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• Ask Metafilter Use of The City as a metaphor for the Internet/Web I am looking for examinations of the Internet and World Wide Web that use the structure and/or history of the city as a metaphor. I'm afraid I have no original example of this phenomenon to kick things off. I have this image in…

  April 12 2013, 10:19am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artifacts: A Conversation Between Hito Steyerl and Daniel Rourke at Rhizome.org

  March 30 2013, 3:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark Interview with a writer: John Gray » Spectator Blogs

  In his new book The Silence of Animals, the philosopher John Gray explores why human beings continue to use myth to give purpose to their lives. Drawing from the material of…

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments

• Tumblr Automated Caveman

  February 25 2013, 4:27am | Comments

• Bookmark The Philosophy of Data - NYTimes.com

  February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark New Left Project | Articles |Biology in an Age of Technoscience

  Hilary Rose is a prominent feminist and sociologist and is currently a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Steven Rose is a neurobiologist at the Open University and the…

  February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark The culture of the copy by James Panero - The New Criterion

  Technological revolutions are far less obvious than political revolutions to the generations that live through them. This is true even as new tools, for better and worse, shift human history more…

  January 22 2013, 3:27pm | Comments

• Bookmark Darwin Among the Machines — [To the Editor of the Press, Christchurch,…

  Sir—There are few things of which the present generation is more justly proud than of the wonderful improvements which are daily taking place in all sorts of mechanical appliances. And indeed…

  December 31 2012, 6:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Turing Complete User

  Computers are getting invisible. They shrink and hide. They lurk under the skin and dissolve in the cloud. We observe the process like an eclipse of the sun, partly scared, partly…

  December 31 2012, 6:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Devastation in Meatspace

  The missile rushing over your head was processed through an Instagram filter just hours previously. As you see it pass out of sight behind the apartment block opposite some young conscript…

  December 14 2012, 3:04am | Comments

• Bookmark The Fallacy of Dumb Superintelligence

  This is what a New Yorker article has to say on the subject of “Moral Machines”: “An all-powerful computer that was programmed to maximize human pleasure, for example, might consign us…

  December 14 2012, 3:03am | Comments

• Bookmark GIFABILITY

  Writing in the early 1990s, Susan Stewart observed that “with the advent of film, interpretation has been replaced by watching … Here we see the increasing historical tendency toward the self-sufficient…

  November 21 2012, 3:26am | Comments

• Bookmark Why we want to build Charles Babbage's Victorian computer

  To understand why it's worth building an almost 200-year-old mechanical computer, it's necessary to first understand what a computer is. Although Babbage's analytical engine is entirely mechanical, it has the same…

  October 24 2012, 3:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Computer glitch may have led to Deep Blue's historic win over chess…

  Earlier this year, IBM celebrated the 15-year anniversary of its supercomputer Deep Blue beating chess champion Garry Kasparov. According to a new book, however, it may have been an accidental glitch…

  September 29 2012, 7:09am | Comments

• Tumblr Introducing… The Badgermin

  September 25 2012, 3:29am | Comments

• Bookmark GLI.TC/H 2112

  GLIDOTTCSLASHH: You have 5 updates waiting... CHEX OUT TEH NEW WEBSITE!!!1

  September 18 2012, 6:47am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Lies, Damn Lies, and Twitter Bots

  September 18 2012, 6:18am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The evolution of cheating in chess

  September 18 2012, 4:48am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Geologists drive golden spike toward Anthropocene's base

  September 18 2012, 4:23am | Comments

• Bookmark My response to Claire Bishop’s article “Digital Divide” « MEDIA, NEW MEDIA,…

  This is my response to Claire Bishop‘s essay “Digital Divide“, published in Artforum in September 2012 (also posted in the comments section of the article): Reading this article was a pleasure,…

  September 8 2012, 7:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Making the Digital Divide Cheap and Nasty. | http://www.furtherfield.org

  So ArtForum have launched a special September issue investigating the, lets say broader, relationship between new media, technology and visual art.* Of worthy mention is the essay Digital Divide by the…

  September 8 2012, 6:57am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Do Artists Actually Confront Our New Technological Reality?

  September 8 2012, 6:07am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

  September 8 2012, 6:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Latest : 35-year-old Voyager 1 skirts solar system edge with an…

  With an eight-track tape recorder and 100,000 times less memory than an iPod, Voyager 1 is celebrating its 35th birthday at the edge of the solar system. Traipsing through a giant,…

  September 5 2012, 1:05am | Comments

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  A Matter of Feeling (exploring interzone materials between “inert” and “alive”)

  September 3 2012, 2:36am | Comments

• Bookmark A Matter of Feeling (exploring interzone materials between “inert” and “alive”)

  The cosmos is composed of many different species of stardust and despite our advanced, secular knowledge we imagine these primordial substances give rise to a universe, fashioned in our own image.…

  September 3 2012, 2:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Superhuman: The artist, the scholar and the zealot « Wellcome Trust Blog

  The frontier of science is a wild and lawless place. Like all badlands, it attracts visionaries, charlatans and the dispossessed. Far from the jurisdiction of law enforcers, isolated communities cluster together…

  August 29 2012, 2:17am | Comments

• Bookmark The Walled City: Cannot one dream of a ‘computer hypothesis’? | Radical…

  This essay is in many ways a companion piece to Gary Hall’s ‘Pirate Radical Philosophy’ in RP 173 (May/June 2012). Consider it a prequel, or something akin to a video game’s…

  August 29 2012, 2:11am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Wikipedia Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future “Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.” - Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how…

  August 8 2012, 2:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing

  For the most part, the biological metaphor has long been just that — a simplifying analogy rather than a blueprint for how to do computing. Engineering, not biology, guided the pursuit…

  August 8 2012, 2:44am | Comments

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• Ask Metafilter Use of The City as a metaphor for the Internet/Web I am looking for examinations of the Internet and World Wide Web that use the structure and/or history of the city as a metaphor. I'm afraid I have no original example of this phenomenon to kick things off. I have this image in…

  April 12 2013, 10:19am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artifacts: A Conversation Between Hito Steyerl and Daniel Rourke at Rhizome.org

  March 30 2013, 3:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark Interview with a writer: John Gray » Spectator Blogs

  In his new book The Silence of Animals, the philosopher John Gray explores why human beings continue to use myth to give purpose to their lives. Drawing from the material of…

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments

• Tumblr Automated Caveman

  February 25 2013, 4:27am | Comments

• Bookmark The Philosophy of Data - NYTimes.com

  February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark New Left Project | Articles |Biology in an Age of Technoscience

  Hilary Rose is a prominent feminist and sociologist and is currently a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Steven Rose is a neurobiologist at the Open University and the…

  February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark The culture of the copy by James Panero - The New Criterion

  Technological revolutions are far less obvious than political revolutions to the generations that live through them. This is true even as new tools, for better and worse, shift human history more…

  January 22 2013, 3:27pm | Comments

• Bookmark Darwin Among the Machines — [To the Editor of the Press, Christchurch,…

  Sir—There are few things of which the present generation is more justly proud than of the wonderful improvements which are daily taking place in all sorts of mechanical appliances. And indeed…

  December 31 2012, 6:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Turing Complete User

  Computers are getting invisible. They shrink and hide. They lurk under the skin and dissolve in the cloud. We observe the process like an eclipse of the sun, partly scared, partly…

  December 31 2012, 6:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Devastation in Meatspace

  The missile rushing over your head was processed through an Instagram filter just hours previously. As you see it pass out of sight behind the apartment block opposite some young conscript…

  December 14 2012, 3:04am | Comments

• Bookmark The Fallacy of Dumb Superintelligence

  This is what a New Yorker article has to say on the subject of “Moral Machines”: “An all-powerful computer that was programmed to maximize human pleasure, for example, might consign us…

  December 14 2012, 3:03am | Comments

• Bookmark GIFABILITY

  Writing in the early 1990s, Susan Stewart observed that “with the advent of film, interpretation has been replaced by watching … Here we see the increasing historical tendency toward the self-sufficient…

  November 21 2012, 3:26am | Comments

• Bookmark Why we want to build Charles Babbage's Victorian computer

  To understand why it's worth building an almost 200-year-old mechanical computer, it's necessary to first understand what a computer is. Although Babbage's analytical engine is entirely mechanical, it has the same…

  October 24 2012, 3:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Computer glitch may have led to Deep Blue's historic win over chess…

  Earlier this year, IBM celebrated the 15-year anniversary of its supercomputer Deep Blue beating chess champion Garry Kasparov. According to a new book, however, it may have been an accidental glitch…

  September 29 2012, 7:09am | Comments

• Tumblr Introducing… The Badgermin

  September 25 2012, 3:29am | Comments

• Bookmark GLI.TC/H 2112

  GLIDOTTCSLASHH: You have 5 updates waiting... CHEX OUT TEH NEW WEBSITE!!!1

  September 18 2012, 6:47am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Lies, Damn Lies, and Twitter Bots

  September 18 2012, 6:18am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The evolution of cheating in chess

  September 18 2012, 4:48am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Geologists drive golden spike toward Anthropocene's base

  September 18 2012, 4:23am | Comments

• Bookmark My response to Claire Bishop’s article “Digital Divide” « MEDIA, NEW MEDIA,…

  This is my response to Claire Bishop‘s essay “Digital Divide“, published in Artforum in September 2012 (also posted in the comments section of the article): Reading this article was a pleasure,…

  September 8 2012, 7:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Making the Digital Divide Cheap and Nasty. | http://www.furtherfield.org

  So ArtForum have launched a special September issue investigating the, lets say broader, relationship between new media, technology and visual art.* Of worthy mention is the essay Digital Divide by the…

  September 8 2012, 6:57am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Do Artists Actually Confront Our New Technological Reality?

  September 8 2012, 6:07am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

  September 8 2012, 6:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Latest : 35-year-old Voyager 1 skirts solar system edge with an…

  With an eight-track tape recorder and 100,000 times less memory than an iPod, Voyager 1 is celebrating its 35th birthday at the edge of the solar system. Traipsing through a giant,…

  September 5 2012, 1:05am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  A Matter of Feeling (exploring interzone materials between “inert” and “alive”)

  September 3 2012, 2:36am | Comments

• Bookmark A Matter of Feeling (exploring interzone materials between “inert” and “alive”)

  The cosmos is composed of many different species of stardust and despite our advanced, secular knowledge we imagine these primordial substances give rise to a universe, fashioned in our own image.…

  September 3 2012, 2:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Superhuman: The artist, the scholar and the zealot « Wellcome Trust Blog

  The frontier of science is a wild and lawless place. Like all badlands, it attracts visionaries, charlatans and the dispossessed. Far from the jurisdiction of law enforcers, isolated communities cluster together…

  August 29 2012, 2:17am | Comments

• Bookmark The Walled City: Cannot one dream of a ‘computer hypothesis’? | Radical…

  This essay is in many ways a companion piece to Gary Hall’s ‘Pirate Radical Philosophy’ in RP 173 (May/June 2012). Consider it a prequel, or something akin to a video game’s…

  August 29 2012, 2:11am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Wikipedia Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future “Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.” - Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how…

  August 8 2012, 2:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing

  For the most part, the biological metaphor has long been just that — a simplifying analogy rather than a blueprint for how to do computing. Engineering, not biology, guided the pursuit…

  August 8 2012, 2:44am | Comments

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