September 2010
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Sep 28th
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Sep 28th
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Sep 28th
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Sep 28th
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Catfish and the Death of Online Anonymity →
Sep 23rd
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Sep 23rd
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Slavoj Žižek: Wake up and smell the apocalypse -... →
Slavoj on ecological disaster: If we are the bad guys, all we have to do is change our behaviour. But in fact nature is not a good Mother Nature, it’s a crazy bitch.
Sep 23rd
Guernica / A Carefully Crafted F**k You →
Judith Butler on Guernica, conflict, and gender.
Sep 23rd
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Sep 22nd
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The Social Network Soundtrack →
Reznor and Ross release a 5-track sampler EP of their soundtrack to the upcoming release of Fincher’s The Social Network.
Sep 21st
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the awkward lean →
This Tumblr blog is cacklingly amusing.
Sep 21st
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Sep 19th
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Sep 19th
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Nations and Genders in dialectica
An interesting email appeared in the Philosophy in Europe list the other day. Dear list-members I compiled the submission statistics for *dialectica*, the international journal of philosophy edited in Switzerland, for the last ten years: http://www.philosophie.ch/dialectica/dialectica_statistics.pdf Our acceptance rate has been consistently below 10% for the last 5  years. 26% of our...
Sep 19th
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Griffith University | Construction →
Something wicked this way comes: N76 New retail building.
Sep 16th
Sep 16th
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Patriarchal Twist, with a side of bar-bar-ism
Dear Borders, This is not a twist, it’s a heteronormative delusion to publicise a book with: Two college sweethearts are living a happy, rather ordinary life in New York but there’s a slight twist - she’s the breadwinner… Please, people, give Borders a good queering when you get the chance. Or better yet, make a mockery of the chauvinism and hegemonic barbarism that seems...
Sep 15th
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BIFF seeking volunteers
BE PART OF THE ACTION AND VOLUNTEER FOR QUEENSLAND’S PREMIERE FILM FESTIVAL Are you looking to gain new skills? Are you passionate about film? Screen Queensland is currently seeking volunteers for the 19th St.George Brisbane International Film Festival (4 - 14 November). Play an important role in Queensland’s premiere film festival. Submissions close 5.00pm Monday 4 October 2010....
Sep 14th
Sep 13th
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Sep 13th
Spam-watch. That’s right. Meet William Colgate the Second. And don’t follow the link unless you know how to protect yourself adequately on the internet. Hello. I’m William Colgate II, a representative of ExxonMobil in London   (http://www.exxonmobil.com) with a private brief to re-profile funds amounting to $12.2M. Regards, William Colgate II
Sep 12th
Sep 8th
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Sep 7th
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Sep 7th
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Sep 7th
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Sep 7th
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Sep 6th
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Sep 5th
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ListenSorry’s Too Late // The Medicine Show One...
Sep 5th
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Virtual Philosophy running order, a draft
Damn, only one hour to deliver this lecture… Plato: simile of the cave The Matrix: the desert of the Real, or, the pessimism of neuroscience Virtual: virtue, virtuoso, genius, genie Words are not Things: world of words creates the world of things All Nature is Second Nature: infinite malleablility of nature makes it second-order, infinitely regressible, no fixed origin; upload...
Sep 5th
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I get my spam en français
I got this in my inbox this morning: Confidentiel, Je vous écris avec mon respect à votre égard car votre nom est  le même que celui du partenaire d’affaires de mon père. J’ai perdu mon père Feu Yamek Bertin empoisonné par ses collègues pendant une réunion. Avant sa mort, il a déposé dans une société de garde, dans un coffre contenant de l’or  le métal de l’UA, raffinée et...
Sep 5th
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Hugo Award Winners
Hugo Award Winners Announced at AussieCon 4 | GeekDad | Wired.com BEST NOVEL [Tie for first place] The City & The City by China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK) The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade) BEST NOVELLA “Palimpsest” by Charles Stross (Wireless; Ace; Orbit) BEST NOVELETTE “The Island” by Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2; Eos) BEST SHORT STORY “Bridesicle” by Will...
Sep 5th
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Sep 4th
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Sep 2nd
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Sep 2nd
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“…Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon prison design is a perennial metaphor in...”
– Op-Ed Contributor - Google’s Earth - NYTimes.com
Sep 2nd
Op-Ed Contributor - Google’s Earth - NYTimes.com →
I’m considering this ‘necessary reading’ for a few weeks’ time.
Sep 1st
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Sep 1st
August 2010
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WatchWatch
zachadrian: It’s not easy being green. My short film It’s SUCH an existential little clip. But why doesn’t the apple just accept it’s fate?
Aug 31st
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Aug 31st
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tazzy101: Week 5 Tutorial Task A 1 minute narrative consisting of 30 separate still images taken on an iPhone. Not as good a quality as a digital camera but it still did the job. The story is about a man watching tv who gets up to get a drink and his son steals the remote.  The twist is great. I mean, we only set a 60 second still-image-montage task and we still manage to get a Tara still...
Aug 31st
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