Research & Writing

Joe’s Cyborg & Other Posthuman Curiosities

March 3, 2010

I wrote this piece exclusively for the March 2010 issue of Second Nature Journal of RMIT’s School of Media and Communication in Melbourne. The theme of the issue is Superhuman: Revolution of the Species. I will post a link when…

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Research & Writing

The Network Art and Science of Cesar Hidalgo

February 9, 2010

Cesar Hidalgo is a Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Development. Over the years he’s done a lot with applying the science of networks to the global economy (and mapping product spaces of various nations and states) and…

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Research & Writing

Key limiting factor for human development?

January 24, 2010

According to Paul Ehrlich, the key limiting factor for human development on this planet as a whole is the inability for our environment to handle our waste products. Watch the video at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Thought provoking, whether you agree or…

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Research & Writing

Recapitulating Ernst Haeckel

January 10, 2010

The more I live, the more I love and admire the work of Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919). He was a zoologist, artist and illustrator, and later a professor of comparative anatomy. I first heard of him while carrying out a philosophy…

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Books

Edward Tufte: The Data Artist

December 26, 2009

Edward Tufte, lovingly called a "Pioneer of Visual Data Analysis,"  is an artist and statistician at Yale University. His sensitivity in the areas of visual literacy has provoked a number of works that are reshaping the dialogue on how information…

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Books

The Power of Scale by John Bodley

December 5, 2009

I’ve been wanting to write about this book for a while. The author, John Bodley, presents the hypothesis that there is a maximum number of interpersonal interactions that one person can grasp. Any systems (or societies) that are larger than that…

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