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Tokyo Compression

]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 03:33:59 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/24122879582 Haircut heroes? http://instagram.heroku.com/users/therourke#p202816259648297068_1560165/haircut-heroes Haircut heroes? ]]> Wed, 30 May 2012 10:06:43 -0700 http://instagram.heroku.com/users/therourke#p202816259648297068_1560165/haircut-heroes What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific “Truth" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2012/05/23/what-thomas-kuhn-really-thought-about-scientific-truth/ “Look,” Thomas Kuhn said. The word was weighted with weariness, as if Kuhn was resigned to the fact that I would misinterpret him, but he was still going to try—no doubt in vain—to make his point. Kuhn uttered the word often. “Look,” he said again. He leaned his gangly frame and long face forward, and his big lower lip, which ordinarily curled up amiably at the corners, sagged. “For Christ’s sake, if I had my choice of having written the book or not having written it, I would choose to have written it. But there have certainly been aspects involving… ]]> Wed, 30 May 2012 02:01:53 -0700 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2012/05/23/what-thomas-kuhn-really-thought-about-scientific-truth/ How to Destroy the Internet http://gizmodo.com/5912383/how-to-destroy-the-internet The first step on this trip is mental. We need to begin by no longer treating the Internet like a ghost. It's made of more metal, plastic, and fiber than you can fathom—and it's spread across the whole world, a monster machine that hugs the entire globe. So we hunted down the web's physical foundation, across land and sea, to pinpoint exactly what you'd need to take out. Hypothetically. It turns out, Anonymous' threat isn't insane—just the way they talked about doing it. You can't destroy a signal while using it; the Internet's destruction requires analog violence, not some beefed… ]]> Wed, 30 May 2012 02:00:10 -0700 http://gizmodo.com/5912383/how-to-destroy-the-internet Google Knowledge Graph http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/05/google-knowledge-graph.html Last Wednesday, with relatively little fanfare, Google introduced a new technology called Google Knowledge Graph. Type in “François Hollande,” and you are offered a capsule history (with links) to his children, partner, birthday, education, and so forth. In the short-term, Knowledge Graph will not make a big difference in your world—you might get much the same information by visiting Hollande’s Wikipedia page, and a lot of people might still prefer to ask their friends. But what’s under the hood represents a significant change in engineering for the world’s largest search-engine company. And more than that, in a decade or two,… ]]> Wed, 30 May 2012 01:59:03 -0700 http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/05/google-knowledge-graph.html "Don't Gaze Me, Bro" : curation, gender, and the new aesthetic http://www.thestate.ae/curation-gender-the-new-aesthetic/ Everyone seems to be talking about the New Aesthetic lately. Have you seen it? It might possibly have shattered records of attention credits/takes in its opening weekend. In its tumblr form, it has has been around for a a scant year or so, instigated by James Bridle. He said he had been collecting things for a while now, and described it as a “mood-board for unknown products.” Drones, mapping, surveillance infrastructure, conspicuous augmentation, pixelation, fetishising obsolescence, technological ghosts, nostalgia for the glitch, #botiliciousness, the haptic revolution, and so on. Visual as all get out. All the aesthetic seductiveness of a… ]]> Wed, 30 May 2012 01:56:26 -0700 http://www.thestate.ae/curation-gender-the-new-aesthetic/ Face-reading software to judge the mood of the masses http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428665.400-facereading-software-to-judge-the-mood-of-the-masses.html Systems that can identify emotions in images of faces might soon collate millions of peoples' reactions to events and could even replace opinion polls IF THE computers we stare at all day could read our faces, they would probably know us better than anyone. That vision may not be so far off. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab are developing software that can read the feelings behind facial expressions. In some cases, the computers outperform people. The software could lead to empathetic devices and is being used to evaluate and develop better adverts. But the commercial uses… ]]> Wed, 30 May 2012 01:55:58 -0700 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428665.400-facereading-software-to-judge-the-mood-of-the-masses.html Nevolution: Metaphysical Mario http://nevolution.typepad.com/theories/2012/05/metaphysical-mario.html In which I string together a series of videos, links and text that use Mario as a base for Science. First is Mario and the Many World Interpretation of Quantum Physics …So what’s this about quantum physics? Oh, right. Well, I kind of identify the branching-paths effect in the video with the Everett-Wheeler “Many Worlds Interpretation” of quantum physics. Quantum physics does this weird thing where instead of things being in one knowable place or one knowable state, something that is quantum (like, say, an electron) exists in sort of this cloud of potentials, where there’s this mathematical object called… ]]> Wed, 30 May 2012 01:54:44 -0700 http://nevolution.typepad.com/theories/2012/05/metaphysical-mario.html The madness of crowds: hoarding (Will Self) http://will-self.com/2012/05/21/madness-crowds-hoarding/ Wherefrom comes this urge to expose such traumatic interiors? After all, hoarding can be nothing new – it’s easy to imagine a Cyclops’s cavern stuffed to the roof with sheep bones, cheese rinds and the remains of hapless Argonauts. The splurge of reality obesity shows that the explanation is simple: schadenfreude. We look upon those poor wobblers being shaken to their core by life coaches and think to ourselves, I may be a little on the tubby side but – Jesus! – I’m not that bad. Actually, my suspicion is that the compulsive hoarder craziness is an even more craven… ]]> Wed, 30 May 2012 01:50:49 -0700 http://will-self.com/2012/05/21/madness-crowds-hoarding/ The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture by Jussi Parikka http://www.librarything.com/work/book/86151310/the-spam-book-on-viruses-porn-and-other-anomalies-from-the-dark-side-of-digital-culture-by-jussi-parikka

Hampton Press (2009), Hardcover, 330 pages

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University of Chicago Press (1998), Paperback, 120 pages

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Gateway (2011), Kindle Edition, 248 pages

]]> Tue, 29 May 2012 07:10:43 -0700 http://www.librarything.com/work/book/86151295/who-goes-there-by-john-w-campbell Alien Phenomenology, or What it's Like to be a Thing (Posthumanities) by Ian Bogost http://www.librarything.com/work/book/86151293/alien-phenomenology-or-what-its-like-to-be-a-thing-posthumanities-by-ian-bogost

University of Minnesota Press (2012), Paperback, 168 pages

]]> Tue, 29 May 2012 07:10:42 -0700 http://www.librarything.com/work/book/86151293/alien-phenomenology-or-what-its-like-to-be-a-thing-posthumanities-by-ian-bogost After the Digital Divide?: German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Media (Screen Cultures: German Film and the… by Lutz Koepnick http://www.librarything.com/work/book/86151290/after-the-digital-divide-german-aesthetic-theory-in-the-age-of-new-media-screen-cultures-german-film-and-thehellip-by-lutz-koepnick

Camden House (2009), Hardcover, 226 pages

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Stanford University Press (2009), Paperback, 80 pages

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Zone Books (1991), Edition: New Edition, Paperback, 334 pages

]]> Tue, 29 May 2012 07:10:38 -0700 http://www.librarything.com/work/book/86151286/the-normal-and-the-pathological-by-georges-canguilhem Limited Inc by Jacques Derrida http://www.librarything.com/work/book/86151283/limited-inc-by-jacques-derrida

Northwestern University Press (1988), Paperback, 160 pages

]]> Tue, 29 May 2012 07:10:36 -0700 http://www.librarything.com/work/book/86151283/limited-inc-by-jacques-derrida The Cultures of Collecting (Critical Views) by John Elsner http://www.librarything.com/work/book/86151282/the-cultures-of-collecting-critical-views-by-john-elsner

Reaktion Books (1994), Edition: First, Paperback, 312 pages

]]> Tue, 29 May 2012 07:10:35 -0700 http://www.librarything.com/work/book/86151282/the-cultures-of-collecting-critical-views-by-john-elsner Dreams of Authority: Freud and the Fictions of the Unconscious by Ronald R. Thomas http://www.librarything.com/work/book/86151280/dreams-of-authority-freud-and-the-fictions-of-the-unconscious-by-ronald-r-thomas

Cornell University Press (1992), Edition: New edition, Paperback, 320 pages

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