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• 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…

  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

• Bookmark Is Google Making Us Stupid? | The Atlantic

  I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the…

  February 2 2009, 4:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark Further Reading on Reading | NYTimes

  What does it mean to read in a digital age? Researchers are just beginning to explore the question, and educators are engaged in passionate debate about how reading may be changing…

  February 2 2009, 4:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark Simon Biggs

  Website and interactive portfolio of artist

  January 30 2009, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Dick Higgins: Statement on Intermedia

  Art is one of the ways that people communicate. It is difficult for me to imagine a serious person attacking any means of communication per se. Our real enemies are the…

  January 30 2009, 6:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations

  A new brain-imaging study is shedding light on what it means to "get lost" in a good book — suggesting that readers create vivid mental simulations of the sounds, sights, tastes…

  January 29 2009, 6:04am | Comments

• Writing for Spacecollective The Total Library Project

  Books that redefine reality - or - How to redefine the book...

  January 29 2009, 2:58am | Comments

• Metafilter A nation of nonbelievers "The government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian Religion." ~ George Washington / "I do not find in Christianity one redeeming feature." ~ Thomas Jefferson / "The Bible is not my book, nor Christianity my religion." ~…

  January 20 2009, 11:40am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 12 2009, 5:10pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Outsider Art | Wikipedia The term Outsider Art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for Art Brut (IPA: /aʁ bʁu/; meaning "raw art" or "rough art"), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the…

  January 6 2009, 5:43am | Comments

• Wikipedia Henry Darger | Wikipedia Henry Joseph Darger, Jr. (April 12(?), 1892–April 13, 1973) was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a janitor in Chicago, Illinois.[1] He has become famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls,…

  January 6 2009, 5:41am | Comments

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• 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

• Bookmark Is Google Making Us Stupid? | The Atlantic

  I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the…

  February 2 2009, 4:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark Further Reading on Reading | NYTimes

  What does it mean to read in a digital age? Researchers are just beginning to explore the question, and educators are engaged in passionate debate about how reading may be changing…

  February 2 2009, 4:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark Simon Biggs

  Website and interactive portfolio of artist

  January 30 2009, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Dick Higgins: Statement on Intermedia

  Art is one of the ways that people communicate. It is difficult for me to imagine a serious person attacking any means of communication per se. Our real enemies are the…

  January 30 2009, 6:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations

  A new brain-imaging study is shedding light on what it means to "get lost" in a good book — suggesting that readers create vivid mental simulations of the sounds, sights, tastes…

  January 29 2009, 6:04am | Comments

• Writing for Spacecollective The Total Library Project

  Books that redefine reality - or - How to redefine the book...

  January 29 2009, 2:58am | Comments

• Metafilter A nation of nonbelievers "The government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian Religion." ~ George Washington / "I do not find in Christianity one redeeming feature." ~ Thomas Jefferson / "The Bible is not my book, nor Christianity my religion." ~…

  January 20 2009, 11:40am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 12 2009, 5:10pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Outsider Art | Wikipedia The term Outsider Art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for Art Brut (IPA: /aʁ bʁu/; meaning "raw art" or "rough art"), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the…

  January 6 2009, 5:43am | Comments

• Wikipedia Henry Darger | Wikipedia Henry Joseph Darger, Jr. (April 12(?), 1892–April 13, 1973) was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a janitor in Chicago, Illinois.[1] He has become famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls,…

  January 6 2009, 5:41am | Comments

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