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The best book table I’ve ever seen

15-Sep-12

I’m at the Aesthetics in the 21st Century conference, – I gave my paper yesterday; a haggard link between Turing and Fried, that hopefully made sense (not that most of the stuff I come out with makes sense). Along with meeting the rest of the Speculations team (minus Fabio), Paul and Jamie at continent, I [...]

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What are the Telekommunisten coding?

18-Aug-12

The Telekommunisten, an computer art collective based in Berlin, are moving onto a new project HERE (if it still works its a preview). It’s like chat routlette for the Left. My guess is that they’re building on the same expropriated network (free and open) they used for the R15N project to create a miscommunication platform [...]

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Aarhus University in June 4th/5th

22-May-12

Yeah I’ll be there… No link as such, but it’s for a workshop entitled Participatory Materialities. I’ll be talking about undecidability actually in software. It’s nice to think that I’ll be spending the Queen’s Jubilee, talking about issues which are fundamentally against the Queen’s Jubliee. Heres the blurb. “The continual development of a networked pervasive computing [...]

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Some questions about Actor Recursion Theory (ART): An interview with me – (Part 1)

06-Apr-12

So what’s Actor Recursion Theory then? Actor Recursion Theory is a name I’ve given to a specific intervention outlined in my dissertation. It’s not fully developed yet, and as such links or presents my haphazard state of mind during a PhD thesis. It’s reflects an opinion, but I leave plenty of room for others. The [...]

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SimCity’s Glassbox Engine: Unit Operations or ANT?

20-Mar-12

So the Sim City developers have just released a video showing off the simulation behaviour of the new reboot SimCity coming next year. It’s quite rare for any developer to show a demonstration like this at an early stage, irrespective of graphic ability, so they must be fairly proud of their engine. The Glassbox engine [...]

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Noah Horwitz, Badiou, OOO and Constructive Computation

30-Dec-11

Replying to my last post on Chaitin, Noah Horwitz (who is working very closely with Badiou and Wolfram as am I) comments on the potential similarities and differences of our position. It’s an important conversation, so its worth elevating to its own post as it were. His original comment is here, but I’ve directly copied [...]

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Who is Gregory Chaitin?

28-Dec-11

Tim’s post just reminded me to write something on Gregory Chaitin. I’ve been writing about this area a fair bit in my thesis, in light of his relationship to Wolfram’s research. Often enough, if you highlight differences between two thinkers in one specific field, you can transport or unpack those differences in a completely different field. [...]

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A response to Jussi Parikka: or why materialism ‘encounter’ has lost its efficacy

23-Dec-11

Most of you have probably read Jussi Parikka’s latest piece on some Object Oriented Questions about OOO HERE; the comments are well worth a read if not for the usual can of worms OOO usually opens in the blogosphere. Paul Caplan replied HERE and Levi HERE, Graham’s also just replied with THESE TWO posts. But rather than repeat other responses, I thought [...]

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Rule 30: More Hacking / OOO and all that…

09-Dec-11

There were some great responses to my post on hacking and OOO last week. Tim Richardson responded HERE and Nathan Gale just posted his response two days ago HERE. I’m doing this in the middle of a thesis session write-up, so I’ll have to be brief and numbingly inarticulate. So lets go through it a bit. [...]

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Computational Aesthetics: Independence and execution

10-Nov-11

Thats the title of my ‘Swedish Twitter University” twitter talk next Wednesday 16th Nov. You can find the info HERE. I’ll do my level best to condense my entire thesis into 25 tweets. Can it be done? Find out on Wednesday (Hint: the answer will be undecidable).  

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