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February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments
Bookmark New Left Project | Articles |Biology in an Age of Technoscience
Hilary Rose is a prominent feminist and sociologist and is currently a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Steven Rose is a neurobiologist at the Open University and the…

February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments
Bookmark Shakespeare’s Sonnets and MLK’s Speech Stored in DNA Speck – Phenomena: Not…
Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that…

February 11 2013, 2:53am | Comments
Bookmark The culture of the copy by James Panero - The New Criterion
Technological revolutions are far less obvious than political revolutions to the generations that live through them. This is true even as new tools, for better and worse, shift human history more…

January 22 2013, 3:27pm | Comments
Bookmark Digital Life Is A Hoax…Because There’s No Such Thing » Cyborgology
I've poked fun at these lazy op-eds before and, indeed, it must be tempting to retreat into the safe conceptual territory of "The Internet is fake!" when a juicy story of…

January 22 2013, 3:24pm | Comments
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Have you watched the last few moments of Saddam’s life? Or the necrophilic videos with Gaddafi’s behind? Al Zarqawi’s internet kill rooms? Magnotta’s cat suffocation videos? Ronal Poppo’s eaten face? I…

December 31 2012, 7:00am | Comments
Bookmark Matthew Fuller » Giffed Economy
Why look at animated GIFs now? They are one of the first forms of image native to computer networks making them charmingly passé, a characteristic that gives them contradictory longevity. Animated…

December 31 2012, 6:59am | Comments
Bookmark GIFABILITY
Writing in the early 1990s, Susan Stewart observed that “with the advent of film, interpretation has been replaced by watching … Here we see the increasing historical tendency toward the self-sufficient…

November 21 2012, 3:26am | Comments
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Why Do Sign Language Interpreters Look So Animated?

November 11 2012, 1:02am | Comments
Misc GIFbites Submission Guidelines GIFbites is a weekly podcast on/about/for animated GIFs. Each episode lasts no more than 15 seconds. If you’d like to submit your own 15 second GIFbite, for future inclusion in the show, keep these things in mind: Submissions should be no more than…

October 31 2012, 9:00pm | Comments
Metafilter The Library of Babel in 140 characters (or fewer) The universe (which others call The Twitter) is composed of every word in the English language; Shakespeare's folios, line-by-line-by-line; the Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, exploded; Constantine XI, in 140 character chunks; Sun Tzu's Art of War, in its entirety; the chapter headings…

October 27 2012, 9:15am | Comments
Bookmark Why we want to build Charles Babbage's Victorian computer
To understand why it's worth building an almost 200-year-old mechanical computer, it's necessary to first understand what a computer is. Although Babbage's analytical engine is entirely mechanical, it has the same…

October 24 2012, 3:35am | Comments
Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments
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The ENCODE delusion

September 25 2012, 3:41am | Comments
Wikipedia Ontogeny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origin and the development of an organism – for example: from the fertilized egg to mature form. It covers in essence, the study of an organism's lifespan. The word "ontogeny" comes from the Greek ὄντος, ontos,…

September 17 2012, 6:22am | Comments
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How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything

September 12 2012, 3:23pm | Comments
Bookmark My response to Claire Bishop’s article “Digital Divide” « MEDIA, NEW MEDIA,…
This is my response to Claire Bishop‘s essay “Digital Divide“, published in Artforum in September 2012 (also posted in the comments section of the article): Reading this article was a pleasure,…

September 8 2012, 7:01am | Comments
Bookmark Making the Digital Divide Cheap and Nasty. | http://www.furtherfield.org
So ArtForum have launched a special September issue investigating the, lets say broader, relationship between new media, technology and visual art.* Of worthy mention is the essay Digital Divide by the…

September 8 2012, 6:57am | Comments
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Do Artists Actually Confront Our New Technological Reality?

September 8 2012, 6:07am | Comments
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the gift, the artist, and the net

September 8 2012, 6:03am | Comments
Bookmark Why contemporary art fails to come to grips with digital. A response…
This month, Art Forum published a very timely, and beautifully written essay by Claire Bishop entitled, Digital Divide: on contemporary Art and New Media“. In it, Bishop analyses the contemporary art-world’s…

September 4 2012, 5:30am | Comments
Bookmark Next-Generation Digital Information Storage in DNA
Digital information is accumulating at an astounding rate, straining our ability to store and archive it. DNA is among the most dense and stable information media known. The development of new…

August 18 2012, 5:55am | Comments
Bookmark In 1977, NASA sent 115 images – the so-called ‘Golden Record’ –…
In 1977, NASA sent 115 images – the so-called ‘Golden Record’ – into space on board the Voyager space probe. They also included greetings in 55 different languages and a number…

August 13 2012, 5:47am | Comments
Bookmark What Is Life? A 21st Century Perspective | Conversation | Edge
lecture by Craig Venter Life is code, as you heard in the introduction, was very clearly articulated by Schrodinger as code script. Perhaps even more importantly, and something I missed on…

August 8 2012, 3:25am | Comments
Wikipedia Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future “Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.” - Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how…

August 8 2012, 2:51am | Comments
Bookmark Pareidolia: A Bizarre Bug of the Human Mind Emerges in Computers
This rocky hill in Ebihens, France, is, well, just that -- a rocky hill in Ebihens, France. But to pretty much any human observer, the assemblage of meaningless angles takes on…

August 8 2012, 2:46am | Comments
Bookmark Scans of Hoarders’ Brains Reveal Why They Never De-Clutter
Hoarding disorder is categorized as “the excessive acquisition of and inability to discard objects, resulting in debilitating clutter,” wrote the researchers behind the new study, led by Yale University School of…

August 7 2012, 12:24am | Comments
Bookmark Stanford and Venter Institute Simulate an Entire Organism With Software
For medical researchers and biochemists, simulation software will vastly speed the early stages of screening for new compounds. And for molecular biologists, models that are of sufficient accuracy will yield new…

July 23 2012, 8:29am | Comments
Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

July 17 2012, 8:10am | Comments
Bookmark "Once upon a time" exhibition by Steve McQueen
In the work Once upon a Time (2004) McQueen presents a slide show of 116 of these images installed to make them seem to float in space: about two-thirds of the…

July 11 2012, 4:57am | Comments
Bookmark Is SETI at risk of downloading a malicious virus from outer space?
We take it for granted that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a safe endeavor. Seriously, what could possibly go wrong with passively searching for interstellar radio signals? Unfortunately, the…

July 10 2012, 2:55am | 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

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