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  E-books Can't Burn

  February 16 2012, 3:50pm | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ The Curve, Barbican - Trying to take in the hoard at 'Waste Not' exhibition, by artist Song Dong

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• 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

• Metafilter MeFi: You've been living in a dream world, Ginger. "As long as their brain stem is intact, the homeostatic functions of the chicken will continue to operate." It's the Matrix. For chickens.

  February 15 2012, 3:34pm | Comments

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  How did we forget about mutually assured destruction?

  February 15 2012, 5:51am | Comments

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  No secularism please, we're British

  February 15 2012, 3:20am | Comments

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  I CAN HELP YOU FAIL BETTER

  February 14 2012, 2:28am | Comments

• Tumblr Happy Valentine

  February 13 2012, 3:51pm | Comments

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  At what age do babies enter the uncanny valley?

  February 13 2012, 9:06am | Comments

• Bookmark We live in a "more-than-human" universe

  The new political ecology is thus emerging from a call for greater humility toward the world and all the life forms it may hold, both literally and figuratively. Rather than contrasting…

  February 13 2012, 2:09am | Comments

• Bookmark A Conversation with film-maker Adam Curtis

  Since the early 1990s Adam Curtis has made a number of serial documentaries and films for the BBC using a playful mix of journalistic reportage and a wide range of avant-garde…

  February 12 2012, 4:36am | 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 Man as Machine

  A peculiar experiment inspired by the Enlightenment sheds light on the age-old question of what makes us human.

  February 9 2012, 10:34am | Comments

• Bookmark The meaning of monsters, magic and miracles

  Monsters demonstrate, monsters alert us: whether or not the etymologies relating the word to both “monstro” (I show) and “moneo” (I warn), are correct, monsters act as a moral compass. The…

  February 9 2012, 10:33am | Comments

• Tumblr Dog

  February 9 2012, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Toxoplasma is creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to…

  Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction…

  February 9 2012, 9:21am | Comments

• Bookmark The Clock: What time is it where?

  Marclay assembled his edit in hour-long chunks, the 24-hour cycle giving him enormous scope, but also confining him to a minute-by-minute grid. “A 10.01 clip has to be within that minute,…

  February 9 2012, 3:57am | 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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  February 9 2012, 3:41am | Comments

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  Twitter needs a "rubbish trends" filter

  February 7 2012, 2:24am | Comments

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  Spaghetti western reveals differences between human and monkey brains

  February 6 2012, 1:21am | Comments

• Flickr The Glitch Moment(um) by Rosa Menkman

  February 3 2012, 8:25am | Comments

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  February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments

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  February 1 2012, 5:01am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Transmediale 2012 Field Trip

  February 1 2012, 3:54am | Comments

• Tumblr Don’t be a Materialist, be a Heroic Materialist

  January 31 2012, 5:05am | Comments

• Bookmark What Immanuel Kant got right about digital piracy

  It turns out that Kant didn't think that an author could mount a strong legal case against piracy based on property rights in words. After all, even after pirates copied an…

  January 30 2012, 4:28pm | Comments

• Tumblr The Zombie President

  January 30 2012, 5:14am | Comments

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  January 29 2012, 4:41pm | Comments

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• Twitter Favourites

  E-books Can't Burn

  February 16 2012, 3:50pm | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ The Curve, Barbican - Trying to take in the hoard at 'Waste Not' exhibition, by artist Song Dong

  February 16 2012, 10:02am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 16 2012, 5:35am | 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

• Metafilter MeFi: You've been living in a dream world, Ginger. "As long as their brain stem is intact, the homeostatic functions of the chicken will continue to operate." It's the Matrix. For chickens.

  February 15 2012, 3:34pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How did we forget about mutually assured destruction?

  February 15 2012, 5:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  No secularism please, we're British

  February 15 2012, 3:20am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 14 2012, 5:24am | Comments

• Twitter

  I CAN HELP YOU FAIL BETTER

  February 14 2012, 2:28am | Comments

• Tumblr Happy Valentine

  February 13 2012, 3:51pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  At what age do babies enter the uncanny valley?

  February 13 2012, 9:06am | Comments

• Bookmark We live in a "more-than-human" universe

  The new political ecology is thus emerging from a call for greater humility toward the world and all the life forms it may hold, both literally and figuratively. Rather than contrasting…

  February 13 2012, 2:09am | Comments

• Bookmark A Conversation with film-maker Adam Curtis

  Since the early 1990s Adam Curtis has made a number of serial documentaries and films for the BBC using a playful mix of journalistic reportage and a wide range of avant-garde…

  February 12 2012, 4:36am | 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 Man as Machine

  A peculiar experiment inspired by the Enlightenment sheds light on the age-old question of what makes us human.

  February 9 2012, 10:34am | Comments

• Bookmark The meaning of monsters, magic and miracles

  Monsters demonstrate, monsters alert us: whether or not the etymologies relating the word to both “monstro” (I show) and “moneo” (I warn), are correct, monsters act as a moral compass. The…

  February 9 2012, 10:33am | Comments

• Tumblr Dog

  February 9 2012, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Toxoplasma is creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to…

  Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction…

  February 9 2012, 9:21am | Comments

• Bookmark The Clock: What time is it where?

  Marclay assembled his edit in hour-long chunks, the 24-hour cycle giving him enormous scope, but also confining him to a minute-by-minute grid. “A 10.01 clip has to be within that minute,…

  February 9 2012, 3:57am | 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

• YouTube

  February 9 2012, 3:41am | Comments

• Twitter

  Twitter needs a "rubbish trends" filter

  February 7 2012, 2:24am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Spaghetti western reveals differences between human and monkey brains

  February 6 2012, 1:21am | Comments

• Flickr The Glitch Moment(um) by Rosa Menkman

  February 3 2012, 8:25am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments

• YouTube

  February 1 2012, 5:01am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Transmediale 2012 Field Trip

  February 1 2012, 3:54am | Comments

• Tumblr Don’t be a Materialist, be a Heroic Materialist

  January 31 2012, 5:05am | Comments

• Bookmark What Immanuel Kant got right about digital piracy

  It turns out that Kant didn't think that an author could mount a strong legal case against piracy based on property rights in words. After all, even after pirates copied an…

  January 30 2012, 4:28pm | Comments

• Tumblr The Zombie President

  January 30 2012, 5:14am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 29 2012, 4:41pm | Comments

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