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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Hein Masseling 1 Jan 1998
Tierra
Artificial Evolution in an Artificial World
Until recently, one of the most frustrating problems for evolutional biologists was the fact that the process of evolution could not be directly perceived as a process. With the recent development of...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Arjen Mulder 1 Jan 1993
World Names
Brief news item: in Bosnia and Hercegovina, the first children conceived by Bosnian women after being raped by Serbian soldiers have been born. The women refuse to recognize these babies and leave...
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Book: Benjamin Woolley 1 Jan 1992
Virtual Worlds
A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality
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De Balie
A New Politics
21Apr 2002Lezing door Manuel Castells, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Barcelona, over wat de politiek de burger (nog) kan bieden.
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De Balie
Public Control
7Apr 2002Lezing door Geoff Mulgan, adviseur van Tony Blair, en Paul Frissen, hoogleraar bestuurskunde, Kath. Universiteit Brabant. Om 19.00 uur politiek debat onder leiding van Felix Rottenberg.
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De Balie
Learning and Unlearning
17Mar 2002Lezing door Stephen Heppell, directeur Ultralab, University of East Englia. Hij geeft een praktisch pleidooi voor een nieuwe onderwijspolitiek in het informatietijdperk. Om 19.00 politiek debat onder...
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Book: Stan Franklin 1 Jan 1995
Artificial Minds
An encyclopedic but nonetheless compellingly readable overview of the history of Artificial Intelligence.
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Book: Evelyn Fox Keller 1 Jan 1995
Refiguring Life
Metaphors of Twentieth Century Biology
The focus of these three essays is the role of language and technology in the progress of genetic science. Drawing on a broad spectrum of theoretical work, Keller shows how scientists often operate...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Hein Masseling 1 Jan 1998
Kauffman
Origins of Order
If you ask questions on the origin of species, ecosystems or other complex biological structures, the answers will undoubtedly include the term 'natural selection'. Natural selection, as formulated...
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Book: Stuart A. Kauffman 1 Jan 1993
Origins of Order
Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Jacques Servin 1 Jan 1998
Mitchell
An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms
In 1969 a Cambridge mathematician, John Conway, amused himself by constructing a computer game he called Life. The game's world was divided into cells which each had a specific, determined effect on...
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Book: Melanie Mitchell 1 Jan 1996
An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1998
vol. 9#1 Secret Agent Issue
editorial
When a government no longer knows how to solve a problem within the borders of legislation and the tolerance of public opinion, it calls on the secret agent.
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Felix Meritis
Happy Chaos NL
- het nieuwe Nederland in 1 nacht15Dec 2001Politici, veejays, studenten, wetenschappers, schrijvers, geestelijken, ondernemers, dichters, journalisten en kunstenaars komen samen met discussies, presentaties, interviews, theater, muziek, kunst
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Book: Timothy Williamson 7 May 1996
Vagueness
The Problems of Philosophy
If you keep removing single grains of sand from a heap, when is it no longer a heap? From discussions of the heap paradox in classical Greece, to modern formal approaches like fuzzy logic, Timothy...
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Book: Kevin Kelly 14 Apr 1995
Out of Control
The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World.
An accessible and entertaining explanation of why the coming years will probably be the Age of Biology -- particularly evolution and ethology -- and what this will mean to almost every aspect of our...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Paul Groot 1 Jan 1996
Teilhard and the Technognosis
the avenging JHWH in Silicon Hollywood
With the advent of Dreamworks, the entertainment company founded by Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Bill Gates, Hollywood and Silicon Valley have merged conclusively.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Arjen Mulder 1 Jan 1996
Don't answer too quickly
With reference to John Lilly's Simulations of God
Theory only flourishes when a central concept is found into which everything ultimately seems to fit. To cite just a few examples: structure, sign, discourse, media, production, desire, seduction. If...
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Book: Peter Weibel, Florian Rötzer 1 Jan 1991
Strategien des Scheins Kunst Computer Medien
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Book: 1 Jan 1990
Versuch einer Geschichte der Rechenmaschine
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Book: Michael Benedikt, Manfred Fassler 1 Oct 1991
Cyberspace
First Steps
These original contributions take up the philosophical basis for cyberspace in ancient thought, the relevance of the body in virtual realities, basic communications principles for cyberspace, the...
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Book: José van Dyck 1 Mar 1998
Imagenation
Popular Images of Genetics
Historian of science Jose Van Dijck examines the role of images and imagination in popular representations of the new genetics since the late 1950s.
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V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media
Carte Blanche
- Wiretap 7.0830Aug 2001Centrale vraag in deze editie van Wiretap is: Reality is in the eye of the map maker? Sprekers zijn Martin Dodge (GB), Michael Pinsky (GB) en STEALTH group (NL)
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NEMO
De nacht van de Voortplanting
- 1e Rathenau Technologie Festival14Sep 2001Groots opgezet festival over de stand van zaken in de moderne voortplantingsgeneeskunde Centraal op het festival staat het veranderde denken over kinderloosheid en de vragen en dilemma's die...