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June 15 2010, 2:35pm | Comments
Bookmark The linguistic turn and other misconceptions about analytic philosophy
Analytic philosophy has a complex history of more than one hundred years and this movement is so variegated that it can hardly be characterized by a single feature. Most of those…

June 13 2010, 11:56pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
Bookmark My bright idea: Guy Deutscher
Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics, his chosen field. In his new book, Through the Language Glass (Heinemann), he fearlessly contradicts the fashionable…

June 13 2010, 5:33am | Comments
Bookmark Writing off the UK's last palaeographer
Dry, dusty and shortly to be dead. Palaeographers are used to making sense of fragments of ancient manuscripts, but King's College London couldn't have been plainer when it announced recently that…

May 29 2010, 10:04am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Opposition Paradigm (Together Again for the First Time)

May 16 2010, 9:15pm | Comments
Bookmark Signs: The most useful thing you pay no attention to
Signage—the kind we see on city streets, in airports, on highways, in hospital corridors—is the most useful thing we pay no attention to. When it works well, it tells us where…

May 2 2010, 2:28pm | Comments
Bookmark Giorgio Agamben - What is a Paradigm - Lecture, 2002
...we all make use of paradigms in our work, but do we really know what a paradigm is, and what does it mean to use a paradigm in philosophy, in the…

April 30 2010, 6:39am | Comments
Bookmark Sorted Books project
The Sorted Books project began in 1993 years ago and is ongoing. The project has taken place in many different places over the years, ranging form private homes to specialized public…

April 29 2010, 3:20pm | Comments
Wikipedia Steganography Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message, a form of security through obscurity. The word steganography is of Greek origin…

April 22 2010, 2:50am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments
Bookmark Semiotics for Beginners: Codes
In 1972 NASA sent into deep space an interstellar probe called Pioneer 10. It bore a golden plaque. The art historian Ernst Gombrich offers an insightful commentary on this: The National…

April 6 2010, 12:14pm | Comments
Bookmark Next Big Thing - Literary Scholars Turn to Science
This layered process of figuring out what someone else is thinking — of mind reading — is both a common literary device and an essential survival skill. Why human beings are…

April 6 2010, 12:04pm | Comments
Bookmark 'A Thousand Years of Non Linear History' : reVIEW
A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History is one the most intelligent, stimulating, and rewarding books I have read in a long time - it even surpasses De Landa's previous War in…

March 24 2010, 10:25am | Comments
Bookmark On Reading and This Progress, Connecting Lévi-Strauss and Tino Sehgal
Buried in the middle of Claude Lévi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques, a book digressive in exactly the right way, is an astonishing argument about writing. Lévi-Strauss considers what the invention of writing might…

March 21 2010, 1:11pm | Comments
Bookmark How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web
The story of Google’s algorithm begins with PageRank, the system invented in 1997 by cofounder Larry Page while he was a grad student at Stanford. Page’s now legendary insight was to…

March 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments
Bookmark Technologies of Culture: The Archive
"'To read what was never written.' Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new kind…

February 24 2010, 7:38am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Sacrifice, speech, writing and art Sacrifice, speech, writing and art: I am interested in the different ways in which a sacrifice, a sacrament, a spoken word and a written word act as signifiers. The notion for instance that the sacrament, at the point of its acceptance, is understood…

February 24 2010, 5:28am | Comments
Bookmark A Reporter at Large: The Interpreter
In the wake of the controversy that greeted his paper, Everett encouraged scholars to come to the Amazon and observe the Pirahã for themselves. The first person to take him up…

February 21 2010, 4:00pm | Comments
Podcast /noise on 12th February 2010 / theme = I Don't Understand

February 13 2010, 5:38am | Comments
Bookmark Code is Law
Every age has its potential regulator, its threat to liberty. Our founders feared a newly empowered federal government; the Constitution is written against that fear. John Stuart Mill worried about the…

February 7 2010, 9:20am | Comments
Wikipedia Other The Other or constitutive other (also referred to as othering) is a key concept in continental philosophy, opposed to the Same. It refers, or attempts to refer, to that which is 'other' than the concept being considered. The term often means a person…

January 26 2010, 1:48pm | Comments
Bookmark Sleep Talkin' Man
My mild-mannered English husband Adam lives quite a colorful existence in his dreams. Having benefited from hours of delight at his dead of night musings, I thought it was only fair…

January 9 2010, 6:24am | Comments
Bookmark The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication
by Bertolt Brecht In our society one can invent and perfect discoveries that still have to conquer their market and justify their existence; in other words discoveries that have not been…

January 6 2010, 7:16am | Comments
Bookmark Evidence of Everything Exploding
A surreal webgame, littered with explosive potentialities. Help the arrow escape influential pages from historical art movements.

January 5 2010, 7:54am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments
Metafilter Arcangel and the future of digi/net art Corey Arcangel is perhaps the internet's most infamous hack, masher-upper, digi/net artist. His work stands for a growing culture of artists who run wildly through animated GIF landscapes populated with corrupted data-compressed bunny rabbits and tinny, MIDI renditions of Savage Garden ballads. As…

December 8 2009, 5:44am | Comments
Wikipedia Profanity The original meaning of the adjective profane (Latin: "in front of", "outside the temple") referred to items not belonging to the church, e.g. "The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest…

November 30 2009, 7:12am | Comments
Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments
Bookmark A Certain Realism: 'The Known Unknowns' - 4 hours of continuous readings…
The Known Unknowns is a scheduled cycle of continuous readings running parallel to Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing, an evening organised by Maria Fusco and Book Works at Whitechapel Gallery.…

November 21 2009, 4:45am | Comments
Bookmark Whitechapel - Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing
Saturday 21 November, 6pm Until 11pm Showcasing UK artists and writers, this parley-based event speculates on the materialisation and dematerialisation of art writing through newly commissioned works, together with readings drawn…

November 21 2009, 4:43am | Comments
Portfolio 100% Magenta

November 13 2009, 1:40am | Comments

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