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• Bookmark Evil Lair: On the Architecture of the Enemy in Videogame Worlds

  Game developers are unconstrained in their designs for the enemy. Such designers will be punished with poor sales, not death in the gulag, if their designs for the overlord are unpopular.…

  May 17 2009, 3:23am | Comments

• Flickr Brian Dettmer, Key Monuments #2

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• Bookmark Presentation Zen: Making presentations in the TED style

  TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked to…

  May 12 2009, 3:06pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Archive or algorithm?

  May 6 2009, 4:26am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

  May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

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• Bookmark MachineAnimalCollages

  Fantastic meat landscapes and animals made of machinery

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

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• Flickr The performance space

  May 1 2009, 6:23am | Comments

• Bibliography The Language of New Media

  April 27 2009, 10:12am | Comments

• Misc 3quarksdaily (An Eclectic Digest of Science, Art and Literature) machine says: What traditional libraries need is a more networked, discursive interface.I love the British Library. I spent half of my study time there last year, searching for specific books in the database and picking them up from the collection desks to study…

  April 23 2009, 12:51am | Comments

• Bookmark A Society of Simulations

  This essay aims to increase our understanding of simulations and their impact on our notion of reality. Following on some observations regarding the dominant role of visual representations in our culture,…

  April 20 2009, 3:22pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Third Policeman

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• Misc Fish and Rice Cakes

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• Flickr Jump!

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• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Was Schroedinger first or Borges: Which came first, the cat or the mirror? Did Borges read Schroedinger?The arithmetical system of Tlön "states that the operation of counting modifies quantities and changes them from indefinites into definites."The sequence of history makes it possible. Borges's omnivorous reading habits and academic/social prowess help the probability. Yet Schroedinger's initial obscurity…

  April 2 2009, 11:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark If Atheists Ruled the World | Youtube

  Dramatised reading of message-board posts about atheism from Christian fundamentalist message boards

  April 2 2009, 6:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Luis Camnitzer: Art and Literacy | Journal / e-flux

  [T]his theory—that if one wants to be able to write something, one should know how it is written—has some logic to it. It forces one first to read, then to copy…

  March 23 2009, 4:00pm | Comments

• YouTube

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• Bookmark Within Any Possible Universe, No Intellect Can Ever Know It All |…

  Deep in the deluge of knowledge that poured forth from science in the 20th century were found ironclad limits on what we can know. Werner Heisenberg discovered that improved precision regarding,…

  March 17 2009, 9:35am | Comments

• Wikipedia wikipedia before wikipedia | if:book I've been reading Tom McArthur's Worlds of Reference: lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer, a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials published in 1986. The last section, titled "Tomorrow's World" is interesting in hindsight: having looked at…

  March 13 2009, 5:48am | Comments

• Bookmark wikipedia before wikipedia | if:book

  I've been reading Tom McArthur's Worlds of Reference: lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer, a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials published in 1986. The…

  March 13 2009, 5:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Immaterial Labour in the Digital Economy | Eleni Ikoniadou

  The Internet, arguably the most influential digital medium, has sparked an explosion of debate throughout recent years, regarding its economic, political and social status; a space where its structure is constantly…

  March 13 2009, 5:45am | Comments

• Wikipedia Fallacy of misplaced concreteness | Wikipedia In the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion or concept about the way things are for a physical or 'concrete' reality. Whitehead proposed the fallacy in a discussion of the…

  March 12 2009, 6:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark Fallacy of misplaced concreteness | Wikipedia

  In the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion or concept about the way things are for a physical…

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• Wikipedia Alan Watts - Wikipedia Alan Wilson Watts (January 6, 1915 – November 16, 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, speaker, and student of comparative religion. He was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western audience. He wrote more than 25 books…

  March 12 2009, 6:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark Michel Serres: Journals/Articles

  Writings about author, Michel Serres

  March 11 2009, 10:45am | Comments

• Writing for 3quarksdaily Writing (Hyper)text and Image

  A Polyptychal Discursion: This text, designed with its own concerns in mind, diverges on many trajectories, crossing over itself, intersecting its arguments and statements with images and forms which question the traditional logic of the essay. This text will become enabled not through a…

  February 23 2009, 7:07am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org Traversing the Altermodern: Tate Britain’s 4th Triennial

  February 18 2009, 6:58pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter New theories of Mimesis (in digital/hypertextual/ hypermedial cultures) I am looking for writings on mimesis in regards new, digital, hypertext and hypermedial technologies and cultures. I am following the redefinition of mimesis. From Plato's disregard of oral culture, through his mimesis of Socrates' dialogues in writing. Following Plato, Aristotle's theory was…

  February 16 2009, 7:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Liam Gillick: The Discursive | Journal / e-flux

  A discursive model of praxis has developed within the critical art context over the last twenty years. It is the offspring of critical theory and improvised, self-organized structures. It is the…

  February 16 2009, 5:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Lewis Carroll in Numberland

  Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, was a mathematician at Oxford University for most of his life. His fanciful “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass” are…

  February 4 2009, 10:17am | Comments

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• Bookmark Evil Lair: On the Architecture of the Enemy in Videogame Worlds

  Game developers are unconstrained in their designs for the enemy. Such designers will be punished with poor sales, not death in the gulag, if their designs for the overlord are unpopular.…

  May 17 2009, 3:23am | Comments

• Flickr Brian Dettmer, Key Monuments #2

  May 13 2009, 5:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Presentation Zen: Making presentations in the TED style

  TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked to…

  May 12 2009, 3:06pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Archive or algorithm?

  May 6 2009, 4:26am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

  May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

• Bookmark MachineAnimalCollages

  Fantastic meat landscapes and animals made of machinery

  May 5 2009, 1:02am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

• Flickr The performance space

  May 1 2009, 6:23am | Comments

• Bibliography The Language of New Media

  April 27 2009, 10:12am | Comments

• Misc 3quarksdaily (An Eclectic Digest of Science, Art and Literature) machine says: What traditional libraries need is a more networked, discursive interface.I love the British Library. I spent half of my study time there last year, searching for specific books in the database and picking them up from the collection desks to study…

  April 23 2009, 12:51am | Comments

• Bookmark A Society of Simulations

  This essay aims to increase our understanding of simulations and their impact on our notion of reality. Following on some observations regarding the dominant role of visual representations in our culture,…

  April 20 2009, 3:22pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Third Policeman

  April 16 2009, 1:11pm | Comments

• Misc Fish and Rice Cakes

  April 16 2009, 8:58am | Comments

• Flickr Jump!

  April 5 2009, 5:42am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Was Schroedinger first or Borges: Which came first, the cat or the mirror? Did Borges read Schroedinger?The arithmetical system of Tlön "states that the operation of counting modifies quantities and changes them from indefinites into definites."The sequence of history makes it possible. Borges's omnivorous reading habits and academic/social prowess help the probability. Yet Schroedinger's initial obscurity…

  April 2 2009, 11:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark If Atheists Ruled the World | Youtube

  Dramatised reading of message-board posts about atheism from Christian fundamentalist message boards

  April 2 2009, 6:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Luis Camnitzer: Art and Literacy | Journal / e-flux

  [T]his theory—that if one wants to be able to write something, one should know how it is written—has some logic to it. It forces one first to read, then to copy…

  March 23 2009, 4:00pm | Comments

• YouTube

  March 23 2009, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Within Any Possible Universe, No Intellect Can Ever Know It All |…

  Deep in the deluge of knowledge that poured forth from science in the 20th century were found ironclad limits on what we can know. Werner Heisenberg discovered that improved precision regarding,…

  March 17 2009, 9:35am | Comments

• Wikipedia wikipedia before wikipedia | if:book I've been reading Tom McArthur's Worlds of Reference: lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer, a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials published in 1986. The last section, titled "Tomorrow's World" is interesting in hindsight: having looked at…

  March 13 2009, 5:48am | Comments

• Bookmark wikipedia before wikipedia | if:book

  I've been reading Tom McArthur's Worlds of Reference: lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer, a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials published in 1986. The…

  March 13 2009, 5:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Immaterial Labour in the Digital Economy | Eleni Ikoniadou

  The Internet, arguably the most influential digital medium, has sparked an explosion of debate throughout recent years, regarding its economic, political and social status; a space where its structure is constantly…

  March 13 2009, 5:45am | Comments

• Wikipedia Fallacy of misplaced concreteness | Wikipedia In the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion or concept about the way things are for a physical or 'concrete' reality. Whitehead proposed the fallacy in a discussion of the…

  March 12 2009, 6:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark Fallacy of misplaced concreteness | Wikipedia

  In the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion or concept about the way things are for a physical…

  March 12 2009, 6:08pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Alan Watts - Wikipedia Alan Wilson Watts (January 6, 1915 – November 16, 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, speaker, and student of comparative religion. He was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western audience. He wrote more than 25 books…

  March 12 2009, 6:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark Michel Serres: Journals/Articles

  Writings about author, Michel Serres

  March 11 2009, 10:45am | Comments

• Writing for 3quarksdaily Writing (Hyper)text and Image

  A Polyptychal Discursion: This text, designed with its own concerns in mind, diverges on many trajectories, crossing over itself, intersecting its arguments and statements with images and forms which question the traditional logic of the essay. This text will become enabled not through a…

  February 23 2009, 7:07am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org Traversing the Altermodern: Tate Britain’s 4th Triennial

  February 18 2009, 6:58pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter New theories of Mimesis (in digital/hypertextual/ hypermedial cultures) I am looking for writings on mimesis in regards new, digital, hypertext and hypermedial technologies and cultures. I am following the redefinition of mimesis. From Plato's disregard of oral culture, through his mimesis of Socrates' dialogues in writing. Following Plato, Aristotle's theory was…

  February 16 2009, 7:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Liam Gillick: The Discursive | Journal / e-flux

  A discursive model of praxis has developed within the critical art context over the last twenty years. It is the offspring of critical theory and improvised, self-organized structures. It is the…

  February 16 2009, 5:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Lewis Carroll in Numberland

  Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, was a mathematician at Oxford University for most of his life. His fanciful “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass” are…

  February 4 2009, 10:17am | Comments

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