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21 Nov 09
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Science Is Interesting |
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21 Nov 09
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Whitechapel - Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing Saturday 21 November, 6pm - 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 drawn from open submission. The... |
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21 Nov 09
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What happened to Second Life? Not long ago Second Life was everywhere, with businesses opening branches and bands playing gigs in this virtual world. Today you'd be forgiven for asking if it's still going.
Once upon a time Second Life had a Twitter level of hype. Even those... |
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21 Nov 09
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A Certain Realism: 'The Known Unknowns' - 4 hours of continuous readings at Whitechapel Gallery 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 Gallery. The festival reflects on the materialisation and... |
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21 Nov 09
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Volatile Dispersal at the Whitechapel Gallery tonight. Come to hear me read, come and hear me groan... therourke: Volatile Dispersal at the Whitechapel Gallery tonight. Come to hear me read, come and hear me groan... |
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20 Nov 09
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MachineMachine will play loud noises at 5pm, listen at http://www.wiredradio.co.uk myloc.me/1BPWT therourke: MachineMachine will play loud noises at 5pm, listen at www.wiredradio.co.uk http://myloc.me/1BPWT |
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20 Nov 09
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you can't afford to be skinny Mr. Daniel posted a photo:
i.imgur.com/SrW5N.jpg |
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20 Nov 09
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Overhyped Placebos of Doom? Let’s say a new drug appears to be effective in combating a condition like chronic anxiety and is the subject of popular news stories. When the drug enters clinical trials, patients who take the drug report significantly less anxiety. But so do patien... |
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20 Nov 09
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wildlife photographer Mr. Daniel posted a photo:
spacecollective.org/RonaldFrederick/5306/The-Wildlife-pho... |
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20 Nov 09
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This Is Not Your Grade School Solar System Pick up a 30-year-old astronomy textbook and you will find more illustrations of planets than actual pictures; Pluto still holds onto its full planet status and exoplanets are theoretical. In the intervening decades, new instruments and methods have acted... |
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14 Nov 09
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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 is a Greek word, meaning, “an impio... |
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13 Nov 09
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MachineMachine radio is live at 5pm GMT - listen at wiredradio.co.uk therourke: MachineMachine radio is live at 5pm GMT - listen at wiredradio.co.uk |
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13 Nov 09
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100% Magenta Hear that crocus? A ripe alcove chock full of crooked Theremins. Inside is a Jekyll, your personal rejoinder to alkali: the bright and beautiful mother of a brutal shade. Because this breakthrough is not malignant the resultant effervescence is only 18%... |
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10 Nov 09
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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 running slow↵like 10 fps↵now it&... |
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10 Nov 09
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The Unveiled Divide The object holds within itself a series of meanings and values, both imminent and latent. The Berlin Wall, long standing as a symbol of closure, restriction and confinement, came down as a symbol of movement, release and freedom. The Berlin Wall embodies... |
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09 Nov 09
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A new profane triptych from Triptych Industries Inc. : hellograndad.com therourke: A new profane triptych from Triptych Industries Inc. : http://hellograndad.com |
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08 Nov 09
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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?” No. In our house, it’ll always be: “Dad, please could you pass me that four-e... |
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06 Nov 09
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Simulating Kim Jong Il Will the real Kim Jong Il please stand up?
The idea of Kim Jong Il has become commodity. There is a reality inside North Korea, and there is another outside. Which is real and which is simulation?
For the past half decade an excess of images, simulations... |
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06 Nov 09
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First computer to sing - Daisy Bell |
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06 Nov 09
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Kim Jong Il and? Mr. Daniel posted a photo:
www.flickr.com/photos/indignico/sets/72157600017697735/ |
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05 Nov 09
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Profane Prisms: by artist Koizumi Meiro
“It is a delimitation of spaces and times, of the visible and the.. bit.ly/4La1y therourke: Profane Prisms: by artist Koizumi Meiro
“It is a delimitation of spaces and times, of the visible and the.. http://bit.ly/4La1y |
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05 Nov 09
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Profane Prisms by artist Koizumi Meiro
“It is a delimitation of spaces and times, of the visible and the invisible, of speech and noise, that simultaneously determines the place and the stakes of politics as a form of experience. Politics revolves around what is... |
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05 Nov 09
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listen to Resonance FM (104.4 or resonancefm.com) from 7pm - Holly Pester and others debate The Poetics of Twitter therourke: listen to Resonance FM (104.4 or http://resonancefm.com) from 7pm - Holly Pester and others debate The Poetics of Twitter |
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05 Nov 09
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IMG MGMT: Teen Image IMG MGMT is an annual image-based artist essay series. Today’s invited artist, Seth Price presents an essay challenging the traditional photo essay format.
1. Ritualized Unknowing
People keep trying to get a handle on what’s happening. There’s ... |
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04 Nov 09
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does anyone have Google Wave yet? connect with me at therourke@googlewave.com therourke: does anyone have Google Wave yet? connect with me at therourke@googlewave.com |
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03 Nov 09
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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 for learning, for work, and for pleasure may be slowly dying out as a widespread... |
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02 Nov 09
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Mapping The Cracks: Text as Object / Book as Subject: In Part One of this article I wrote about the instability.. bit.ly/46pYVn therourke: Mapping The Cracks: Text as Object / Book as Subject: In Part One of this article I wrote about the instability.. http://bit.ly/46pYVn |
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02 Nov 09
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Mapping The Cracks: Text as Object / Book as Subject In Part One of this article I wrote about the instability of the art-object. How its meaning moves, and inevitably cracks. In this follow-up I ponder text, the book, page and computer screen. Are they as stable as they appear? And how can we set them in... |
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02 Nov 09
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Microsoft Office Labs 2019 Vision Montage |
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01 Nov 09
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Here's one way to #crackthetext - The Library in the New Age: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21514 therourke: Here's one way to #crackthetext - The Library in the New Age: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21514 |
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01 Nov 09
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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, perhaps books that use online systems to extend their content value or push their form into new places.... |
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01 Nov 09
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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 6,000 languages can induce in real life, the story makes a certain sense.
N... |
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01 Nov 09
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Beauty, Art, and Darwin It is possible that we have a kind of built-in moral resistance to the runaway pathologies now visible in the arts. Where did that resistance come from? Judging from his new book Beauty, Roger Scruton’s idea of a nice view would probably be the Wiltshi... |
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31 Oct 09
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The Library in the New Age Information is exploding so furiously around us and information technology is changing at such bewildering speed that we face a fundamental problem: How to orient ourselves in the new landscape? What, for example, will become of research libraries in the |
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31 Oct 09
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Troubling new revelations about Arendt and Heidegger Will we ever be able to think of Hannah Arendt in the same way again? Two new and damning critiques, one of Arendt and one of her longtime Nazi-sycophant lover, the philosopher Martin Heidegger, were published within 10 days of each other last month. The... |
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30 Oct 09
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Home Shopping Fail |
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30 Oct 09
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Boring Books |
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30 Oct 09
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Announcing: MachineMachine Radio! MachineMachine is an unintentional, somewhat rhythmic, eruption involving to-and-fro movements (oscillations) of one or more aural parts. MachineMachine instigates involuntary cultural tremors and can affect the hands, arms, head, face, vocal cords,... |
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30 Oct 09
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C*NT Flaps |
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29 Oct 09
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The Science of Aesthetics by Keith Lang A re-recording of a talk I gave at UXAustralia in 2009.
Cast: Keith Lang |
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29 Oct 09
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#3quarksdaily testing therourke: #3quarksdaily testing |
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29 Oct 09
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VentriloChoir on Hungarian TV |
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27 Oct 09
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Luis Camnitzer, ALPHABETIZATION, Part Two: Hegemonic Language and Arbitrary Order 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 for author and receptor—is completely lost. The emphasis i... |
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27 Oct 09
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Who’s afraid of the avant-garde? There's a reason why we find it easier to "get" modern art than avant-garde music, and it's not just about our natural conservatism and love of Mozart...
Arts & books
Who’s afraid of the avant-garde?
Philip Ball
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27 Oct 09
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Monsters and the Moral Imagination Monsters are on the rise. People can't seem to get enough of vampires lately, and zombies have a new lease on life. This year and next we have the release of the usual horror films like Saw VI and Halloween II; the campy mayhem of Zombieland;... |
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22 Oct 09
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The alternate 'Testament of Doctor Mabuse' - Fritz Lang's German and French versions 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 find it. The only way to get hold of it seems to be via the Criterion... |
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21 Oct 09
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Left vs Right | Information Is Beautiful <img src="http://infobeautiful.s3.amazonaws.com/leftright_EU_1416.gif">
A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The... |
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21 Oct 09
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42 Essential 3rd Act Twists Dresden Codak's handy comic-chart of '42 Essential Third-Act Twists' for writers. |
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19 Oct 09
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Seed Magazine Salon: Hershman and Shanks Interview |
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19 Oct 09
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Seriousness is the New Black: The Turner Prize at Tate Britain and Anish Kapoor at The Royal Academy Many factors have lead to London’s pre-eminence in the contemporary art world: the importance of Goldsmith’s College to the Hirst generation of YBAs, Saatchi’s ubiquitous influence as a collector, Jay Joplin’s White Cube gallery, the foundin... |
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