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• Bookmark Speaking Without Words: Dump.fm and Ryder Ripps

  If a picture is worth a thousand words, then maybe we should let dump.fm do the talking. The image-based chat service is the brainchild of Ryder Ripps and the result of…

  September 11 2010, 4:25am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | 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 Cover story

  In the beginning, before there was such a thing as a Gutenberg Bible, Johannes Gutenberg laid out his rows of metal type and brushed them with ink and, using the mechanism…

  September 1 2010, 11:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Svetlana Boym | Off-Modern Manifesto

  “It's not my fault. Communication error has occurred,” my computer pleads with me in a voice of lady Victoria. First it excuses itself, then urges me to pay attention, to check…

  August 16 2010, 5:22am | Comments

• Bookmark The internet: is it changing the way we think?

  Two summers ago, the Atlantic published an essay by Nicholas Carr, one of the blogosphere's most prominent (and thoughtful) contrarians, under the headline "Is Google Making Us Stupid?". "Over the past…

  August 16 2010, 2:46am | Comments

• Portfolio Rancière’s Ignoramus

  July 26 2010, 6:43am | Comments

• Bookmark The Web Means the End of Forgetting

  When historians of the future look back on the perils of the early digital age, Stacy Snyder may well be an icon. The problem she faced is only one example of…

  July 25 2010, 7:15am | 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 Art and Thingness, Part Two: Thingification

  by Sven Lütticken In a text written in response to the upheavals of the Russian Revolution and the early Soviet avant-garde, Carl Einstein claimed that tradition “piles up in the object”;…

  July 19 2010, 8:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Essay: Technology changes how art is created and perceived

  It used to be so simple. A book had an author; a film, a screenwriter and director; a piece of music, a composer and performer; a painting or sculpture, an artist;…

  July 18 2010, 5:20am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | 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

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Beware, your imagination leaves digital traces

  by Bruno Latour ’Who would know how to love without having read novels?” This saying seems to take on a new meaning with the multiplication of virtual worlds, even though the…

  May 19 2010, 7:18am | Comments

• Findings The Ship Argo

  May 9 2010, 12:37pm | 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

• 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 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 Open-Source A Movement in Search of a Philosophy

  by Manuel DeLanda The plan of the essay is as follows. I will begin with a few definitions of technical terms ("source code", "compiler", "operating system") which are necessary to follow…

  February 19 2010, 6:37am | 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

• Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

  February 2 2010, 6:35am | Comments

• YouTube

  December 11 2009, 3:49pm | Comments

• YouTube

  December 11 2009, 6:44am | 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

• 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

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Innovative Book Designs Innovative Books: I am looking to compile a list of the most innovative uses of the book format. Books that break the mould in their layout and design, perhaps books that use online systems to extend their content value or push their form…

  November 1 2009, 4:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Library in the New Age

  Information is exploding so furiously around us and information technology is changing at such bewildering speed that we face a fundamental problem: How to orient ourselves in the new landscape? What,…

  October 31 2009, 5:19am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 19 2009, 5:48am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

  October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Speaking Without Words: Dump.fm and Ryder Ripps

  If a picture is worth a thousand words, then maybe we should let dump.fm do the talking. The image-based chat service is the brainchild of Ryder Ripps and the result of…

  September 11 2010, 4:25am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | 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 Cover story

  In the beginning, before there was such a thing as a Gutenberg Bible, Johannes Gutenberg laid out his rows of metal type and brushed them with ink and, using the mechanism…

  September 1 2010, 11:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Svetlana Boym | Off-Modern Manifesto

  “It's not my fault. Communication error has occurred,” my computer pleads with me in a voice of lady Victoria. First it excuses itself, then urges me to pay attention, to check…

  August 16 2010, 5:22am | Comments

• Bookmark The internet: is it changing the way we think?

  Two summers ago, the Atlantic published an essay by Nicholas Carr, one of the blogosphere's most prominent (and thoughtful) contrarians, under the headline "Is Google Making Us Stupid?". "Over the past…

  August 16 2010, 2:46am | Comments

• Portfolio Rancière’s Ignoramus

  July 26 2010, 6:43am | Comments

• Bookmark The Web Means the End of Forgetting

  When historians of the future look back on the perils of the early digital age, Stacy Snyder may well be an icon. The problem she faced is only one example of…

  July 25 2010, 7:15am | 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 Art and Thingness, Part Two: Thingification

  by Sven Lütticken In a text written in response to the upheavals of the Russian Revolution and the early Soviet avant-garde, Carl Einstein claimed that tradition “piles up in the object”;…

  July 19 2010, 8:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Essay: Technology changes how art is created and perceived

  It used to be so simple. A book had an author; a film, a screenwriter and director; a piece of music, a composer and performer; a painting or sculpture, an artist;…

  July 18 2010, 5:20am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | 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

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Beware, your imagination leaves digital traces

  by Bruno Latour ’Who would know how to love without having read novels?” This saying seems to take on a new meaning with the multiplication of virtual worlds, even though the…

  May 19 2010, 7:18am | Comments

• Findings The Ship Argo

  May 9 2010, 12:37pm | 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

• 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 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 Open-Source A Movement in Search of a Philosophy

  by Manuel DeLanda The plan of the essay is as follows. I will begin with a few definitions of technical terms ("source code", "compiler", "operating system") which are necessary to follow…

  February 19 2010, 6:37am | 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

• Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

  February 2 2010, 6:35am | Comments

• YouTube

  December 11 2009, 3:49pm | Comments

• YouTube

  December 11 2009, 6:44am | 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

• 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

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Innovative Book Designs Innovative Books: I am looking to compile a list of the most innovative uses of the book format. Books that break the mould in their layout and design, perhaps books that use online systems to extend their content value or push their form…

  November 1 2009, 4:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Library in the New Age

  Information is exploding so furiously around us and information technology is changing at such bewildering speed that we face a fundamental problem: How to orient ourselves in the new landscape? What,…

  October 31 2009, 5:19am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 19 2009, 5:48am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

  October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments

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