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Metafilter Projects: HelloGrandad.com Hello Grandad is a collaborative blog between a writer and an illustrator. We duel with each other in an attempt to freak the other one out - responding with words to an image or with an image to a sequence of words. The…

May 1 2010, 9:09am | 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 Frameworks for citizen responsiveness, enhanced: Toward a read/write urbanism
Provided that, we can treat the things we encounter in urban environments as system resources, rather than a mute collection of disarticulated buildings, vehicles, sewers and sidewalks. One prospect that seems…

April 27 2010, 6:35am | Comments
Bookmark Christopher Hitchens re-reads Animal Farm
Animal Farm, as its author later wrote, "was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into…

April 26 2010, 4:49am | Comments
Bookmark Inside the Mundaneum
Otlet was the first to imagine all the world’s knowledge as one vast “web,” connected by “links” and accessed remotely through desktop screens, and because of this he can be seen…

April 22 2010, 2:39am | Comments
Bookmark Drosophila, We Hardly Knew Ye
A proposal to change the formal name of Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly, has significant implications for research in the life sciences.. Even if you haven’t worked directly with Drosophila…

April 21 2010, 10:58am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments
Hello Grandad What exactly does OAP stand for anyway?

April 14 2010, 10:36am | Comments
Bookmark The Saturnine Age and the Modern Genius
When a modern person thinks of artistic genius, they imagine an individual. Some have quantified genius by standardized exams – for example, the I.Q. test – but most know a genius…

April 9 2010, 3:40am | Comments
Bookmark Next Big Thing - Literary Scholars Turn to Science
This layered process of figuring out what someone else is thinking — of mind reading — is both a common literary device and an essential survival skill. Why human beings are…

April 6 2010, 12:04pm | Comments
Portfolio System of Enthalpy

March 26 2010, 9:46am | Comments
Bookmark The Brain: Look Deep Into the Mind's Eye
When the scientists tested the mind’s eye of MX, though, the difference was stark. The researchers gave all their subjects a standardized test called the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire. They…

March 26 2010, 5:53am | Comments
Bookmark 'A Thousand Years of Non Linear History' : reVIEW
A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History is one the most intelligent, stimulating, and rewarding books I have read in a long time - it even surpasses De Landa's previous War in…

March 24 2010, 10:25am | Comments
Bibliography A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

March 24 2010, 10:07am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments
Bookmark On Reading and This Progress, Connecting Lévi-Strauss and Tino Sehgal
Buried in the middle of Claude Lévi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques, a book digressive in exactly the right way, is an astonishing argument about writing. Lévi-Strauss considers what the invention of writing might…

March 21 2010, 1:11pm | Comments
Bookmark Avatar and the Flight from Reality
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Artist of the Beautiful” (1844), a prototypical nerd with few social graces and no head for business turns a watchmaker’s shop into an artist’s studio…

March 21 2010, 12:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Scientists supersize quantum mechanics
A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving. Andrew Cleland…

March 21 2010, 12:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Triumph of the Cyborg Composer
Along with his work on synthesis, or using machines to create sounds, Cope had dabbled in the use of software to compose music. Inspired by the field of artificial intelligence, he…

March 12 2010, 3:09am | Comments
Portfolio Raising Neanderthals

March 11 2010, 8:35am | Comments
Bookmark Seen in a new light, Giotto's Florentine masterpieces
Restoration experts have used ultra violet rays to shine an astonishing new light on the work of one of the most important painters in the history of Western art. The paintings…

March 10 2010, 10:45am | Comments
Bookmark Symphony in J flat
What prevents Bohlen-Pierce from becoming unpleasant, dissonant noise is the fact that is not merely an avant-garde musician taking a hacksaw to our current musical system for sheer destructive glee. In…

March 9 2010, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Chtodelat? / What is to be done?
Chto delat? / What is to be done? was founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod (see…

March 9 2010, 10:10am | Comments
Bookmark A Provisional Theory of Non-Sites: Robert Smithson
By drawing a diagram, a ground plan of a house, a street plan to the location of a site, or a topographic map, one draws a "logical two dimensional picture." A…

March 7 2010, 3:53pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

February 2 2010, 6:35am | Comments
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February 2 2010, 3:09am | 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
Bookmark For The Love Of Culture
In early 2002, the filmmaker Grace Guggenheim--the daughter of the late Charles Guggenheim, one of America’s greatest documentarians, and the sister of the filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, who made An Inconvenient Truth-decided…

January 27 2010, 2:17pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments
Bookmark Transitzone/ Against an Aesthetics of Noise
Ray Brassier – My stance is not particularly original: it’s indebted to the work of several more genuinely original philosophers. The confluence of their influence in my thinking represents my attempt…

January 15 2010, 4:38am | Comments
Bookmark The World Question Center 2010: How is the Internet Changing the Way…
Read any newspaper or magazine and you will notice the many flavors of the one big question that everyone is asking today. Or you can just stay on the page and…

January 8 2010, 9:55am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

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