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• Bookmark Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute

  Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

  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

• Bookmark What Is 'Evil' to Google? - Ian Bogost - The Atlantic

  Last week, another distasteful use of your personal information by Google came to light: The company plans to attach your name and likeness to advertisements delivered across its products without your…

  November 24 2013, 5:12am | Comments

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  November 14 2013, 3:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Google’s Earth

  “I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. “They want Google to tell…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark the algorithmic turn | William Uricchio - Academia.edu

  The digital turn, and with it increased use of location-aware technologies, has yieldedinnovative image applications and posed new questions about the status and value of theimage. These applications rely on algorithmically…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Ryan Trecartin: The Real Internet is Inside You | The White Review

  It’s difficult to describe Ryan Trecartin’s work without sounding hopelessly overwhelmed. I want to say a load of finger-snappy stuff like ‘Imagine if Hieronymus Bosch and Keith Haring got together and…

  October 31 2013, 4:24pm | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Modify/hack a Google Hangout "feature": Press to Talk I want to use a Google Hangout "On Air" for a project, but a tiny limitation is getting in the way. I would like to bypass the 'Press to Talk' functionality with a tiny browser script/hack/modification. My programming knowledge is tiny, but I…

  October 1 2013, 7:22am | Comments

• Tumblr organ without a body

  June 22 2013, 7:43am | 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

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

  April 28 2013, 7:53am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Alex Myers

  April 3 2013, 9:28am | Comments

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  ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Anti-Laruelle Ray Gun

  March 30 2013, 5:02pm | Comments

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  MANIFESTO FOR A THEORY OF THE ‘NEW AESTHETIC’

  October 11 2012, 3:23pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Ontogeny Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origin and the development of an organism – for example: from the fertilized egg to mature form. It covers in essence, the study of an organism's lifespan. The word "ontogeny" comes from the Greek ὄντος, ontos,…

  September 17 2012, 6:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Machines by Other Means, Manchester

  August 8 2012, 4:56am | Comments

• Bookmark "Once upon a time" exhibition by Steve McQueen

  In the work Once upon a Time (2004) McQueen presents a slide show of 116 of these images installed to make them seem to float in space: about two-thirds of the…

  July 11 2012, 4:57am | Comments

• Vimeo

  June 27 2012, 3:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Pirate Radical Philosophy

  Much has been written about the ‘crisis of capitalism’ and the associated events known, for short, as the ‘Arab Spring’, ‘student protests’, ‘Occupy’ and ‘August riots’. Yet to what extent does…

  June 15 2012, 5:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Buy an Underground Kingdom

  As most anyone who's seen me give a talk over the past few years will know, I have a tendency to over-enthuse about the DIY subterranean excavations of William Lyttle, aka…

  June 6 2012, 2:41am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Sloppy MicroChips: Can a fair comparison be made between biological and silicon entropy? Was reading about microchips that are designed to allow a few mistakes (known as 'Sloppy Chips'), and pondering equivalent kinds of 'coding' errors and entropy in biological systems. Can a fair comparison be made between the two? OK, to setup my question I…

  June 5 2012, 10:05am | Comments

• Bookmark DISSIMULATIONS by Andy Cameron

  The form of the story permeates every aspect of our cultural life. History, politics, memories, even subjectivity, our sense of identity, are all representations in narrative form, signifiers chained together in…

  June 2 2012, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark A Thomasson is any kind of "useless and defunct object attached to…

  ...according to Akasegawa's definition. A publisher's blurb states that this includes the "doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete... thing sprouting…

  May 23 2012, 12:36am | Comments

• Bookmark In the Digital Era, Publication Isn’t Preservation

  Publication used to mean preservation but it no longer does. Let me explain. When a print book is published its metadata is literally attached to its content. The author and title,…

  May 21 2012, 10:46am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Will reading in the digital era erode our ability to understand the…

  Quite the opposite, so long as we grasp the fresh routes to knowledge, and connection, that technological change brings, says Nick Harkaway. These are old, old fears in a new form.…

  May 17 2012, 3:38am | Comments

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  The Mastery of Non-Mastery

  April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments

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  Free Will and “Free Will” : How my view differs from Daniel Dennett's : Sam Harris

  April 7 2012, 4:04pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute

  Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

  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

• Bookmark What Is 'Evil' to Google? - Ian Bogost - The Atlantic

  Last week, another distasteful use of your personal information by Google came to light: The company plans to attach your name and likeness to advertisements delivered across its products without your…

  November 24 2013, 5:12am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 14 2013, 3:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Google’s Earth

  “I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. “They want Google to tell…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark the algorithmic turn | William Uricchio - Academia.edu

  The digital turn, and with it increased use of location-aware technologies, has yieldedinnovative image applications and posed new questions about the status and value of theimage. These applications rely on algorithmically…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Ryan Trecartin: The Real Internet is Inside You | The White Review

  It’s difficult to describe Ryan Trecartin’s work without sounding hopelessly overwhelmed. I want to say a load of finger-snappy stuff like ‘Imagine if Hieronymus Bosch and Keith Haring got together and…

  October 31 2013, 4:24pm | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Modify/hack a Google Hangout "feature": Press to Talk I want to use a Google Hangout "On Air" for a project, but a tiny limitation is getting in the way. I would like to bypass the 'Press to Talk' functionality with a tiny browser script/hack/modification. My programming knowledge is tiny, but I…

  October 1 2013, 7:22am | Comments

• Tumblr organ without a body

  June 22 2013, 7:43am | 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

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

  April 28 2013, 7:53am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Alex Myers

  April 3 2013, 9:28am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Anti-Laruelle Ray Gun

  March 30 2013, 5:02pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  MANIFESTO FOR A THEORY OF THE ‘NEW AESTHETIC’

  October 11 2012, 3:23pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Ontogeny Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origin and the development of an organism – for example: from the fertilized egg to mature form. It covers in essence, the study of an organism's lifespan. The word "ontogeny" comes from the Greek ὄντος, ontos,…

  September 17 2012, 6:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Machines by Other Means, Manchester

  August 8 2012, 4:56am | Comments

• Bookmark "Once upon a time" exhibition by Steve McQueen

  In the work Once upon a Time (2004) McQueen presents a slide show of 116 of these images installed to make them seem to float in space: about two-thirds of the…

  July 11 2012, 4:57am | Comments

• Vimeo

  June 27 2012, 3:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Pirate Radical Philosophy

  Much has been written about the ‘crisis of capitalism’ and the associated events known, for short, as the ‘Arab Spring’, ‘student protests’, ‘Occupy’ and ‘August riots’. Yet to what extent does…

  June 15 2012, 5:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Buy an Underground Kingdom

  As most anyone who's seen me give a talk over the past few years will know, I have a tendency to over-enthuse about the DIY subterranean excavations of William Lyttle, aka…

  June 6 2012, 2:41am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Sloppy MicroChips: Can a fair comparison be made between biological and silicon entropy? Was reading about microchips that are designed to allow a few mistakes (known as 'Sloppy Chips'), and pondering equivalent kinds of 'coding' errors and entropy in biological systems. Can a fair comparison be made between the two? OK, to setup my question I…

  June 5 2012, 10:05am | Comments

• Bookmark DISSIMULATIONS by Andy Cameron

  The form of the story permeates every aspect of our cultural life. History, politics, memories, even subjectivity, our sense of identity, are all representations in narrative form, signifiers chained together in…

  June 2 2012, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark A Thomasson is any kind of "useless and defunct object attached to…

  ...according to Akasegawa's definition. A publisher's blurb states that this includes the "doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete... thing sprouting…

  May 23 2012, 12:36am | Comments

• Bookmark In the Digital Era, Publication Isn’t Preservation

  Publication used to mean preservation but it no longer does. Let me explain. When a print book is published its metadata is literally attached to its content. The author and title,…

  May 21 2012, 10:46am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Will reading in the digital era erode our ability to understand the…

  Quite the opposite, so long as we grasp the fresh routes to knowledge, and connection, that technological change brings, says Nick Harkaway. These are old, old fears in a new form.…

  May 17 2012, 3:38am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Mastery of Non-Mastery

  April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Free Will and “Free Will” : How my view differs from Daniel Dennett's : Sam Harris

  April 7 2012, 4:04pm | Comments

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