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• 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

• YouTube

  March 2 2011, 6:49am | Comments

• Portfolio Errors in Things and “The Friendly Medium”

  February 16 2011, 7:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Open Media (lecture series schedule)

  The concept of openness is often employed as part of a radical critique of the closed-off worlds of what might be called ‘traditional media’. It is variously used to urge for…

  February 16 2011, 6:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Interactive Art: What Video Games Can Learn from Freud

  What if the best thing art has to offer is freedom from choice? There’s a reason it’s high praise, not criticism, to say that a film or a piece of music…

  January 8 2011, 7:38am | Comments

• Bookmark In Defense of the Poor Image

  by Hito Steyerl The poor image is a copy in motion. Its quality is bad, its resolution substandard. As it accelerates, it deteriorates. It is a ghost of an image, a…

  October 28 2010, 7:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Error in apparatus as aesthetic value

  by Alejandro Schianchi An error seems to be that which gets between the ideal being and the real being; the error appears to be a singularity, a Non-being that transforms and…

  October 26 2010, 2:52am | Comments

• Bookmark The Art of Marina Abramovic and the Prophesy of Matthew Arnold

  The upside-down values of the art world, popularly infamous, ridiculed, and resented, are by now the mark of the sphere itself, sufficient to establish the cynic’s principle that if you wish…

  October 12 2010, 3:10pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Anthropology of Hackers

  A "hacker" is a technologist with a love for computing and a "hack" is a clever technical solution arrived through a non-obvious means. It doesn't mean to compromise the Pentagon, change…

  October 1 2010, 9:08am | Comments

• Vimeo

  September 22 2010, 3:08am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Portfolio Rancière’s Ignoramus

  July 26 2010, 6:43am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Portfolio To crush a Morlock’s skull

  June 28 2010, 10:42am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark My bright idea: Guy Deutscher

  Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics, his chosen field. In his new book, Through the Language Glass (Heinemann), he fearlessly contradicts the fashionable…

  June 13 2010, 5:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Spiders Devour Ants Front-End First

  A spider that only eats ants is choosy about which body parts of its prey it devours based on their nutritional value. These new findings are the first to demonstrate that…

  May 14 2010, 3:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Giorgio Agamben - What is a Paradigm - Lecture, 2002

  ...we all make use of paradigms in our work, but do we really know what a paradigm is, and what does it mean to use a paradigm in philosophy, in the…

  April 30 2010, 6:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Posthumanism: A Christian Response

  The posthuman worldview goes a step beyond demoting human begins in the hierarchy of value. It promotes other species, proposing that animals are more rational than we knew. We are forced…

  April 29 2010, 10:16am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Manipulating Reality - How Images Redefine the World

  Manipulating Reality presents a selection of 23 artistic approaches that work through photography and video to develop possible models of reality. Its aim is not to understand whether photographs can convey…

  January 29 2010, 4:00pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Kurt Andersen on the Large Hadron Collider

  Among the defining attributes of now are ever tinier gadgets, ever shorter attention spans, and the privileging of marketplace values above all. Life is manically parceled into financial quarters, three-minute YouTube…

  December 25 2009, 6:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark French magazine reportedly confirms MJ's involvement with Sonic 3 soundtrack

  One of the longest running rumors of the video game community is the claim that Michael Jackson contributed to the soundtrack for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 to some degree -- a…

  December 3 2009, 2:45pm | Comments

• Portfolio The Unveiled Divide

  November 10 2009, 11:50am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Innovative Book Designs Innovative Books: I am looking to compile a list of the most innovative uses of the book format. Books that break the mould in their layout and design, perhaps books that use online systems to extend their content value or push their form…

  November 1 2009, 4:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Left vs Right | Information Is Beautiful

  A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th). Of course,…

  October 21 2009, 3:28pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

  September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Man Who Eats Badgers

  To many, the A30 is just a road, but to retired civil servant Arthur Boyt it's more like a delicatessen. Arthur eats roadkill. He has sampled cat, barn owl, squirrel, hedgehog…

  August 10 2009, 6:27am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Back to the Futures' Finally Compared

  In the years between Back to the Future and Back to the Future II, Michael J. Fox visibly aged and the actress playing his girlfriend was replaced by Elizabeth Shue. Thus,…

  July 27 2009, 6:10pm | Comments

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• 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

• YouTube

  March 2 2011, 6:49am | Comments

• Portfolio Errors in Things and “The Friendly Medium”

  February 16 2011, 7:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Open Media (lecture series schedule)

  The concept of openness is often employed as part of a radical critique of the closed-off worlds of what might be called ‘traditional media’. It is variously used to urge for…

  February 16 2011, 6:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Interactive Art: What Video Games Can Learn from Freud

  What if the best thing art has to offer is freedom from choice? There’s a reason it’s high praise, not criticism, to say that a film or a piece of music…

  January 8 2011, 7:38am | Comments

• Bookmark In Defense of the Poor Image

  by Hito Steyerl The poor image is a copy in motion. Its quality is bad, its resolution substandard. As it accelerates, it deteriorates. It is a ghost of an image, a…

  October 28 2010, 7:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Error in apparatus as aesthetic value

  by Alejandro Schianchi An error seems to be that which gets between the ideal being and the real being; the error appears to be a singularity, a Non-being that transforms and…

  October 26 2010, 2:52am | Comments

• Bookmark The Art of Marina Abramovic and the Prophesy of Matthew Arnold

  The upside-down values of the art world, popularly infamous, ridiculed, and resented, are by now the mark of the sphere itself, sufficient to establish the cynic’s principle that if you wish…

  October 12 2010, 3:10pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Anthropology of Hackers

  A "hacker" is a technologist with a love for computing and a "hack" is a clever technical solution arrived through a non-obvious means. It doesn't mean to compromise the Pentagon, change…

  October 1 2010, 9:08am | Comments

• Vimeo

  September 22 2010, 3:08am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Portfolio Rancière’s Ignoramus

  July 26 2010, 6:43am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Portfolio To crush a Morlock’s skull

  June 28 2010, 10:42am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark My bright idea: Guy Deutscher

  Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics, his chosen field. In his new book, Through the Language Glass (Heinemann), he fearlessly contradicts the fashionable…

  June 13 2010, 5:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Spiders Devour Ants Front-End First

  A spider that only eats ants is choosy about which body parts of its prey it devours based on their nutritional value. These new findings are the first to demonstrate that…

  May 14 2010, 3:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Giorgio Agamben - What is a Paradigm - Lecture, 2002

  ...we all make use of paradigms in our work, but do we really know what a paradigm is, and what does it mean to use a paradigm in philosophy, in the…

  April 30 2010, 6:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Posthumanism: A Christian Response

  The posthuman worldview goes a step beyond demoting human begins in the hierarchy of value. It promotes other species, proposing that animals are more rational than we knew. We are forced…

  April 29 2010, 10:16am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Manipulating Reality - How Images Redefine the World

  Manipulating Reality presents a selection of 23 artistic approaches that work through photography and video to develop possible models of reality. Its aim is not to understand whether photographs can convey…

  January 29 2010, 4:00pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Kurt Andersen on the Large Hadron Collider

  Among the defining attributes of now are ever tinier gadgets, ever shorter attention spans, and the privileging of marketplace values above all. Life is manically parceled into financial quarters, three-minute YouTube…

  December 25 2009, 6:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark French magazine reportedly confirms MJ's involvement with Sonic 3 soundtrack

  One of the longest running rumors of the video game community is the claim that Michael Jackson contributed to the soundtrack for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 to some degree -- a…

  December 3 2009, 2:45pm | Comments

• Portfolio The Unveiled Divide

  November 10 2009, 11:50am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Innovative Book Designs Innovative Books: I am looking to compile a list of the most innovative uses of the book format. Books that break the mould in their layout and design, perhaps books that use online systems to extend their content value or push their form…

  November 1 2009, 4:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Left vs Right | Information Is Beautiful

  A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th). Of course,…

  October 21 2009, 3:28pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

  September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Man Who Eats Badgers

  To many, the A30 is just a road, but to retired civil servant Arthur Boyt it's more like a delicatessen. Arthur eats roadkill. He has sampled cat, barn owl, squirrel, hedgehog…

  August 10 2009, 6:27am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Back to the Futures' Finally Compared

  In the years between Back to the Future and Back to the Future II, Michael J. Fox visibly aged and the actress playing his girlfriend was replaced by Elizabeth Shue. Thus,…

  July 27 2009, 6:10pm | Comments

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