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• Bookmark Innovation Starvation

  SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer) to…

  October 2 2011, 4:47am | 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…

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• Tumblr (Quote) "Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or..."

  “Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.” - J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition…

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• 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…

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• Bookmark On Science Transfer

  “Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before. Our…

  September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Being Human (Blame it on Andy)

  Being human offers homo sapiens variety, or some elasticity, in social life, though sociologists claim that people’s personalities disappear with no one else around. Imagining this evacuation, I see a person…

  September 29 2011, 3:55am | Comments

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  A History Of Violence

  September 29 2011, 2:52am | Comments

• Tumblr Reverse Redim

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  Which one of you is Jesus?

  September 27 2011, 12:17am | Comments

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  How the refrigerator got its hum

  September 26 2011, 4:54am | 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

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• Bookmark The ancient cloud

  The crowd-sourced, wikinomic cloud is the new, new thing that all management consultants are now telling their clients to embrace. Yet the cloud is not a new thing at all. It…

  September 24 2011, 8:50am | Comments

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  "A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms." - George Wald

  September 23 2011, 2:22am | Comments

• Tumblr corwood: Kinda groovy.

  September 22 2011, 3:37pm | Comments

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  September 21 2011, 6:59am | Comments

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  A gnarl of twine

  September 21 2011, 6:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Postmodernism: from the cutting edge to the museum | Art and design…

  Postmodernism: Was this pre-digital phenomenon killed off by the Internet? http://t.co/KLWldzzq #x #exhibition #culture #digital

  September 20 2011, 10:48pm | Comments

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• 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 Can religion tell us more than science?

  In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and against…

  September 20 2011, 3:12am | 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

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  September 19 2011, 4:32am | Comments

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  Next Step Infinity

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• Bookmark Innovation Starvation

  SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer) to…

  October 2 2011, 4:47am | 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

• YouTube

  September 30 2011, 7:09am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or..."

  “Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.” - J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition…

  September 30 2011, 5:16am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 30 2011, 2:07am | 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

• YouTube

  September 29 2011, 4:05am | Comments

• Bookmark On Science Transfer

  “Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before. Our…

  September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Being Human (Blame it on Andy)

  Being human offers homo sapiens variety, or some elasticity, in social life, though sociologists claim that people’s personalities disappear with no one else around. Imagining this evacuation, I see a person…

  September 29 2011, 3:55am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  A History Of Violence

  September 29 2011, 2:52am | Comments

• Tumblr Reverse Redim

  September 28 2011, 1:23pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Which one of you is Jesus?

  September 27 2011, 12:17am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How the refrigerator got its hum

  September 26 2011, 4:54am | 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

• YouTube

  September 24 2011, 9:12am | Comments

• Tumblr Vertebrae a photo series by Marc Da Cunha

  September 24 2011, 9:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The ancient cloud

  The crowd-sourced, wikinomic cloud is the new, new thing that all management consultants are now telling their clients to embrace. Yet the cloud is not a new thing at all. It…

  September 24 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Twitter

  Shit robot

  September 23 2011, 11:20am | Comments

• Tumblr Pie

  September 23 2011, 3:42am | Comments

• Twitter

  "A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms." - George Wald

  September 23 2011, 2:22am | Comments

• Tumblr corwood: Kinda groovy.

  September 22 2011, 3:37pm | Comments

• Tumblr Hitler foetus

  September 21 2011, 6:59am | Comments

• Twitter

  A gnarl of twine

  September 21 2011, 6:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Postmodernism: from the cutting edge to the museum | Art and design…

  Postmodernism: Was this pre-digital phenomenon killed off by the Internet? http://t.co/KLWldzzq #x #exhibition #culture #digital

  September 20 2011, 10:48pm | Comments

• YouTube

  September 20 2011, 4:27pm | Comments

• Tumblr Stellar

  September 20 2011, 12:54pm | 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 Can religion tell us more than science?

  In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and against…

  September 20 2011, 3:12am | 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

• YouTube

  September 19 2011, 4:32am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Next Step Infinity

  September 19 2011, 4:21am | Comments

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