberry ...

  Since the early days of the web, users have been posting animated GIFs. Once synonymous with shoveling construction workers on parked domains, these moving images now more commonly find their way…

  May 19 2011, 11:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Wonderful: Robots Develop Own Language

  Researchers at The University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology have taught robots how to develop their own language. That way, when they're about to deal the finishing blow to…

  May 19 2011, 2:11am | Comments

• Bookmark Flash Symposium at Birkbeck, 24th May 2011

  Ideal for the commute, the lunch-hour, the stolen moment: shortness necessitates the perfect user-friendly format, arguably suited to the fast paced nature of everyday contemporary urban living. At the same time…

  May 17 2011, 2:26pm | 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 Jon Ronson On… Voices in the Head

  Eleanor Longden started to hear voices in her head when she was at university and was diagnosed as a schizophrenic - a label she totally rejects. Now she is a high…

  May 1 2011, 11:43am | Comments

• Bibliography Potentialities: Collected Essasy in Philosophy (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Giorgio Agamben

  April 27 2011, 1:46am | Comments

• Bibliography Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography This is not a Pipe 25th Anniversary Edition (Quantum Books) by Michel Foucault

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Symbolic Economies: After Marx and Freud by Jean-Joseph Goux

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Representations of the Post/Human by Elaine Graham

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics by Nk Hayles

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts by N Katherine Hayles

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bookmark The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science

  A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to…

  April 18 2011, 11:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Views on Evolution, Intelligent Design Hinge on Death Anxiety

  It may be the foundation of modern biology, but fewer than 40 percent of Americans say they believe in the theory of evolution. While frustrated scientists sometimes blame religion for this…

  April 7 2011, 3:39am | Comments

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• Bibliography Points...: Interviews, 1976-93 (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Jacques Derrida

  December 8 2011, 7:31am | Comments

• Bibliography Genesis (Studies in Literature & Science) by Michel Serres

  December 8 2011, 7:31am | Comments

• Bibliography Poetry and the Fate of the Senses by Susan Stewart

  December 8 2011, 7:31am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Neuroscience Challenges Old Ideas about Free Will: "Human knowledge can’t help itself…

  Do we have free will? It is an age-old question which has attracted the attention of philosophers, theologians, lawyers and political theorists. Now it is attracting the attention of neuroscience, explains…

  November 23 2011, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark The Roots of Religion: Myth, Play and Human Evolution

  Robert Bellah, one of America's most distinguished sociologists, caps off his luminous academic career with "Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age" , a near 800-page magnum…

  October 19 2011, 3:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Zombie Editions: An Archaeology of POD Areopagiticas

  This is a zombie edition, one of many I found for early modern texts on Amazon. Produced as cheap print-on-demand editions from EEBO or GoogleBook scans, they're listed alongside reputable scholarly…

  October 16 2011, 9:06am | 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

• Vimeo

  September 5 2011, 3:29am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ancient DNA reveals secrets of human history

  By comparing individual DNA letters in multiple modern human genomes with those in the Neanderthal genome, the date of that interbreeding has now been pinned down to 65,000–90,000 years ago. Montgomery…

  August 15 2011, 2:45am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Samir Chopra and Laurence F. White: A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents, University of Michigan Press

  August 15 2011, 1:47am | Comments

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

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Bibliography On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart

  July 8 2011, 7:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Michel Serres on the word 'human'

  Son of a barge man, Michel Serres joined the Ecole Navale in 1949 and the Ecole Normale supérieure in 1952 where he obtained the aggregation of philosophy in 1955. From 1956…

  July 6 2011, 3:15pm | Comments

• Bibliography Materiality (Politics, History, and Culture) by Daniel Miller

  June 19 2011, 5:11am | 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 Reading revolutions: Online digital text and implications for reading in academe

  While the Internet is a text-saturated world, reading online screens tends to be significantly different from reading printed text. This review essay examines literature from a variety of disciplines on the…

  June 6 2011, 1:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark Graphics Interchange Format At Denison University's Mulberry ...

  Since the early days of the web, users have been posting animated GIFs. Once synonymous with shoveling construction workers on parked domains, these moving images now more commonly find their way…

  May 19 2011, 11:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Wonderful: Robots Develop Own Language

  Researchers at The University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology have taught robots how to develop their own language. That way, when they're about to deal the finishing blow to…

  May 19 2011, 2:11am | Comments

• Bookmark Flash Symposium at Birkbeck, 24th May 2011

  Ideal for the commute, the lunch-hour, the stolen moment: shortness necessitates the perfect user-friendly format, arguably suited to the fast paced nature of everyday contemporary urban living. At the same time…

  May 17 2011, 2:26pm | 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 Jon Ronson On… Voices in the Head

  Eleanor Longden started to hear voices in her head when she was at university and was diagnosed as a schizophrenic - a label she totally rejects. Now she is a high…

  May 1 2011, 11:43am | Comments

• Bibliography Potentialities: Collected Essasy in Philosophy (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Giorgio Agamben

  April 27 2011, 1:46am | Comments

• Bibliography Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography This is not a Pipe 25th Anniversary Edition (Quantum Books) by Michel Foucault

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Symbolic Economies: After Marx and Freud by Jean-Joseph Goux

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Representations of the Post/Human by Elaine Graham

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics by Nk Hayles

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts by N Katherine Hayles

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bookmark The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science

  A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to…

  April 18 2011, 11:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Views on Evolution, Intelligent Design Hinge on Death Anxiety

  It may be the foundation of modern biology, but fewer than 40 percent of Americans say they believe in the theory of evolution. While frustrated scientists sometimes blame religion for this…

  April 7 2011, 3:39am | Comments

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