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• Bookmark The New Athe­ists' Nar­row Worldview

  With tongues in cheeks, Rich­ard Daw­kins, Chris­to­pher Hitch­ens, Sam Har­ris, and Dan­iel Dennett are embracing their reputation as the "Four Horsemen." Lampoon­ing the anx­i­eties of evan­geli­cals, these best-sell­ing athe­ists are em­brac­ing…

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  The video above captures the moment when a malaria parasite invades a human red blood cell - the first time the event has been caught in high resolution. The Plasmodium parasite…

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  I believe that by extrapolating from past and future stories about "islands in the net" we may collect evidence to suggest that a certain kind of "free enclave" is not only…

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  In a clever juxtaposition of biology and technology, Stanford physicist, Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and his team are creating paramecia-based versions of classic video games that you can play by controlling the movements…

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• Bookmark Of Other Spaces: Heterotopias

  (Michel Foucault, 1967) The great obsession of the nineteenth century was, as we know, history: with its themes of development and of suspension, of crisis, and cycle, themes of the ever-accumulating…

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• Bookmark Slavoj Žižek · Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks

  So far, the WikiLeaks story has been represented as a struggle between WikiLeaks and the US empire: is the publishing of confidential US state documents an act in support of the…

  January 18 2011, 4:01am | Comments

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  What's the difference between a Hollywood special-effects blockbuster like "Terminator 2" and a hard-core porn film? Very little, claims novelist, essayist and footnote fetishist David Foster Wallace. 1990s moviegoers who have…

  January 18 2011, 3:57am | Comments

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  In November the executive board of the American Anthropological Association, of which I am a member, met for one and a half days. In preparation for the meeting, we were expected…

  January 18 2011, 3:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Programmed for Love: The Unsettling Future of Robotics

  Imagine standing in front of a robot, gazing into its wide, plastic eyes, and falling in love. Your heart revs up, and you hope this Other—this humanoid machine—turns your way again,…

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• Bookmark What the science of human nature can teach us

  We are living in the middle of a revolution in consciousness. Over the past few decades, geneticists, neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, and others have made great strides in understanding the inner…

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  The starting point of the book is that the label “New Media Art” does not identify an art genre or an art movement, and cannot be viewed – as it usually…

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• Bookmark The interface and the machine

  Being that this conference is about public interfaces, it would be evidently meaningful to talk about interfaces, machines and humans. But instead of examining the present multifaceted overwhelming and immense quantity…

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• Bookmark The Novel is not under threat from technology

  One of the first things I did with my palm-sized glossy black pebble of the future was to download loads of free books using the app Stanza. I read The Island…

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• Bookmark When Art Goes Disruptive: The A/Moral Dis/Order of Recursive Publics | Public…

  Although the analysis of geek community as a recursive public sharing social imaginary of openness, and a moral order of freedom, is a valid frame to understand geek culture through a…

  January 10 2011, 3:22am | Comments

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• Bookmark John Gray on humanity's quest for immortality

  How do we deal with a purposeless universe and the finality of death? From Victorian séances to the embalming of Lenin's corpse to schemes for uploading our minds into cyberspace, there…

  January 9 2011, 3:38pm | Comments

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  Lake Vostok, which has been sealed off from the world for 14 million years, is about to be penetrated by a Russian drill bit. The lake, which lies four kilometres below…

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  It could be one of the most ambitious computer projects ever conceived. An international group of scientists is aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth -…

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  What if the best thing art has to offer is freedom from choice? There’s a reason it’s high praise, not criticism, to say that a film or a piece of music…

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  It’s fitting that at the end of this essay about the proliferation of e-readers, Scott McLemee invokes critic Franco Moretti, who has devoted the past decade to deromanticizing literary criticism and…

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  January 26 2011, 3:21am | Comments

• Bookmark The New Athe­ists' Nar­row Worldview

  With tongues in cheeks, Rich­ard Daw­kins, Chris­to­pher Hitch­ens, Sam Har­ris, and Dan­iel Dennett are embracing their reputation as the "Four Horsemen." Lampoon­ing the anx­i­eties of evan­geli­cals, these best-sell­ing athe­ists are em­brac­ing…

  January 24 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Malaria caught on camera breaking and entering cell

  The video above captures the moment when a malaria parasite invades a human red blood cell - the first time the event has been caught in high resolution. The Plasmodium parasite…

  January 24 2011, 2:54am | Comments

• Tumblr via Out of the darkness

  January 23 2011, 12:09pm | Comments

• Flickr Sydney Australia

  January 23 2011, 10:46am | Comments

• Bookmark The Temporary Autonomous Zone

  I believe that by extrapolating from past and future stories about "islands in the net" we may collect evidence to suggest that a certain kind of "free enclave" is not only…

  January 22 2011, 5:43am | Comments

• Flickr Gyūdon Recipe

  January 21 2011, 6:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Paramecium video games

  In a clever juxtaposition of biology and technology, Stanford physicist, Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and his team are creating paramecia-based versions of classic video games that you can play by controlling the movements…

  January 20 2011, 4:16pm | Comments

• Tumblr Virtual Reality and the Exploration of Cyberspace

  January 20 2011, 2:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Of Other Spaces: Heterotopias

  (Michel Foucault, 1967) The great obsession of the nineteenth century was, as we know, history: with its themes of development and of suspension, of crisis, and cycle, themes of the ever-accumulating…

  January 19 2011, 4:32am | Comments

• Flickr Lonely Bench

  January 18 2011, 8:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark Slavoj Žižek · Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks

  So far, the WikiLeaks story has been represented as a struggle between WikiLeaks and the US empire: is the publishing of confidential US state documents an act in support of the…

  January 18 2011, 4:01am | Comments

• Bookmark F/X PORN: David Foster Wallace

  What's the difference between a Hollywood special-effects blockbuster like "Terminator 2" and a hard-core porn film? Very little, claims novelist, essayist and footnote fetishist David Foster Wallace. 1990s moviegoers who have…

  January 18 2011, 3:57am | Comments

• Bookmark What if They Had a Science War and Only One Side Showed…

  In November the executive board of the American Anthropological Association, of which I am a member, met for one and a half days. In preparation for the meeting, we were expected…

  January 18 2011, 3:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Programmed for Love: The Unsettling Future of Robotics

  Imagine standing in front of a robot, gazing into its wide, plastic eyes, and falling in love. Your heart revs up, and you hope this Other—this humanoid machine—turns your way again,…

  January 18 2011, 3:16am | Comments

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  January 17 2011, 5:45am | Comments

• Tumblr Capitalists move ahead 3 spaces

  January 17 2011, 4:25am | Comments

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  January 15 2011, 2:13am | Comments

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  January 14 2011, 7:30am | Comments

• Bookmark What the science of human nature can teach us

  We are living in the middle of a revolution in consciousness. Over the past few decades, geneticists, neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, and others have made great strides in understanding the inner…

  January 13 2011, 2:17am | Comments

• Bookmark The Postmedia Perspective

  The starting point of the book is that the label “New Media Art” does not identify an art genre or an art movement, and cannot be viewed – as it usually…

  January 12 2011, 9:44am | Comments

• Tumblr Shooting the MGM lion, 1924

  January 11 2011, 3:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark The interface and the machine

  Being that this conference is about public interfaces, it would be evidently meaningful to talk about interfaces, machines and humans. But instead of examining the present multifaceted overwhelming and immense quantity…

  January 10 2011, 3:53am | Comments

• Bookmark The Novel is not under threat from technology

  One of the first things I did with my palm-sized glossy black pebble of the future was to download loads of free books using the app Stanza. I read The Island…

  January 10 2011, 3:34am | Comments

• Bookmark When Art Goes Disruptive: The A/Moral Dis/Order of Recursive Publics | Public…

  Although the analysis of geek community as a recursive public sharing social imaginary of openness, and a moral order of freedom, is a valid frame to understand geek culture through a…

  January 10 2011, 3:22am | Comments

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  January 10 2011, 2:31am | Comments

• Bookmark John Gray on humanity's quest for immortality

  How do we deal with a purposeless universe and the finality of death? From Victorian séances to the embalming of Lenin's corpse to schemes for uploading our minds into cyberspace, there…

  January 9 2011, 3:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark Russian team prepares to penetrate Lake Vostok

  Lake Vostok, which has been sealed off from the world for 14 million years, is about to be penetrated by a Russian drill bit. The lake, which lies four kilometres below…

  January 9 2011, 11:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Earth project aims to 'simulate everything'

  It could be one of the most ambitious computer projects ever conceived. An international group of scientists is aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth -…

  January 8 2011, 7:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Interactive Art: What Video Games Can Learn from Freud

  What if the best thing art has to offer is freedom from choice? There’s a reason it’s high praise, not criticism, to say that a film or a piece of music…

  January 8 2011, 7:38am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 7 2011, 7:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Open Books: The E-Reader Reads You

  It’s fitting that at the end of this essay about the proliferation of e-readers, Scott McLemee invokes critic Franco Moretti, who has devoted the past decade to deromanticizing literary criticism and…

  January 6 2011, 8:17pm | Comments

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