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Syllabus Cache History of Computing Timeline
As part of a series of posts that I’ve been calling “Open Source PhD,” I’m posting some of the materials that I prepared as I was studying for my comprehensive exams. You can see the reading lists for…

July 27 2019, 4:56pm | Comments
Bookmark Daddy Issues | Katherine Angel | Granta
In the awful, wearying months in which Harvey Weinstein’s ritualistic mistreatment of women was being recounted daily in the media, I found myself, like so many others, wondering and talking about…

July 2 2019, 6:44pm | Comments
Bookmark The Day the Dinosaurs Died | The New Yorker
If, on a certain evening about sixty-six million years ago, you had stood somewhere in North America and looked up at the sky, you would have soon made out what appeared…

March 31 2019, 6:50am | Comments
Bookmark America colonisation ‘cooled Earth's climate’ - BBC News
Colonisation of the Americas at the end of the 15th Century killed so many people, it disturbed Earth's climate. That's the conclusion of scientists from University College London, UK.

February 4 2019, 6:52pm | Comments
Bookmark There be monsters: from cabinets of curiosity to demons within | Aeon…
In 2003, a team of scientists in China managed to create embryos containing a mix of rabbit and human DNA. Most of the biological matter was human, while the rabbit DNA…

November 7 2018, 7:08am | Comments
Bookmark Exploring The Digital Ruins Of 'Second Life' - Digg
I logged into "Second Life" in the year 2018 A.D. It still exists, sort of. Residents and businesses began fleeing for more popular social networks long ago. Vast acres of land…

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
Bookmark Colonialism did not just create slavery: it changed geology | Science |…
It brought riches to Britain and many other European nations; played a major role in enslaving more than 10 million Africans; and created the first global markets in cotton, tobacco and…

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
Bookmark Code, Conservation, and Truth – Ben Fino-Radin – Medium
In a recently posted video, Patrick LeMieux(Assistant Professor of Cinema and Digital Media at UC Davis) describes his own material exploration and investigation of Cory Arcangel’s seminal artwork, Super Mario Clouds…

November 20 2017, 11:06am | Comments
Bookmark 50 Years Ago Big Oil Bragged About Being Able To Melt Glaciers,…
Newly-released oil industry documents push back the start date of the world’s most successful disinformation campaign to the 1960s, if not earlier.

September 11 2017, 7:32am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Decolonizing technology: A reading list | Beatrice Martini – blog
Western culture has long been defining how the world came to existence, its history, and how it works from a perspective which is centred on a Western and white point of view.

May 28 2017, 10:41am | Comments
Bookmark Palmyra and the Political History of Archaeology in Syria: from Colonialists to…
Archaeology was institutionalized by a reification of the past into governmental branding, such as through images of Palmyra on the national currency, or school textbooks. Although Palmyrans wrote and probably spoke…

April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments
Bookmark Are Soas students right to ‘decolonise’ their minds from western philosophers? |…
Outraged headlines erupted when students launched a campaign to challenge the great western philosophers. We went to the source of dissent – London’s School of Oriental and African Studies – to…

March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments
Bookmark Impact of Social Sciences – Big data problems we face today can…
In the 19th century, changes in knowledge were facilitated not only by large quantities of new information pouring in from around the world but by shifts in the production, processing and…

February 20 2017, 11:01pm | Comments
Bookmark Writers of Color Continue to Wrestle With Lovecraft’s Racist Legacy | WIRED
H.P. Lovecraft is universally acknowledged as one of the most important horror writers of the 20th century, and references to his Cthulhu Mythos abound in contemporary culture. But Lovecraft was also…

January 13 2017, 5:50am | Comments
Additivism On Material Entanglements: an Interview with Morehshin Allahyari

December 17 2016, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark Joel Mokyr: Progress Isn't Natural - The Atlantic
Humans invented it—and not that long ago. How and why did the modern world and its unprecedented prosperity begin? Many bookshelves are full of learned tomes by historians, economists, political philosophers…

November 18 2016, 5:30pm | Comments
Bookmark There's Now a Search Engine for Every Animated GIF From GeoCities |…
Remember the good old days™? When Bill Clinton was President, when average monthly rent was around $645, and when Yahoo’s acquisition of GeoCities shot the dream of personal websites into the…

October 27 2016, 12:48pm | Comments
Bookmark How the Cyberfeminists Worked to Liberate Women through the Internet
They wrote their own Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century (1991) in homage to Haraway, presented as an 18-foot-long billboard, which was exhibited at various galleries across Australia.

October 20 2016, 3:05am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Books on Food and its relation to Colonialism/Imperialism Are there any good books telling the story of imperialism/colonialism through food? Since reading Guns, Germs and Steel many years ago I have been fascinated with the origins of world food, especially when it highlights untold histories of civilisation. This article on 'How…

July 13 2016, 5:00am | Comments
Bookmark "She wore a USB cord instead of a necklace": whatever happened to…
The movement was young, energetic, educated, and art school-heavy. Above all it was “positive”: both cyber-positive and sex-positive. Sometime in the late 1990s, I met someone else called Joanna Walsh. The fact that…

May 27 2016, 12:30pm | Comments
Bookmark How hacking fixed the worst video game of all time | PCWorld
According to urban legend, a landfill somewhere in the small city of Alamogordo, New Mexico, bulges with millions of copies of the worst game ever made—a game that many observers blamed…

May 9 2016, 1:16am | Comments
Bookmark Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence | The Public Domain…
Defecating ducks, talking busts, and mechanised Christs — Jessica Riskin on the wonderful history of automata, machines built to mimic the processes of intelligent life.

May 9 2016, 1:16am | Comments
Bookmark The Enlightenment Is Dead, Long Live the Entanglement | Next Nature Network
We humans are changing. We have become so intertwined with what we have created that we are no longer separate from it. We have outgrown the distinction between the natural and…

April 22 2016, 3:34am | Comments
Additivism What’s the Value of Recreating the Palmyra Arch with Digital...

April 20 2016, 5:51am | Comments
Bookmark Heritage as a Platform: New Frontiers in Cultural Preservation | Gates of…
A few weeks ago on this site I reviewed John Robb’s book Brave New War, discussing the potential of reconfiguring heritage preservation from a top-down, hierarchical model into a participatory, two-way,…

March 17 2016, 5:05pm | Comments
Bookmark Art and activism collide at Iraqi artefact exhibition in Toronto
TORONTO, Canada - The mood is haunting at Morehshin Allahyari’s first solo exhibition in Canada, as a dozen reconstructed artefacts destroyed by Islamic State (IS) group fighters look up from ledges…

March 17 2016, 5:04pm | Comments
Bookmark The impossibility of stealing a 3,000-year-old head with a video game controller…
In Berlin's Neues Museum, there sits a 3,000-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti. The priceless artifact is under glass, kept safe by alarms, and watched by security guards. Last year, it was…

March 17 2016, 5:04pm | Comments
Bookmark The feminist groups disrupting bro-tech culture in 2016 | Dazed
Why has the narrative of computer history come to be defined more by images of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg than by the pioneering work of Ada Lovelace, who is often…

March 6 2016, 7:20am | 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 Paul Beatriz Preciado: Feminism beyond humanism, ecology beyond the environment | Autonomies
During one of his “infinite interviews”, Hans-Ulrich Obrist asked me to pose an urgent question to which artists and political movements must answer together.

February 19 2016, 2:57pm | Comments
Additivism Essay on Morehshin Allahyari’s Material Speculation & #Additivism

February 13 2016, 4:20am | Comments
Bookmark Frieze Magazine | Archive | Loop the Loop
If an annual award for the ‘hottest digital image format online’ existed, this year’s winner would be the Graphics Interchange Format or gif: an eight-bit, 256-colour bitmap picture file that can…

January 30 2016, 9:14am | Comments

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