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• 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 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 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 DISSIMULATIONS by Andy Cameron

  The form of the story permeates every aspect of our cultural life. History, politics, memories, even subjectivity, our sense of identity, are all representations in narrative form, signifiers chained together in…

  June 2 2012, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific “Truth"

  “Look,” Thomas Kuhn said. The word was weighted with weariness, as if Kuhn was resigned to the fact that I would misinterpret him, but he was still going to try—no doubt…

  May 30 2012, 2:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthals Getting a Colourful Upgrade

  A chorus of smart, modern minds is rising over the hills of anthropology that the ancient Neanderthals of Europe weren't anywhere nearly as dumb, insufferable and unrecognizable as everyone thought all…

  May 23 2012, 9:44am | Comments

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  When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?

  April 29 2012, 2:07pm | 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 Emergence of the Human 'SuperBrain' 75,000 Years Ago --"AI Could Blur Differences…

  "Humans obviously evolved a much wider range of communication tools to express their thoughts, the most important being language," said Hoffecker, a fellow at CU's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.…

  April 22 2012, 4:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts

  RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about…

  April 21 2012, 5:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Nietzsche's Posthuman: Rules for the Human Zoo

  The concept of a “formless matter” [that] embodies … all that’s been thought between Hegel and Turing on the relation of “things” to “mind.” It tests out a trivalent—or multivalent—logic that’s…

  April 20 2012, 12:28pm | Comments

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  Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay?

  April 20 2012, 7:36am | Comments

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  Tumblr ❤ GIFs

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

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  The Mastery of Non-Mastery

  April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter What is the Folk Web? I'm looking for 'Folk' Web Cultures. I am thinking of the recent take-down of Geocities, which seemed to refresh people's love of the naff, kitsch aesthetic it was famous for, as a prime example. What are some other folk cultures still lingering in…

  April 4 2012, 6:41am | Comments

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  Should we clone Neanderthals?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

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  Marx at 193

  March 29 2012, 3:17pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Alan Lomax Sound Archive Now Online: Features 17,000 Recordings

  March 29 2012, 12:50pm | Comments

• Metafilter A Database of Metaphor The Mind is a Metaphor. A database of thousands of metaphors organized by category, like 18th century, Liquid, or Jacobite. It's maintained by University of Virginia English Professor Brad Pasanek.

  March 27 2012, 7:06pm | Comments

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  Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'

  March 21 2012, 9:35am | Comments

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  Borges: The Task of Art

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

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  When independent thought flourishes

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

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  Arthur Schopenhauer on Noise

  March 13 2012, 4:20am | Comments

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  Anatomy of Norbiton: labyrinthine

  March 11 2012, 4:12am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature

  March 9 2012, 4:34am | Comments

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  The Body Counter: A statistician’s guide to mass atrocities

  March 1 2012, 9:59am | Comments

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  How We Won the Hominid Wars, and All the Others Died Out

  February 25 2012, 9:35am | 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

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  The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician

  February 22 2012, 4:21pm | Comments

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  The Hobbit who helped us find our origins

  February 21 2012, 1:20am | Comments

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  “The Shannon and Weaver Model”

  February 20 2012, 6:51am | Comments

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• 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 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 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 DISSIMULATIONS by Andy Cameron

  The form of the story permeates every aspect of our cultural life. History, politics, memories, even subjectivity, our sense of identity, are all representations in narrative form, signifiers chained together in…

  June 2 2012, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific “Truth"

  “Look,” Thomas Kuhn said. The word was weighted with weariness, as if Kuhn was resigned to the fact that I would misinterpret him, but he was still going to try—no doubt…

  May 30 2012, 2:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthals Getting a Colourful Upgrade

  A chorus of smart, modern minds is rising over the hills of anthropology that the ancient Neanderthals of Europe weren't anywhere nearly as dumb, insufferable and unrecognizable as everyone thought all…

  May 23 2012, 9:44am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?

  April 29 2012, 2:07pm | 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 Emergence of the Human 'SuperBrain' 75,000 Years Ago --"AI Could Blur Differences…

  "Humans obviously evolved a much wider range of communication tools to express their thoughts, the most important being language," said Hoffecker, a fellow at CU's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.…

  April 22 2012, 4:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts

  RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about…

  April 21 2012, 5:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Nietzsche's Posthuman: Rules for the Human Zoo

  The concept of a “formless matter” [that] embodies … all that’s been thought between Hegel and Turing on the relation of “things” to “mind.” It tests out a trivalent—or multivalent—logic that’s…

  April 20 2012, 12:28pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay?

  April 20 2012, 7:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tumblr ❤ GIFs

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Mastery of Non-Mastery

  April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter What is the Folk Web? I'm looking for 'Folk' Web Cultures. I am thinking of the recent take-down of Geocities, which seemed to refresh people's love of the naff, kitsch aesthetic it was famous for, as a prime example. What are some other folk cultures still lingering in…

  April 4 2012, 6:41am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Should we clone Neanderthals?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Marx at 193

  March 29 2012, 3:17pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Alan Lomax Sound Archive Now Online: Features 17,000 Recordings

  March 29 2012, 12:50pm | Comments

• Metafilter A Database of Metaphor The Mind is a Metaphor. A database of thousands of metaphors organized by category, like 18th century, Liquid, or Jacobite. It's maintained by University of Virginia English Professor Brad Pasanek.

  March 27 2012, 7:06pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'

  March 21 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Borges: The Task of Art

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  When independent thought flourishes

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Arthur Schopenhauer on Noise

  March 13 2012, 4:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Anatomy of Norbiton: labyrinthine

  March 11 2012, 4:12am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature

  March 9 2012, 4:34am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Body Counter: A statistician’s guide to mass atrocities

  March 1 2012, 9:59am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How We Won the Hominid Wars, and All the Others Died Out

  February 25 2012, 9:35am | 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

• Twitter Favourites

  The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician

  February 22 2012, 4:21pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Hobbit who helped us find our origins

  February 21 2012, 1:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  “The Shannon and Weaver Model”

  February 20 2012, 6:51am | Comments

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