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  Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

  February 17 2012, 5:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Roar so wildly: Spam, technology and language

  This is the raw text output of a chat session with a bot I modified to act as an interlocutor. I use our conversation, which revolves around the history of spam,…

  February 16 2012, 5:20am | Comments

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  How did we forget about mutually assured destruction?

  February 15 2012, 5:51am | Comments

• Bookmark A Conversation with film-maker Adam Curtis

  Since the early 1990s Adam Curtis has made a number of serial documentaries and films for the BBC using a playful mix of journalistic reportage and a wide range of avant-garde…

  February 12 2012, 4:36am | 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 Man as Machine

  A peculiar experiment inspired by the Enlightenment sheds light on the age-old question of what makes us human.

  February 9 2012, 10:34am | Comments

• Bookmark The meaning of monsters, magic and miracles

  Monsters demonstrate, monsters alert us: whether or not the etymologies relating the word to both “monstro” (I show) and “moneo” (I warn), are correct, monsters act as a moral compass. The…

  February 9 2012, 10:33am | Comments

• Bookmark The Clock: What time is it where?

  Marclay assembled his edit in hour-long chunks, the 24-hour cycle giving him enormous scope, but also confining him to a minute-by-minute grid. “A 10.01 clip has to be within that minute,…

  February 9 2012, 3:57am | Comments

• Bookmark My 24 hours of watching 'The Clock'

  It’s time. The winged chariot at my back, and all that. Taking a seat on one of the comfortable couches at the National Gallery in Ottawa, I mentally strap myself in.…

  February 9 2012, 3:46am | Comments

• Tumblr Don’t be a Materialist, be a Heroic Materialist

  January 31 2012, 5:05am | 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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  The God gap

  January 28 2012, 10:35am | Comments

• Metafilter John Frankenheimer's "Seconds" Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966) is a disturbing film to watch. With its unresolved, horrific ending, it’s possibly one of the most depressing films ever made [SPOILER].

  January 22 2012, 3:21pm | Comments

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  Freud: The last great Enlightenment thinker

  January 22 2012, 11:07am | Comments

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  Rereading Darwin

  January 17 2012, 5:06pm | Comments

• Metafilter Alan Moore's Masks: A Face to Face Alan Moore and David Lloyd designed it 30 years ago. The V for Vendetta mask appropriated by Occupy protesters the world over. The Guardian recently asked Alan what he thought about the masks. Now Channel 4 news takes him into Occupy territory to…

  January 13 2012, 8:20am | Comments

• Bookmark The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith

  The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and…

  December 22 2011, 12:24pm | Comments

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  What We Learned About Our Human Ancestors in 2011

  December 20 2011, 5:53pm | Comments

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  I Was Kim Jong Il's Cook

  December 19 2011, 9:35am | Comments

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  Never go with a cultist to a second location

  December 18 2011, 2:05am | Comments

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  Worth a new Mass?

  December 8 2011, 7:06am | Comments

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  It Does Take a Village

  December 1 2011, 3:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Tom McCarthy: My desktop

  I must belong to the only generation of writers who've written with all three of inkpen, typewriter and computer. It definitely matters: the technology colours not only the rhythm but the…

  November 27 2011, 9:34am | Comments

• Bookmark VideoGames can't tell stories

  Games don’t do storytelling well because they can’t deliver the four key components of story. There is no hero. Time is in the control of the player, not the creator. There…

  November 24 2011, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark The Mystery of the Five Wounds

  Why, though, to begin with, did stigmata materialize in 13th-century Italy? Part of the answer seems to lie in the theological trends of the time. The Catholic Church of St. Francis’s…

  November 21 2011, 12:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark On A History of the World in 100 Objects

  Objects 101 by Roger Sandall What interests me here however is something else—the profoundly paradoxical position of MacGregor himself. When resisting Greek calls for the return of the Elgin Marbles, he…

  November 14 2011, 6:59am | 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

• Tumblr Electrical Model illustrating a Mind having a Will but capable...

  October 31 2011, 6:42am | Comments

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  On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine'

  October 25 2011, 3:21am | Comments

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  On Distributed Communications Networks

  October 23 2011, 3:08pm | 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 Music moved on after modernism, but whatever happened to fiction?

  The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy – rather like a long-term marriage. At the securely…

  October 12 2011, 9:54am | Comments

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• Twitter Favourites

  Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

  February 17 2012, 5:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Roar so wildly: Spam, technology and language

  This is the raw text output of a chat session with a bot I modified to act as an interlocutor. I use our conversation, which revolves around the history of spam,…

  February 16 2012, 5:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How did we forget about mutually assured destruction?

  February 15 2012, 5:51am | Comments

• Bookmark A Conversation with film-maker Adam Curtis

  Since the early 1990s Adam Curtis has made a number of serial documentaries and films for the BBC using a playful mix of journalistic reportage and a wide range of avant-garde…

  February 12 2012, 4:36am | 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 Man as Machine

  A peculiar experiment inspired by the Enlightenment sheds light on the age-old question of what makes us human.

  February 9 2012, 10:34am | Comments

• Bookmark The meaning of monsters, magic and miracles

  Monsters demonstrate, monsters alert us: whether or not the etymologies relating the word to both “monstro” (I show) and “moneo” (I warn), are correct, monsters act as a moral compass. The…

  February 9 2012, 10:33am | Comments

• Bookmark The Clock: What time is it where?

  Marclay assembled his edit in hour-long chunks, the 24-hour cycle giving him enormous scope, but also confining him to a minute-by-minute grid. “A 10.01 clip has to be within that minute,…

  February 9 2012, 3:57am | Comments

• Bookmark My 24 hours of watching 'The Clock'

  It’s time. The winged chariot at my back, and all that. Taking a seat on one of the comfortable couches at the National Gallery in Ottawa, I mentally strap myself in.…

  February 9 2012, 3:46am | Comments

• Tumblr Don’t be a Materialist, be a Heroic Materialist

  January 31 2012, 5:05am | 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

  The God gap

  January 28 2012, 10:35am | Comments

• Metafilter John Frankenheimer's "Seconds" Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966) is a disturbing film to watch. With its unresolved, horrific ending, it’s possibly one of the most depressing films ever made [SPOILER].

  January 22 2012, 3:21pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Freud: The last great Enlightenment thinker

  January 22 2012, 11:07am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Rereading Darwin

  January 17 2012, 5:06pm | Comments

• Metafilter Alan Moore's Masks: A Face to Face Alan Moore and David Lloyd designed it 30 years ago. The V for Vendetta mask appropriated by Occupy protesters the world over. The Guardian recently asked Alan what he thought about the masks. Now Channel 4 news takes him into Occupy territory to…

  January 13 2012, 8:20am | Comments

• Bookmark The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith

  The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and…

  December 22 2011, 12:24pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  What We Learned About Our Human Ancestors in 2011

  December 20 2011, 5:53pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  I Was Kim Jong Il's Cook

  December 19 2011, 9:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Never go with a cultist to a second location

  December 18 2011, 2:05am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Worth a new Mass?

  December 8 2011, 7:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  It Does Take a Village

  December 1 2011, 3:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Tom McCarthy: My desktop

  I must belong to the only generation of writers who've written with all three of inkpen, typewriter and computer. It definitely matters: the technology colours not only the rhythm but the…

  November 27 2011, 9:34am | Comments

• Bookmark VideoGames can't tell stories

  Games don’t do storytelling well because they can’t deliver the four key components of story. There is no hero. Time is in the control of the player, not the creator. There…

  November 24 2011, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark The Mystery of the Five Wounds

  Why, though, to begin with, did stigmata materialize in 13th-century Italy? Part of the answer seems to lie in the theological trends of the time. The Catholic Church of St. Francis’s…

  November 21 2011, 12:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark On A History of the World in 100 Objects

  Objects 101 by Roger Sandall What interests me here however is something else—the profoundly paradoxical position of MacGregor himself. When resisting Greek calls for the return of the Elgin Marbles, he…

  November 14 2011, 6:59am | 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

• Tumblr Electrical Model illustrating a Mind having a Will but capable...

  October 31 2011, 6:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine'

  October 25 2011, 3:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On Distributed Communications Networks

  October 23 2011, 3:08pm | 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 Music moved on after modernism, but whatever happened to fiction?

  The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy – rather like a long-term marriage. At the securely…

  October 12 2011, 9:54am | Comments

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