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Link What Immanuel Kant got right about digital piracy

It turns out that Kant didn't think that an author could mount a strong legal case against piracy based on property rights in words. After all, even after pirates copied…

January 30 2012, 5:28pm | Comments

Twitter Links Culturomics: Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books

We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed. Analysis of this corpus enables us to investigate cultural…

January 29 2012, 4:05am | Comments

Twitter Links Computer viruses infecting worms to create hybrid 'Frankenmalware'

Most computer users are all too aware of the threat of viruses and worms infecting their machines, but according to security research firm BitDefender…

January 28 2012, 11:36am | Comments

Twitter Links Re:Thinking Games

Digital games are important not only because of their cultural ubiquity or their sales figures but for what they can offer as a space…

January 25 2012, 4:50am | Comments

Twitter Links The Pirate Bay - Physibles

Today most data is born digitally. It's not about the transition from analog to digital anymore. We don't talk about how to rip anything…

January 24 2012, 3:11pm | Comments

Twitter Links Internet Regulation & the Economics of Piracy

Since the core function of copyright is to incentivize the production of creative works, it’s also worth looking for signs of declining output associated…

January 19 2012, 8:08am | Comments

Link Kopimism: the world's newest religion explained

Isak Gerson is spiritual leader of the world's newest religion, Kopimism, devoted to file-sharing. On 5 January the Church of Kopimism was formally recognised as a religion by the Swedish…

January 15 2012, 2:32pm | Comments

Twitter Links "How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost

From Roger Ebert’s pedantic proclamation that “video games can never be art” to the clichéd fawning over the truckloads of revenue generated by each…

January 13 2012, 3:50am | Comments

Link The Era of Networked Science

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…

January 13 2012, 3:41am | Comments

Twitter Links The P2P Foundation Books of the Year 2011

Our annual selection at the P2P Foundation

January 9 2012, 2:36am | Comments

Twitter Links File Sharing Is Now an Official Religion In Sweden

The Missionary Church of Kopimism: "I think that more people will have the courage to step out as Kopimists. Maybe not in the public,…

January 4 2012, 10:52am | Comments

Twitter Links The Dark Sides of Our Digital Self

To many, the internet holds great promises of freedom, wealth, power, and opportunity. One great example of this is the dot com bubble. When…

December 18 2011, 4:51am | Comments

Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

December 7 2011, 9:50am | Comments

Link Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan Turing)

I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think." The definitions might be framed so as…

October 31 2011, 6:53am | Comments

Link The Constraint Histories of Digital Games

Attempts to provide a taxonomy of game genres founder on the lack of consistent criteria, and usually have to be arbitrarily assigned. Connecting ‘shooters’ into a lineage suggests scrolling shooters…

October 19 2011, 3:25am | Comments

Link Do Androids Dream of Electric Authors?

But the invasion of robot-books is unsettling for another reason. I think we can all agree that it’s O.K. for robots to take over unpleasant jobs — like cleaning up…

October 16 2011, 7:04am | Comments

Tumblr thomforsyth: BIRD RIB Paintings | Maurizio Bongiovanni My work...

October 2 2011, 4:52am | Comments

Link The Cyberspace Real (Between Perversion and Trauma)

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,…

September 30 2011, 7:33am | Comments

Twitter Links Postmodernism: from the cutting edge to the museum

Postmodernism: Was this pre-digital phenomenon killed off by the Internet?

September 17 2011, 2:03am | Comments

Link The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in…

Berry’s book is less one specific philosophical argument of what software is and what code does, but consists of chapters that illuminate different ways one can approach software and software…

September 6 2011, 4:15am | Comments

Twitter Links Learn/Unlearn/Relearn

The internet makes it hard to concentrate. Good. Distraction sparks innovation & creativity

August 31 2011, 1:03pm | Comments

Twitter Links How Star Trek artists imagined the iPad... 23 years ago

Warning: Contains obligatory reference to Minority Report's Tom-Cruise-Swishy-Hands-Sequence

August 30 2011, 10:44am | Comments

Twitter Links Book review - Media, New Media, Postmedia - we make money not art

Media, New Media, Postmedia - mapping the postmedia perspective : http://j.mp/nX8rlH Book #Review #Postmedia #digital #art #theory #x

August 30 2011, 2:58am | Comments

Twitter Links Media, New Media, Postmedia

Mapping the postmedia perspective Book #Review #Postmedia #digital #art #theory

August 30 2011, 2:58am | Comments

Twitter Links GIF.TV: Digital Addiction At Its Finest

GIF.TV: Digital Addiction At Its Finest

August 29 2011, 6:29am | Comments

Link 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…

August 18 2011, 1:34am | Comments

Twitter Links Rhizome | Keeping it Online

Keeping it Online (digital art preservation) @rhizomedotorg : http://t.co/UHrkwq4 via @nancygrcia digital #online #internet #archive #x

August 17 2011, 9:26am | Comments

Link Inside the Internet Art Bubble

The internet finally seems to have made a dint in New York's institutional art world. Cory Arcangel, an artist who began his career manipulating old computer technologies and critiquing web…

August 17 2011, 6:26am | Comments

Link Our Emergent Digital Future

What will the digital world look like in ten years? The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path. The explosion in the…

August 14 2011, 4:32am | Comments

Link Digital tendencies

From 1961 to 1973, a loosely organized group of artists and scientists coalesced around the radical idea that the emerging technology of the computer could be used to make a…

August 12 2011, 4:59am | Comments

Link Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to…

Emulators for playing older games are immensely popular online, with regular arguments breaking out over which emulator is best for which game. Today we present another point of view from…

August 11 2011, 4:25am | Comments

Twitter Links #Digital Decay, 2001: by @bruces "Entropy requires no maintenance. #Entropy has its own poetry." http://t.co/A87gLDL #x

Digital Decay, 2001: by @bruces "Entropy requires no maintenance. #Entropy has its own poetry." http://t.co/A87gLDL #x

August 10 2011, 9:59am | Comments

Twitter Links Digital Decay (2001): by Bruce Sterling

"Entropy requires no maintenance. Entropy has its own poetry."

August 10 2011, 9:59am | Comments

Link Information Wants to be Consumed

Although information spreads, virus-like, through replication, this replication, as Walter Benjamin foresaw, involves a dispersion that allows images or data to be seen in different places, in different contexts (what…

August 3 2011, 6:00am | Comments

Link How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing…

On June 17, 2010, Sergey Ulasen was in his office in Belarus sifting through e-mail when a report caught his eye. A computer belonging to a customer in Iran was…

July 13 2011, 3:09am | Comments

Link 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…

July 13 2011, 2:35am | Comments

Link Why we must remember to delete - and…

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…

July 1 2011, 3:46am | Comments

Link How to survive the age of distraction

The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It's being chewed by the…

June 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

Link Post-Artifact Books and Publishing

We will always debate: the quality of the paper, the pixel density of the display; the cloth used on covers, the interface for highlighting; location by page, location by paragraph.…

June 15 2011, 8:50am | Comments