sean cubitt's blog
aphorisms and scribbled notes on the history and philosophy of media
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
For Val Plumwood
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God had already loaded the dice in Eden, first by giving Adam dominion over the beasts, and then by demonstrating his own dominion through t...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
the encyclopaedia and the database: utopian potentials
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A fragment from a conversation with Lanfranco Aceti on Time, to be published at some point. The first line refers to Eco 's idea that ...
Saturday, November 18, 2017
Distinguishing 'instant' and 'moment'
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Cybernetic connectivity has a different character to the continuum, even as it emulates its ecology of mutual mediation. A relational databa...
Monday, July 10, 2017
The past and present beauty of Saturn
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If beauty is to stand, the monument that outlast perennial bronze, then it is already posthumous at the moment of its birth. The Imagist i...
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Logistics and behaviours
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In the history of consumerism, the Keynesian response to the 1929 Crash built on the foundation of the nuclear family which became responsib...
Sunday, January 29, 2017
Blogging at Winterthur
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My current duties make blogging an intermittent process but I am doing a series of posts for fotomuseum Winterthur, where recent, brilliant ...
Sunday, November 6, 2016
is truth virtuous?
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the disinformation society in which consciously manipulated statistics, invented figures and downright untruth circulate unchecked on a par...
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