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  Writing in the early 1990s, Susan Stewart observed that “with the advent of film, interpretation has been replaced by watching … Here we see the increasing historical tendency toward the self-sufficient…

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  As We May Think: A 1945 Essay on Information Overload, "Curation," and Open

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  The Art of the 64 Squares

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  The weird deserves recognition as a major literary movement

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• Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

  July 17 2012, 8:10am | Comments

• Bookmark How to write in the digital age

  There have been plenty of conferences about the future of publishing, but few, if any, have been aimed at writers. The Literary Consultancy remedied this recently with a two-day conference –…

  July 10 2012, 2:56am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke GLTI.CH Karaoke at Goldsmiths: “Speak That I May See Thee”!

  July 2 2012, 8:54am | Comments

• Bookmark How Going Viral Has Changed Art

  In a time when likes, reblogs, and favorites determine what gets seen and what doesn’t, all cultural products, movies, music, writing, and visual art alike, exist in an economy of attention.…

  June 15 2012, 5:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Methods for Studying Coincidences

  With a large enough sample, any outrageous thing is likely to happen. The point is that truly rare events, say events that occur only once in a million [as the mathematician…

  May 21 2012, 10:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Jonathan Lethem on our rapidly dematerializing culture

  The Ecstasy of Influence, now the title of his recent collection of writings, often addresses the process of integrating and "cobbling together" ideas and culture to make something new. Yet, stories…

  April 26 2012, 12:43pm | Comments

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  "All shattered writing has the form of a key... All other life ceases in the life put into words." - Edmond Jabes

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  Large study shows little difference between human and robot essay graders

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  "The act of writing may be nothing but an act of controlled violence... The book explodes with infuriating legibility." - Edmond Jabes

  March 27 2012, 7:50am | Comments

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  Neal Stephenson's Hieroglyph and the dystopian sci-fi rut.

  March 23 2012, 5:07am | Comments

• Findings Trans Terra Form: Liquid Architectures And The Loss of Inscription

  by Marcos Novak To inscribe is to write in, to place the mark of one thing within the fabric of another. Carving is the prototypical kind of inscription, though every other kind of writing partakes in this modification of one substance by another: the…

  March 16 2012, 7:31am | Comments

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  Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

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  Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

  February 17 2012, 5:05am | Comments

• Bibliography Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings by Walter Benjamin

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

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  I must belong to the only generation of writers who've written with all three of inkpen, typewriter and computer. It definitely matters: the technology colours not only the rhythm but the…

  November 27 2011, 9:34am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Crusoe film adaptations and *that* footprint Robinson Crusoe film adaptations. Which are the best ones? Also, that footprint... For a project I am working on, I want to isolate the moment in Robinson Crusoe where he discovers the savage footprint, imprinted in the sand, for the first time. In…

  September 29 2011, 5:31am | Comments

• Bookmark The Artist is Present (a video game about waiting in line at…

  Writing articles about video games is so much fun that we often have to stop, wipe the manic grins off our faces and find something really boring to do. Sometimes we…

  September 19 2011, 1:39am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Innovative websites as template for MFA research community I'm looking for examples of websites that have successfully enhanced a research community (academic or artistic) with a dynamic online/social/mutual-portfolio presence. Blog and social media based hubs, perhaps, that showcase the possibilities of web portfolio/research integration for academic and creative purposes. I've been…

  September 16 2011, 7:26am | Comments

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  Do institutions and galleries have a growing interest in New Media? Two weeks ago, I identified the art “internet bubble” at The L Magazine, a trend that’s currently giving new media…

  September 2 2011, 3:07pm | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

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  How to write faster. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine

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

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• Bookmark Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or the next big thing?

  There’s a new online threat to writing. Critics of the web like to blame email, texts, and chat for killing prose. Even blogs—present company included—don’t escape their wrath. But in fact…

  July 25 2011, 2:46am | Comments

• Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

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• Bookmark Off-putting behaviour: On Writing and Procrastination

  When I began writing, distractions were all low-tech. I had to worry about typewriter ribbons and correction fluid, for God's sake. There was no possibility of spending an apparently productive day…

  July 8 2011, 1:52am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics

  “Nothing new under the reign of the same and under the same reign, preserved. Nothing new and nothing to be born, no nature. This is death, eternally. Nature put to death, its birth unwanted. The science of this is nothing. It is calculably nothing.…

  July 7 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Oh, Infinite Stream of Data and Light

  Visitors enter the dark, gargantuan room and take up postures of reverence in front of a massive screen, which towers 40 feet above them. They take off their shoes at the…

  June 16 2011, 4:22pm | Comments

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• Bookmark GIFABILITY

  Writing in the early 1990s, Susan Stewart observed that “with the advent of film, interpretation has been replaced by watching … Here we see the increasing historical tendency toward the self-sufficient…

  November 21 2012, 3:26am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  As We May Think: A 1945 Essay on Information Overload, "Curation," and Open

  October 15 2012, 1:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Art of the 64 Squares

  October 7 2012, 3:25pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The weird deserves recognition as a major literary movement

  September 29 2012, 4:15am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

  July 17 2012, 8:10am | Comments

• Bookmark How to write in the digital age

  There have been plenty of conferences about the future of publishing, but few, if any, have been aimed at writers. The Literary Consultancy remedied this recently with a two-day conference –…

  July 10 2012, 2:56am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke GLTI.CH Karaoke at Goldsmiths: “Speak That I May See Thee”!

  July 2 2012, 8:54am | Comments

• Bookmark How Going Viral Has Changed Art

  In a time when likes, reblogs, and favorites determine what gets seen and what doesn’t, all cultural products, movies, music, writing, and visual art alike, exist in an economy of attention.…

  June 15 2012, 5:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Methods for Studying Coincidences

  With a large enough sample, any outrageous thing is likely to happen. The point is that truly rare events, say events that occur only once in a million [as the mathematician…

  May 21 2012, 10:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Jonathan Lethem on our rapidly dematerializing culture

  The Ecstasy of Influence, now the title of his recent collection of writings, often addresses the process of integrating and "cobbling together" ideas and culture to make something new. Yet, stories…

  April 26 2012, 12:43pm | Comments

• Twitter

  "All shattered writing has the form of a key... All other life ceases in the life put into words." - Edmond Jabes

  April 24 2012, 6:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Large study shows little difference between human and robot essay graders

  April 13 2012, 7:30am | Comments

• Twitter

  "The act of writing may be nothing but an act of controlled violence... The book explodes with infuriating legibility." - Edmond Jabes

  March 27 2012, 7:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Neal Stephenson's Hieroglyph and the dystopian sci-fi rut.

  March 23 2012, 5:07am | Comments

• Findings Trans Terra Form: Liquid Architectures And The Loss of Inscription

  by Marcos Novak To inscribe is to write in, to place the mark of one thing within the fabric of another. Carving is the prototypical kind of inscription, though every other kind of writing partakes in this modification of one substance by another: the…

  March 16 2012, 7:31am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

  March 9 2012, 2:48am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

  February 17 2012, 5:05am | Comments

• Bibliography Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings by Walter Benjamin

  December 8 2011, 7:31am | Comments

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

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Tom McCarthy: My desktop

  I must belong to the only generation of writers who've written with all three of inkpen, typewriter and computer. It definitely matters: the technology colours not only the rhythm but the…

  November 27 2011, 9:34am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Crusoe film adaptations and *that* footprint Robinson Crusoe film adaptations. Which are the best ones? Also, that footprint... For a project I am working on, I want to isolate the moment in Robinson Crusoe where he discovers the savage footprint, imprinted in the sand, for the first time. In…

  September 29 2011, 5:31am | Comments

• Bookmark The Artist is Present (a video game about waiting in line at…

  Writing articles about video games is so much fun that we often have to stop, wipe the manic grins off our faces and find something really boring to do. Sometimes we…

  September 19 2011, 1:39am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Innovative websites as template for MFA research community I'm looking for examples of websites that have successfully enhanced a research community (academic or artistic) with a dynamic online/social/mutual-portfolio presence. Blog and social media based hubs, perhaps, that showcase the possibilities of web portfolio/research integration for academic and creative purposes. I've been…

  September 16 2011, 7:26am | Comments

• Bookmark Is New Media Accepted in the Art World? Domenico Quaranta’s Media, New…

  Do institutions and galleries have a growing interest in New Media? Two weeks ago, I identified the art “internet bubble” at The L Magazine, a trend that’s currently giving new media…

  September 2 2011, 3:07pm | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How to write faster. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine

  August 12 2011, 9:11am | Comments

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

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or the next big thing?

  There’s a new online threat to writing. Critics of the web like to blame email, texts, and chat for killing prose. Even blogs—present company included—don’t escape their wrath. But in fact…

  July 25 2011, 2:46am | Comments

• Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

  July 21 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Off-putting behaviour: On Writing and Procrastination

  When I began writing, distractions were all low-tech. I had to worry about typewriter ribbons and correction fluid, for God's sake. There was no possibility of spending an apparently productive day…

  July 8 2011, 1:52am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics

  “Nothing new under the reign of the same and under the same reign, preserved. Nothing new and nothing to be born, no nature. This is death, eternally. Nature put to death, its birth unwanted. The science of this is nothing. It is calculably nothing.…

  July 7 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Oh, Infinite Stream of Data and Light

  Visitors enter the dark, gargantuan room and take up postures of reverence in front of a massive screen, which towers 40 feet above them. They take off their shoes at the…

  June 16 2011, 4:22pm | Comments

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