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• Bookmark 'A Thousand Years of Non Linear History' : reVIEW

  A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History is one the most intelligent, stimulating, and rewarding books I have read in a long time - it even surpasses De Landa's previous War in…

  March 24 2010, 10:25am | Comments

• Bibliography A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

  March 24 2010, 10:07am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 24 2010, 4:15am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 23 2010, 4:48am | Comments

• Flickr DSC_0220

  March 22 2010, 3:07am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark On Reading and This Progress, Connecting Lévi-Strauss and Tino Sehgal

  Buried in the middle of Claude Lévi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques, a book digressive in exactly the right way, is an astonishing argument about writing. Lévi-Strauss considers what the invention of writing might…

  March 21 2010, 1:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Avatar and the Flight from Reality

  In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Artist of the Beautiful” (1844), a prototypical nerd with few social graces and no head for business turns a watchmaker’s shop into an artist’s studio…

  March 21 2010, 12:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark If Odysseus Had GPS

  When Robinson Crusoe was stranded on a tropical island he did pretty well for himself, all things considered. But to the rest of the world he was as good as dead.…

  March 21 2010, 12:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark The new Buddhist atheism

  In God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens writes of Buddhism as the sleep of reason, and of Buddhists as discarding their minds as well as their sandals. His passionate diatribe appeared…

  March 21 2010, 12:52pm | Comments

• Bookmark Scientists supersize quantum mechanics

  A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving. Andrew Cleland…

  March 21 2010, 12:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark Sceptic challenges guru to kill him live on TV

  When a famous tantric guru boasted on television that he could kill another man using only his mystical powers, most viewers either gasped in awe or merely nodded unquestioningly. Sanal Edamaruku’s…

  March 21 2010, 12:49pm | Comments

• Bookmark Two podcasts about sound art

  "Starting with the precedents set by Charles Ives and John Cage, VARIATIONS presents the principal milestones of Sampling Music, looking at examples from 20th century composition, popular art and the mass…

  March 21 2010, 12:48pm | Comments

• Podcast /noise : The Jazz; The Blues; The Schnizzle

  March 20 2010, 6:32am | Comments

• Hello Grandad Tremors begin at the out-stretched tip. By slowly massaging the exposed area a sense of euphoria can...

  March 19 2010, 2:49am | Comments

• Hello Grandad The moment he pulled it out the castle exploded.

  March 18 2010, 8:07am | Comments

• Flickr Nostalgia.

  March 17 2010, 4:20am | Comments

• Podcast /noise : In Under Two Minutes

  March 13 2010, 3:54am | Comments

• Vimeo

  March 13 2010, 2:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Triumph of the Cyborg Composer

  Along with his work on synthesis, or using machines to create sounds, Cope had dabbled in the use of software to compose music. Inspired by the field of artificial intelligence, he…

  March 12 2010, 3:09am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 11 2010, 1:31pm | Comments

• Portfolio Raising Neanderthals

  March 11 2010, 8:35am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 11 2010, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Seen in a new light, Giotto's Florentine masterpieces

  Restoration experts have used ultra violet rays to shine an astonishing new light on the work of one of the most important painters in the history of Western art. The paintings…

  March 10 2010, 10:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Is "Science Fiction Humanism" A Contradiction In Terms?

  People talk about science fiction as the literature of humanism. But actually, science fiction's explorations put it into conflict with humanism's tenets. The best science fiction questions the nature of humanity,…

  March 10 2010, 9:54am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter A taxonomy of GAMES / game types? Types of Games: I have come across various attempts to catalogue the possible varieties of stories that exist. The basic assumption being that all plots (narratives?) can be be boiled down to one among only a few types e.g. Hero leaves the kingdom;…

  March 10 2010, 8:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Symphony in J flat

  What prevents Bohlen-Pierce from becoming unpleasant, dissonant noise is the fact that is not merely an avant-garde musician taking a hacksaw to our current musical system for sheer destructive glee. In…

  March 9 2010, 11:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark The 'Basic' Plots in Literature

  Q: I’ve heard there are only 7 (or 5, 20, 36…) basic plots (or themes) in all of literature. What are they? A: People often say that there are only a…

  March 9 2010, 3:35pm | Comments

• Bookmark Chtodelat? / What is to be done?

  Chto delat? / What is to be done? was founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod (see…

  March 9 2010, 10:10am | Comments

• Flickr Nut Removed

  March 9 2010, 4:13am | Comments

• Bookmark A Provisional Theory of Non-Sites: Robert Smithson

  By drawing a diagram, a ground plan of a house, a street plan to the location of a site, or a topographic map, one draws a "logical two dimensional picture." A…

  March 7 2010, 3:53pm | Comments

• Bookmark An evolutionary biologist on religion: Spirit level

  WHEREVER their investigations lead, all analysts of religion begin somewhere. And in the final lines of his densely but skilfully packed account of faith from the viewpoint of evolutionary biology, Nicholas…

  March 7 2010, 3:52pm | Comments

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• Bookmark 'A Thousand Years of Non Linear History' : reVIEW

  A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History is one the most intelligent, stimulating, and rewarding books I have read in a long time - it even surpasses De Landa's previous War in…

  March 24 2010, 10:25am | Comments

• Bibliography A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

  March 24 2010, 10:07am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 24 2010, 4:15am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 23 2010, 4:48am | Comments

• Flickr DSC_0220

  March 22 2010, 3:07am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark On Reading and This Progress, Connecting Lévi-Strauss and Tino Sehgal

  Buried in the middle of Claude Lévi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques, a book digressive in exactly the right way, is an astonishing argument about writing. Lévi-Strauss considers what the invention of writing might…

  March 21 2010, 1:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Avatar and the Flight from Reality

  In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Artist of the Beautiful” (1844), a prototypical nerd with few social graces and no head for business turns a watchmaker’s shop into an artist’s studio…

  March 21 2010, 12:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark If Odysseus Had GPS

  When Robinson Crusoe was stranded on a tropical island he did pretty well for himself, all things considered. But to the rest of the world he was as good as dead.…

  March 21 2010, 12:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark The new Buddhist atheism

  In God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens writes of Buddhism as the sleep of reason, and of Buddhists as discarding their minds as well as their sandals. His passionate diatribe appeared…

  March 21 2010, 12:52pm | Comments

• Bookmark Scientists supersize quantum mechanics

  A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving. Andrew Cleland…

  March 21 2010, 12:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark Sceptic challenges guru to kill him live on TV

  When a famous tantric guru boasted on television that he could kill another man using only his mystical powers, most viewers either gasped in awe or merely nodded unquestioningly. Sanal Edamaruku’s…

  March 21 2010, 12:49pm | Comments

• Bookmark Two podcasts about sound art

  "Starting with the precedents set by Charles Ives and John Cage, VARIATIONS presents the principal milestones of Sampling Music, looking at examples from 20th century composition, popular art and the mass…

  March 21 2010, 12:48pm | Comments

• Podcast /noise : The Jazz; The Blues; The Schnizzle

  March 20 2010, 6:32am | Comments

• Hello Grandad Tremors begin at the out-stretched tip. By slowly massaging the exposed area a sense of euphoria can...

  March 19 2010, 2:49am | Comments

• Hello Grandad The moment he pulled it out the castle exploded.

  March 18 2010, 8:07am | Comments

• Flickr Nostalgia.

  March 17 2010, 4:20am | Comments

• Podcast /noise : In Under Two Minutes

  March 13 2010, 3:54am | Comments

• Vimeo

  March 13 2010, 2:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Triumph of the Cyborg Composer

  Along with his work on synthesis, or using machines to create sounds, Cope had dabbled in the use of software to compose music. Inspired by the field of artificial intelligence, he…

  March 12 2010, 3:09am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 11 2010, 1:31pm | Comments

• Portfolio Raising Neanderthals

  March 11 2010, 8:35am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 11 2010, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Seen in a new light, Giotto's Florentine masterpieces

  Restoration experts have used ultra violet rays to shine an astonishing new light on the work of one of the most important painters in the history of Western art. The paintings…

  March 10 2010, 10:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Is "Science Fiction Humanism" A Contradiction In Terms?

  People talk about science fiction as the literature of humanism. But actually, science fiction's explorations put it into conflict with humanism's tenets. The best science fiction questions the nature of humanity,…

  March 10 2010, 9:54am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter A taxonomy of GAMES / game types? Types of Games: I have come across various attempts to catalogue the possible varieties of stories that exist. The basic assumption being that all plots (narratives?) can be be boiled down to one among only a few types e.g. Hero leaves the kingdom;…

  March 10 2010, 8:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Symphony in J flat

  What prevents Bohlen-Pierce from becoming unpleasant, dissonant noise is the fact that is not merely an avant-garde musician taking a hacksaw to our current musical system for sheer destructive glee. In…

  March 9 2010, 11:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark The 'Basic' Plots in Literature

  Q: I’ve heard there are only 7 (or 5, 20, 36…) basic plots (or themes) in all of literature. What are they? A: People often say that there are only a…

  March 9 2010, 3:35pm | Comments

• Bookmark Chtodelat? / What is to be done?

  Chto delat? / What is to be done? was founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod (see…

  March 9 2010, 10:10am | Comments

• Flickr Nut Removed

  March 9 2010, 4:13am | Comments

• Bookmark A Provisional Theory of Non-Sites: Robert Smithson

  By drawing a diagram, a ground plan of a house, a street plan to the location of a site, or a topographic map, one draws a "logical two dimensional picture." A…

  March 7 2010, 3:53pm | Comments

• Bookmark An evolutionary biologist on religion: Spirit level

  WHEREVER their investigations lead, all analysts of religion begin somewhere. And in the final lines of his densely but skilfully packed account of faith from the viewpoint of evolutionary biology, Nicholas…

  March 7 2010, 3:52pm | Comments

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