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Wikipedia Betteridge's law of headlines Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist,[1] although the general concept is much older.[2] The observation…

June 2 2013, 6:54am | Comments
Bookmark Deal With It: the art and science of creating GIFs | The…
By T.C. Sottek and Thomas Houston Humans have always lived singularly in the present moment; the internet has only accelerated the pace that we leap from one lily pad of existence…

April 18 2013, 4:54pm | Comments
Bookmark Interview with a writer: John Gray » Spectator Blogs
In his new book The Silence of Animals, the philosopher John Gray explores why human beings continue to use myth to give purpose to their lives. Drawing from the material of…

March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments
Bookmark Brian Eno - Page - Interview Magazine
ENO: I loved that experiment. I'd love to do something like that again. ANDERSON: I would, too. I've always loved the Quiet Club [a series of ambient-style installations by Eno built…

February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments
Bookmark Foucault’s boomerang: the new military urbanism | openDemocracy
As our planet urbanizes more rapidly than ever before, an insidious set of boomerang effects, linking security doctrine in cities in the global North with those in the South, is permeating…

February 23 2013, 3:24am | 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 The culture of the copy by James Panero - The New Criterion
Technological revolutions are far less obvious than political revolutions to the generations that live through them. This is true even as new tools, for better and worse, shift human history more…

January 22 2013, 3:27pm | Comments
Bookmark Digital Life Is A Hoax…Because There’s No Such Thing » Cyborgology
I've poked fun at these lazy op-eds before and, indeed, it must be tempting to retreat into the safe conceptual territory of "The Internet is fake!" when a juicy story of…

January 22 2013, 3:24pm | Comments
Bookmark Object-Oriented Ontology Symposium
Ontology is the philosophical study of existence. Object-oriented ontology ("OOO" for short) puts things at the center of this study. Its proponents contend that nothing has special status, but that everything…

January 22 2013, 7:23am | Comments
Bookmark Roger Scruton – A culture of fake originality
A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a shared frame of reference among educated people. High culture…

January 22 2013, 5:16am | Comments
Bookmark Neanderthals smart enough to copy humans
Fossils and artefacts pulled from the Grotte du Renne cave in central France present anthropologists with a Pleistocene puzzle. Strewn among the remains of prehistoric mammals are the bones of Neanderthals,…

December 31 2012, 6:52am | Comments
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December 15 2012, 3:04pm | Comments
Bookmark Devastation in Meatspace
The missile rushing over your head was processed through an Instagram filter just hours previously. As you see it pass out of sight behind the apartment block opposite some young conscript…

December 14 2012, 3:04am | Comments
Bookmark THE THING: FIGURES IN THE FRAME « MULTIGLOM
THE THING: FIGURES IN THE FRAME « MULTIGLOM

October 21 2012, 3:47am | Comments
Portfolio Conference Panel: How to Survive in a Post-Zombie Digital Landscape
ASAP/4: Genres of the Present Conference, Royal College of Art, ‘Abject Materialities (an Ontology of Every Thing on the Face of the Earth)’ as part of panel, ‘Figuring Genre in Contemporary Culture: How to Survive in a Post-Zombie Digital Landscape’, with Zara Dinnen, Rob…

October 4 2012, 8:26am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
The evolution of cheating in chess

September 18 2012, 4:48am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

September 8 2012, 6:05am | Comments
Bookmark Absolutely-Too-Much - The Brooklyn Rail
Contemporary art is an easy thing to hate. All the meaningless hype, the identikit openings in cities that blur into one long, banal, Beck’s beer fuelled anxiety dream from which there…

August 29 2012, 2:19am | Comments
Bookmark Foucault - Remarks on Marx
Interview with Michel Foucault originally published in Italian, then in French in 1994

August 25 2012, 2:43am | Comments
Bookmark ‘Time-wars’ by Mark Fisher
Time rather than money is the currency in the recent science fiction film In Time. At the age of 25, the citizens in the future world the film depicts are given…

August 14 2012, 3:41am | Comments
Wikipedia Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future “Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.” - Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how…

August 8 2012, 2:51am | 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 DIGITAL FORM DISCUSSION
To what extent do the material components (e.g. hardware, source code, network protocols) and properties (e.g. speed, malleability, erasability) of digital technology influence the methodologies one might employ to study it?…

July 11 2012, 6:37am | Comments
Bookmark Merzbow and Justin Bieber
Alongside the Dadaists in the early twentieth century, the German artist Kurt Schwitters developed a style he called “Merz” (detached from the end of “Kommerz,” German for “commerce,” to create a…

July 10 2012, 2:58am | 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 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 Peter Krapp: Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture (2011)
To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative reservoirs of…

May 23 2012, 9:46am | 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
Bookmark "Videogames are the experience of being ruled"
Revolutions are often thought of in terms of conflict and disorder, but they just as often come on waves of peaceful obsolescence. The old way of doing things is allowed to…

May 17 2012, 3:32am | Comments
Bookmark At ROFLCon, watching memes go mainstream
What is ROFLCon? It's a biennial convention (this year was its third) held to celebrate and discuss internet memes and the celebrity that is often created alongside them. This year's invited…

May 8 2012, 2:17pm | Comments
Bookmark The Web Browser As Aesthetic Framework: Why Digital Art Today Looks Different
Collective cultural memory is the foundation on which the significance of a creative practice stands. As summarized in Emerson Rosenthal’s post for #DIGART week, online collections and exhibition spaces have been…

May 8 2012, 2:14pm | Comments

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