Joseph Nechvatal
Immersion Into Noise
(University of Michigan Library’s Scholarly Publishing Office in conjunction with Open Humanities Press, 2011)

Long time Pythoneer Tim Peters succinctly channels the BDFL's
guiding principles for Python's design into 20 aphorisms, only 19
of which have been written down.

The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.

The concept of the flipped classroom has taken off. In a nutshell, the traditional idea of teaching is turned on its head. Homework is now listening to the lecture or simulation via video (self made or found online) and the classroom becomes a place where the teacher (and other students) help in answering all of those student questions that used to keep students stumped while working on their own.

You will find a post-modern (or, perhaps, a post/post-modern), dialectical, social-constructivist perspective within this blog, as well as at the center of my own thinking. In the here-and-now, my own impressions and actions, might well be expressed metaphorically as, “All the world is a stage, the play is just badly cast.”

The Symphony of Science is a musical project of John D Boswell, designed to deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form. The project owes its existence in large measure to the classic PBS Series Cosmos, by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steve Soter, as well as all the other featured figures and visuals. Continuation of the videos relies on generous support from fans and followers

"The Simulation Argument is perhaps the first interesting argument for the existence of a Creator in 2000 years."

ABSTRACT. This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.

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Philosecurity is a collection of articles about security, philosophy, and privacy. Written by Sherri Davidoff, Philosecurity explores the impact of technology in our society and the tradeoffs between efficiency and freedom.

In this short RSA Animate, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek investigates the surprising ethical implications of charitable giving.

Denis Dutton is a philosophy professor and the editor of Arts & Letters Daily. In his book The Art Instinct, he suggests that humans are hard-wired to seek beauty.

Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) (known to intimates as "Van") was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition. From 1930 until his death 70 years later, Quine was continuously affiliated with Harvard University in one way or another, first as a student, then as a professor of philosophy and a teacher of mathematics, and finally as a professor emeritus who published or revised several books in retirement.

FLOSS+Art critically reflects on the growing relationship between Free Software ideology, open content and digital art. It provides a view onto the social, political and economic myths and realities linked to this phenomenon.

Please visit the FLOSS + Art website for more information on downloading or ordering the book, reviews, and excerpts.

The pattern of the process involved in music is: from perception—to emotion—to appraisal—to conceptual understanding.

Music is experienced as if it had the power to reach man’s emotions directly.

“Art and Cognition,” The Romantic Manifesto, 50.

This label from the early 1920s was used to identify Okeh's line of ethnic records which were primarily marketed to immigrants.  The Statue of Liberty and the New York skyline provided many immigrants their first glimpse of America.  Ayn Rand arrived in New York from Russia in 1926

Costanza asked Sussman why MIT had switched away from Scheme for their introductory programming course, 6.001.

Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure -- and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work.