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How to Read Lacan - Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer of Alien

September 5 2011, 12:41am | Comments
Bookmark Is New Media Accepted in the Art World? Domenico Quaranta’s Media, New…
Do institutions and galleries have a growing interest in New Media? Two weeks ago, I identified the art “internet bubble” at The L Magazine, a trend that’s currently giving new media…

September 2 2011, 3:07pm | Comments
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Contemporary art does not account for that which is taking place

September 1 2011, 1:00am | Comments
Bibliography The Logic of Life by Francois Jacob

August 31 2011, 7:31am | Comments
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Media, New Media, Postmedia

August 30 2011, 2:58am | 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
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
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 Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Indicted for Data Theft: Downloading Millions of Academic…
For a long time, it was the folks who downloaded music or movies illegally that faced the wrath of government prosecutors. So the unsealing of an indictment today against Aaron Swartz,…

July 20 2011, 4:10am | 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
Bookmark Michel Serres on the word 'human'
Son of a barge man, Michel Serres joined the Ecole Navale in 1949 and the Ecole Normale supérieure in 1952 where he obtained the aggregation of philosophy in 1955. From 1956…

July 6 2011, 3:15pm | Comments
Bookmark Knowledge, not the way you knew it
17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an “experiment”…

June 28 2011, 4:11pm | Comments
Bookmark How Catholicism made Marshall McLuhan one of the twentieth century’s freest and…
APPROPRIATELY ENOUGH, a century after his birth in 1911, Marshall McLuhan has found a second life on the Internet. YouTube and other sites are a rich repository of McLuhan interviews, revealing…

June 20 2011, 9:16am | Comments
Bookmark Inside the Box: Notes From Within the European Artistic Research Debate
The debate over artistic research, particularly its appeal to scientificity, often rests on defining one’s terms. Thus, an examination of some of the keywords deployed might be instructive, especially when their…

June 16 2011, 3:13am | Comments
Bookmark Post-Artifact Books and Publishing
We will always debate: the quality of the paper, the pixel density of the display; the cloth used on covers, the interface for highlighting; location by page, location by paragraph. But…

June 15 2011, 8:50am | Comments
Projects Digital Autonomy

June 11 2011, 4:02am | Comments
Bookmark Reading revolutions: Online digital text and implications for reading in academe
While the Internet is a text-saturated world, reading online screens tends to be significantly different from reading printed text. This review essay examines literature from a variety of disciplines on the…

June 6 2011, 1:36pm | Comments
Bookmark Georges Bataille Electronic Library
Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was by profession a librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. In his off hours, however, he was also a fringe Surrealist, vanguard intellectual, and writer of a…

June 1 2011, 4:18pm | Comments
Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments
Ask Metafilter GIF Archaeology I'm writing a paper on (animated) GIFs and am trying to track down some of the most (in)famous. I suppose I am talking memes, but I'm more interested in the GIF as an archaeological reference point. I frequent sites like dump.fm, tumblr etc.…

May 16 2011, 8:17am | Comments
Bookmark The Art of the Accident : Institute for the Unstable Media
Failure and malfunction are inherent in all technological products. In The Art of the Accident, the concept of “accident” contains not just the idea that each machine brings with it its…

May 15 2011, 6:04am | Comments
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A Genealogy of Homo-Economicus: Neoliberalism and the Production of Subjectivity

May 12 2011, 5:28am | Comments
Bookmark Technology Of Writing
Technology of/on/about writing: A huge list of resources

May 11 2011, 11:03am | Comments
Bookmark Biomathematics: The formula of life
Biology used to be about plants, animals and insects, but five great revolutions have changed the way that scientists think about life: the invention of the microscope, the systematic classification of…

May 11 2011, 3:32am | Comments
Bookmark A Thing Like You and Me
by Hito Steyerl What happens to identification at this point? Who can we identify with? Of course, identification is always with an image. But ask anybody whether they’d actually like to…

May 11 2011, 3:03am | Comments
Bookmark The Philosophy of Insomnia
Philosophy is no friend of sleep. In his Laws (circa 350 BC), Plato platonized, "When a man is asleep, he is no better than if he were dead; and he who…

April 21 2011, 2:44am | Comments
Misc The Principle of Notworking Concepts in Critical Internet Culture Type Conference Paper Author Geert Lovink URL: hva.nl/lectoraten/documenten/ol09-050224-lovink.pdf Place Hogeschool van Amsterdam Date 24 Februari 2005 Accessed 2011-04-13 Abstract Lector Interactieve Media in het Digitaal Publiek Domein Instituut voor Interactieve Media

April 13 2011, 8:24am | Comments
Bookmark Loving the Ghost in the Machine: Aesthetics of Interruption
In science fiction, ghosts in machines always appear as malfunctions, glitches, interruptions in the normal flow of things. Something unexpected appears seemingly out of nothing and from nowhere. Through a malfunction,…

April 9 2011, 2:17am | Comments
Bookmark Credit in the Straight WWW: "DDDDoomed", Berger, and the Image Aggregator
[ED: Nearly all of the text in this post is taken from R. Gerald Nelson's independently published, occasionally problematic but more often brilliantly concise treatise DDDDoomed. Anyone concerned with issues of…

March 15 2011, 8:01am | Comments
Bookmark Jacques Ranciere: What Medium Can Mean
I will present some remarks here on the use of the notion of medium in art theory and the light cast on this notion by the case of photography. The notion of…

March 12 2011, 1:55am | Comments

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