Via Mariborcan, see Open Reflections‘ round-up of (and commentary on) the major text, philosophy, and theory sharing sites, which are:
Fark Yaralari = Scars of Differance
Multitude of Blogs
Museum of Accidents
Discourse Notebook
AAAARD.ORG
However, as counterpoint to Janneke Adema’s echoing of John Perry Barlow’s well-known declaration that “information wants to be free“, it should be reminded that information [...]
A Los Angeles Times article on “Why text messages are limited to 160 characters” reveals an interesting connection between old and new media: Friedhelm Hillebrand, the man more or less responsible for this figure, consulted postcards in his search for an ideal length for short messages.
Initially, Hillebrand’s team could fit only 128 characters into that space, [...]
Jeremy Scahill is not pleased:
The U.S. State Department has announced it is sponsoring a “New Media Technology” delegation to Iraq to “explore new opportunities to support Iraqi government and non-government stakeholders in Iraq’s emerging new media industry.” Of all of the areas in Iraq in desperate need of attention, its “emerging new media industry” is [...]
I love the idea that, as Ulla remarks in the comments, “we are really not that much more advanced than the 1700’s …” Perhaps we do, on the whole, tend to overestimate the degree to which new forms of social ties are historically novel. Maybe Facebook is merely the next phase, or version, of a much more [...]
Jo Guldi of Inscape has a provocative post up describing how she used available web-based tools to produce a rather sophisticated analysis of the use of the word pseudoscience in Wikipedia entries. Her hypothesis, to paraphrase, is that “pseudoscience” is less a rigorous, ’scientific’ term than a discursive ‘marker’ for attempts to delegitimize opposing arguments.
I [...]
From all that’s written on the military and virtual reality, you might think that the equipment and apparatus we have come to associate with VR are exclusively military inventions, when, in fact, artists have played a much more profound role than traditionally credited. As Margot Lovejoy put it in her 2004 Digital Currents: Art in [...]
If wondering what it’s like to be a bat, as the philosopher Thomas Nagel famously did in a 1974 essay, no longer sates our appetite for the futile, designing simulations for them might. For more than thirty years now, as chronicled in Richard D’Eath’s extensive review, “Can video images imitate real stimuli in animal behaviour [...]
The fascinating new study “If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping” published this week by the Swedish researchers Henrik Ehrsson and Valeria Petkova has been making the rounds and drawing some press – see Neurophilosophy and Neuroanthropology for background and explanation - but what seems to have been lost in all the excitement [...]
If animal scientists have traditionally assessed primate “intelligence” with explicitly anthropocentric criteria — language capacity, for instance — it should also be pointed out that these assessments have been carried out at the neglect of the ways in which animals actually do experience the world. As Kaplan & Rogers (2002: 502) recently observed:
“In the main, [...]
In a post on “Anthropology as connoisseurship”, Rex of Savage Minds observes:
Obsession with the details also does not fly well in an age when what we are supposed to be doing is creating generalizing social science. So perhaps connoisseurship as a model of anthropology has drawbacks both for the politically engaged and the scientifically neutral. [...]
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