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Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

February 17 2012, 5:05am | Comments
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Hacking Critical Theory

February 17 2012, 12:35am | Comments
Metafilter Digital Images are SomeThing to aspire to? (A reflection on Hito Steyerl's proposal) Artist and film-maker, Hito Steyerl, asks us to stand shoulder to shoulder with our digital equivalents. Digital images are Things (like you and me) - a plethora of compressed, corrupted representations pushed and pulled through increasingly policed and capitalised information networks. If 80%…

February 16 2012, 5:13am | Comments
Bookmark A Conversation with film-maker Adam Curtis
Since the early 1990s Adam Curtis has made a number of serial documentaries and films for the BBC using a playful mix of journalistic reportage and a wide range of avant-garde…

February 12 2012, 4:36am | Comments
Bookmark Man as Machine
A peculiar experiment inspired by the Enlightenment sheds light on the age-old question of what makes us human.

February 9 2012, 10:34am | Comments
Bookmark What Immanuel Kant got right about digital piracy
It turns out that Kant didn't think that an author could mount a strong legal case against piracy based on property rights in words. After all, even after pirates copied an…

January 30 2012, 4:28pm | Comments
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Freud: The last great Enlightenment thinker

January 22 2012, 11:07am | Comments
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Speculative Realism Pathfinder

January 19 2012, 2:50am | Comments
Tumblr Wittgenstein Revisited

November 14 2011, 2:07am | Comments
Bookmark Does Pinker’s “Better Angels” Undermine Religious Morality?
It is often argued that religion makes individuals and the world more just and moral, that it builds character and provides a foundation from which we understand right from wrong, good…

November 2 2011, 6:58am | Comments
Bookmark Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan Turing)
I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think." The definitions might be framed so as to…

October 31 2011, 6:53am | Comments
Bookmark Is mental time travel what makes us human?
A stonishing animals show up everywhere these days. Cooperative apes, grief-stricken elephants, empathetic cats and dogs crowd our bookshop shelves. It’s all the rage to plumb the cognitive and emotional depths…

October 28 2011, 10:32am | Comments
Bookmark The case for reconciling the scientific with the divine -- and against…
As a both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious…

October 8 2011, 10:01am | Comments
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Delusions of Peace

October 6 2011, 2:37am | Comments
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October 2 2011, 2:40pm | Comments
Bookmark How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical Artifact"?
The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful to…

September 20 2011, 10:26am | Comments
Bookmark Can religion tell us more than science?
In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and against…

September 20 2011, 3:12am | Comments
Bookmark The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age
Berry’s book is less one specific philosophical argument of what software is and what code does, but consists of chapters that illuminate different ways one can approach software and software culture…

September 6 2011, 4:15am | Comments
Bookmark The New Atheism
Trapped in the childhood literalism of my background, I had not entertained the possibility of Christian belief separated from the great lure and threat of heaven and hell. The New Atheism…

August 30 2011, 8:21am | Comments
Bookmark Death Is Not the End (Long Live theory!)
Was theory a gigantic hoax? On the contrary. It was the only salvation, for a twenty year period, from two colossal abdications by American thinkers and writers. From about 1975 to…

August 18 2011, 1:48am | Comments
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August 12 2011, 7:50am | Comments
Bookmark Humanism / After Humanism
n this essay, I want to explore some dimensions of what the term “humanism” means—what it meant in the past and what it means today. In particular, I would like to…

August 11 2011, 11:30am | Comments
Tumblr How Computational Complexity Will Revolutionise Philosophy

August 10 2011, 5:31am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community
“The novelty of the coming politics is that it will no longer be a struggle for the conquest or control of the State, but a struggle between the State and the non-state (humanity), an insurmountable disjunction between whatever singularity and the State organization.” -…

August 9 2011, 4:27pm | Comments
Bookmark Secularism and Its Discontents
These are theological questions without theological answers, and, if the atheist is not supposed to entertain them, then, for slightly different reasons, neither is the religious believer. Religion assumes that they…

August 9 2011, 3:57pm | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) Michel Serres, The Natural Contract
“Suppose two speakers, determined to contradict each other. As violent as their confrontation may be, as long as they are willing to continue the discussion they must speak a common language in order for the dialogue to take place. There can’t be an argument…

August 9 2011, 5:36am | Comments
Bookmark How Google Dominates Us
Most of the time Google does not actually have the answers. When people say, “I looked it up on Google,” they are committing a solecism. When they try to erase their…

July 31 2011, 6:17pm | Comments
Bookmark Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to be a Religion
How do you make a videogame that, in some sense, is a religion, especially if you’re an atheist? Rohrer began by defining the sort of spiritual practice that interested him, which…

July 24 2011, 4:03am | Comments
Bookmark In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective
Imagine you are falling. But there is no ground. Many contemporary philosophers have pointed out that the present moment is distinguished by a prevailing condition of groundlessness.1 We cannot assume any…

July 19 2011, 2:49am | Comments
Bookmark The Neolithic Age is over!
Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance, the…

July 12 2011, 1:36am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics
“Nothing new under the reign of the same and under the same reign, preserved. Nothing new and nothing to be born, no nature. This is death, eternally. Nature put to death, its birth unwanted. The science of this is nothing. It is calculably nothing.…

July 7 2011, 12:03pm | Comments
Wikipedia Clinamen Clinamen is the Latin name Lucretius gave to the unpredictable swerve of atoms, in the atomistic doctrine of Epicurus. According to Lucretius, the unpredictable swerve occurs "at no fixed place or time": When atoms move straight down through the void by their own…

July 7 2011, 11:15am | Comments

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