Tag: Google
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Posthuman Reading
La Maleta de Portbou is a Spanish magazine of Humanities and Economy, edited by the philosopher Josep Ramoneda and published bimonthly in both print and digital format. The magazine is named in memory of Walter Benjamin, who committed suicide in Portbou in 1940 when he fled the Nazi persecution. Benjamin wanted to launch a journal…
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Society of the Query – Part 2: Gugerli, Fuller, Manovich, Ludovico, Bruno and Van ’t Hof
Part 1 of my notes on the Society of the Query conference can be found here. David Gugerli a historian specialized in the philosophy of science gave a lecture on the history of databases and of data management as a signifying practice. In a Deleuzian fashion, he states, knowledge operates in distributed networks. The world…
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Society of the Query – Part 1: Lovink, Boutang, Pasquinelli and Numerico
Last month the Institute of Network Cultures organized a two day conference entitled Society of the Query. Below you can find a wrap-up of the notes I took during the conference. More elaborate blog entries focusing on each of the lectures separately can be found here and you can also take a look at the…
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Ancient texts in new worlds
I am now the proud owner of number 167 of the hand-bound limited second edition of Anthony Grafton’s little booklet called Codex in crisis. The colophon states amongst others: Cover paper Neenah Classic Laid in Peppered Bronze Text paper Mohawk Superfine in Bright White Flyleaf paper Frazier Pegasus in Black Codex…
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Future Visions
I recently encountered some very nice speculative movies, giving their future visions on the development of the Internet and social media. Go check out the emergence of EPIC, Prometeus and Spirit! “Experience is the new reality” (Thanks to Bernardo and Brave New World) PROMETEUS – THE NEW MEDIA REVOLUTION [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj8ZadKgdC0] EPIC 2014 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUHBPuHS-7s]