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...

With new technology comes new possibilities to execute technique. If we look to the trend of...

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

Academia in the age of the search engine Historically, the world’s universities have been the...

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...

Via NewScientist.com 1. Farthest North - Steve Jones, geneticist 2. The Art of the Soluble -...

Two realms of self-enhancement In three(ish) parts: Introduction The concrete realm The...

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...

The Atlas of Cyberspace illustrates graphically, the shapes, structures and complex forms of the...

Marshall McLuhan has been mentioned in passing in various comments here on spacecollective,...

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...

Sometimes the most fascinating books are the ones we cannot read. Here are two illustrated texts...

Long ago... No one tore the ground with ploughshares or parcelled out the land or swept the sea...

Human beings versus machines, or machines as instruments of human designs? The answers to these two questions would have been obvious years ago: Human beings, of course, machines are instruments of human design! But now days when we speak so much of progress, science and technology as if progress, science and technology were in themselves...

Before the printed book there was the book as relic, the book as idol to knowledge. Those who...

I added a comment to this post today, about photographs of libraries. I reproduce it here. I...

I am a bad reader. Slow, ill-disciplined, with a wandering mind. I will rarely manage a...

Readers: Do you think in hypertext? The era of the linear tome is dead, information is a web -...

"Sync" by Steven H. Strogatz Topic: coupled oscillators, applied math Tonight the Beijing Olympic games (um... 2008) have opened with a huge bass of square drums made of bronze and wood that covered the central stadium. Each drum would glow when hit by a dedicated person, a drummer, or artist standing next. The performance was...

Your average 'alternative' 'underground' 'cult' summer booklist will name conservative corkers like William Gibson, Hunter S. Thompson, Ken Kesey, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Pynchon, Kathy Acker, Hubert S. Selby or Brett Easton Ellis. A 'real' underground list might add snotty punk-fashionistas like Stewart Home or Henry Rollins. But if you have read...

This is a short book. Sounds good when I put it like that, doesn't it? However, much as its plot...

I made a short about a year ago that seems to be a fairly accurate metaphor for the Total...

I havn't been fortunate enough to finish reading this book yet. Regardless, this book has provided...

I've just discovered Twine.com, a socially semantic web organiser of data, in 'twines'. Apparently...

The Library of Alexandria was an enormous repository of ancient wisdom situated in Egypt. Due to...

A compelling, thought provoking and eloquently written science fiction novel written by Robert Silverberg. It is essentially a dystopian novel, following many of the main themes explored by "We" (by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1921), "Brave New World" (by the great Aldous Huxley, 1932) and "A Modern Utopia" (by H.G....