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Ask Metafilter A taxonomy of GAMES / game types? Types of Games: I have come across various attempts to catalogue the possible varieties of stories that exist. The basic assumption being that all plots (narratives?) can be be boiled down to one among only a few types e.g. Hero leaves the kingdom;…

March 10 2010, 8:39am | Comments
Bookmark Symphony in J flat
What prevents Bohlen-Pierce from becoming unpleasant, dissonant noise is the fact that is not merely an avant-garde musician taking a hacksaw to our current musical system for sheer destructive glee. In…

March 9 2010, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Chtodelat? / What is to be done?
Chto delat? / What is to be done? was founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod (see…

March 9 2010, 10:10am | Comments
Bookmark A Provisional Theory of Non-Sites: Robert Smithson
By drawing a diagram, a ground plan of a house, a street plan to the location of a site, or a topographic map, one draws a "logical two dimensional picture." A…

March 7 2010, 3:53pm | Comments
Bookmark Technologies of Culture: The Archive
"'To read what was never written.' Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new kind…

February 24 2010, 7:38am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Sacrifice, speech, writing and art Sacrifice, speech, writing and art: I am interested in the different ways in which a sacrifice, a sacrament, a spoken word and a written word act as signifiers. The notion for instance that the sacrament, at the point of its acceptance, is understood…

February 24 2010, 5:28am | Comments
Bookmark Open-Source A Movement in Search of a Philosophy
by Manuel DeLanda The plan of the essay is as follows. I will begin with a few definitions of technical terms ("source code", "compiler", "operating system") which are necessary to follow…

February 19 2010, 6:37am | Comments
Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

February 2 2010, 6:35am | Comments
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January 26 2010, 3:30pm | Comments
Wikipedia Other The Other or constitutive other (also referred to as othering) is a key concept in continental philosophy, opposed to the Same. It refers, or attempts to refer, to that which is 'other' than the concept being considered. The term often means a person…

January 26 2010, 1:48pm | Comments
Bookmark Transitzone/ Against an Aesthetics of Noise
Ray Brassier – My stance is not particularly original: it’s indebted to the work of several more genuinely original philosophers. The confluence of their influence in my thinking represents my attempt…

January 15 2010, 4:38am | Comments
Bookmark The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication
by Bertolt Brecht In our society one can invent and perfect discoveries that still have to conquer their market and justify their existence; in other words discoveries that have not been…

January 6 2010, 7:16am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments
Bookmark How we read: an investigation
A classical, although often implicit, view in social science is that the human brain, unlike that of other animals, is a learning machine which can adapt to essentially any novel cultural…

November 23 2009, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark IMG MGMT: Hubris/Nemesis/Whatever
Another binary myth fundamental to Western culture is the eternally popular hubris/nemesis complex. According to this idea, those who transgress against the natural order always get their just desserts. Hubris is…

November 13 2009, 4:22pm | Comments
Bookmark IMG MGMT: Teen Image
IMG MGMT is an annual image-based artist essay series. Today’s invited artist, Seth Price presents an essay challenging the traditional photo essay format. Ritualized Unknowing People keep trying to get a…

November 5 2009, 2:06am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Innovative Book Designs Innovative Books: I am looking to compile a list of the most innovative uses of the book format. Books that break the mould in their layout and design, perhaps books that use online systems to extend their content value or push their form…

November 1 2009, 4:37am | Comments
Bookmark Who’s afraid of the avant-garde?
There's a reason why we find it easier to "get" modern art than avant-garde music, and it's not just about our natural conservatism and love of Mozart... Arts & books Who’s…

October 27 2009, 11:53am | Comments
Bookmark Luis Camnitzer, ALPHABETIZATION, Part Two: Hegemonic Language and Arbitrary Order
In all the traditional approaches to pedagogy, both in art and in literacy, the possibility of perceiving the transitional nature of the space produced by text or image—the common space for…

October 27 2009, 11:51am | Comments
Bookmark Spooky Signals from the Future Telling Us to Cancel the LHC!
A recent essay in the New York Times by Dennis Overbye has managed to attract quite a bit of attention around the internets — most of it not very positive. It…

October 15 2009, 8:13am | Comments
Bookmark The Origin of the Work of Art
In his article, Heidegger explains the essence of art in terms of the concepts of being and truth. He argues that art is not only a way of expressing the element…

October 8 2009, 9:35am | Comments
Bookmark An Interview with W. Brian Arthur
Technology so pervades our culture that it's sobering to consider how poorly we understand it. How do new tools and techniques arise? What principles guide their evolution? And how does their…

October 4 2009, 4:26pm | Comments
Bookmark Altermodern: A Conversation with Nicholas Bourriaud
Independent curator and critic Bartholomew Ryan interviews Nicholas Bourriaud, author of the seminal book Relational Aesthetics and curator of the fourth Tate Triennial, Altermodern, which remains on view in London at…

October 3 2009, 8:36am | Comments
Bookmark On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a…
by Umberto Eco

September 8 2009, 9:15am | Comments
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July 27 2009, 5:37pm | Comments
Bookmark The Art-Work of the Future
AS Man stands to Nature, so stands Art to Man. When Nature had developed in herself those attributes which included the conditions for the existence of Man, then Man spontaneously evolved.…

July 22 2009, 4:37pm | Comments
Bookmark Adorno on Mimesis in Aesthetic Theory
Art is imitation only to the extent to which it is objective expression, far removed from psychology. There may have been a time long ago when this expressive quality of the…

July 13 2009, 7:19am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Desire Paths: Reading, Memory and Inscription

July 12 2009, 10:35pm | Comments
Bookmark Beyond Postmodernism? Paul Virilio's Hypermodern Cultural Theory
Paul Virilio is one of the most significant French cultural theorists writing today.1 Increasingly hailed as the inventor of concepts such as 'dromology' (the 'science' of speed), Virilio is renowned for…

July 7 2009, 9:34am | Comments
Bookmark From Book to Anti-Book
by Harry Polkinhorn - To arrive at a theoretical understanding of artists' books, it is perhaps best to begin, as Richard Kostelanetz points out in his essay entitled "Book Art," on…

July 7 2009, 9:25am | Comments
Bookmark What Skepticism Reveals about Science
“The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It’s all lies. But they’re entertaining lies, and in the end isn’t that the real truth? The…

June 24 2009, 3:26pm | Comments

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