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• Bookmark Speculative biology: understanding the past and predicting our future | Science |…

  In 1981, a remarkable book was published: After Man: A Zoology of the Future, by Dougal Dixon.

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Books after the Death of the Book | Public Books

  Last summer I decided to assign Ted Chiang’s The Lifecycle of Software Objects in the graduate course I was getting ready to teach.

  April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Print on demand in ring binder format? Looking for print-on-demand services that offer a 'ring binder' option (a bit like this... A4 print bound with two or three of these). The book would be offered online, one click print, bound and shipped. Ideally with a cover and back cover of…

  January 6 2017, 5:29am | Comments

• Additivism The 3D Additivist Cookbook is out now…

  December 4 2016, 7:28am | Comments

• Bookmark The Block is the Successor to The Book: A Publishing Proposal

  In this text, we introduce Txtblock, a decentralized tool for publishing and distribution of digital text in a format called the block—a squarely defined, eternally immutable unit of information. The block…

  November 21 2015, 8:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Obfuscation | The MIT Press

  “By mapping out obfuscation tools, practices, and goals, Brunton and Nissenbaum provide a valuable framework for understanding how people seek to achieve privacy and control in a data-soaked world.

  October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments

• Projects This Mess is a Place

  October 26 2013, 11:52pm | Comments

• Bookmark Computer glitch may have led to Deep Blue's historic win over chess…

  Earlier this year, IBM celebrated the 15-year anniversary of its supercomputer Deep Blue beating chess champion Garry Kasparov. According to a new book, however, it may have been an accidental glitch…

  September 29 2012, 7:09am | Comments

• Portfolio A Shot to the Arse

  August 8 2012, 1:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Trouble with Scientism

  The conflict between the Naturwissenschaften and the Geisteswissenschaften goes back at least two centuries, and became intensified as ambitious, sometimes impatient researchers proposed to introduce natural scientific concepts and methods into…

  May 17 2012, 3:42am | Comments

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  Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'

  March 21 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Tumblr “God,” Eldritch said, “promises eternal life....

  March 18 2012, 5:17pm | Comments

• YouTube

  March 7 2012, 2:24am | Comments

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  The Democracy of Objects

  March 5 2012, 3:44pm | Comments

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  Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

  February 17 2012, 5:05am | Comments

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  It's time for science to move on from materialism

  January 28 2012, 10:35am | Comments

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  Re:Thinking Games

  January 25 2012, 3:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  "How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost

  January 13 2012, 2:50am | Comments

• Bookmark On A History of the World in 100 Objects

  Objects 101 by Roger Sandall What interests me here however is something else—the profoundly paradoxical position of MacGregor himself. When resisting Greek calls for the return of the Elgin Marbles, he…

  November 14 2011, 6:59am | Comments

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  Threshold science

  November 2 2011, 6:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Is mental time travel what makes us human?

  A stonishing animals show up everywhere these days. Cooperative apes, grief-stricken elephants, empathetic cats and dogs crowd our bookshop shelves. It’s all the rage to plumb the cognitive and emotional depths…

  October 28 2011, 10:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Music moved on after modernism, but whatever happened to fiction?

  The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy – rather like a long-term marriage. At the securely…

  October 12 2011, 9:54am | Comments

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  Media, New Media, Postmedia

  August 30 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Tumblr The Objectuals

  July 22 2011, 1:47am | Comments

• Bookmark How to survive the age of distraction

  The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It's being chewed by the e-book.…

  June 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

• Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

  June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Man Is Not Cat Food

  In the last decade, human vanity has taken a major hit. Traits once thought to be uniquely, even definingly human have turned up in the repertoire of animal behaviors: tool use,…

  June 12 2011, 8:12am | Comments

• Bookmark The Art of the Accident : Institute for the Unstable Media

  Failure and malfunction are inherent in all technological products. In The Art of the Accident, the concept of “accident” contains not just the idea that each machine brings with it its…

  May 15 2011, 6:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Technology Of Writing

  Technology of/on/about writing: A huge list of resources

  May 11 2011, 11:03am | Comments

• Bookmark The Font of the Hand

  JUST AS IN OUR DAY a fervid minority denounces the digitization of literary experience, fifteenth-century literati responded to their own depredations. In 1492, Johannes Trithemius, Abbot of Sponheim, wrote De Laude…

  March 24 2011, 5:23pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter or Energy—It’s Data

  Information flows everywhere, through wires and genes, through brain cells and quarks. But while it may appear ubiquitous to us now, until recently we had no awareness of what information was…

  March 6 2011, 3:43am | Comments

• Bookmark 400 years of the King James Bible

  The King James Bible is a book that attracts superlatives. To David Norton it is “the most important book in English religion and culture”, to Gordon Campbell “the most celebrated book…

  February 11 2011, 3:43am | Comments

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• Bookmark Speculative biology: understanding the past and predicting our future | Science |…

  In 1981, a remarkable book was published: After Man: A Zoology of the Future, by Dougal Dixon.

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Books after the Death of the Book | Public Books

  Last summer I decided to assign Ted Chiang’s The Lifecycle of Software Objects in the graduate course I was getting ready to teach.

  April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Print on demand in ring binder format? Looking for print-on-demand services that offer a 'ring binder' option (a bit like this... A4 print bound with two or three of these). The book would be offered online, one click print, bound and shipped. Ideally with a cover and back cover of…

  January 6 2017, 5:29am | Comments

• Additivism The 3D Additivist Cookbook is out now…

  December 4 2016, 7:28am | Comments

• Bookmark The Block is the Successor to The Book: A Publishing Proposal

  In this text, we introduce Txtblock, a decentralized tool for publishing and distribution of digital text in a format called the block—a squarely defined, eternally immutable unit of information. The block…

  November 21 2015, 8:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Obfuscation | The MIT Press

  “By mapping out obfuscation tools, practices, and goals, Brunton and Nissenbaum provide a valuable framework for understanding how people seek to achieve privacy and control in a data-soaked world.

  October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments

• Projects This Mess is a Place

  October 26 2013, 11:52pm | Comments

• Bookmark Computer glitch may have led to Deep Blue's historic win over chess…

  Earlier this year, IBM celebrated the 15-year anniversary of its supercomputer Deep Blue beating chess champion Garry Kasparov. According to a new book, however, it may have been an accidental glitch…

  September 29 2012, 7:09am | Comments

• Portfolio A Shot to the Arse

  August 8 2012, 1:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Trouble with Scientism

  The conflict between the Naturwissenschaften and the Geisteswissenschaften goes back at least two centuries, and became intensified as ambitious, sometimes impatient researchers proposed to introduce natural scientific concepts and methods into…

  May 17 2012, 3:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'

  March 21 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Tumblr “God,” Eldritch said, “promises eternal life....

  March 18 2012, 5:17pm | Comments

• YouTube

  March 7 2012, 2:24am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Democracy of Objects

  March 5 2012, 3:44pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

  February 17 2012, 5:05am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  It's time for science to move on from materialism

  January 28 2012, 10:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Re:Thinking Games

  January 25 2012, 3:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  "How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost

  January 13 2012, 2:50am | Comments

• Bookmark On A History of the World in 100 Objects

  Objects 101 by Roger Sandall What interests me here however is something else—the profoundly paradoxical position of MacGregor himself. When resisting Greek calls for the return of the Elgin Marbles, he…

  November 14 2011, 6:59am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Threshold science

  November 2 2011, 6:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Is mental time travel what makes us human?

  A stonishing animals show up everywhere these days. Cooperative apes, grief-stricken elephants, empathetic cats and dogs crowd our bookshop shelves. It’s all the rage to plumb the cognitive and emotional depths…

  October 28 2011, 10:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Music moved on after modernism, but whatever happened to fiction?

  The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy – rather like a long-term marriage. At the securely…

  October 12 2011, 9:54am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Media, New Media, Postmedia

  August 30 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Tumblr The Objectuals

  July 22 2011, 1:47am | Comments

• Bookmark How to survive the age of distraction

  The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It's being chewed by the e-book.…

  June 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

• Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

  June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Man Is Not Cat Food

  In the last decade, human vanity has taken a major hit. Traits once thought to be uniquely, even definingly human have turned up in the repertoire of animal behaviors: tool use,…

  June 12 2011, 8:12am | Comments

• Bookmark The Art of the Accident : Institute for the Unstable Media

  Failure and malfunction are inherent in all technological products. In The Art of the Accident, the concept of “accident” contains not just the idea that each machine brings with it its…

  May 15 2011, 6:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Technology Of Writing

  Technology of/on/about writing: A huge list of resources

  May 11 2011, 11:03am | Comments

• Bookmark The Font of the Hand

  JUST AS IN OUR DAY a fervid minority denounces the digitization of literary experience, fifteenth-century literati responded to their own depredations. In 1492, Johannes Trithemius, Abbot of Sponheim, wrote De Laude…

  March 24 2011, 5:23pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter or Energy—It’s Data

  Information flows everywhere, through wires and genes, through brain cells and quarks. But while it may appear ubiquitous to us now, until recently we had no awareness of what information was…

  March 6 2011, 3:43am | Comments

• Bookmark 400 years of the King James Bible

  The King James Bible is a book that attracts superlatives. To David Norton it is “the most important book in English religion and culture”, to Gordon Campbell “the most celebrated book…

  February 11 2011, 3:43am | Comments

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