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Syllabus Cache The best nonfiction tech books of all time
Not only does Ullman tell us what it was like to be an engineer during the dot-com bubble, but she does it in prose that many professional writers envy.

June 29 2023, 7:34am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Collapse of Civilization reading list
This is a list of books on and related to collapse broken down by various categories.

September 21 2020, 5:59am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to…
To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.

March 26 2020, 5:21am | Comments
Podcast Cache The ancient Greeks warned us about AI: Chips with Everything podcast |…
Author Adrienne Mayor discusses the myths that contained the first blueprints for artificial intelligence https://www.theguardian.com/technology/audio/2018/nov/02/the-ancient-greeks-warned-us-about-ai-chips-with-everything-podcast

November 2 2018, 12:42pm | Comments
Facebook Cache list: food ethics books
Good books about food and ethics?

June 14 2018, 4:42am | Comments
Bookmark Amia Srinivasan reviews ‘Other Minds’ by Peter Godfrey-Smith and ‘The Soul of…
In 1815, 15 years before he made his most famous print, The Great Wave, Hokusai published three volumes of erotic art. In one of them there is a woodcut print known…

September 6 2017, 3:24am | 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
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December 9 2016, 11:00am | Comments
Bookmark In the Name of Humanity | Limn
The total archive is already here, Balázs Bodó finds it hidden in the shadows and run by pirates. As I write this in August 2015, we are in the middle of…

March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments
Bookmark Keep your scythe, the real green future is high-tech, democratic, and radical…
"Radical ecology" has come to mean a kind of left-wing back-to-the-landism that throws off consumer culture and mass production for a pastoral low-tech lifestyle.

January 24 2016, 2:32pm | Comments
Bookmark A Brief History of Books That Do Not Exist | Literary Hub
I love books that exist almost as much as I love books that don’t exist. So I have written some books, The Seas, The Invention of Everything Else and Mr. Splitfoot,…

January 9 2016, 8:10am | 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 A welcome dose of environmental optimism - environment - 04 July 2015…
From rainforest revival and green technology to social changes, the age of humans is not necessarily a one-way ticket to eco-disaster, argue three new books Will more of the world's cities…

July 7 2015, 4:22pm | Comments
Bookmark Weird realism: John Gray on the moral universe of H P Lovecraft
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas…

March 30 2015, 8:57am | Comments
Bookmark books - Futurology
Welcome to r/Futurology, a subreddit devoted to speculation about the future through discussions, images, videos, art, gifs, and tedtalks about technology, civilization, foresight, futurology, futurism, existential risk reduction, space colonization, A.I.

December 18 2014, 1:48am | Comments
Bookmark Dark Arts | The Verge
So even though cyberpunk may be dead, the people who grew up on Gibson’s writing, Akira, and Blade Runner are still around.

November 22 2014, 5:24am | Comments
Bookmark Japanese science fiction award opens entries to aliens and computers | Books…
Last week, the Australian writer Richard Flanagan stalked on to the stage wearing a broad grin, kissed the Duchess of Cornwall and grasped the 2014 Man Booker prize.

November 22 2014, 5:23am | Comments
Bookmark Space in the Tropics "ch01"
Thence emerged the story of Robinson, in the way a dream might occur. When this dream was published, however, all Europe realized that it had been dreaming it.. They would make…

November 22 2014, 5:23am | Comments
Bookmark The novel is dead (this time it's for real) | Books |…
If you happen to be a writer, one of the great benisons of having children is that your personal culture-mine is equipped with its own canaries.

May 2 2014, 9:56am | Comments
Bookmark Rhizome | Using, Using, Used
Within the pages of Digital Folklore Reader, Olia Lialina, one of the book's editors, refers to a claim by the social media researcher Danah Boyd, that some American teenagers identify as…

January 22 2013, 3:51pm | Comments
Bookmark A vested interest in palimpsest
The English language contains certain meaning-rich words that command attention and stir controversy. “Paradigm,” for instance: When Thomas Kuhn used it in 1966 to describe accepted scientific theories, and gave us…

December 20 2012, 3:45am | Comments
Metafilter The Library of Babel in 140 characters (or fewer) The universe (which others call The Twitter) is composed of every word in the English language; Shakespeare's folios, line-by-line-by-line; the Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, exploded; Constantine XI, in 140 character chunks; Sun Tzu's Art of War, in its entirety; the chapter headings…

October 27 2012, 9:15am | Comments
Bookmark Paradigms Regained
The following is an excerpt from Ian Hacking's introduction to the new edition of Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which commemorates the book's 50th anniversary. To be published…

June 27 2012, 3:22pm | Comments
Bookmark War and Peace ebook readers find a surprise in its Nooks
A few days ago a blogger who identifies himself as just "Philip" took to his site to recount his experience of reading War and Peace – specifically, a 99¢ version as…

June 15 2012, 5:23am | 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 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
Bookmark John Gray on Critiques of Utopia and Apocalypse
There are those who say that utopian projects, while they can never be achieved, are valuable because they spur human advance. That’s not my view. My view is that the attempt…

March 28 2012, 1:43am | Comments
Bookmark Culturomics: Have physicists discovered the evolutionary laws of language in Google's library?
Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing…

March 20 2012, 11:04am | Comments
Tumblr “I’m not sure I want to evolve, when it comes right...

March 18 2012, 5:25pm | Comments
Bookmark The Exegete
When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

March 4 2012, 5:22am | Comments
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Philip K. Dick : To the best of our KNOWLEDGE

March 4 2012, 1:35am | Comments
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The Exegesis of Philip K Dick with Erik Davis

March 3 2012, 12:05pm | Comments

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