The Clock Inside Us
...virtue out of a capitalistic necessity. But it has deep epistemological roots. In the wake of Enlightenment and in tandem with the emergence of capitalism, humans began to view nature...
Calm Before, Calm After
Since its 1998 release on the original PlayStation, the Japanese role-playing game Xenogears has become a cult favorite distinguished by its intricate 10,000-year backstory and ambitious plot: As players and characters slowly come to realize, the final boss is none other than god itself, and the game ends with its defeat. In the aftermath, the
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...signed a document officially declaring that non-human animals, “including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses” are conscious. Humans are more than just conscious—they are also self-aware....
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...Ed Roth’s Rat Fink. Technically, physical pain could be banished in humans and nonhumans alike. […] From an engineering perspective, pain is unnecessary. [ David Pearce/io9] How does...
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...“electronic tattoo” containing flexible electronic circuits can now record some complex brain activity as accurately as an EEG. In one study, phantom phone vibrations were experienced by 68% of the...
Assemblage Required
...tablet PCs and all the other technologies that pipe zeroes and ones around the planet. The effect of all this untrammeled growth and consolidation is to recast us humans as...
The Art of the One-Word Poem
...in Microsoft flight sim and sending them the pic [Thanks Tim] men found it more appealing if their committed romantic/sexual partners frequently changed their physical appearance, while women reported that...
Seeing Stars
...Courtesy artificialgallery.co.uk MAY1ZZZ, lilo Lindsay Lohan fanpop.com Taranenko, Rihanna, 2011 DeviantArt.com Brothers De La Motte, Paris Hilton’s selfie, Undated imsoqueer, Mary-Kate, 2011 DeviantArt.com Cameron Gray, Oops…I did it again, 2007...
‘Tis the Season: The Beheld Gift Guide
...keeps on giving. (I also sort of want to do my part to reclaim the flask for women; the “Flask Gift Set for Women” at eflask.com isn’t quite cutting it.)...
Blue Skies
...leader for storing and managing video evidence in the cloud through its business division Axon. Taser’s software and storage brand, ÂEvidence.com, promises to collect and share digital evidence. But keeping...
Where the Hell Do You Think You Are?
...in miniature in one scene. Thirty minutes in, Charlie is chased through the ghetto by Nazi stormtroopers. Charlie’s sweetheart Hannah (played by his real life half-Jewish wife Paulette Goddard) comes...
Don’t Be a Stranger
...logic as an underground punk club is from a computer lab? Once upon a time this social network did exist, and it was called Makeoutclub.com. Nobody much talks about Makeoutclub.com...
Narrative of Fragments
...hierarchically organized directory of websites, in 1994. On March 1, 1995, they incorporated the guide as Yahoo.com. In July 1994, Jeff Bezos incorporated Cadabra, an online bookstore; the site went...
Sunday Reading
...globalization such that they’ve begun to ignore geography“ hardtruthsfromsoftcats.tumblr.com; tweetpairing.tumblr.com; wtfevolution.tumblr.com; actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com T.F. Charlton: “So, what was Stonewall?” – NPR’s erasure of trans women from the Stonewall narrative. Interrogating the...
Sunday Reading
...from the Irish accent [Archie Bunker]. “They claimed that their god had given humans domination over the earth.” “Keep on walking, for we are not at the destination yet.” “Politics,...
Love Worth Fighting For
...among cheaply made goods and multinational brands. In retrospect, the song the Beatles came up with for the event is well-suited to that conundrum: “All You Need Is Love.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4p8qxGbpOk&feature=player_embedded...