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• Bookmark The Off-Modern Mirror

  by Svetlana Boym Critic and writer Viktor Shklovsky proposes the figure of the knight’s move in chess that follows “the tortured road of the brave,” preferring it to the master-slave dialectics…

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• Wikipedia Transition (literary journal) - Wikipedia Tired of the spectacle of short stories, novels, poems and plays still under the hegemony of the banal word, monotonous syntax, static psychology, descriptive naturalism, and desirous of crystallizing a viewpoint… Narrative is not mere anecdote, but the projection of a metamorphosis of…

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• Bookmark The Art of Marina Abramovic and the Prophesy of Matthew Arnold

  The upside-down values of the art world, popularly infamous, ridiculed, and resented, are by now the mark of the sphere itself, sufficient to establish the cynic’s principle that if you wish…

  October 12 2010, 3:10pm | Comments

• Bookmark Colonial Studies

  Our fascination with ants has led to engaging stories about them, from the Iliad’s Myrmidons to Antz’s Z, as well as a growing body of research by biologists. Though the ant…

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  What are some techniques you use to make glitch art?

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• Bookmark The Year of The Animated Gif

  2010 is the year of the animated gif. They are everywhere. Tumblr’s Three Frames, a site that posts only gifs drawn from movies on a daily basis is recommended to me…

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• Bookmark Matters of life and death

  Trolleyology encapsulates the deepest tensions in our moral outlook. To tease out our moral intuitions, philosophers have come up with ever more ingenious scenarios. The trolley is usually racing towards five…

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• Bookmark Ants and us

  What do you think about when you think about ants? An aerial view perhaps, looking down at a line of ants moving along a trail. Go closer. If you stay with…

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  gli.tc/h art in Chicago

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• Bookmark Ridley Scott goes back to Philip K. Dick for The Man In…

  According to the Guardian Ridley Scott is producing a four-part BBC miniseries based on Philip K Dick's novel The Man in the High Castle. Howard Brenton, the playwright and Spooks writer,…

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• Bookmark Ken Goldberg Discusses Telerobots, Androids, and Heidegger

  This year saw the invasion of telepresence robots—electromechanical avatars that allow you to be there without actually being there. Today, half a dozen companies are selling, or will start selling, these…

  October 8 2010, 2:58am | Comments

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  "Exposition is a dirty word," was one of Kasavin's top points. Too many developers front- or back-load games with heavy exposition to create the game world instead of smartly weaving it…

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• Bookmark Purpose-Driven Life

  Video games are worth loving, but loving them comes with shame. Not passing regret or social embarrassment, but a sharp-edged physical guilt: the hunch-backed, raw-fingered, burning-eyed pain that comes at the…

  October 6 2010, 11:42am | Comments

• Bookmark The Anthropology of Hackers

  A "hacker" is a technologist with a love for computing and a "hack" is a clever technical solution arrived through a non-obvious means. It doesn't mean to compromise the Pentagon, change…

  October 1 2010, 9:08am | Comments

• Bookmark The Endpoint of All Gravity Is the Grave (Triple Canopy podcast)

  On July 29, as part of its Sender, Carrier, Receiver program, Triple Canopy presented a briefing on the activities of the International Necronautical Society's Berlin Inspectorate at Program. As heard in…

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• Bookmark What Are Books Good For?

  I've been wondering lately when books became the enemy. Scholars have always been people of the book, so it seems wrong that the faithful companion has been put on the defensive.…

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  Who among us is invulnerable to the puppy in the pet store window? Not everyone is a dog person, of course; some people are cat people or horse people or parakeet…

  September 30 2010, 4:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark Cosmology, Cambridge Style: Wittgenstein, Toulmin, and Hawking

  That headline flashed to all corners of the media universe this month. Of course, we don't know whether a universe has corners. Truth is, we don't know much about the universe…

  September 30 2010, 4:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Journalism in the Age of Data: A Film

  What bad writing has to do with war casualties and traffic over North America. It’s no secret we have a data visualization fetish, but that’s not just because we like looking…

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  New income streams needed. I will dance for cash

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• Bookmark Disaster Reenactments (Stock Footage)

  Men in lab coats race across streets, meet up with kids. Kids into building. Panic in streets. People running from cover. Montage of panic. Panic in streets. Flying saucer blasts buildings.…

  September 28 2010, 7:00am | Comments

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  Look, I wouldn’t trade the 21st century for any other. We have toilet paper and vitamin-fortified milk and a measles vaccine. We can buy avocados in Fairbanks in January. But sometimes,…

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• Wikipedia Anhedonia In psychology and psychiatry, anhedonia (< Greek ἀν- an-, "without" + ἡδονή hēdonē, "pleasure") is an inability to experience pleasurable emotions from normally pleasurable life events such as eating, exercise, social interaction or sexual activities. Anhedonia is seen in the mood disorders, schizophrenia,…

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• Bookmark The Off-Modern Mirror

  by Svetlana Boym Critic and writer Viktor Shklovsky proposes the figure of the knight’s move in chess that follows “the tortured road of the brave,” preferring it to the master-slave dialectics…

  October 13 2010, 9:49am | Comments

• Wikipedia Transition (literary journal) - Wikipedia Tired of the spectacle of short stories, novels, poems and plays still under the hegemony of the banal word, monotonous syntax, static psychology, descriptive naturalism, and desirous of crystallizing a viewpoint… Narrative is not mere anecdote, but the projection of a metamorphosis of…

  October 12 2010, 5:09pm | Comments

• Tumblr The Language of Beards Poets Ranked by Beard Weight is a classic...

  October 12 2010, 4:37pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Art of Marina Abramovic and the Prophesy of Matthew Arnold

  The upside-down values of the art world, popularly infamous, ridiculed, and resented, are by now the mark of the sphere itself, sufficient to establish the cynic’s principle that if you wish…

  October 12 2010, 3:10pm | Comments

• Bookmark Colonial Studies

  Our fascination with ants has led to engaging stories about them, from the Iliad’s Myrmidons to Antz’s Z, as well as a growing body of research by biologists. Though the ant…

  October 12 2010, 3:09pm | Comments

• YouTube

  October 12 2010, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark What techniques do you use to make glitch art?

  What are some techniques you use to make glitch art?

  October 12 2010, 3:35am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 12 2010, 3:03am | Comments

• Bookmark The Year of The Animated Gif

  2010 is the year of the animated gif. They are everywhere. Tumblr’s Three Frames, a site that posts only gifs drawn from movies on a daily basis is recommended to me…

  October 12 2010, 2:47am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: What techniques do you use to make glitch art? What are some techniques you use to make glitch art?

  October 11 2010, 8:24pm | Comments

• Bookmark Matters of life and death

  Trolleyology encapsulates the deepest tensions in our moral outlook. To tease out our moral intuitions, philosophers have come up with ever more ingenious scenarios. The trolley is usually racing towards five…

  October 11 2010, 3:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Ants and us

  What do you think about when you think about ants? An aerial view perhaps, looking down at a line of ants moving along a trail. Go closer. If you stay with…

  October 11 2010, 3:38am | Comments

• Bookmark GLI.TC/H Program booklet « GlitchBlog

  gli.tc/h art in Chicago

  October 9 2010, 5:32am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 9 2010, 5:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Ridley Scott goes back to Philip K. Dick for The Man In…

  According to the Guardian Ridley Scott is producing a four-part BBC miniseries based on Philip K Dick's novel The Man in the High Castle. Howard Brenton, the playwright and Spooks writer,…

  October 8 2010, 3:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Ken Goldberg Discusses Telerobots, Androids, and Heidegger

  This year saw the invasion of telepresence robots—electromechanical avatars that allow you to be there without actually being there. Today, half a dozen companies are selling, or will start selling, these…

  October 8 2010, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Is There Too Much Exposition in Games?

  "Exposition is a dirty word," was one of Kasavin's top points. Too many developers front- or back-load games with heavy exposition to create the game world instead of smartly weaving it…

  October 7 2010, 2:31am | Comments

• Twitter

  Bat soup

  October 6 2010, 2:23pm | Comments

• YouTube

  October 6 2010, 11:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Purpose-Driven Life

  Video games are worth loving, but loving them comes with shame. Not passing regret or social embarrassment, but a sharp-edged physical guilt: the hunch-backed, raw-fingered, burning-eyed pain that comes at the…

  October 6 2010, 11:42am | Comments

• Bookmark The Anthropology of Hackers

  A "hacker" is a technologist with a love for computing and a "hack" is a clever technical solution arrived through a non-obvious means. It doesn't mean to compromise the Pentagon, change…

  October 1 2010, 9:08am | Comments

• Bookmark The Endpoint of All Gravity Is the Grave (Triple Canopy podcast)

  On July 29, as part of its Sender, Carrier, Receiver program, Triple Canopy presented a briefing on the activities of the International Necronautical Society's Berlin Inspectorate at Program. As heard in…

  September 30 2010, 4:35pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  September 30 2010, 4:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark What Are Books Good For?

  I've been wondering lately when books became the enemy. Scholars have always been people of the book, so it seems wrong that the faithful companion has been put on the defensive.…

  September 30 2010, 4:23pm | Comments

• Bookmark What explains the ascendance of Homo sapiens? Start by looking at our…

  Who among us is invulnerable to the puppy in the pet store window? Not everyone is a dog person, of course; some people are cat people or horse people or parakeet…

  September 30 2010, 4:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark Cosmology, Cambridge Style: Wittgenstein, Toulmin, and Hawking

  That headline flashed to all corners of the media universe this month. Of course, we don't know whether a universe has corners. Truth is, we don't know much about the universe…

  September 30 2010, 4:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Journalism in the Age of Data: A Film

  What bad writing has to do with war casualties and traffic over North America. It’s no secret we have a data visualization fetish, but that’s not just because we like looking…

  September 30 2010, 4:19pm | Comments

• Twitter

  New income streams needed. I will dance for cash

  September 30 2010, 7:39am | Comments

• Flickr Do you like our owl?

  September 30 2010, 2:26am | Comments

• Bookmark Disaster Reenactments (Stock Footage)

  Men in lab coats race across streets, meet up with kids. Kids into building. Panic in streets. People running from cover. Montage of panic. Panic in streets. Flying saucer blasts buildings.…

  September 28 2010, 7:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Planet Zoo

  Look, I wouldn’t trade the 21st century for any other. We have toilet paper and vitamin-fortified milk and a measles vaccine. We can buy avocados in Fairbanks in January. But sometimes,…

  September 27 2010, 5:15am | Comments

• Wikipedia Anhedonia In psychology and psychiatry, anhedonia (< Greek ἀν- an-, "without" + ἡδονή hēdonē, "pleasure") is an inability to experience pleasurable emotions from normally pleasurable life events such as eating, exercise, social interaction or sexual activities. Anhedonia is seen in the mood disorders, schizophrenia,…

  September 27 2010, 2:47am | Comments

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