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SpaceCollective: wordofcommand http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:43:50 +0000 http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand en Crop Circle Jerk http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/7288/Crop-Circle-Jerk http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/7288/Crop-Circle-Jerk Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:43:50 +0000 wordofcommand 7288 Failed Crop Circle attempts. <img src="http://spacecollective.org/userdata/GGCQ0Gm7/1327984881/Screen shot 2012-01-30 at 5.48.45 PM.png" border="0" width="" height="" class="padTopBot"> <img src="http://spacecollective.org/userdata/GGCQ0Gm7/1327984902/Screen shot 2012-01-30 at 5.48.55 PM.png" border="0" width="" height="" class="padTopBot"> <img src="http://spacecollective.org/userdata/GGCQ0Gm7/1327984919/Screen shot 2012-01-30 at 5.49.05 PM.png" border="0" width="" height="" class="padTopBot"> After seeing these I reassessed my thoughts on the phenomenon of Crop Circles. Screenshots from the 2011 film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2063834/" target="_blank">Thrive</a>. http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/7288/Crop-Circle-Jerk Alone Together http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/7014/Alone-Together http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/7014/Alone-Together Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:16:42 +0000 wordofcommand 7014 <img src="http://spacecollective.org/userdata/GGCQ0Gm7/1314256481/MotonagaSadamasa_Maruimidori.jpg" border="0" width="" height="" class="padTopBot"> <object width="560" height="345"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MtLVCpZIiNs?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MtLVCpZIiNs?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="345" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object> From an interview on PBS: <blockquote> The Shakespeare quote is, "We are consumed by that which we are nourished by" [sic]. [Editor's note: Shakespeare's Sonnet LXXIII — "Consumed with that which it was nourished by."] I think when we're texting, on the phone, doing your e-mail, getting information, the experience is of being filled up. And that feels good. We assume that it is nourishing in the sense of taking us to a place we want to go. And I think that we are going to start to learn that in our enthusiasms and in our fascinations, we can also be flattened and depleted by what perhaps was once nourishing us, but which can't be a steady diet, because speaking for myself, if all I do is my e-mail, my calendar and my searches, ... I feel great; I feel like a master of the universe. And then it's the end of the day, I've been busy all day, and I haven't thought about anything hard, and I have been consumed by the technologies that were there and that had the power to nourish me. The point is we're really at the very beginning of learning how to use this technology in the ways that are the most nourishing and sustaining. We're going to slowly find our balance, but I think it's going to take time, and I think the first discipline is to think of us in the early days so that we're not so quick to — (snaps fingers) — yes, no, on, off, good, good, and to just kind of take it slowly and not feel that we need to throw out the virtues of deliberateness, living in life, stillness, solitude. There is a wonderful Freudian formulation, which is that loneliness is failed solitude. In many ways, we are forgetting the intellectual and emotional value of solitude. You're not lonely in solitude. You're only lonely if you forget how to use solitude to replenish yourself and to learn. And you don't want a generation that experiences solitude as loneliness. And that is something to be concerned about, because if kids feel that they need to be connected in order to be themselves, that's quite unhealthy. They'll always feel lonely, because the connections that they're forming are not going to give them what they seek. </blockquote> Read more of the interview <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/interviews/turkle.html#ixzz1W1OlhGcC" target="_blank">here</a>. Post image by Kumi Sugai and Sadamasa Motonaga http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/7014/Alone-Together productlaneevol http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/6721/productlaneevol http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/6721/productlaneevol Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:28:27 +0000 wordofcommand 6721 <img src="http://spacecollective.org/userdata/GGCQ0Gm7/1299871560/tumblr_lhwiy3LGyh1qzchk6o1_r1_1280.png" border="0" width="" height="" class="padTopBot"> <blockquote>t]he earth — the <a href="http://freespace.virgin.net/drama.land/projects/schizoanalysis/deterritorialization.html" target="_blank">deterritorialized</a>, the glacial, the giant molecule — is abody without organs. this <a href="http://freespace.virgin.net/drama.land/projects/schizoanalysis/bwo.html" target="_blank">body without organs</a> is permeated by unformed, unstable <a href="http://freespace.virgin.net/drama.land/projects/schizoanalysis/matter.html" target="_blank">matters</a>, by flows in all directions, by free intensities or nomadic singularities, by mad or transitory particles. [tp: 40] for there simultaneously occurs upon the earth a very important, inevitable phenomenon that is beneficial in many respects and unfortunate in many others: <a href="http://freespace.virgin.net/drama.land/projects/schizoanalysis/strata.html" target="_blank">stratification</a>. [tp: 40] the earth is the <a href="http://freespace.virgin.net/drama.land/projects/schizoanalysis/territorialmachine.html" target="_blank">primitive</a>, savage unity of <a href="http://freespace.virgin.net/drama.land/projects/schizoanalysis/desiringproduction.html" target="_blank">desire and production</a>. for the earth is not merely the multiple and divided object of labour, it is also the unique, indivisible entity, the full body that falls back on the forces of production and appropriates them for its own as the <a href="http://freespace.virgin.net/drama.land/projects/schizoanalysis/quasi.html" target="_blank">natural or divine precondition</a>. while the ground can be the productive element and the result of appropriation, the earth is the great unengendered stasis, the element superior to production that conditions the common appropriation and utilization of the ground. it is the surface on which the whole process of production is inscribed, on which the forces and means of labour are recorded, and the agents and the products distributed. it appears here as the <a href="http://freespace.virgin.net/drama.land/projects/schizoanalysis/quasi.html" target="_blank">quasi cause</a> of production and the object of desire (it is on the earth that desire becomes bound to its own repression). [ao: 141] the primitive <a href="http://freespace.virgin.net/drama.land/projects/schizoanalysis/territorialmachine.html" target="_blank">territorial machine</a>, with its immobile motor, the earth, is already a <a href="http://freespace.virgin.net/drama.land/projects/schizoanalysis/socialmachine.html" target="_blank">social machine</a>, a megamachine, that <a href="http://freespace.virgin.net/drama.land/projects/schizoanalysis/code.html" target="_blank">codes</a> the flows of production, the flows of means of production, of producers and consumers: the full body of the goddess earth gathers to itself the cultivable species, the agricultural implements, and the human organs. [ao: 142]</blockquote> From <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=B9xLrS6mpGoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=A+thousand+plateaus:+capitalism+and+schizophrenia&hl=en&ei=HHl6TZDfC8jk0gHB493eAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">A thousand plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia</a> By Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Brian Massumi via <a href="http://productlaneevol.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">productlaneevol.tumblr.com/</a> http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/6721/productlaneevol Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/6591/Amber-Case-We-are-all-cyborgs-now http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/6591/Amber-Case-We-are-all-cyborgs-now Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:03:08 +0000 wordofcommand 6591 <object width="446" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"></param> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/AmberCase_2010W-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/AmberCase-2010W.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=1050&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=amber_case_we_are_all_cyborgs_now;year=2010;theme=celebrating_tedwomen;theme=evolution_s_genius;event=TEDWomen;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="446" height="326" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/AmberCase_2010W-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/AmberCase-2010W.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=1050&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=amber_case_we_are_all_cyborgs_now;year=2010;theme=celebrating_tedwomen;theme=evolution_s_genius;event=TEDWomen;"></embed></object> <blockquote>Technology is evolving us, says Amber Case, as we become a screen-staring, button-clicking new version of homo sapiens. We now rely on "external brains" (cell phones and computers) to communicate, remember, even live out secondary lives. But will these machines ultimately connect or conquer us? Case offers surprising insight into our cyborg selves.</blockquote> From <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/amber_case_we_are_all_cyborgs_now.html?awesm=on.ted.com_8pnV&utm_campaign=amber_case_we_are_all_cyborgs_now&utm_content=ted.com-talkpage&utm_medium=on.ted.com-twitter&utm_source=direct-on.ted.com" target="_blank">TEDWomen</a> http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/6591/Amber-Case-We-are-all-cyborgs-now Warp (2010) - Florent di Bartolo http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/6340/Warp-2010-Florent-di-Bartolo http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/6340/Warp-2010-Florent-di-Bartolo Sun, 03 Oct 2010 10:45:44 +0000 wordofcommand 6340 <img src="http://spacecollective.org/userdata/GGCQ0Gm7/1286127979/warp1.png" border="0" width="" height="" class="padTopBot"> <img src="http://rhizome.org/imagebase/article/3783/warp2.png" /> <img src="http://rhizome.org/imagebase/article/3783/warp3.png" /> Click <a href="http://florent.dibartolo.free.fr/fullscreen.php?title=warp">HERE</a> from <a href="http://rhizome.org/editorial/3783" target="_blank">Rhizome</a> http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/6340/Warp-2010-Florent-di-Bartolo Title http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/6271/Title http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/6271/Title Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:29:31 +0000 wordofcommand 6271 <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Reach_for_the_stars.jpg" /> <blockquote>The universe is an intelligence test. - <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary" target="_blank">Timothy Leary</a></blockquote> http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/6271/Title How to Be Happy Always http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/6021/How-to-Be-Happy-Always http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/6021/How-to-Be-Happy-Always Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:11:35 +0000 wordofcommand 6021 <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Fb44mVpJYq0&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Fb44mVpJYq0&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object> H. 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Sri Swami Satchidananda speaks about how to find permanent happiness by not getting caught in the disappointments of temporary happiness. http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/6021/How-to-Be-Happy-Always The House http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/4817/The-House http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/4817/The-House Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:45:49 +0000 wordofcommand 4817 <img src="http://spacecollective.org/userdata/GGCQ0Gm7/1238391947/image2.jpg" border="0" width="" height="" class="padTopBot"> http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/4817/The-House Utopia http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/4816/Utopia http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/4816/Utopia Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:44:51 +0000 wordofcommand 4816 <img src="http://spacecollective.org/userdata/GGCQ0Gm7/1238391879/sfHVG9J6Olnzck56z8m0X2Xvo1_500.jpg" border="0" width="" height="" align="left" class="padRight"> http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/4816/Utopia Memories http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/4768/Memories http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/4768/Memories Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:53:17 +0000 wordofcommand 4768 <img src="http://spacecollective.org/userdata/GGCQ0Gm7/1237164795/3_memory.jpg" border="0" width="" height="" align="left" class="padRight"> http://spacecollective.org/wordofcommand/4768/Memories