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• Link Sleep Talkin' Man

  My mild-mannered English husband Adam lives quite a colorful existence in his dreams. Having benefited from hours of delight at his dead of night musings, I thought it was only…

  January 9 2010, 7:24am | Comments

• Link The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication

  by Bertolt Brecht In our society one can invent and perfect discoveries that still have to conquer their market and justify their existence; in other words discoveries that have not…

  January 6 2010, 8:16am | Comments

• Link Evidence of Everything Exploding

  A surreal webgame, littered with explosive potentialities. Help the arrow escape influential pages from historical art movements.

  January 5 2010, 8:54am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the…

  December 27 2009, 10:06pm | Comments

• Metafilter Arcangel and the future of digi/net art Corey Arcangel is perhaps the internet's most infamous hack, masher-upper, digi/net artist. His work stands for a growing culture of artists who run wildly through animated GIF landscapes…

  December 8 2009, 6:44am | Comments

• Wikipedia Profanity The original meaning of the adjective profane (Latin: "in front of", "outside the temple") referred to items not belonging to the church, e.g. "The fort is the oldest…

  November 30 2009, 8:12am | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 9:29am | Comments

• Link A Certain Realism: 'The Known Unknowns' - 4…

  The Known Unknowns is a scheduled cycle of continuous readings running parallel to Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing, an evening organised by Maria Fusco and Book Works at Whitechapel…

  November 21 2009, 5:45am | Comments

• Link Whitechapel - Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing

  Saturday 21 November, 6pm Until 11pm Showcasing UK artists and writers, this parley-based event speculates on the materialisation and dematerialisation of art writing through newly commissioned works, together with readings…

  November 21 2009, 5:43am | Comments

• Portfolio 100% Magenta

  November 13 2009, 2:40am | Comments

• Link keytweeter

  A twitter user who logs and archives every key he presses on his computer keyboard: 39doc↵of↵↓↵↓↵↓↵ar↓↵it was runningoh ok↵this morning the code i was writing↵last night i mentioned it was…

  November 10 2009, 2:26pm | Comments

• Link A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families

  Every family, it seems, has its own set of words for describing particular Lego pieces. No one uses the official names. “Dad, please could you pass me that Brick 2x2?”…

  November 8 2009, 4:01am | Comments

• Link The Future of Reading

  The future of reading is very much in doubt. In this century, reading could soar to new heights or crash and burn. Some educators and librarians fear that sustained reading…

  November 3 2009, 10:30am | Comments

• Link The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English

  In depicting the emergence of the world’s languages as a curse of gibberish, the biblical tale of the Tower of Babel makes us moderns smile. Yet, considering the headache that…

  November 1 2009, 4:32am | Comments

• Link Luis Camnitzer, ALPHABETIZATION, Part Two: Hegemonic Language and…

  In all the traditional approaches to pedagogy, both in art and in literacy, the possibility of perceiving the transitional nature of the space produced by text or image—the common space…

  October 27 2009, 11:51am | Comments

• Metafilter The alternate 'Testament of Doctor Mabuse' - Fritz Lang's… Having recently learned that Fritz Lang filmed an entirely different, French language, version of The Testament of Doctor Mabuse alongside the 'original' German version, I set out to…

  October 22 2009, 2:55am | Comments

• Wikipedia Petrichor Petrichor (pronounced /ˈpɛtrɨkər/; from Greek petros "stone" + ichor "the fluid that is supposed to flow in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology") is the name…

  October 15 2009, 3:36pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Petrichor Petrichor (pronounced /ˈpɛtrɨkər/; from Greek petros "stone" + ichor "the fluid that is supposed to flow in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology") is the name…

  October 15 2009, 3:36pm | Comments

• Link Don Tapscott on the ways the Net Generation…

  The author of Grown Up Digital, Don Tapscott, refutes the belief that the internet is turning today's youth into "the dumbest generation". Tapscott illustrates how the net has changed the…

  September 29 2009, 11:27pm | Comments

• Link Thinking literally

  Drawing on philosophy and linguistics, cognitive scientists have begun to see the basic metaphors that we use all the time not just as turns of phrase, but as keys to…

  September 28 2009, 8:59am | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Link Adorno on Mimesis in Aesthetic Theory

  Art is imitation only to the extent to which it is objective expression, far removed from psychology. There may have been a time long ago when this expressive quality of…

  July 13 2009, 7:19am | Comments

• Link Daniel Everett Debunks the Essence of Human Language

  Professor Daniel Everett, author of Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, discusses the importance of preserving dying languages. He describes his experience living with the Piraha people in Brazil, and explores…

  July 9 2009, 1:28am | Comments

• Portfolio The Movement of The Middle

  June 30 2009, 9:05am | Comments

• Biblio The Open Work

  June 8 2009, 1:40am | Comments

• Link Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension « Strange…

  “When an English speaker doesn’t understand a word of what someone says, he or she states that it’s ‘Greek to me’. When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it ’sounds…

  June 7 2009, 3:42am | Comments

• Link Human Language Gene Changes the Sound of Mouse…

  People have a deep desire to communicate with animals, as is evident from the way they converse with their dogs, enjoy myths about talking animals or devote lifetimes to teaching…

  May 29 2009, 6:51am | Comments

• Link Is There a Better Word for Doom?

  Six experts discuss the merits of framing climate change, the language that troubles them, and the inherent bias of any chosen word. In a report to be released the first…

  May 27 2009, 5:19pm | Comments

• Metafilter Desire Paths/Lines: the original translation and related concepts/terms Desire Paths / Lines: a term apparently coined by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space. What was the original French he used? and are there any other…

  May 25 2009, 11:37am | Comments

• Link Like Boiling a Frog: The Wonder of Wikipedia

  When knowledge is generated by crowds, no single individual has much personal responsibility for what is produced, but nor does any one person have a realistic prospect of shaping the…

  May 23 2009, 4:46am | Comments

• Link Presentation Zen: Making presentations in the TED style

  TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked…

  May 12 2009, 3:06pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

  May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

• Biblio The Language of New Media

  April 27 2009, 10:12am | Comments

• Link Luis Camnitzer: Art and Literacy | Journal /…

  [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…

  March 23 2009, 4:00pm | Comments

• Link Michel Serres: Journals/Articles

  Writings about author, Michel Serres

  March 11 2009, 10:45am | Comments

• 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…

  February 16 2009, 8:09am | Comments

• Link 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…

  February 16 2009, 6:59am | Comments

• Link 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”…

  February 4 2009, 11:17am | Comments

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