by podblack on July 13, 2010
BLURRED BOUNDARIES OF HUMANITY What does it mean to be human when science mixes us with animals and technology? Speakers include: Oron Catts (SymbioticA) and Mike Alder (UWA). Has technology and censorship revolutionised the terror game? Ran in just as it started – so I’ll have to fill in the gaps regarding the live-blogging later [...]
by podblack on January 7, 2009
Dear Quadrant, I think I’ll attempt a pseudoscience article: kind of the Sokal hoax in reverse. Don’t get me wrong: I liked the Sokal prank as much as Windschuttle did. Showing up hogwash from any ideological stand is a valuable exercise. But I think Australia needs the opposite experiment. From ‘Diary of a Hoax’, hosted [...]
