The Uncanny Valley Is in Fact a Gigantic Plain, Stretching as Far as the Eye Can See in Every Direction (MP3)

Given today at Rice...nice q&a I think...

Junkie XL

I reckon Ian Curtis would've made Joy Division sound a lot more like this than New Order, don't you?

Future Talks Outlined

...until mid April at least. I'll fill in some more soon. Like for instance, I'll be in Finland at some point.

Talk at Rice Tomorrow

If you're in the neighborhood I'm doing a lecture in the Kyle Morrow room at the top of the Library, at 1pm on Saturday. It's ca...

Audiobook

Get your lovely Hyperobjects audiobook here !

Winnipeg Here We Come

I'm having a bit of a creative streak and I think the talks I'm doing for the University of Manitoba might be some of my very best, ...

Irony

...by my ten year old daughter.

MDMA

Never had it? Never mind : ) Here is something almost as good. Listen carefully. I was listening to this on the express train to Edinburgh (...

Syriza is not "radical left"

AP, nor is it "anti bailout." It, like the European Central Bank, is opposed to "strict" "austerity" ie acting...

Hotel Volkswagen

Jón Gnarr's play was read in Houston at Studio 101 yesterday afternoon. What a treat. If you're in Houston you should totally go to...

Edgar Froese RIP

I've been listening to your music since the early 80s. Loving the early Tangerine Dream, and some of the later TD too. And your solo stu...

Björk NYC

Off to NYC in early March for the opening of her show at MOMA. Our Thing will be on sale there. Wow it looks so cozy and cuddly! And breatht...

My Bergen Talk (Video)

Plattform: Dark Ecology & Sonic Acts present “The Geologic Imagination” part 1 from Bergen Kunsthall on Vimeo .

Dorothy and William Wordsworth

My colleague John Mulligan has made this very interesting website on interactions between Dorothy Wordsworth and her brother William. His s...

Arca 2

Arca

You know who doesn't suck? The lovely people who work with Björk right now. One of them is the extraordinary Alejandro, aka Arca, who ha...

Transcendental Geology

Thank you whoever or whatever you are! How's this for an OOO airmail sticker:

Dentures

" Our minds can be wonderful, but at the same time they can be our very worst enemy. They give us so much trouble. Sometimes I wish the...

Forgot One Thing

That tune, it starts with a sequence of 9 notes split over 2 and a bit bars. So it's also out of phase: check!

Where Has This Tune Been All My Life?

Suspensions: check. Cimbalom: check. Modulation to the subdominant key so that the main riff appears to emerge out of this beautiful widescr...

That Great Japanese Painter

Vincent Van Gogh. Discuss.

Licorice

An enormousness of it has been bought by me. Including some very fancy stuff in Copenhagen airport, that paradise of consumerism. I ate so m...

Do What You Feel

Maybe it's this fresh fjord air or the powerful nice licorice I'm eating.

Jeff VanderMeer

He just got in touch with me and, synchronicity, look what just happened: Hyperobjects  showed up in this New Yorker piece about his work ....

On Ecological Touching: Knowing (as) Intimacy

Had a bit of a revelation at The Knowing Uv It exhibition here in Bergen. This exhibition was not about getting to the correct understanding...

Bergen

I haven't been here since 1986! And that trip is etched, etched on my mind. It seems as if, if the weather is okay, we may go to the top...

Uncuttable Space

The higher-dimensional the shape, the harder it is to cut into segments . Thanks Cliff! This would apply to hyperobjects, since they are so ...

Ecology and Philosophy

Oh this is so good. I started to teach my graduate class with that title today. We are going to be looking at a range of continental and ana...

Lithuanian Interview in Full

Here we go . Thank you to everyone.

Björk and Tim 2

...for those of you who were wondering, there is no link! This is a physical object that we made. It will be on sale at MOMA when the exhibi...

Björk and Tim Work

A glimpse of how M/M put it together. Wow..............

Interview in Lithuanian

Lithuanian is one of the most beautiful languages I have ever heard. Also one of the most ancient. The mp3 is going to be on this page and t...

Cut to the Chase

Whatever you think of this chap's music, he's so accurate about depression (and so young to be so accurate!). Behold:  I wish I coul...

Björk at MOMA

Here is the page, in case you hadn't yet found it . There are so many extraordinary things about how this exhibition is going to work. F...

Philosophy, Design, Engineering (Zooetics Seminar) (MP3)

One and a half hours of excellent people talking about ecology and design, many of them engineers. In Lithuania.

Simone de Beauvoir: Why I Am a Feminist

Nice one. One of her sentences became an epigraph I used recently: Irony, a sense of the concrete .

Björk

Over the last half year or so I've been working with Björk on a mega piece of writing about music, aesthetics, ecology, philosophy, reli...