This article was originally published at 3quarksdaily and io9 Mid-way through H.G.Wells’ The...

Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler. --Albert Einstein E usually does not equal M C^2. Thats only when its not moving. The USA government learned that terrorists keep more secrets and try to have more privacy than people who are not terrorists. Therefore secrets and privacy are bad, so the USA government proceeded to build...

Sensation and Forces "Not to reproduce what we can already see, but to make visible what we cannot" (Paul Klee) The task of art, in all its forms, is to capture forces. Deleuze and Guattari say that this, ultimately, is what makes art abstract - the "summoning" and making visible of otherwise imperceptible forces (Deleuze...

The Elements and Movements in Bacon's Paintings "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportions" (Sir Francis Bacon) Deleuze distinguishes 3 pictorial elements in Bacon's paintings, which together constitute a highly precise system - the field that is the spatializing material structure, the...

Painting, Its Ways and Faces "The adventure of painting is that it is the eye alone that can attend to material existence or material presence [...]" (39). Deleuze relates to two definitions of painting - one by line and color, which is visual, and the other by trait and color-patch, which is manual. He then proceeds to...

A Short Introduction "If you don’t admire something, if you don’t love it, you have no reason to write a word about it". (Deleuze and Parnet, Dialogues, 144; in O'Sullivan, 5) Though it may not have been recognized as such at the time of its publication, today, The Logic of Sensation has come to be recognized as one of...

In this short (8 minutes) video, some people give out their short response to the question: What we...

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Philosophers have long wondered about the connection between metaphor and thought:: "We...

i am desperate to find participants from the arts, design, architecture etc. communities....

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I rarely share CNN stuff; they suck in journalism. But this little window into Shishmaref, Alaska...

My Friend Pietro wrote me an e-mail this morning, just got the chance to read now: "Do...

I wrote this post last December but didn't publicly post it here. I don't why, other than I immensely hate facebook, I was ranting and thought I'll keep it to myself. But, appearing in this past year, there are already solutions to what I perceive to be internet problems (ie CargoCollective, Behance Network and Google Wave are three...

http://www.home-2009.com/us/index.html IN A FEW SHORT DECADES, HUMANITY HAS UPSET THE BALANCE...

A collection of essays by great thinkers and doers of the "third culture" in response to an annual question posed by Edge.

"There are certain writers whose thought is so important that it doesn't matter whether you...

Grapholectic Thought and the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness --- published in full at...

"There's more time between Gobekli Tepe and the Sumerian clay tablets [etched in 3300...

The text below is an image of a Discursive (Hyper)text... Please click it to read the full,...

Documenting Graphic Language No.2 - Armin Hofmann "Critical thinking comes as a result of...

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I point at the small cardboard structure on the train's table. The guard stands blankly and...

Documenting Graphic Language I'm going to post on this space a series of graphic design work that I think is relevant to be documented. I started with Lou Dorfsman's work. The idea is post relevant images that exemplify how the terrestrials communicate apart from vocal language.

In homage to a thinker who's storytelling indeed creates realities. Excerpts from the short story...

The following are thumbnail versions of my bound book since the full size would not fit and would...

Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan expound on violence, alienation and the electronic envelope. The...

Paper Disorder is an interesting and experimental film by Marcus Tomlinson, made for an exhibition...

City of Words by Vito Acconci, 1999

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In one of the most uncanny revelations in science fiction, the protagonist of H.G. Wells’ The...

In the chapter titled Author as Producer of Walter Benjamin's Reflections, he introduces Sergei Tretiakov's 'operating writer', and how his/her mission, as opposed to the 'informing writer', is "not to report but to struggle; not to play the spectator but to intervene actively". This description is of the author not as activist--because...

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As much as I try to seduce my code I always just get an echo back. So blind Tiresias gave to...

When we think of minds we think of intentions. Intentions that lie behind acts, acts that unfold at the recourse of agents: agents with minds. In short, when we look out at the world we see objects that are acted upon and entities that do the acting. This clear cut distinction between the 'done upon' and the 'doer' appears stable, but it hides one...

Here is another beautiful animated visualization of a collaborative project on the...

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Is language is a purely cultural phenomenon or not? Obviously it's the most successful...

Outstanding Reading Material I have carefully selected a few of the outmost important texts on...