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• 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

• Writing for Spacecollective How Things Become: The Infinity of Definition

  The perceiver's position in an architectural, or merely physical space, determines the dimensional imperatives of that person's mental qualia. It is interesting to note that each viewer of a rainbow stands at the centre of their very own optical illusion; that light, once split…

  December 29 2008, 10:47am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org How Technology "Reveals" the World

  July 11 2008, 4:19am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Metaphor is the Message Part II: Palimpsests Palimpsests Palimpsests

  April 24 2008, 8:57am | Comments

• Wikipedia Collocation - Wikipedia Within the area of corpus linguistics, collocation is defined as a sequence of words or terms which co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. Collocation refers to the restrictions on how words can be used together, for example which prepos

  March 25 2008, 4:08pm | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

  March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments

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• 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

• Writing for Spacecollective How Things Become: The Infinity of Definition

  The perceiver's position in an architectural, or merely physical space, determines the dimensional imperatives of that person's mental qualia. It is interesting to note that each viewer of a rainbow stands at the centre of their very own optical illusion; that light, once split…

  December 29 2008, 10:47am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org How Technology "Reveals" the World

  July 11 2008, 4:19am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Metaphor is the Message Part II: Palimpsests Palimpsests Palimpsests

  April 24 2008, 8:57am | Comments

• Wikipedia Collocation - Wikipedia Within the area of corpus linguistics, collocation is defined as a sequence of words or terms which co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. Collocation refers to the restrictions on how words can be used together, for example which prepos

  March 25 2008, 4:08pm | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

  March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments

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