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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

City of Words by Vito Acconci, 1999

http://www.beyondmedia.it/ The BEYOND MEDIA festival is one of the main events worldwide dedicated to the most current visions on contemporary architecture and on the outcomes of the intense relations which exist between architecture and the media.

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

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

Prometheus Rising was my entry point into a new freedom. I found the book through some...

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

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

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

In aggregation I left the islands of leaving with nothing to say. Had I stayed to learn what...

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...

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.

If you haven't read any Buckminster Fuller, you need to get on it. I don't think you...

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

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

Today I was reading an interesting style website and they report that analyses: Robot love...

Project Proposal: There are hundreds of thousands of books published every year. Many are...

"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...

If ever there was a book I read that "Defined Reality", Then Brian Greene's The Fabric of...

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

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...

“There was a time when it was not technology alone that bore the name techné... Once there was a...

While looking for our book club books at Counterpoint I came across Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur...

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....

We have constructed a ladder of how to think about – about what? Oh, yes, the pattern which...

by Kristin Feireiss (Editor), Lukas Feireiss (Editor) "Editorial Reviews Product...

A book that makes you think, laugh and continue reading.

Few weeks ago I was reading one of a dozen bulletins that I subscribe and also thinking about a...

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

Nine years ago scientists discovered the expansion of the universe is accelerating, and slowly...

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

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

"Reality has no opposite. Reality IS. NIRVANA IS." (emphasis appears in original) This...

I just finished a book that I must reccomend. It is called The Survivors. I feel so down since I...

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...

Western intellectual tradition looks at Body and Mind as separate things existing in different...