http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2016/10/sof_20161021_2135.mp3 “Cooked in the Big Smoke explores what it’s like to be in the mind of someone who is high on the drug ice in Melbourne’s CBD. The spiralling effects of […]

see also https://terenceblake.wordpress.com/2016/10/23/dark-jung-deleuze-and-zizek/

“‘What’ gives rise to conscious experience? How can we know if consciousness is fundamental, and if can we model it? Why aren’t sticks and stones, & tables and chairs, manifestly […]

“Policy updates, we call them. In effect I review the political and economic situation of the country in question. We have a complex grading system. Prison statistics weighed against the […]

Originally posted on Knowledge Ecology:
[Image: Tanja Deman] In an earlier post, I connected typography and bookmaking to James Gibson’s theory of affordances, the idea that perception is layered less with the properties…

http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04cr9cv.mp3 “J.G.Ballard’s early fiction is full of sonorous surrealism. In this special edition of Between the Ears we go Between Ballard’s Ears. Two new, specially commissioned, binaural adaptations of his […]

“Jonathan Lethem’s latest novel traces the existential crisis of an international backgammon hustler who thinks he’s psychic and who, while plying his trade in Berlin, discovers a rare kind of tumor […]

I read somewhere that if   pedestrians didn’t break traffic laws to cross Times Square whenever and by whatever means possible, the whole city would stop, it would stop. Cars would […]

Originally posted on Three Pound Brain:
“Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past,” Yuval Noah Harari writes. “It enables us to turn our heads this way and…

“The more steps I take back from researching the world of algorithms, the more I recognize a pattern in the moments and situation that a WMD will deploy. It’s not […]

http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/archive/audio/2016_10_13/2016_10_13_Yuk_Hui_talk.mp3 Q&A @ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2016/10/yuk-hui-object-and-relation-an-approach-to-the-study-of-digital-objects/

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