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Walter Benjamin, Doctrine of the Similar

May 16 2011, 8:06am | Comments
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May 15 2011, 10:26am | Comments
Bookmark Technology Of Writing
Technology of/on/about writing: A huge list of resources

May 11 2011, 11:03am | Comments
Wikipedia Alien space bats Alien space bats (ASBs) is a neologism for plot devices used in alternate history to create a point of divergence that would otherwise be implausible. [edit]Definition "Alien space bats" originally was used as a sarcastic attack on poorly written alternate histories due to…

May 3 2011, 12:27pm | Comments
Bookmark The Information Essay
Just as this is an age of great wealth inequality, it is also an age of great inequality of knowledge or, more exactly, factual information. For all its democratic potential, the…

April 18 2011, 9:42am | Comments
Bookmark When the King Saved God
Four hundred years ago, just as William Shakespeare was reaching the height of his powers and showing the new scope and variety of the English language, and just as “England” itself…

April 12 2011, 3:57pm | Comments
Bookmark The Unbearable Wholeness of Beings
If you try to describe the living processes of the cell in a rather more living language than is typically found in the literature of molecular biology — if you resort…

April 6 2011, 1:48pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter (Contemporary) Japanese karaoke hits Karaoke in Japanese. Am looking for tracks with a karaoke version on YouTube for an event. This old post has some great ideas, but sadly half of them have been removed from YouTube. What Japanese language songs do you sing at karaoke at…

April 1 2011, 3:41am | Comments
Bookmark The Font of the Hand
JUST AS IN OUR DAY a fervid minority denounces the digitization of literary experience, fifteenth-century literati responded to their own depredations. In 1492, Johannes Trithemius, Abbot of Sponheim, wrote De Laude…

March 24 2011, 5:23pm | Comments
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March 11 2011, 9:35am | Comments
Bookmark Realer than Real: The Simulacrum According to Deleuze and Guattari
There is a seductive image of contemporary culture circulating today. Our world, Jean Baudrillard tells us, has been launched into hyperspace in a kind of postmodern apocalypse. The airless atmosphere has…

March 8 2011, 9:46am | Comments
Bookmark Technology Wants to Keep Evolving
Kelly argues that all technologies, from the stone ax to the computer chip, should be seen as a collectivity—the technium, which is “the greater, global, massively interconnected system of technology vibrating…

February 22 2011, 12:03pm | Comments
Bookmark Is It Time to Welcome Our New Computer Overlords?
"Watson is a computer that uncovers meaning in our language, and pinpoints the right answer, instantly. It uses deep analytics to answer questions computers never could before, even the ones on…

February 17 2011, 3:38pm | Comments
Bookmark Explain yourself: George-Lakoff, cognitive linguist
As part of our research on explanatory journalism, we’re interviewing experts in fields outside journalism about their approaches to explaining complex systems to non-specialtists. Our first expert is cognitive linguist George Lakoff,…

February 4 2011, 2:26am | Comments
Bookmark The Soul Niche
Neuroscientists have yet to find anything in the brain they are happy calling consciousness, and philosophers are far from agreement over a way of talking about what happens after we wake…

February 4 2011, 1:59am | Comments
Bookmark When new narratives meet old brains
We're hard-wired to turn our lives into stories - how will we cope with the dizzying digital fictions of the future, ask John Bickle and Sean Keating "We are our narratives"…

November 25 2010, 8:29am | Comments
Wikipedia Anhedonia In psychology and psychiatry, anhedonia (< Greek ἀν- an-, "without" + ἡδονή hēdonē, "pleasure") is an inability to experience pleasurable emotions from normally pleasurable life events such as eating, exercise, social interaction or sexual activities. Anhedonia is seen in the mood disorders, schizophrenia,…

September 27 2010, 2:47am | Comments
Bookmark Cancer is something you 'Do'
We make a mistake when we think of cancer as a noun. It is not something you have, it is something you do. Your body is probably cancering all the time.…

September 23 2010, 5:06am | Comments
Bookmark Language as Thought: Watch out for the Hype
Judging from how the Times magazine’s excerpt from Guy Deutscher’s new book has been one of the most read pieces in the paper for over a week now, the book is…

September 23 2010, 5:05am | Comments
Bookmark The secret messages written into the fabric of our world
I like the BBC test card, because it's a wonderful example of how practical industrial design can develop into an enigmatic work of art. But even better is knowing that the…

September 17 2010, 4:40am | Comments
Bookmark What concepts do not exist in the English language?
Carl Honoré (In Praise of Slow) says Canada's Baffin Island Inuit "use the same word—'uvatiarru'—to mean both 'in the distant past' and 'in the distant future.' Time, in such cultures, is…

September 10 2010, 4:17am | Comments
Bookmark Will the Book Survive Generation Text?
Over the next 10 years, scientific experts will be dealing with "extreme weather." No one knows how weird and dangerous it will get. Moscow already faces Bahrain-like temperatures. Downpours swamp a…

September 1 2010, 11:17am | Comments
Bookmark The most isolated man on the planet
He's an Indian, and Brazilian officials have concluded that he's the last survivor of an uncontacted tribe. They first became aware of his existence nearly 15 years ago and for a…

August 30 2010, 8:05am | Comments
Bookmark Biosemiotics: Searching for meanings in a meadow
Are signs and meanings just as vital to living things as enzymes and tissues? Liz Else investigates a science in the making EVERY so often, something shows up on the New…

August 27 2010, 1:08am | Comments
Bookmark "Lost" Languages to Be Resurrected by Computers?
A new computer program has quickly deciphered a written language last used in Biblical times—possibly opening the door to "resurrecting" ancient texts that are no longer understood, scientists announced last week.…

July 20 2010, 3:56am | Comments
Bookmark Science historian cracks the 'Plato code'
A science historian at The University of Manchester has cracked "The Plato Code" - the long disputed secret messages hidden in the great philosopher's writings. Plato was the Einstein of Greece's…

July 1 2010, 6:44am | Comments
Bookmark The Writer Who Couldn't Read
"In January of 2002," writes the neuroscientist Oliver Sacks, "I received a letter from Howard Engel, a Canadian novelist describing a strange problem." Engel's problem was so strange, I decided to…

June 27 2010, 8:03am | Comments
Bookmark The Code is not the Text (unless it is the Text)
by John Cayley Digital utopianism is still with us. It is with us despite having been tempered by network logistics and an all-too-reasonable demand for 'content.' Admittedly, New Media has aged.…

June 21 2010, 3:33am | Comments
Bookmark Critical Code Studies
by Mark C. Marino The computer does not understand what it says. Literally speaking, the computer does not even interpret that code. When the function is called, the computer will print…

June 21 2010, 3:30am | Comments
Bookmark The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book
In the beginning was the Word. Then came Gutenberg, and it was good. But then came a giddy army of Japanese school girls, writing and “publishing" novels on cell phones. And…

June 20 2010, 11:13am | Comments
Bookmark As technology advances, deep reading suffers
Look closely at what you're reading right now. See those little spaces between the words? They may look unimportant, but the invention of word spaces, back in the Middle Ages, changed…

June 20 2010, 10:55am | Comments
Bookmark Smarter Than You Think - I.B.M.'s Supercomputer
For the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been developing what they expect will be the world’s most advanced “question answering” machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday human…

June 17 2010, 3:31am | Comments

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