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  A twitter user who logs and archives every key he presses on his computer keyboard: 39doc↵of↵↓↵↓↵↓↵ar↓↵it was runningoh ok↵this morning the code i was writing↵last night i mentioned it was running…

  November 10 2009, 1:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families

  Every family, it seems, has its own set of words for describing particular Lego pieces. No one uses the official names. “Dad, please could you pass me that Brick 2x2?” No.…

  November 8 2009, 3:01am | Comments

• Bookmark The Future of Reading

  The future of reading is very much in doubt. In this century, reading could soar to new heights or crash and burn. Some educators and librarians fear that sustained reading for…

  November 3 2009, 9:30am | Comments

• Bookmark The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English

  In depicting the emergence of the world’s languages as a curse of gibberish, the biblical tale of the Tower of Babel makes us moderns smile. Yet, considering the headache that 6,000…

  November 1 2009, 3:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Luis Camnitzer, ALPHABETIZATION, Part Two: Hegemonic Language and Arbitrary Order

  In all the traditional approaches to pedagogy, both in art and in literacy, the possibility of perceiving the transitional nature of the space produced by text or image—the common space for…

  October 27 2009, 11:51am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter The alternate 'Testament of Doctor Mabuse' - Fritz Lang's German and French versions Having recently learned that Fritz Lang filmed an entirely different, French language, version of The Testament of Doctor Mabuse alongside the 'original' German version, I set out to find it. The only way to get hold of it seems to be via the…

  October 22 2009, 2:55am | Comments

• Wikipedia Petrichor Petrichor (pronounced /ˈpɛtrɨkər/; from Greek petros "stone" + ichor "the fluid that is supposed to flow in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology") is the name of the scent of rain on dry earth. The term was coined in 1964 by…

  October 15 2009, 3:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark Don Tapscott on the ways the Net Generation learn differently

  The author of Grown Up Digital, Don Tapscott, refutes the belief that the internet is turning today's youth into "the dumbest generation". Tapscott illustrates how the net has changed the way…

  September 29 2009, 11:27pm | Comments

• Bookmark Thinking literally

  Drawing on philosophy and linguistics, cognitive scientists have begun to see the basic metaphors that we use all the time not just as turns of phrase, but as keys to the…

  September 28 2009, 8:59am | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Bookmark Adorno on Mimesis in Aesthetic Theory

  Art is imitation only to the extent to which it is objective expression, far removed from psychology. There may have been a time long ago when this expressive quality of the…

  July 13 2009, 7:19am | Comments

• Bookmark Daniel Everett Debunks the Essence of Human Language

  Professor Daniel Everett, author of Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, discusses the importance of preserving dying languages. He describes his experience living with the Piraha people in Brazil, and explores what…

  July 9 2009, 1:28am | Comments

• Portfolio The Movement of The Middle

  June 30 2009, 9:05am | Comments

• Bibliography The Open Work

  June 8 2009, 1:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension « Strange Maps

  “When an English speaker doesn’t understand a word of what someone says, he or she states that it’s ‘Greek to me’. When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it ’sounds like…

  June 7 2009, 3:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Human Language Gene Changes the Sound of Mouse Squeaks

  People have a deep desire to communicate with animals, as is evident from the way they converse with their dogs, enjoy myths about talking animals or devote lifetimes to teaching chimpanzees…

  May 29 2009, 6:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Is There a Better Word for Doom?

  Six experts discuss the merits of framing climate change, the language that troubles them, and the inherent bias of any chosen word. In a report to be released the first week…

  May 27 2009, 5:19pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Desire Paths/Lines: the original translation and related concepts/terms Desire Paths / Lines: a term apparently coined by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space. What was the original French he used? and are there any other terms for the act and outcome of paths that emerge through routine, reflexion and the…

  May 25 2009, 11:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Like Boiling a Frog: The Wonder of Wikipedia

  When knowledge is generated by crowds, no single individual has much personal responsibility for what is produced, but nor does any one person have a realistic prospect of shaping the outcome.…

  May 23 2009, 4:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Presentation Zen: Making presentations in the TED style

  TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked to…

  May 12 2009, 3:06pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

  May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

• Bibliography The Language of New Media

  April 27 2009, 10:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Luis Camnitzer: Art and Literacy | Journal / e-flux

  [T]his theory—that if one wants to be able to write something, one should know how it is written—has some logic to it. It forces one first to read, then to copy…

  March 23 2009, 4:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark Michel Serres: Journals/Articles

  Writings about author, Michel Serres

  March 11 2009, 10:45am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter New theories of Mimesis (in digital/hypertextual/ hypermedial cultures) I am looking for writings on mimesis in regards new, digital, hypertext and hypermedial technologies and cultures. I am following the redefinition of mimesis. From Plato's disregard of oral culture, through his mimesis of Socrates' dialogues in writing. Following Plato, Aristotle's theory was…

  February 16 2009, 7:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Liam Gillick: The Discursive | Journal / e-flux

  A discursive model of praxis has developed within the critical art context over the last twenty years. It is the offspring of critical theory and improvised, self-organized structures. It is the…

  February 16 2009, 5:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Lewis Carroll in Numberland

  Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, was a mathematician at Oxford University for most of his life. His fanciful “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass” are…

  February 4 2009, 10:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Is Google Making Us Stupid? | The Atlantic

  I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the…

  February 2 2009, 4:58pm | Comments

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  Website and interactive portfolio of artist

  January 30 2009, 8:02am | Comments

• Writing for Spacecollective The Total Library Project

  Books that redefine reality - or - How to redefine the book...

  January 29 2009, 2:58am | Comments

• Writing for 3quarksdaily In Another city another me is writing

  Take this article, for example. It is an unwinding spring of phonic sounds, encoded into a series of arbitrary symbols, stretching from left to right within an imaginary frame projected onto the surface of your computer screen. Here lies the perfect example of an…

  December 29 2008, 10:52am | Comments

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• Bookmark keytweeter

  A twitter user who logs and archives every key he presses on his computer keyboard: 39doc↵of↵↓↵↓↵↓↵ar↓↵it was runningoh ok↵this morning the code i was writing↵last night i mentioned it was running…

  November 10 2009, 1:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families

  Every family, it seems, has its own set of words for describing particular Lego pieces. No one uses the official names. “Dad, please could you pass me that Brick 2x2?” No.…

  November 8 2009, 3:01am | Comments

• Bookmark The Future of Reading

  The future of reading is very much in doubt. In this century, reading could soar to new heights or crash and burn. Some educators and librarians fear that sustained reading for…

  November 3 2009, 9:30am | Comments

• Bookmark The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English

  In depicting the emergence of the world’s languages as a curse of gibberish, the biblical tale of the Tower of Babel makes us moderns smile. Yet, considering the headache that 6,000…

  November 1 2009, 3:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Luis Camnitzer, ALPHABETIZATION, Part Two: Hegemonic Language and Arbitrary Order

  In all the traditional approaches to pedagogy, both in art and in literacy, the possibility of perceiving the transitional nature of the space produced by text or image—the common space for…

  October 27 2009, 11:51am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter The alternate 'Testament of Doctor Mabuse' - Fritz Lang's German and French versions Having recently learned that Fritz Lang filmed an entirely different, French language, version of The Testament of Doctor Mabuse alongside the 'original' German version, I set out to find it. The only way to get hold of it seems to be via the…

  October 22 2009, 2:55am | Comments

• Wikipedia Petrichor Petrichor (pronounced /ˈpɛtrɨkər/; from Greek petros "stone" + ichor "the fluid that is supposed to flow in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology") is the name of the scent of rain on dry earth. The term was coined in 1964 by…

  October 15 2009, 3:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark Don Tapscott on the ways the Net Generation learn differently

  The author of Grown Up Digital, Don Tapscott, refutes the belief that the internet is turning today's youth into "the dumbest generation". Tapscott illustrates how the net has changed the way…

  September 29 2009, 11:27pm | Comments

• Bookmark Thinking literally

  Drawing on philosophy and linguistics, cognitive scientists have begun to see the basic metaphors that we use all the time not just as turns of phrase, but as keys to the…

  September 28 2009, 8:59am | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Bookmark Adorno on Mimesis in Aesthetic Theory

  Art is imitation only to the extent to which it is objective expression, far removed from psychology. There may have been a time long ago when this expressive quality of the…

  July 13 2009, 7:19am | Comments

• Bookmark Daniel Everett Debunks the Essence of Human Language

  Professor Daniel Everett, author of Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, discusses the importance of preserving dying languages. He describes his experience living with the Piraha people in Brazil, and explores what…

  July 9 2009, 1:28am | Comments

• Portfolio The Movement of The Middle

  June 30 2009, 9:05am | Comments

• Bibliography The Open Work

  June 8 2009, 1:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension « Strange Maps

  “When an English speaker doesn’t understand a word of what someone says, he or she states that it’s ‘Greek to me’. When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it ’sounds like…

  June 7 2009, 3:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Human Language Gene Changes the Sound of Mouse Squeaks

  People have a deep desire to communicate with animals, as is evident from the way they converse with their dogs, enjoy myths about talking animals or devote lifetimes to teaching chimpanzees…

  May 29 2009, 6:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Is There a Better Word for Doom?

  Six experts discuss the merits of framing climate change, the language that troubles them, and the inherent bias of any chosen word. In a report to be released the first week…

  May 27 2009, 5:19pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Desire Paths/Lines: the original translation and related concepts/terms Desire Paths / Lines: a term apparently coined by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space. What was the original French he used? and are there any other terms for the act and outcome of paths that emerge through routine, reflexion and the…

  May 25 2009, 11:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Like Boiling a Frog: The Wonder of Wikipedia

  When knowledge is generated by crowds, no single individual has much personal responsibility for what is produced, but nor does any one person have a realistic prospect of shaping the outcome.…

  May 23 2009, 4:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Presentation Zen: Making presentations in the TED style

  TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked to…

  May 12 2009, 3:06pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

  May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

• Bibliography The Language of New Media

  April 27 2009, 10:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Luis Camnitzer: Art and Literacy | Journal / e-flux

  [T]his theory—that if one wants to be able to write something, one should know how it is written—has some logic to it. It forces one first to read, then to copy…

  March 23 2009, 4:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark Michel Serres: Journals/Articles

  Writings about author, Michel Serres

  March 11 2009, 10:45am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter New theories of Mimesis (in digital/hypertextual/ hypermedial cultures) I am looking for writings on mimesis in regards new, digital, hypertext and hypermedial technologies and cultures. I am following the redefinition of mimesis. From Plato's disregard of oral culture, through his mimesis of Socrates' dialogues in writing. Following Plato, Aristotle's theory was…

  February 16 2009, 7:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Liam Gillick: The Discursive | Journal / e-flux

  A discursive model of praxis has developed within the critical art context over the last twenty years. It is the offspring of critical theory and improvised, self-organized structures. It is the…

  February 16 2009, 5:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Lewis Carroll in Numberland

  Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, was a mathematician at Oxford University for most of his life. His fanciful “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass” are…

  February 4 2009, 10:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Is Google Making Us Stupid? | The Atlantic

  I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the…

  February 2 2009, 4:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark Simon Biggs

  Website and interactive portfolio of artist

  January 30 2009, 8:02am | Comments

• Writing for Spacecollective The Total Library Project

  Books that redefine reality - or - How to redefine the book...

  January 29 2009, 2:58am | Comments

• Writing for 3quarksdaily In Another city another me is writing

  Take this article, for example. It is an unwinding spring of phonic sounds, encoded into a series of arbitrary symbols, stretching from left to right within an imaginary frame projected onto the surface of your computer screen. Here lies the perfect example of an…

  December 29 2008, 10:52am | Comments

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