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• Bookmark J.G. Ballard reviews Chris Marker's La Jetee

  This review appeared in New Worlds in 1966 and as far as I can tell is currently unavailable anywhere else.

  September 24 2010, 7:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Six scientists tell us about the most accurate science fiction in their…

  What do scientists think about seeing their fields of research pulverized by science fiction? We asked researchers from diverse fields to tell us whether any science fiction gets it right. Several…

  September 23 2010, 5:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Cancer is something you 'Do'

  We make a mistake when we think of cancer as a noun. It is not something you have, it is something you do. Your body is probably cancering all the time.…

  September 23 2010, 5:06am | Comments

• Bookmark Language as Thought: Watch out for the Hype

  Judging from how the Times magazine’s excerpt from Guy Deutscher’s new book has been one of the most read pieces in the paper for over a week now, the book is…

  September 23 2010, 5:05am | Comments

• Bibliography Remainder by Tom McCarthy

  September 23 2010, 3:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Lords of the flies: the insect detectives

  "So here," says Hall, with suitable drama, "they are: the Ruxton Maggots." Were it not for the maggots, it is pretty safe to say the case of Dr Buck Ruxton, one…

  September 23 2010, 1:29am | Comments

• Twitter

  Excess and error are necessary precursers to a creative universe

  September 22 2010, 9:36am | Comments

• Tumblr Cool, Moist, 1990s

  September 22 2010, 3:57am | Comments

• Vimeo

  September 22 2010, 3:08am | Comments

• Bookmark In conversation: Lee Rourke and Tom McCarthy

  Tom McCarthy's rise from an obscure art-house author has been quite spectacular, culminating in C, his third novel, being shortlisted for this year's Man Booker prize. In something that can only…

  September 18 2010, 10:48am | Comments

• Bookmark The secret messages written into the fabric of our world

  I like the BBC test card, because it's a wonderful example of how practical industrial design can develop into an enigmatic work of art. But even better is knowing that the…

  September 17 2010, 4:40am | Comments

• Twitter

  'Atheist Extremism' is a strange phrase. The Pope scolding those of us who would have seen his Holy ass arrested gu.com/p/2jmjy/ip

  September 16 2010, 4:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Limits of Science

  Good sense is the most fairly distributed commodity in the world, Descartes once quipped, because nobody thinks he needs any more of it than he already has. A neat illustration of…

  September 16 2010, 7:12am | Comments

• Tumblr Entertainment Bear

  September 15 2010, 3:22am | Comments

• Bookmark What is Posthumanism?

  Perhaps you have had a nightmare in which you fell through the bottom of your known universe into a vortex of mutated children, talking animals, mental illness, freakish art, and clamoring…

  September 13 2010, 3:19am | Comments

• Bookmark …glitches without borders (contd.) « GlitchBlog

  [in continuation/response to Rosa’s post responding to Kyle's post responding to Evan's post] Inherent in glitch art is a denial for codification. Attempts to [con/de]fine this phenomenon, which by it’s very…

  September 11 2010, 5:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Speaking Without Words: Dump.fm and Ryder Ripps

  If a picture is worth a thousand words, then maybe we should let dump.fm do the talking. The image-based chat service is the brainchild of Ryder Ripps and the result of…

  September 11 2010, 4:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Code World - 'C' - By Tom McCarthy

  There are many stories Tom McCarthy chooses not to tell in “C,” his tour de force new novel encompassing the short life of one Serge Carrefax, born at the turn of…

  September 11 2010, 4:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Titans of science: David Attenborough meets Richard Dawkins

  We paired up Britain's most celebrated scientists to chat about the big issues: the unity of life, ethics, energy, Handel – and the joy of riding a snowmobile Sir David Attenborough,…

  September 10 2010, 5:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark Analysis: Portal and the Deconstruction of the Institution

  In this in-depth analysis, Daniel Johnson discusses games, language and sociology with regard to Valve's Portal - please note that the article contains story spoilers for the game. In 1959 Erving…

  September 10 2010, 7:33am | Comments

• Tumblr Atemporality is so hot right now (by Matt Jones)

  September 10 2010, 6:40am | Comments

• Twitter

  Am attempting to organise my notes from the last 6 months... "I am not a man, I am dynamite" ...all signs of order predict the coming revolt

  September 10 2010, 5:31am | Comments

• Flickr Atemporality is so hot right now

  September 10 2010, 5:24am | Comments

• Bookmark What concepts do not exist in the English language?

  Carl Honoré (In Praise of Slow) says Canada's Baffin Island Inuit "use the same word—'uvatiarru'—to mean both 'in the distant past' and 'in the distant future.' Time, in such cultures, is…

  September 10 2010, 4:17am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 8 2010, 6:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Mao, King Kong, and the Future of the Book

  In 2004, Bob Stein founded the Institute for the Future of the Book, with the goal of finding new models for publishing as it moved from the page to the screen,…

  September 8 2010, 3:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Why like noise?

  The idea of noise is spreading…. From music into art into politics…. Why? As a synonym of avant-garde: noise as the unexpected, the dissonant and dissident. Its transgressiveness, which is mostly…

  September 8 2010, 3:33am | Comments

• Bookmark The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution

  There has been a rash of books on human evolution in recent years, claiming that it was driven by art (Denis Dutton: The Art Instinct), cooking (Richard Wrangham: Catching Fire), sexual…

  September 8 2010, 3:20am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 7 2010, 9:32am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Flickr Red Dust Storm

  September 5 2010, 6:51am | Comments

• Flickr PALMS

  September 4 2010, 9:40pm | Comments

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• Bookmark J.G. Ballard reviews Chris Marker's La Jetee

  This review appeared in New Worlds in 1966 and as far as I can tell is currently unavailable anywhere else.

  September 24 2010, 7:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Six scientists tell us about the most accurate science fiction in their…

  What do scientists think about seeing their fields of research pulverized by science fiction? We asked researchers from diverse fields to tell us whether any science fiction gets it right. Several…

  September 23 2010, 5:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Cancer is something you 'Do'

  We make a mistake when we think of cancer as a noun. It is not something you have, it is something you do. Your body is probably cancering all the time.…

  September 23 2010, 5:06am | Comments

• Bookmark Language as Thought: Watch out for the Hype

  Judging from how the Times magazine’s excerpt from Guy Deutscher’s new book has been one of the most read pieces in the paper for over a week now, the book is…

  September 23 2010, 5:05am | Comments

• Bibliography Remainder by Tom McCarthy

  September 23 2010, 3:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Lords of the flies: the insect detectives

  "So here," says Hall, with suitable drama, "they are: the Ruxton Maggots." Were it not for the maggots, it is pretty safe to say the case of Dr Buck Ruxton, one…

  September 23 2010, 1:29am | Comments

• Twitter

  Excess and error are necessary precursers to a creative universe

  September 22 2010, 9:36am | Comments

• Tumblr Cool, Moist, 1990s

  September 22 2010, 3:57am | Comments

• Vimeo

  September 22 2010, 3:08am | Comments

• Bookmark In conversation: Lee Rourke and Tom McCarthy

  Tom McCarthy's rise from an obscure art-house author has been quite spectacular, culminating in C, his third novel, being shortlisted for this year's Man Booker prize. In something that can only…

  September 18 2010, 10:48am | Comments

• Bookmark The secret messages written into the fabric of our world

  I like the BBC test card, because it's a wonderful example of how practical industrial design can develop into an enigmatic work of art. But even better is knowing that the…

  September 17 2010, 4:40am | Comments

• Twitter

  'Atheist Extremism' is a strange phrase. The Pope scolding those of us who would have seen his Holy ass arrested gu.com/p/2jmjy/ip

  September 16 2010, 4:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Limits of Science

  Good sense is the most fairly distributed commodity in the world, Descartes once quipped, because nobody thinks he needs any more of it than he already has. A neat illustration of…

  September 16 2010, 7:12am | Comments

• Tumblr Entertainment Bear

  September 15 2010, 3:22am | Comments

• Bookmark What is Posthumanism?

  Perhaps you have had a nightmare in which you fell through the bottom of your known universe into a vortex of mutated children, talking animals, mental illness, freakish art, and clamoring…

  September 13 2010, 3:19am | Comments

• Bookmark …glitches without borders (contd.) « GlitchBlog

  [in continuation/response to Rosa’s post responding to Kyle's post responding to Evan's post] Inherent in glitch art is a denial for codification. Attempts to [con/de]fine this phenomenon, which by it’s very…

  September 11 2010, 5:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Speaking Without Words: Dump.fm and Ryder Ripps

  If a picture is worth a thousand words, then maybe we should let dump.fm do the talking. The image-based chat service is the brainchild of Ryder Ripps and the result of…

  September 11 2010, 4:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Code World - 'C' - By Tom McCarthy

  There are many stories Tom McCarthy chooses not to tell in “C,” his tour de force new novel encompassing the short life of one Serge Carrefax, born at the turn of…

  September 11 2010, 4:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Titans of science: David Attenborough meets Richard Dawkins

  We paired up Britain's most celebrated scientists to chat about the big issues: the unity of life, ethics, energy, Handel – and the joy of riding a snowmobile Sir David Attenborough,…

  September 10 2010, 5:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark Analysis: Portal and the Deconstruction of the Institution

  In this in-depth analysis, Daniel Johnson discusses games, language and sociology with regard to Valve's Portal - please note that the article contains story spoilers for the game. In 1959 Erving…

  September 10 2010, 7:33am | Comments

• Tumblr Atemporality is so hot right now (by Matt Jones)

  September 10 2010, 6:40am | Comments

• Twitter

  Am attempting to organise my notes from the last 6 months... "I am not a man, I am dynamite" ...all signs of order predict the coming revolt

  September 10 2010, 5:31am | Comments

• Flickr Atemporality is so hot right now

  September 10 2010, 5:24am | Comments

• Bookmark What concepts do not exist in the English language?

  Carl Honoré (In Praise of Slow) says Canada's Baffin Island Inuit "use the same word—'uvatiarru'—to mean both 'in the distant past' and 'in the distant future.' Time, in such cultures, is…

  September 10 2010, 4:17am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 8 2010, 6:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Mao, King Kong, and the Future of the Book

  In 2004, Bob Stein founded the Institute for the Future of the Book, with the goal of finding new models for publishing as it moved from the page to the screen,…

  September 8 2010, 3:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Why like noise?

  The idea of noise is spreading…. From music into art into politics…. Why? As a synonym of avant-garde: noise as the unexpected, the dissonant and dissident. Its transgressiveness, which is mostly…

  September 8 2010, 3:33am | Comments

• Bookmark The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution

  There has been a rash of books on human evolution in recent years, claiming that it was driven by art (Denis Dutton: The Art Instinct), cooking (Richard Wrangham: Catching Fire), sexual…

  September 8 2010, 3:20am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 7 2010, 9:32am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Flickr Red Dust Storm

  September 5 2010, 6:51am | Comments

• Flickr PALMS

  September 4 2010, 9:40pm | Comments

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