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Bookmark Evolution, Entropy, and Information
There are really two points. The first is a bit of technical background you can ignore if you like, and skip to the next paragraph. It’s the idea of “relative entropy”…

June 15 2012, 5:19am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Sloppy MicroChips: Can a fair comparison be made between biological and silicon entropy? Was reading about microchips that are designed to allow a few mistakes (known as 'Sloppy Chips'), and pondering equivalent kinds of 'coding' errors and entropy in biological systems. Can a fair comparison be made between the two? OK, to setup my question I…

June 5 2012, 10:05am | 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 The Art of War
The Israeli Defence Forces have been heavily influenced by contemporary philosophy, highlighting the fact that there is considerable overlap among theoretical texts deemed essential by military academies and architectural schools The…

June 2 2012, 9:41am | Comments
Bookmark What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific “Truth"
“Look,” Thomas Kuhn said. The word was weighted with weariness, as if Kuhn was resigned to the fact that I would misinterpret him, but he was still going to try—no doubt…

May 30 2012, 2:01am | 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 Nevolution: Metaphysical Mario
In which I string together a series of videos, links and text that use Mario as a base for Science. First is Mario and the Many World Interpretation of Quantum Physics…

May 30 2012, 1:54am | Comments
Bookmark The madness of crowds: hoarding (Will Self)
Wherefrom comes this urge to expose such traumatic interiors? After all, hoarding can be nothing new – it’s easy to imagine a Cyclops’s cavern stuffed to the roof with sheep bones,…

May 30 2012, 1:50am | 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 The Arrow of Time (Debategraph)
The debate about the nature of time and its passage is a long and venerable one. The issues addressed by pre-Socratic philosophers such as Heraclitus and Parmenides about whether time 'flows'…

May 11 2012, 8:12am | 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 Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts
RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about…

April 21 2012, 5:37am | Comments
Bookmark Synthetic Genetic Polymers Capable of Heredity and Evolution
Genetic information storage and processing rely on just two polymers, DNA and RNA, yet whether their role reflects evolutionary history or fundamental functional constraints is currently unknown. With the use of…

April 20 2012, 12:31pm | 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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THEORY BEYOND THE CODES: Doing with Icons makes Symbols; or, Jailbreaking the Perfect User Interface

April 18 2012, 12:29am | Comments
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Journal of Digital Humanities

April 9 2012, 4:24am | 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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“The Shannon and Weaver Model”

February 20 2012, 6:51am | Comments
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Hacking Critical Theory

February 17 2012, 12:35am | Comments
Bookmark Roar so wildly: Spam, technology and language
This is the raw text output of a chat session with a bot I modified to act as an interlocutor. I use our conversation, which revolves around the history of spam,…

February 16 2012, 5:20am | 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 The Spam of the Earth: Withdrawal from Representation (by Hito Steyerl)
Image spam is one of the many dark matters of the digital world; spam tries to avoid detection by filters by presenting its message as an image file. An inordinate amount…

February 12 2012, 4:32am | Comments
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Speculative Realism Pathfinder

January 19 2012, 2:50am | Comments
Bookmark The Era of Networked Science
The Internet may well have its downsides, but it also has the potential to make us collectively smarter, according to open-science advocate Michael Nielsen. In Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of…

January 13 2012, 2:41am | Comments
Bookmark Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia”: A Discussion
Lars von Trier’s latest has been overshadowed by the director’s ill-judged comments at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. This is a pity because, as Film Quarterly Writer-at-Large NINA POWER and editor…

January 11 2012, 5:07am | Comments
Bookmark It’s Only Humanist
To me it tastes like a desire to locate man’s place in a world that he perceives primarily with the aid of machines. The art of the Greeks has been used…

January 4 2012, 9:16am | Comments
Bookmark Meaning/time=? [e-flux on Coked-Out, Motherless Robots]
Are we moving too fast for meaning? That’s the argument put together by Franco Berardi in his essay Time, Acceleration, and Violence, published on e-flux. It’s the latest in an expanding…

September 29 2011, 7:29am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Crusoe film adaptations and *that* footprint Robinson Crusoe film adaptations. Which are the best ones? Also, that footprint... For a project I am working on, I want to isolate the moment in Robinson Crusoe where he discovers the savage footprint, imprinted in the sand, for the first time. In…

September 29 2011, 5:31am | Comments
Bookmark “Seriality for All”: The Role of Protocols and Standards in Critical Theory
For many years, philosophers have been casting doubt on the common identification with meaning and signification as the primary human response mechanisms to the world. If we wish to understand anything…

September 24 2011, 4:36pm | 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 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

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