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“Mechanistic muses are expanding their domain to encompass every facet of creative activity.” In this article published in the June 1965 issue of Playboy, Bell Labs engineer, communications satellite pioneer and science fiction writer John R. Pierce introduces the work done in computer music, literature, film, and visual art, and issues an invitation to artists…
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paperbits: azspot: PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor Want.
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welcometobusinesstown: new #businesstown resident: The Ghost Blogger /
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chartier: Leigh Alexander had a chat with a GamerGater at a recent talk, got to the heart of the matter: The idea that someone can be objective when they’re talking about an emotional creative medium is fallacious. (if you have to, there’s no shame in looking up the definition of fallacious) You can’t offer an…
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laughingsquid: Yuki-Taro, An Adorable Self-Guided Robotic Snowplow That Turns Snow Into Compact Bricks
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alexainslie: A Brief History of User Interface (Source: http://alexainslie.com/)
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shrinkrants: GREGORY BATESON “It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step…
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Cloudy Logic
Cloudy Logic To Read against the Chronicle of Higher Ed article on the moment higher ed died in the US. The LA Times is also cited: thenewinquiry: By Robin James Big data doesn’t forecast the future but remakes the present in the image of down-to-earth stereotypes. While Theodor Adorno was exiled in Los Angeles, he…
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emergentfutures: Travelling through blood: science fiction comes to life scientists from IISc Bangalore have succeeded, for the very first time, to steer artificial nanostructures through undiluted human blood. Dubbed “nano voyagers” these tiny swimmers could open the doors to a fascinating range of biomedical applications from targeted drug delivery to microsurgery. Full Story: Scilogs
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The collusion between philosophy and the State was most explicitly enacted in the first decade of the nineteenth century with the foundation of the University of Berlin, which was to become the model of higher learning throughout Europe and in the United States. The goal laid out for it by Wilhelm von Humboldt (based on…