Category: words

  • The philosophy of technology is often infected by a romanticism that sees technology as a loss of an elemental relation to the cosmos. One of the key stories in the modern world, told by very different figures in diverse accents, is technology as a fall from grace. One of William Wordsworth’s last poems complained in…

  • I Played Quing’s Quest VII: The Death of Videogames

    squinkyhatesvideogames: nex3: Quing’s Quest VII: The Death of Videogames manages to feel like a classic point-and-click adventure game despite having almost nothing mechanically in common with one. This comes in part from the low-res graphics and the various references to Monkey Island and King’s Quest, both obvious and subtle, woven throughout the game, but most…

  • hyperallergic: Confronting Our Apathy Anew with Samuel Beckett

  • We made it to Machu Pichu

  • emergentfutures: SWEDISH SCIENTISTS BUILD ARTIFICIAL NEURONS ABLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH ORGANIC NEURONS Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have built a fully functional neuron by using organic bioelectronics. This artificial neuron contain no “living” parts, but is capable of mimicking the function of a human nerve cell and communicate in the same way as our…

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  • additivism: Morehshin on Al Jazeera / AJplus talking about her Material Speculation: ISIS project (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • On Big Data’s shrinking returns

    mostlysignssomeportents: In my new Guardian column, I point out that the big-data-driven surveillance business model is on the rocks. Once upon a time, you could sell soap with a slogan like “You will be clean,” but we become resistant to ads. While Big Data initially generated some promising sell-through results, these days, companies like Facebook…