MachineMachine /stream - tagged with self http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com The Dark Sides of Our Digital Self http://www.theemotionmachine.com/the-dark-sides-of-our-digital-self/the-dark-sides-of-our-digital-self RT @furtherfield: The Dark Sides of Our #Digital Self - http://t.co/C9JyB0O9 ]]> Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:51:26 -0700 http://www.theemotionmachine.com/the-dark-sides-of-our-digital-self/the-dark-sides-of-our-digital-self When new narratives meet old brains http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/11/storytelling-20-when-new-narratives-meet-old-brains.html We're hard-wired to turn our lives into stories - how will we cope with the dizzying digital fictions of the future, ask John Bickle and Sean Keating

"We are our narratives" has become a popular slogan. "We" refers to our selves, in the full-blooded person-constituting sense. "Narratives" refers to the stories we tell about our selves and our exploits in settings as trivial as cocktail parties and as serious as intimate discussions with loved ones. We express some in speech. Others we tell silently to ourselves, in that constant little inner voice. The full collection of one's… ]]> Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:29:00 -0700 http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/11/storytelling-20-when-new-narratives-meet-old-brains.html Consciousness, Qualia, and Self http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTWmTJALe1w&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:41:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTWmTJALe1w&feature=youtube_gdata Leonardo da Vinci's Resume http://www.cenedella.com/stone/archives/2010/01/leonardo_da_vincis_resume.html From the Codex Atlanticus, this is a letter that Leonardo da Vinci wrote in 1482 to the Duke of Milan advertising his services as a "skilled contriver of instruments of war". From the translation: 6. I have means by secret and tortuous mines and ways, made without noise, to reach a designated spot, even if it were needed to pass under a trench or a river. So, Leonardo was pretty much Q from the Bond films or Lucius Fox from Batman. But the artist was in there as well...at the bottom of his list, stuck in almost as an afterthought:… ]]> Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:31:00 -0700 http://www.cenedella.com/stone/archives/2010/01/leonardo_da_vincis_resume.html On Being in Japan and Elsewhere http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/09/on-being-in-japan-and-elsewhere.html

by Daniel Rourke

Japan. That's where I am. With the rice-triangles and the tatami-mats and row upon row of vending machines. In a country where serving others is paramount, and where holidays are something that other people do, I find myself being served - on holiday... I am the ultimate gaijin 1 and every ticket I buy and photo I take seems to confirm this. I came to see Japan. But now I realise that the culture of seeing has been commodified into an experience in itself, and perhaps not an…

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