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  Makego iPhone app blurs boundaries between digital and physical play

  March 16 2012, 11:14am | 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

• Ask Metafilter Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or a damp fizzle? If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from outer space for the next hundred years, on all frequencies, how many soap operas, advertisements…

  February 23 2012, 5:09am | Comments

• Tumblr "Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for..."

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  Games within videogames: Hoarding

  February 20 2012, 7:05am | Comments

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  “The Shannon and Weaver Model”

  February 20 2012, 6:51am | Comments

• Metafilter Digital Images are SomeThing to aspire to? (A reflection on Hito Steyerl's proposal) Artist and film-maker, Hito Steyerl, asks us to stand shoulder to shoulder with our digital equivalents. Digital images are Things (like you and me) - a plethora of compressed, corrupted representations pushed and pulled through increasingly policed and capitalised information networks. If 80%…

  February 16 2012, 5:13am | Comments

• Bookmark The Spam of the Earth: Withdrawal from Representation (by Hito Steyerl)

  Image spam is one of the many dark matters of the digital world; spam tries to avoid detection by filters by presenting its message as an image file. An inordinate amount…

  February 12 2012, 4:32am | Comments

• Bookmark What Immanuel Kant got right about digital piracy

  It turns out that Kant didn't think that an author could mount a strong legal case against piracy based on property rights in words. After all, even after pirates copied an…

  January 30 2012, 4:28pm | Comments

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  Computer viruses infecting worms to create hybrid 'Frankenmalware'

  January 28 2012, 10:36am | Comments

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  Re:Thinking Games

  January 25 2012, 3:50am | Comments

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  The Pirate Bay - Physibles

  January 24 2012, 2:11pm | Comments

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  Internet Regulation & the Economics of Piracy

  January 19 2012, 7:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Kopimism: the world's newest religion explained

  Isak Gerson is spiritual leader of the world's newest religion, Kopimism, devoted to file-sharing. On 5 January the Church of Kopimism was formally recognised as a religion by the Swedish government.…

  January 15 2012, 1:32pm | Comments

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  "How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost

  January 13 2012, 2:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Era of Networked Science

  The Internet may well have its downsides, but it also has the potential to make us collectively smarter, according to open-science advocate Michael Nielsen. In Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of…

  January 13 2012, 2:41am | Comments

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  The P2P Foundation Books of the Year 2011

  January 9 2012, 1:36am | Comments

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  File Sharing Is Now an Official Religion In Sweden

  January 4 2012, 9:52am | Comments

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  The Dark Sides of Our Digital Self

  December 18 2011, 3:51am | Comments

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

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan Turing)

  I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think." The definitions might be framed so as to…

  October 31 2011, 6:53am | Comments

• Bookmark The Constraint Histories of Digital Games

  Attempts to provide a taxonomy of game genres founder on the lack of consistent criteria, and usually have to be arbitrarily assigned. Connecting ‘shooters’ into a lineage suggests scrolling shooters were…

  October 19 2011, 3:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Do Androids Dream of Electric Authors?

  But the invasion of robot-books is unsettling for another reason. I think we can all agree that it’s O.K. for robots to take over unpleasant jobs — like cleaning up nuclear…

  October 16 2011, 7:04am | Comments

• Tumblr thomforsyth: BIRD RIB Paintings | Maurizio Bongiovanni My work...

  October 2 2011, 4:52am | 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

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  Postmodernism: from the cutting edge to the museum

  September 17 2011, 2:03am | Comments

• Bookmark The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age

  Berry’s book is less one specific philosophical argument of what software is and what code does, but consists of chapters that illuminate different ways one can approach software and software culture…

  September 6 2011, 4:15am | Comments

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  Learn/Unlearn/Relearn

  August 31 2011, 1:03pm | Comments

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  How Star Trek artists imagined the iPad... 23 years ago

  August 30 2011, 10:44am | Comments

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  Media, New Media, Postmedia

  August 30 2011, 2:58am | Comments

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  GIF.TV: Digital Addiction At Its Finest

  August 29 2011, 6:29am | Comments

• Bookmark The Manichean World of Tim Wu

  For the past dozen years, several distinguished thinkers about law and technology have warned that a golden age of Internet freedom may be about to close. The most influential alarm-ringer has…

  August 18 2011, 1:34am | Comments

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• Twitter Favourites

  Makego iPhone app blurs boundaries between digital and physical play

  March 16 2012, 11:14am | 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

• Ask Metafilter Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or a damp fizzle? If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from outer space for the next hundred years, on all frequencies, how many soap operas, advertisements…

  February 23 2012, 5:09am | Comments

• Tumblr "Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for..."

  February 20 2012, 7:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Games within videogames: Hoarding

  February 20 2012, 7:05am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  “The Shannon and Weaver Model”

  February 20 2012, 6:51am | Comments

• Metafilter Digital Images are SomeThing to aspire to? (A reflection on Hito Steyerl's proposal) Artist and film-maker, Hito Steyerl, asks us to stand shoulder to shoulder with our digital equivalents. Digital images are Things (like you and me) - a plethora of compressed, corrupted representations pushed and pulled through increasingly policed and capitalised information networks. If 80%…

  February 16 2012, 5:13am | Comments

• Bookmark The Spam of the Earth: Withdrawal from Representation (by Hito Steyerl)

  Image spam is one of the many dark matters of the digital world; spam tries to avoid detection by filters by presenting its message as an image file. An inordinate amount…

  February 12 2012, 4:32am | Comments

• Bookmark What Immanuel Kant got right about digital piracy

  It turns out that Kant didn't think that an author could mount a strong legal case against piracy based on property rights in words. After all, even after pirates copied an…

  January 30 2012, 4:28pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Computer viruses infecting worms to create hybrid 'Frankenmalware'

  January 28 2012, 10:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Re:Thinking Games

  January 25 2012, 3:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Pirate Bay - Physibles

  January 24 2012, 2:11pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Internet Regulation & the Economics of Piracy

  January 19 2012, 7:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Kopimism: the world's newest religion explained

  Isak Gerson is spiritual leader of the world's newest religion, Kopimism, devoted to file-sharing. On 5 January the Church of Kopimism was formally recognised as a religion by the Swedish government.…

  January 15 2012, 1:32pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  "How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost

  January 13 2012, 2:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Era of Networked Science

  The Internet may well have its downsides, but it also has the potential to make us collectively smarter, according to open-science advocate Michael Nielsen. In Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of…

  January 13 2012, 2:41am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The P2P Foundation Books of the Year 2011

  January 9 2012, 1:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  File Sharing Is Now an Official Religion In Sweden

  January 4 2012, 9:52am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Dark Sides of Our Digital Self

  December 18 2011, 3:51am | Comments

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

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan Turing)

  I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think." The definitions might be framed so as to…

  October 31 2011, 6:53am | Comments

• Bookmark The Constraint Histories of Digital Games

  Attempts to provide a taxonomy of game genres founder on the lack of consistent criteria, and usually have to be arbitrarily assigned. Connecting ‘shooters’ into a lineage suggests scrolling shooters were…

  October 19 2011, 3:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Do Androids Dream of Electric Authors?

  But the invasion of robot-books is unsettling for another reason. I think we can all agree that it’s O.K. for robots to take over unpleasant jobs — like cleaning up nuclear…

  October 16 2011, 7:04am | Comments

• Tumblr thomforsyth: BIRD RIB Paintings | Maurizio Bongiovanni My work...

  October 2 2011, 4:52am | 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

• Twitter Favourites

  Postmodernism: from the cutting edge to the museum

  September 17 2011, 2:03am | Comments

• Bookmark The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age

  Berry’s book is less one specific philosophical argument of what software is and what code does, but consists of chapters that illuminate different ways one can approach software and software culture…

  September 6 2011, 4:15am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Learn/Unlearn/Relearn

  August 31 2011, 1:03pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How Star Trek artists imagined the iPad... 23 years ago

  August 30 2011, 10:44am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Media, New Media, Postmedia

  August 30 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  GIF.TV: Digital Addiction At Its Finest

  August 29 2011, 6:29am | Comments

• Bookmark The Manichean World of Tim Wu

  For the past dozen years, several distinguished thinkers about law and technology have warned that a golden age of Internet freedom may be about to close. The most influential alarm-ringer has…

  August 18 2011, 1:34am | Comments

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