MachineMachine /stream - tagged with books http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron text@machinemachine.net Culturomics: Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books http://mfi.uchicago.edu/publications/papers/Science_Culturomics.pdf/untitled Culturomics: Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books: http://t.co/sBpgdz1Z via @mosabou #PDF #digital ]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:05:11 -0700 http://mfi.uchicago.edu/publications/papers/Science_Culturomics.pdf/untitled Speculative Realism Pathfinder http://courseweb.lis.illinois.edu/~phettep1/SRPathfinder.html#texts/speculative-realism-pathfinder Speculative Realism reading list http://t.co/Fkm6YZqN rt @t3dy ]]> Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:50:24 -0700 http://courseweb.lis.illinois.edu/~phettep1/SRPathfinder.html#texts/speculative-realism-pathfinder Alan Moore's Masks: A Face to Face http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/111586 Alan Moore and David Lloyd designed it 30 years ago. The V for Vendetta mask appropriated by Occupy protesters the world over. The Guardian recently asked Alan what he thought about the masks. Now Channel 4 news takes him into Occupy territory to face that face. But who is the true anarchist? ]]> Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:20:01 -0700 http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/111586 The P2P Foundation Books of the Year 2011 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-p2p-foundation-book-of-the-year-2011-our-annual-top-ten-list-of-p2p-books/2012/01/09/p2p-foundation-blog-archive-the-p2p-foundation-books-of-the-year-2011-our-annual-top-ten-list-of-p2p-books the ten best p2p books of 2011, our annual selection at the P2P Foundation, David Graeber's Debt is #1 http://t.co/RM8ZMuWh ]]> Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:36:05 -0700 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-p2p-foundation-book-of-the-year-2011-our-annual-top-ten-list-of-p2p-books/2012/01/09/p2p-foundation-blog-archive-the-p2p-foundation-books-of-the-year-2011-our-annual-top-ten-list-of-p2p-books The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick http://www.nytimes.com//the-new-york-times-breaking-news-world-news-amp-multimedia RT @nytimes: The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick — Edited by Pamela Jackson, Jonathan Lethem and Erik Davis — Book Review http://t.co/yrrheIoS ]]> Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:20:23 -0700 http://www.nytimes.com//the-new-york-times-breaking-news-world-news-amp-multimedia All Language Is Murder http://www.vice.com/read/language-is-murder/all-language-is-murder-vice The Word is the Murder of the Thing http://t.co/Y1H5W9zS ]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:50:14 -0700 http://www.vice.com/read/language-is-murder/all-language-is-murder-vice Tom McCarthy: My desktop http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/24/tom-mccarthy-desktop?mobile-redirect=false I must belong to the only generation of writers who've written with all three of inkpen, typewriter and computer. It definitely matters: the technology colours not only the rhythm but the whole logic of what you write. Think of Kafka's obsession with writing machines: the harrow that inscribes the law onto the skin in In the Penal Colony or the mysterious writing desk in Amerika: writing technologies themselves are imbued with terrifying and sacred dimensions, and become the subject, not just the medium, of the story. I used to have a beautiful old German typewriter, that you had to throw… ]]> Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:34:28 -0700 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/24/tom-mccarthy-desktop?mobile-redirect=false On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine' http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/14/turner.php/cabinet-the-influencing-machine On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine' http://t.co/CBehMiY8 from #Cabinet, 2004 ]]> Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:21:41 -0700 http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/14/turner.php/cabinet-the-influencing-machine Zombie Editions: An Archaeology of POD Areopagiticas http://blog.whitneyannetrettien.com/2010/12/zombie-editions-archaeology-of-pod.html This is a zombie edition, one of many I found for early modern texts on Amazon. Produced as cheap print-on-demand editions from EEBO or GoogleBook scans, they're listed alongside reputable scholarly print editions published by university presses, indistinguishable at first glance except for a few glaring markers. Like a mismatched cover image -- -- or excessively expressive titles: Closer examination reveals their undead status. In the case of English Reprints Jhon Milton Areopagitica, the publisher is the aptly-named BiblioLife, a project of BiblioLabs, which designs software "to address the challenges of cost-effectively bringing old books back to life." (BiblioLabs takes… ]]> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:06:15 -0700 http://blog.whitneyannetrettien.com/2010/12/zombie-editions-archaeology-of-pod.html Reading Life - What We Do to Books http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/books/review/reading-life-what-we-do-to-books.html There has always been a lot of discussion about the effect that reading books has on us. Far less attention has been paid to the effect that we (the readers) have on them (the books). I don’t mean on the reputations or royalties of the authors who wrote the books but on the actual physical objects themselves. As a kid I borrowed books from libraries. When I was a student I often bought used books, some with other people’s annotations in pencil. These could be erased, but I occasionally settled for a book with the previous owner’s name and notes… ]]> Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:08:09 -0700 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/books/review/reading-life-what-we-do-to-books.html Reading Life - What We Do to Books http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/books/review/reading-life-what-we-do-to-books.html There has always been a lot of discussion about the effect that reading books has on us. Far less attention has been paid to the effect that we (the readers) have on them (the books). I don’t mean on the reputations or royalties of the authors who wrote the books but on the actual physical objects themselves.

As a kid I borrowed books from libraries. When I was a student I often bought used books, some with other people’s annotations in pencil. These could be erased, but I occasionally settled for a book with the previous owner’s… ]]> Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:32:05 -0700 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/books/review/reading-life-what-we-do-to-books.html The New Atheism http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/26/james-wood-the-new-atheism?CMP=twt_fd Trapped in the childhood literalism of my background, I had not entertained the possibility of Christian belief separated from the great lure and threat of heaven and hell.

The New Atheism is locked into a similar kind of literalism. It parasitically lives off its enemy. Just as evangelical Christianity is characterised by scriptural literalism and an uncomplicated belief in a "personal God", so the New Atheism often seems engaged only in doing battle with scriptural literalism; but the only way to combat such literalism is with rival literalism. The God of the New Atheism and the God… ]]> Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:21:05 -0700 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/26/james-wood-the-new-atheism?CMP=twt_fd The Manichean World of Tim Wu http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_manichean_world_of_tim_wu For the past dozen years, several distinguished thinkers about law and technology have warned that a golden age of Internet freedom may be about to close. The most influential alarm-ringer has been Lawrence Lessig, who argued in his 1999 book, Code, that under corporate and governmental pressures, the Net could be flipped to serve top-down control instead of individual freedom. In The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It (2008), Jonathan Zittrain showed why this reversal might come about as a result of popular demand. Both the personal computer and the Internet are what Zittrain calls “generative” technologies,… ]]> Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:34:27 -0700 http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_manichean_world_of_tim_wu Samir Chopra and Laurence F. White: A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents, University of Michigan Press http://press.umich.edu/titledetaildesc.do?id=356801/samir-chopra-and-laurence-f-white-a-legal-theory-for-autonomous-artificial-agents-university-of-michigan-press RT @XiXiDu: A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents http://t.co/RioYhh3

#x #agency #ai #law #politics #books #autonomy ]]> Mon, 15 Aug 2011 01:47:50 -0700 http://press.umich.edu/titledetaildesc.do?id=356801/samir-chopra-and-laurence-f-white-a-legal-theory-for-autonomous-artificial-agents-university-of-michigan-press Alan Moore - Monsters, Maniacs and Moore Pt 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucba9NtF3cE&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 03:19:03 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucba9NtF3cE&feature=youtube_gdata How Google Dominates Us http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/aug/18/how-google-dominates-us/?pagination=false Most of the time Google does not actually have the answers. When people say, “I looked it up on Google,” they are committing a solecism. When they try to erase their embarrassing personal histories “on Google,” they are barking up the wrong tree. It is seldom right to say that anything is true “according to Google.” Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for “hamadryad,” and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it’s a rock band, too, wouldn’t you know). Google defines its mission as “to organize the world’s… ]]> Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:17:11 -0700 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/aug/18/how-google-dominates-us/?pagination=false Content For Users on the Move http://www.printmag.com/Article/Content-for-Users-on-the-Move What is a book, really? For that matter, what is an article, a record, or a movie? For each of these, I have a very clear picture in my mind that says more about when I came of age than about the content itself. When I think of books, my mind retrieves an image of my grandparents’ bookshelves, which I used to browse after school as a child. Records? I see the CD stacks of my teenage years, collected from local music shops and trading with friends. And somehow, thinking about movies still produces images of VHS tapes and memories… ]]> Wed, 13 Jul 2011 02:35:42 -0700 http://www.printmag.com/Article/Content-for-Users-on-the-Move Ubik: Philip K. Dick http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/7527941832

Ubik

book-aesthete:

Philip K. Dick. Garden City: Doubleday, 1969 

First edition, first printing of this scarce title.

]]> Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:39:11 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/7527941832 Friday, by Michel Tournier http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tournier.htm French writer, who gained fame at the age of forty-three with his first novel, Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (1967, Friday; or, The Other Island), an ingenious reworking of the classic Robinson Crusoe theme. Michel Tournier's parodic and sometimes disturbing works can be read as comments upon the contemporary world, but are often based on old myths and stories.

Robinson was too exhausted to measure the full extent of his misfortune. "Since it isn't Más a Tierra" he reflected simply, "then it is the Island of Desolation," summing up his own situation with this impropmptu babtism.… ]]> Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:36:10 -0700 http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tournier.htm Why we must remember to delete - and forget - in the digital age http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/30/remember-delete-forget-digital-age In Delete, Mayer-Schönberger traces the history of such external memories – cave paintings, scrolls, photographic slides, diaries – and their importance to the flourishing of human knowledge. "Since the early days of humankind," he writes, "we have tried to remember, to preserve our knowledge, to hold on to our memories and we have devised numerous devices and mechanisms to aid us. Yet through millennia, forgetting has remained just a bit easier and cheaper than remembering."

No longer. Because of the digital revolution, he argues, it is easier to keep everything – the drunken email you sent your… ]]> Fri, 01 Jul 2011 03:46:21 -0700 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/30/remember-delete-forget-digital-age