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Delusions of Peace

October 6 2011, 2:37am | Comments
Bookmark Innovation Starvation
SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer) to…

October 2 2011, 4:47am | Comments
Bookmark The Cyberspace Real (Between Perversion and Trauma)
Are the pessimistic cultural criticists (from Jean Baudrillard to Paul Virilio) justified in their claim that cyberspace ultimately generates a kind of proto-psychotic immersion into an imaginary universe of hallucinations, unconstrained…

September 30 2011, 7:33am | Comments
Bookmark Meaning/time=? [e-flux on Coked-Out, Motherless Robots]
Are we moving too fast for meaning? That’s the argument put together by Franco Berardi in his essay Time, Acceleration, and Violence, published on e-flux. It’s the latest in an expanding…

September 29 2011, 7:29am | 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 On Science Transfer
“Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before. Our…

September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments
Bookmark The ancient cloud
The crowd-sourced, wikinomic cloud is the new, new thing that all management consultants are now telling their clients to embrace. Yet the cloud is not a new thing at all. It…

September 24 2011, 8:50am | Comments
Bookmark Can religion tell us more than science?
In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and against…

September 20 2011, 3:12am | Comments
Bookmark Steven Pinker on the History and decline (and myth of) Violence
Some of the evidence has been under our nose all along. Conventional history has long shown that, in many ways, we have been getting kinder and gentler. Cruelty as entertainment, human…

September 20 2011, 3:05am | Comments
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Postmodernism: from the cutting edge to the museum

September 17 2011, 2:03am | Comments
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Animated GIF Q & A

August 22 2011, 2:10am | Comments
Bookmark Death Is Not the End (Long Live theory!)
Was theory a gigantic hoax? On the contrary. It was the only salvation, for a twenty year period, from two colossal abdications by American thinkers and writers. From about 1975 to…

August 18 2011, 1:48am | Comments
Bookmark Inside the Internet Art Bubble
The internet finally seems to have made a dint in New York's institutional art world. Cory Arcangel, an artist who began his career manipulating old computer technologies and critiquing web culture,…

August 17 2011, 6:26am | Comments
Bookmark Ancient DNA reveals secrets of human history
By comparing individual DNA letters in multiple modern human genomes with those in the Neanderthal genome, the date of that interbreeding has now been pinned down to 65,000–90,000 years ago. Montgomery…

August 15 2011, 2:45am | Comments
Bookmark Our Emergent Digital Future
What will the digital world look like in ten years? The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path. The explosion in the volume…

August 14 2011, 4:32am | Comments
Bookmark Digital tendencies
From 1961 to 1973, a loosely organized group of artists and scientists coalesced around the radical idea that the emerging technology of the computer could be used to make a different…

August 12 2011, 4:59am | Comments
Bookmark Humanism / After Humanism
n this essay, I want to explore some dimensions of what the term “humanism” means—what it meant in the past and what it means today. In particular, I would like to…

August 11 2011, 11:30am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) Michel Serres, The Natural Contract
“Suppose two speakers, determined to contradict each other. As violent as their confrontation may be, as long as they are willing to continue the discussion they must speak a common language in order for the dialogue to take place. There can’t be an argument…

August 9 2011, 5:36am | Comments
Bookmark Brute force or intelligence? The slow rise of computer chess
When you visit the History of Computer Chess exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the first machine you see is "The Turk." In 1770, a Hungarian engineer…

August 8 2011, 8:39am | Comments
Bookmark Traces of humanity
What aliens could learn from the stuff we’ve left in space Even in space, where none of us live, some of what we’ve left is space junk: stuff orbiting the earth…

August 7 2011, 3:32pm | Comments
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A Trick of the Mind - Reason Magazine

August 6 2011, 5:02am | Comments
Bookmark Information Wants to be Consumed
Although information spreads, virus-like, through replication, this replication, as Walter Benjamin foresaw, involves a dispersion that allows images or data to be seen in different places, in different contexts (what Benjamin…

August 3 2011, 6:00am | 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
Bookmark Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to be a Religion
How do you make a videogame that, in some sense, is a religion, especially if you’re an atheist? Rohrer began by defining the sort of spiritual practice that interested him, which…

July 24 2011, 4:03am | Comments
Bookmark Animated GIFs Triumphant
The facts about animated GIFs are stark. They only support a palette of 256 colors. No current browser lists support for animated GIF as a codec for the HTML5 <video> tag.…

July 12 2011, 7:41am | Comments
Tumblr Ubik: Philip K. Dick

July 12 2011, 1:39am | Comments
Bookmark The Neolithic Age is over!
Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance, the…

July 12 2011, 1:36am | Comments
Bookmark The Pathology of Collecting
What I’ve learned, the hard way, is that the one thing you must never ask a collector is “why?” It’ll get you nowhere. They’ll just stare at you in baffled amazement…

July 11 2011, 4:54am | Comments
Bookmark Michel Serres on the word 'human'
Son of a barge man, Michel Serres joined the Ecole Navale in 1949 and the Ecole Normale supérieure in 1952 where he obtained the aggregation of philosophy in 1955. From 1956…

July 6 2011, 3:15pm | Comments
Bookmark How to fix horror, Part I: Stop trying to be so respectable
My new book Shock Value: How a few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror, explores how horror went mainstream by revisiting the golden age that began…

July 5 2011, 9:34am | Comments
Bookmark Heaven for Atheists
It’s human nature, I suppose, to want to survive, to resist succumbing to the same fate all living things do. It’s the reason we write books, create art, have children—we’re hardwired…

July 4 2011, 9:01am | Comments
Bookmark Knowledge, not the way you knew it
17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an “experiment”…

June 28 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

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