MachineMachine /stream - tagged with reference http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron text@machinemachine.net Computer viruses infecting worms to create hybrid 'Frankenmalware' http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/28/2753951/computer-viruses-infect-worms-frankenmalware?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter/computer-viruses-infecting-worms-to-create-hybrid-frankenmalware-says-bitdefender-the-verge IT'S ALIVE! Computer viruses begin infecting worms to create 'Frankenmalware' http://t.co/jlDkGP7t #hybrids ]]> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:36:02 -0700 http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/28/2753951/computer-viruses-infect-worms-frankenmalware?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter/computer-viruses-infecting-worms-to-create-hybrid-frankenmalware-says-bitdefender-the-verge Re:Thinking Games http://www.furtherfield.org/researchpublicatios/artists-rethinking-games/artists-rethinking-games-wwwfurtherfieldorg Artists Re:Thinking Games | Editors Catlow, Garrett, Morgana | only a few left http://t.co/SmCu4kxu ]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:50:56 -0700 http://www.furtherfield.org/researchpublicatios/artists-rethinking-games/artists-rethinking-games-wwwfurtherfieldorg 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 The Era of Networked Science http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.1/michael_nielsen_reinventing_discovery.php The Internet may well have its downsides, but it also has the potential to make us collectively smarter, according to open-science advocate Michael Nielsen. In Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science, Nielsen argues that networked digital tools, such as discussion boards and online marketplaces, can make it easier for scientists to pool their data, share methodologies, and find far-flung collaborators. Even non-scientists are participating in large-scale citizen science projects. In Nielsen’s view, however, public policy has yet to catch up to technology. The digital environment will amplify our collective intelligence, but only if there are incentives for people… ]]> Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:41:40 -0700 http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.1/michael_nielsen_reinventing_discovery.php Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia”: A Discussion http://www.filmquarterly.org/2012/01/lars-von-triers-melancholia-a-discussion/ Lars von Trier’s latest has been overshadowed by the director’s ill-judged comments at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. This is a pity because, as Film Quarterly Writer-at-Large NINA POWER and editor ROB WHITE discuss (resuming a dialogue begun here in regard to von Trier’s Antichrist), Melancholia is a rich, fascinating, and radical work. ]]> Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:07:49 -0700 http://www.filmquarterly.org/2012/01/lars-von-triers-melancholia-a-discussion/ On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks http://splitsider.com/2012/01/the-ballad-of-horse_ebooks/the-ballad-of-horse-ebooks-splitsider On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks : http://t.co/QYGn0092 #fb ]]> Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:06:45 -0700 http://splitsider.com/2012/01/the-ballad-of-horse_ebooks/the-ballad-of-horse-ebooks-splitsider The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith http://www.harpers.org/archive/2011/12/0083720 The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles. One can add to the list of the fully explained: the hue of the sky, the orbits of planets, the angle of the wake of a boat moving through a lake, the six-sided patterns of snowflakes, the weight of a flying bustard, the temperature of boiling water, the size of raindrops, the circular shape of the sun. All these phenomena and many more, once thought to have been… ]]> Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:24:04 -0700 http://www.harpers.org/archive/2011/12/0083720 Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27379 Evidence has emerged that the brain's capacity to absorb information is limiting the amount of data humanity can produce ]]> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:35:04 -0700 http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27379 Neanderthal Neuroscience http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/11/14/neanderthal-neuroscience/ As scientists began to build a database of human DNA in the 1990s, it became possible to test these ideas with genes. In his talk, Paabo described how he and his colleagues managed to extract some fragments of DNA from a Neanderthal fossil–by coincidence, the very first Neanderthal discovered in 1857. The DNA was of a special sort. Along with the bulk of our genes, which are located in the nucleus of our cells, we also carry bits of DNA in jellybean-shaped structures called mitochondria. Since there are hundreds of mitochondria in each cell, it’s easier to grab fragments of… ]]> Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:09:18 -0700 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/11/14/neanderthal-neuroscience/ Threshold science http://aminotes.tumblr.com/post/12236448007/how-walking-through-a-doorway-increases/how-walking-through-a-doorway-increases-lapidarium-notes Threshold science: How walking through a doorway increases forgetting : http://t.co/npVLfW8H ]]> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:51:34 -0700 http://aminotes.tumblr.com/post/12236448007/how-walking-through-a-doorway-increases/how-walking-through-a-doorway-increases-lapidarium-notes The Cyberspace Real (Between Perversion and Trauma) http://www.egs.edu/faculty/slavoj-zizek/articles/the-cyberspace-real Are the pessimistic cultural criticists (from Jean Baudrillard to Paul Virilio) justified in their claim that cyberspace ultimately generates a kind of proto-psychotic immersion into an imaginary universe of hallucinations, unconstrained by any symbolic Law or by any impossibility of some Real? If not, how are we to detect in cyberspace the contours of the other two dimensions of the Lacanian triad ISR, the Symbolic and the Real? As to the symbolic dimension, the solution seems easy — it suffices to focus on the notion of authorship that fits the emerging domain of cyberspace narratives, that of the "procedural authorship":… ]]> Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:33:41 -0700 http://www.egs.edu/faculty/slavoj-zizek/articles/the-cyberspace-real On Science Transfer http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/on_science_transfer/ “Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before. Our modern system for generating novelty and prosperity has stretched to encompass the entire planet, growing more complex and expansive, so that now it seems to groan and shudder beneath its own weight. In its service, some things are falling apart: Non-renewable resources are profligately consumed, ecosystems disrupted, and social traditions steadily relinquished. There seems no way to stop or slow these processes without causing immense, cascading catastrophe. The only… ]]> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:01:31 -0700 http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/on_science_transfer/ “Seriality for All”: The Role of Protocols and Standards in Critical Theory http://nedrossiter.org/?p=286 For many years, philosophers have been casting doubt on the common identification with meaning and signification as the primary human response mechanisms to the world. If we wish to understand anything about how our complex technical society is made up, we must pay attention to the underlying structures that surround us, from industry norms to building regulations, software icons and internet protocols. Yet our ordinary understanding of the world resists this very idea. If we call for another society, with more equality and style, it is not enough to think differently; the very framework of that thinking must be negated… ]]> Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:36:53 -0700 http://nedrossiter.org/?p=286 How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical Artifact"? http://henryjenkins.org/2011/09/how_can_we_understand_code_as.html The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful to explain the field to people as the analysis of technoculture (culture as imbricated with technology) through the entry point of the source code of a particular digital object. The code is not the ends of the analyses, but the beginning. Critical Code Studies finds code meaningful not as text but "as a text," an artifact of a digital moment, full of hooks for discussing digital culture and programming communities.… ]]> Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:23:48 -0700 http://henryjenkins.org/2011/09/how_can_we_understand_code_as.html How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical Artifact"? http://henryjenkins.org/2011/09/how_can_we_understand_code_as.html The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful to explain the field to people as the analysis of technoculture (culture as imbricated with technology) through the entry point of the source code of a particular digital object. The code is not the ends of the analyses, but the beginning. Critical Code Studies finds code meaningful not as text but "as a text," an artifact of a digital moment, full of hooks for discussing digital culture and programming communities.… ]]> Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:26:12 -0700 http://henryjenkins.org/2011/09/how_can_we_understand_code_as.html "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for..." http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/10199710371 “

What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or something like a parasite, with which we must negotiate a contract of symbiosis? I lean toward the second solution, as life itself does. l’m even willing to bet that in the future the best treatment for cancer will switch from eliminating it to a method that will profit from its dynamism.

Why? Because, objectively, we have… ]]> Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:01:00 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/10199710371 Learn/Unlearn/Relearn http://t.co/e75AE1R/learnunlearnrelearn-the-internet-makes-it-hard-to-concentrate-good-distraction-sparks-innovation-amp-creativity-httptcoe75ae1r-x Learn/Unlearn/Relearn. The #internet makes it hard to concentrate. Good. #Distraction sparks innovation & creativity http://t.co/e75AE1R #x ]]> Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:03:29 -0700 http://t.co/e75AE1R/learnunlearnrelearn-the-internet-makes-it-hard-to-concentrate-good-distraction-sparks-innovation-amp-creativity-httptcoe75ae1r-x The Logic of Life by Francois Jacob http://www.librarything.com/work/book/77592602/the-logic-of-life-peregrine-books-by-francois-jacob

Penguin Books Ltd (1989), Edition: New Ed, Paperback, 448 pages

]]> Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:31:52 -0700 http://www.librarything.com/work/book/77592602/the-logic-of-life-peregrine-books-by-francois-jacob Death Is Not the End (Long Live theory!) http://nplusonemag.com/death-not-end Was theory a gigantic hoax? On the contrary. It was the only salvation, for a twenty year period, from two colossal abdications by American thinkers and writers. From about 1975 to 1995, through a historical accident, a lot of American thinking and mental living got done by people who were French, and by young Americans who followed the French. The two grand abdications: one occurred in academic philosophy departments, the other in American fiction. In philosophy, from the 1930s on, a revolutionary group had been fighting inside universities to overcome the “tradition.” This insurgency, at first called “logical positivism” or… ]]> Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:08:16 -0700 http://nplusonemag.com/death-not-end Death Is Not the End (Long Live theory!) http://nplusonemag.com/death-not-end Was theory a gigantic hoax? On the contrary. It was the only salvation, for a twenty year period, from two colossal abdications by American thinkers and writers. From about 1975 to 1995, through a historical accident, a lot of American thinking and mental living got done by people who were French, and by young Americans who followed the French.

The two grand abdications: one occurred in academic philosophy departments, the other in American fiction. In philosophy, from the 1930s on, a revolutionary group had been fighting inside universities to overcome the “tradition.” This insurgency, at first called… ]]> Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:48:43 -0700 http://nplusonemag.com/death-not-end