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• 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

• Portfolio “Everything on the Face of the Earth”

  June 12 2011, 10:36am | Comments

• Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

  May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

• Instapaper Walter Benjamin, Doctrine of the Similar

  "Walter Benjamin, Doctrine of the Similar" #mimesis #similitude #language #philosophy #perception

  May 16 2011, 8:06am | Comments

• Tumblr Takeshi Murata: Get Your Ass To Mars

  May 6 2011, 2:36am | Comments

• Biblio Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Link Analogue artists defying the digital age

  Dusty vinyl records, vintage film cameras, rickety typewriters and antiquated recording equipment … these are the creative tools being used by some emerging artists. Pure nostalgia? Or a laudable refusal…

  April 24 2011, 6:39am | Comments

• Link Jacques Ranciere: What Medium Can Mean

  I will present some remarks here on the use of the notion of medium in art theory and the light cast on this notion by the case of photography. The notion…

  March 12 2011, 2:55am | Comments

• Link Similarities - a set on Flickr

  The pairs of images in this "Similarities" set are similar visually in one way or another. They are presented without judgement as to the motives of their creators. The viewers…

  March 2 2011, 7:28am | Comments

• Link Ants mimic liquids to stay afloat

  Rain may seem a harmless nuisance to us humans, but for ants, it's a big deal. They can get trapped by just a single drop and risk drowning. Paradoxically, it's…

  November 25 2010, 4:36am | Comments

• Link In Praise of Copying: Get Your Free Copy

  Just a quick fyi: If you head over to the Harvard University Press web site, you can grab a free copy of Marcus Boon’s new book, In Praise of Copying,…

  November 3 2010, 8:26am | Comments

• Link Glitch Paintings

  Andy Denzler does these great paintings that look as though they're highly compressed JPEGs with encoding issues.

  October 21 2010, 1:47pm | Comments

• Link Journalism in the Age of Data: A Film

  What bad writing has to do with war casualties and traffic over North America. It’s no secret we have a data visualization fetish, but that’s not just because we like…

  September 30 2010, 4:19pm | Comments

• Link Game Design as Make-Believe (4): Fictional Worlds

  When one plays most videogames there is a tacit understanding that one is entering into a fictional world – the term virtual world, is often deployed to mean exactly this.…

  May 12 2010, 3:28pm | Comments

• Link Signs: The most useful thing you pay no…

  Signage—the kind we see on city streets, in airports, on highways, in hospital corridors—is the most useful thing we pay no attention to. When it works well, it tells us…

  May 2 2010, 2:28pm | Comments

• Link Technologies of Culture: The Archive

  "'To read what was never written.' Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new…

  February 24 2010, 8:38am | Comments

• Metafilter Sacrifice, speech, writing and art Sacrifice, speech, writing and art: I am interested in the different ways in which a sacrifice, a sacrament, a spoken word and a written word act as signifiers.…

  February 24 2010, 6:28am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 10:04pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Cargo cult A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults are…

  January 8 2010, 10:51am | Comments

• Link IMG MGMT: Hubris/Nemesis/Whatever

  Another binary myth fundamental to Western culture is the eternally popular hubris/nemesis complex. According to this idea, those who transgress against the natural order always get their just desserts. Hubris…

  November 13 2009, 5:22pm | Comments

• Metafilter Innovative Book Designs Innovative Books: I am looking to compile a list of the most innovative uses of the book format. Books that break the mould in their layout and design,…

  November 1 2009, 5:37am | Comments

• Link The Origin of the Work of Art

  In his article, Heidegger explains the essence of art in terms of the concepts of being and truth. He argues that art is not only a way of expressing the…

  October 8 2009, 9:35am | 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

• 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

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