Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related...
Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were...
View ArticleSPLIT BRAIN, SPLIT VIEWS
1) Given that the brain consists in a mass of connections, whose power depends on the number and complexity of those connections, why is it divided? Or is that just random, and we should give up...
View ArticleIs life on Earth older than the Earth itself?
As life has evolved, its complexity has increased exponentially, just like Moore’s law. Now geneticists have extrapolated this trend backwards and found that by this measure, life is older than the...
View ArticleSaskia Sassen’s Expulsions: When complexity produces elementary brutalities
The language of more inequality, more poverty, more evictions from land and house, is not enough to capture the negatives in the current phase of global capitalism. I want to explore the hypothesis...
View ArticleDon’t Forget the Brain Is as Complex as All the World’s Digital Data
Twenty years ago, sequencing the human genome was one of the most ambitious science projects ever attempted. Today, compared to the collection of genomes of the microorganisms living in our bodies,...
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