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  Digital Decay (2001): by Bruce Sterling

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• Tumblr How Computational Complexity Will Revolutionise Philosophy

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  The riots at the end of history | Prospect Magazine

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• 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.” -…

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• Bookmark Secularism and Its Discontents

  These are theological questions without theological answers, and, if the atheist is not supposed to entertain them, then, for slightly different reasons, neither is the religious believer. Religion assumes that they…

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• Bookmark The London Riots: On Consumerism coming Home to Roost

  These are not hunger or bread riots. These are riots of defective and disqualified consumers. Revolutions are not staple products of social inequality; but minefields are. Minefields are areas filled with…

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• 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…

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• Bookmark Violence at the Edge: Tottenham, Athens, Paris

  "The everyday experience of liberal capitalism rests upon the violent defence of the boundaries against the other that the system itself produces. That banal and pacifying phrase ‘social exclusion’ allows us…

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  London Riots Map

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• Bookmark Brute force or intelligence? The slow rise of computer chess

  When you visit the History of Computer Chess exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the first machine you see is "The Turk." In 1770, a Hungarian engineer…

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• 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…

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  A Trick of the Mind - Reason Magazine

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  White Trash Nihilism

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• Bookmark Information Wants to be Consumed

   Although information spreads, virus-like, through replication, this replication, as Walter Benjamin foresaw, involves a dispersion that allows images or data to be seen in different places, in different contexts (what Benjamin…

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• Bookmark How Google Dominates Us

  Most of the time Google does not actually have the answers. When people say, “I looked it up on Google,” they are committing a solecism. When they try to erase their…

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• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

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  DEADline!

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• Bookmark Rebellion Against Pluralism

  Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted responsibility for the death of seventy six innocents, is undoubtedly a madman. But madmen can be spurred on by anything in their environment they are…

  July 27 2011, 3:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark On Discovering Life

  There is an aspect of life sciences that has been largely absent: the confrontation of fundamental questions of biology much as particle accelerators grapple with fundamental questions of physics. The roll…

  July 27 2011, 3:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark New York - Empire of Evolution

  Dr. Munshi-South has joined the ranks of a small but growing number of field biologists who study urban evolution — not the rise and fall of skyscrapers and neighborhoods, but the…

  July 26 2011, 1:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark What's human? What's animal? And what of the biology in between?

  Friday's report by the Academy of Medical Sciences on the increasingly fuzzy boundaries between the human and the animal is the latest in a long series of policy reflections on how…

  July 25 2011, 3:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or the next big thing?

  There’s a new online threat to writing. Critics of the web like to blame email, texts, and chat for killing prose. Even blogs—present company included—don’t escape their wrath. But in fact…

  July 25 2011, 2:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Drone Ethnography

  Suppose you wanted to build your own drone—well, hold on a minute—why do you want to build your own drone? What do you mean, “why?” The answer is, you'd go to…

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• Tumblr deal with it

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• Wikipedia moodlegoodpractice - home

  August 10 2011, 5:53pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Digital Decay (2001): by Bruce Sterling

  August 10 2011, 9:59am | Comments

• Tumblr How Computational Complexity Will Revolutionise Philosophy

  August 10 2011, 5:31am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The riots at the end of history | Prospect Magazine

  August 10 2011, 3:25am | 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

• Bookmark Secularism and Its Discontents

  These are theological questions without theological answers, and, if the atheist is not supposed to entertain them, then, for slightly different reasons, neither is the religious believer. Religion assumes that they…

  August 9 2011, 3:57pm | Comments

• Bookmark The London Riots: On Consumerism coming Home to Roost

  These are not hunger or bread riots. These are riots of defective and disqualified consumers. Revolutions are not staple products of social inequality; but minefields are. Minefields are areas filled with…

  August 9 2011, 3:32pm | Comments

• Flickr Morning coffee

  August 9 2011, 10:15am | 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 Violence at the Edge: Tottenham, Athens, Paris

  "The everyday experience of liberal capitalism rests upon the violent defence of the boundaries against the other that the system itself produces. That banal and pacifying phrase ‘social exclusion’ allows us…

  August 9 2011, 4:39am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  London Riots Map

  August 8 2011, 4:34pm | Comments

• Bookmark Brute force or intelligence? The slow rise of computer chess

  When you visit the History of Computer Chess exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the first machine you see is "The Turk." In 1770, a Hungarian engineer…

  August 8 2011, 8:39am | 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

• Twitter Favourites

  A Trick of the Mind - Reason Magazine

  August 6 2011, 5:02am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 6 2011, 3:19am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 5 2011, 10:00am | Comments

• Twitter

  White Trash Nihilism

  August 3 2011, 8:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Information Wants to be Consumed

   Although information spreads, virus-like, through replication, this replication, as Walter Benjamin foresaw, involves a dispersion that allows images or data to be seen in different places, in different contexts (what Benjamin…

  August 3 2011, 6:00am | Comments

• Tumblr Best guess for this image: giant isopod

  August 3 2011, 1:28am | Comments

• Tumblr No

  August 2 2011, 3:21am | Comments

• Bookmark How Google Dominates Us

  Most of the time Google does not actually have the answers. When people say, “I looked it up on Google,” they are committing a solecism. When they try to erase their…

  July 31 2011, 6:17pm | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 29 2011, 4:38pm | Comments

• Twitter

  DEADline!

  July 29 2011, 12:17am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 28 2011, 12:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark Rebellion Against Pluralism

  Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted responsibility for the death of seventy six innocents, is undoubtedly a madman. But madmen can be spurred on by anything in their environment they are…

  July 27 2011, 3:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark On Discovering Life

  There is an aspect of life sciences that has been largely absent: the confrontation of fundamental questions of biology much as particle accelerators grapple with fundamental questions of physics. The roll…

  July 27 2011, 3:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark New York - Empire of Evolution

  Dr. Munshi-South has joined the ranks of a small but growing number of field biologists who study urban evolution — not the rise and fall of skyscrapers and neighborhoods, but the…

  July 26 2011, 1:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark What's human? What's animal? And what of the biology in between?

  Friday's report by the Academy of Medical Sciences on the increasingly fuzzy boundaries between the human and the animal is the latest in a long series of policy reflections on how…

  July 25 2011, 3:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or the next big thing?

  There’s a new online threat to writing. Critics of the web like to blame email, texts, and chat for killing prose. Even blogs—present company included—don’t escape their wrath. But in fact…

  July 25 2011, 2:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Drone Ethnography

  Suppose you wanted to build your own drone—well, hold on a minute—why do you want to build your own drone? What do you mean, “why?” The answer is, you'd go to…

  July 24 2011, 5:14pm | Comments

• Tumblr deal with it

  July 24 2011, 6:02am | Comments

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