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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
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Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain

November 11 2012, 9:23pm | Comments
Bookmark ‘Time-wars’ by Mark Fisher
Time rather than money is the currency in the recent science fiction film In Time. At the age of 25, the citizens in the future world the film depicts are given…

August 14 2012, 3:41am | Comments
Bookmark A Thomasson is any kind of "useless and defunct object attached to…
...according to Akasegawa's definition. A publisher's blurb states that this includes the "doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete... thing sprouting…

May 23 2012, 12:36am | 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
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When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?

April 29 2012, 2:07pm | Comments
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Oldest Alien Planets Found—Born at Dawn of Universe

March 27 2012, 2:05pm | Comments
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This is what a week-long car crash looks like

March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments
Bookmark How Christian Marclay created “The Clock”
“When I first started on this project, I thought it would become a public art piece,” Marclay said. “I thought, What a great thing, to be in a train station waiting…

March 18 2012, 4:30pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or a damp fizzle? If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from outer space for the next hundred years, on all frequencies, how many soap operas, advertisements…

February 23 2012, 5:09am | Comments
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The Hobbit who helped us find our origins

February 21 2012, 1:20am | 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
Bookmark My 24 hours of watching 'The Clock'
It’s time. The winged chariot at my back, and all that. Taking a seat on one of the comfortable couches at the National Gallery in Ottawa, I mentally strap myself in.…

February 9 2012, 3:46am | Comments
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Why Does Our Universe Have Three Dimensions?

January 23 2012, 7:35am | Comments
Metafilter John Frankenheimer's "Seconds" Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966) is a disturbing film to watch. With its unresolved, horrific ending, it’s possibly one of the most depressing films ever made [SPOILER].

January 22 2012, 3:21pm | Comments
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Cross-section of a tree played like a record on a turntable

January 19 2012, 7:54am | Comments
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Rereading Darwin

January 17 2012, 5:06pm | Comments
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January 15 2012, 3:49pm | 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 Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth
Evidence has emerged that the brain's capacity to absorb information is limiting the amount of data humanity can produce

December 9 2011, 8:35am | Comments
Bookmark On A History of the World in 100 Objects
Objects 101 by Roger Sandall What interests me here however is something else—the profoundly paradoxical position of MacGregor himself. When resisting Greek calls for the return of the Elgin Marbles, he…

November 14 2011, 6:59am | Comments
Bookmark Does Pinker’s “Better Angels” Undermine Religious Morality?
It is often argued that religion makes individuals and the world more just and moral, that it builds character and provides a foundation from which we understand right from wrong, good…

November 2 2011, 6:58am | Comments
Bookmark Is mental time travel what makes us human?
A stonishing animals show up everywhere these days. Cooperative apes, grief-stricken elephants, empathetic cats and dogs crowd our bookshop shelves. It’s all the rage to plumb the cognitive and emotional depths…

October 28 2011, 10:32am | Comments
Bookmark The Cyberspace Real (Between Perversion and Trauma)
Are the pessimistic cultural criticists (from Jean Baudrillard to Paul Virilio) justified in their claim that cyberspace ultimately generates a kind of proto-psychotic immersion into an imaginary universe of hallucinations, unconstrained…

September 30 2011, 7:33am | 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
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 Artist is Present (a video game about waiting in line at…
Writing articles about video games is so much fun that we often have to stop, wipe the manic grins off our faces and find something really boring to do. Sometimes we…

September 19 2011, 1:39am | Comments
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September 18 2011, 4:21am | Comments
Bookmark Traces of humanity
What aliens could learn from the stuff we’ve left in space Even in space, where none of us live, some of what we’ve left is space junk: stuff orbiting the earth…

August 7 2011, 3:32pm | 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 Off-putting behaviour: On Writing and Procrastination
When I began writing, distractions were all low-tech. I had to worry about typewriter ribbons and correction fluid, for God's sake. There was no possibility of spending an apparently productive day…

July 8 2011, 1:52am | Comments

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