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  Bioconservatives vs. Bioprogressives

  March 1 2012, 1:36am | Comments

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  The return of art manifestos

  February 23 2012, 4:05am | Comments

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  How did we forget about mutually assured destruction?

  February 15 2012, 5:51am | Comments

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  No secularism please, we're British

  February 15 2012, 3:20am | Comments

• Bookmark We live in a "more-than-human" universe

  The new political ecology is thus emerging from a call for greater humility toward the world and all the life forms it may hold, both literally and figuratively. Rather than contrasting…

  February 13 2012, 2:09am | 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 The meaning of monsters, magic and miracles

  Monsters demonstrate, monsters alert us: whether or not the etymologies relating the word to both “monstro” (I show) and “moneo” (I warn), are correct, monsters act as a moral compass. The…

  February 9 2012, 10:33am | Comments

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  Is Democracy Chinese?

  January 28 2012, 12:06pm | Comments

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  The God gap

  January 28 2012, 10:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Nature, nurture and liberal values

  Biology determines our behaviour more than it suits many to acknowledge. But people—and politics and morality—cannot be described just by neural impulses

  January 25 2012, 10:35am | Comments

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  Internet Regulation & the Economics of Piracy

  January 19 2012, 7:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Kopimism: the world's newest religion explained

  Isak Gerson is spiritual leader of the world's newest religion, Kopimism, devoted to file-sharing. On 5 January the Church of Kopimism was formally recognised as a religion by the Swedish government.…

  January 15 2012, 1:32pm | Comments

• Metafilter Alan Moore's Masks: A Face to Face Alan Moore and David Lloyd designed it 30 years ago. The V for Vendetta mask appropriated by Occupy protesters the world over. The Guardian recently asked Alan what he thought about the masks. Now Channel 4 news takes him into Occupy territory to…

  January 13 2012, 8:20am | Comments

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  The US schools with their own police

  January 10 2012, 9:36am | Comments

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  The P2P Foundation Books of the Year 2011

  January 9 2012, 1:36am | Comments

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  File Sharing Is Now an Official Religion In Sweden

  January 4 2012, 9:52am | Comments

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  The Dark Sides of Our Digital Self

  December 18 2011, 3:51am | Comments

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  Barbarians on the Thames

  December 8 2011, 9:36am | Comments

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  What Is the Future of Knowledge in the Internet Age?

  November 29 2011, 6:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Tech War Of 2012

  And as every sci-fi nerd knows, you totally need a tricked-out battleship if you're about to engage in serious battle. To state this as clearly as possible: The four American companies…

  October 17 2011, 12:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Millions : "I would prefer not to" (Bartleby’s Occupation of Wall…

  I was getting annoyed at the way Occupy Wall Street was being covered — as if it was insane to gather in a public space and protest. As if it had…

  October 16 2011, 11:38am | Comments

• Wikipedia Trap street A trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for the purpose of "trapping" potential copyright violators of the map, who will be unable to justify the…

  October 16 2011, 9:10am | Comments

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  Delusions of Peace

  October 6 2011, 2:37am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 2 2011, 2:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark Innovation Starvation

  SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer) to…

  October 2 2011, 4:47am | Comments

• Bookmark Steven Pinker on the History and decline (and myth of) Violence

  Some of the evidence has been under our nose all along. Conventional history has long shown that, in many ways, we have been getting kinder and gentler. Cruelty as entertainment, human…

  September 20 2011, 3:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Battle Over Zomia

  Over the past two millennia, "runaway" communities have put the "friction of terrain" between themselves and the people who remained in the lowlands, he writes. The highland groups adopted a swidden…

  September 5 2011, 5:20am | Comments

• Bookmark The Manichean World of Tim Wu

  For the past dozen years, several distinguished thinkers about law and technology have warned that a golden age of Internet freedom may be about to close. The most influential alarm-ringer has…

  August 18 2011, 1:34am | Comments

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  Samir Chopra and Laurence F. White: A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents, University of Michigan Press

  August 15 2011, 1:47am | Comments

• Bookmark Our Emergent Digital Future

  What will the digital world look like in ten years?  The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path.  The explosion in the volume…

  August 14 2011, 4:32am | 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 (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

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• Twitter Favourites

  Bioconservatives vs. Bioprogressives

  March 1 2012, 1:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The return of art manifestos

  February 23 2012, 4:05am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How did we forget about mutually assured destruction?

  February 15 2012, 5:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  No secularism please, we're British

  February 15 2012, 3:20am | Comments

• Bookmark We live in a "more-than-human" universe

  The new political ecology is thus emerging from a call for greater humility toward the world and all the life forms it may hold, both literally and figuratively. Rather than contrasting…

  February 13 2012, 2:09am | 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 The meaning of monsters, magic and miracles

  Monsters demonstrate, monsters alert us: whether or not the etymologies relating the word to both “monstro” (I show) and “moneo” (I warn), are correct, monsters act as a moral compass. The…

  February 9 2012, 10:33am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Is Democracy Chinese?

  January 28 2012, 12:06pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The God gap

  January 28 2012, 10:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Nature, nurture and liberal values

  Biology determines our behaviour more than it suits many to acknowledge. But people—and politics and morality—cannot be described just by neural impulses

  January 25 2012, 10:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Internet Regulation & the Economics of Piracy

  January 19 2012, 7:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Kopimism: the world's newest religion explained

  Isak Gerson is spiritual leader of the world's newest religion, Kopimism, devoted to file-sharing. On 5 January the Church of Kopimism was formally recognised as a religion by the Swedish government.…

  January 15 2012, 1:32pm | Comments

• Metafilter Alan Moore's Masks: A Face to Face Alan Moore and David Lloyd designed it 30 years ago. The V for Vendetta mask appropriated by Occupy protesters the world over. The Guardian recently asked Alan what he thought about the masks. Now Channel 4 news takes him into Occupy territory to…

  January 13 2012, 8:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The US schools with their own police

  January 10 2012, 9:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The P2P Foundation Books of the Year 2011

  January 9 2012, 1:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  File Sharing Is Now an Official Religion In Sweden

  January 4 2012, 9:52am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Dark Sides of Our Digital Self

  December 18 2011, 3:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Barbarians on the Thames

  December 8 2011, 9:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  What Is the Future of Knowledge in the Internet Age?

  November 29 2011, 6:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Tech War Of 2012

  And as every sci-fi nerd knows, you totally need a tricked-out battleship if you're about to engage in serious battle. To state this as clearly as possible: The four American companies…

  October 17 2011, 12:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Millions : "I would prefer not to" (Bartleby’s Occupation of Wall…

  I was getting annoyed at the way Occupy Wall Street was being covered — as if it was insane to gather in a public space and protest. As if it had…

  October 16 2011, 11:38am | Comments

• Wikipedia Trap street A trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for the purpose of "trapping" potential copyright violators of the map, who will be unable to justify the…

  October 16 2011, 9:10am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Delusions of Peace

  October 6 2011, 2:37am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 2 2011, 2:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark Innovation Starvation

  SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer) to…

  October 2 2011, 4:47am | Comments

• Bookmark Steven Pinker on the History and decline (and myth of) Violence

  Some of the evidence has been under our nose all along. Conventional history has long shown that, in many ways, we have been getting kinder and gentler. Cruelty as entertainment, human…

  September 20 2011, 3:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Battle Over Zomia

  Over the past two millennia, "runaway" communities have put the "friction of terrain" between themselves and the people who remained in the lowlands, he writes. The highland groups adopted a swidden…

  September 5 2011, 5:20am | Comments

• Bookmark The Manichean World of Tim Wu

  For the past dozen years, several distinguished thinkers about law and technology have warned that a golden age of Internet freedom may be about to close. The most influential alarm-ringer has…

  August 18 2011, 1:34am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Samir Chopra and Laurence F. White: A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents, University of Michigan Press

  August 15 2011, 1:47am | Comments

• Bookmark Our Emergent Digital Future

  What will the digital world look like in ten years?  The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path.  The explosion in the volume…

  August 14 2011, 4:32am | 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 (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

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