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Delusions of Peace

October 6 2011, 2:37am | 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
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
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A History Of Violence

September 29 2011, 2:52am | Comments
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Which one of you is Jesus?

September 27 2011, 12:17am | Comments
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How the refrigerator got its hum

September 26 2011, 4:54am | 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 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
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 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 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
Bookmark Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES…
Emulators for playing older games are immensely popular online, with regular arguments breaking out over which emulator is best for which game. Today we present another point of view from a…

August 11 2011, 4:25am | 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 In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective
Imagine you are falling. But there is no ground. Many contemporary philosophers have pointed out that the present moment is distinguished by a prevailing condition of groundlessness.1 We cannot assume any…

July 19 2011, 2:49am | Comments
Bookmark How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History
On June 17, 2010, Sergey Ulasen was in his office in Belarus sifting through e-mail when a report caught his eye. A computer belonging to a customer in Iran was caught…

July 13 2011, 3:09am | 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
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Two decades of the web: a utopia no longer

July 11 2011, 11:47am | 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 Friday, by Michel Tournier
French writer, who gained fame at the age of forty-three with his first novel, Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (1967, Friday; or, The Other Island), an ingenious reworking of the…

July 5 2011, 9:36am | 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 Why we must remember to delete - and forget - in the…
In Delete, Mayer-Schönberger traces the history of such external memories – cave paintings, scrolls, photographic slides, diaries – and their importance to the flourishing of human knowledge. "Since the early days…

July 1 2011, 3:46am | 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
Bookmark How Catholicism made Marshall McLuhan one of the twentieth century’s freest and…
APPROPRIATELY ENOUGH, a century after his birth in 1911, Marshall McLuhan has found a second life on the Internet. YouTube and other sites are a rich repository of McLuhan interviews, revealing…

June 20 2011, 9:16am | Comments
Bookmark On Location with John Carpenter’s THE THING
From the July 1982 issue of Omni. As with all the other commissioned pieces I wrote for the Arts section of that magazine, this originally ran without a title; I’ve also…

June 20 2011, 5:20am | Comments
Tumblr Gorilla suits

June 19 2011, 4:40am | Comments
Bookmark The Origin of Our Species
"If there has been no spiritual change of kind / Within our species since Cro-Magnon Man . . ." The poet Louis MacNeice was voicing a commonplace that was accepted by…

June 16 2011, 4:18pm | Comments
Bookmark The truth is in there
“I had all these ideas,” he said, speaking slowly and searchingly, like someone looking back on life and trying to figure out where it all went wrong. “I don’t know what…

June 16 2011, 4:11pm | Comments
Wikipedia Experiments in the Revival of Organisms Experiments in the Revival of Organisms is a 1940 motion picture which documents Soviet research into the resuscitation of clinically dead organisms. It is available from the Prelinger Archives, and it is in the public domain. The British scientist J. B. S. Haldane…

June 15 2011, 9:12am | Comments
Bookmark Post-Artifact Books and Publishing
We will always debate: the quality of the paper, the pixel density of the display; the cloth used on covers, the interface for highlighting; location by page, location by paragraph. But…

June 15 2011, 8:50am | Comments
Bookmark Cory Arcangel Goes Old School
Arcangel’s conflicted relationship with technology drives his artistic practice and pervades Pro Tools, the artist’s first solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. At 33, Arcangel will be the…

June 6 2011, 3:11pm | Comments

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