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Bookmark Philip K. Dick and the Living Image | this cage is worms
The image infects, burrows, pupates, and emerges like a butterfly from its host. In The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Philip K. Dick wrote about a non-understandable space entity that did…

August 24 2012, 10:08am | Comments
Bookmark Ian Bogost on understanding what it's like to be a thing
In a New Yorker essay a few weeks back, Laura Miller considered the various ways in which science fiction writers have imagined aliens, from the 18th century through today. Perhaps inevitably,…

August 8 2012, 3:53am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Speculative Realism 101 Speculative Realism: What are the key texts I need to read. I am interested in Speculative Realism (SR) (and Speculative Materialism (SM)) as attempts to overcome 'Philosophies of access' (those which privilege the human being over other entities; anthropocentrism). Also, any texts that…

July 26 2012, 7:40am | Comments
Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation
In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a very…

July 19 2012, 8:20am | Comments
Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

July 17 2012, 8:10am | Comments
Bookmark DISSIMULATIONS by Andy Cameron
The form of the story permeates every aspect of our cultural life. History, politics, memories, even subjectivity, our sense of identity, are all representations in narrative form, signifiers chained together in…

June 2 2012, 9:51am | Comments
Bookmark "Don't Gaze Me, Bro" : curation, gender, and the new aesthetic
Everyone seems to be talking about the New Aesthetic lately. Have you seen it? It might possibly have shattered records of attention credits/takes in its opening weekend. In its tumblr form,…

May 30 2012, 1:56am | Comments
Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, (Part 3) : Adventures in the Dream…
Philip K. Dick’s admittedly peculiar but passionately held worldview and the gnosticism it embodies does more than explain what some call the dystopian turn in science fiction from the 1960s onward,…

May 23 2012, 10:00am | Comments
Bookmark We must set planetary boundaries wisely
As pressure on resources increases, pollution accumulates and humanity's impact on Earth escalates, global-scale governance of the environment is increasingly necessary. In June, the United Nations' Rio+20 Earth Summit in Rio…

May 23 2012, 9:39am | Comments
Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher (Part 2) : Future Gnostic
In the very first lines of “Exegesis” Dick writes, “We see the Logos addressing the many living entities.” Logos is an important concept that litters the pages of “Exegesis.” It is…

May 22 2012, 3:14am | Comments
Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, Part 1
The fish pendant, on Dick’s account, began to emit a golden ray of light, and Dick suddenly experienced what he called, with a nod to Plato, anamnesis: the recollection or total…

May 22 2012, 3:05am | Comments
Bookmark The idea of following in the age of Twitter
With regard to the relativity of value, Karl Marx expressed this function of ideology in the clearest terms in Volume I of Capital: "... one man is king only because other…

May 21 2012, 10:39am | Comments
Bookmark A challenge to God-guided mutations
The renowned philosopher of science Elliott Sober has, in recent weeks, given a talk and written a paper that both make the same points: Evolution is totally silent on the idea…

May 17 2012, 3:35am | Comments
Bookmark Post-Digitalism and Contemporary Spanish Fiction
Postdigital literature is not centered in code, but in addressing a reality shaped by a mix of coded/uncoded reality – German Sierra (german_sierra)

April 30 2012, 10:48am | Comments
Bookmark The social cell
A single cell, such as a bacterium, is the simplest thing that can be alive. In addition to the materials from which it is constructed, it needs three features: a way…

April 30 2012, 10:46am | Comments
Bookmark Nietzsche's Posthuman: Rules for the Human Zoo
The concept of a “formless matter” [that] embodies … all that’s been thought between Hegel and Turing on the relation of “things” to “mind.” It tests out a trivalent—or multivalent—logic that’s…

April 20 2012, 12:28pm | Comments
Bookmark What Is the "New Aesthetic"?
The New Aesthetic is now subject to discussion and critique on a number of forums, blogs, twitter threads, and so forth (for a list, see bibliography on Berry 2012a, but also…

April 19 2012, 1:21am | Comments
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Free Will and “Free Will” : How my view differs from Daniel Dennett's : Sam Harris

April 7 2012, 4:04pm | Comments
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The Making of The Rings of Saturn

April 5 2012, 3:02am | Comments
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Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human

April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments
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Digging in the Gates: The Digital Socratic Shift

April 3 2012, 12:26pm | Comments
Bookmark The Image in Mind: Theism, Naturalism, and the Imagination
Written jointly by philosopher of religion Charles Taliaferro and visual artist Jil Evans, The Image in Mind takes up a suggestion of Suzanne Langer that religious thought operates primarily with images…

April 2 2012, 2:34pm | Comments
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Marx at 193

March 29 2012, 3:17pm | Comments
Bookmark John Gray on Critiques of Utopia and Apocalypse
There are those who say that utopian projects, while they can never be achieved, are valuable because they spur human advance. That’s not my view. My view is that the attempt…

March 28 2012, 1:43am | Comments
Bookmark Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s “The Thing” and You
This monster’s talent for mimicry provokes some of the darkest questions. By foregrounding this capability and coupling it with our inability to discern mimics from the remaining men, The Thing focuses…

March 26 2012, 3:37am | Comments
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Does It Matter Whether God Exists?

March 23 2012, 1:51am | Comments
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The Enlightenment, Naturalism, And The Secularization Of Values

March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments
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Arthur Schopenhauer on Noise

March 13 2012, 4:20am | Comments
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Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature

March 9 2012, 4:34am | Comments
Bookmark The God wars
Atheism is just one-third of this exotic ideological cocktail. Secularism, the political wing of the movement, is another third. Neo-atheists often assume that the two are the same thing; in fact,…

March 7 2012, 2:42pm | Comments
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The Democracy of Objects

March 5 2012, 3:44pm | Comments
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The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician

February 22 2012, 4:21pm | Comments

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