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Books that redefine reality - or - How to redefine the book.
by Kristin Feireiss (Editor), Lukas Feireiss (Editor) "Editorial Reviews Product...
 
From LED
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A book that makes you think, laugh and continue reading.
 
From Kilgore Trout
Few weeks ago I was reading one of a dozen bulletins that I subscribe and also thinking about a...
 
From LED
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Today I was reading an interesting style website and they report that analyses: Robot love...
 
From LED
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Nine years ago scientists discovered the expansion of the universe is accelerating, and slowly...
 
From openartist
I've just discovered Twine.com, a socially semantic web organiser of data, in 'twines'. Apparently...
 
From meika
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I added a comment to this post today, about photographs of libraries. I reproduce it here. I...
 
From Robokku
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Via NewScientist.com 1. Farthest North - Steve Jones, geneticist 2. The Art of the Soluble -...
 
From A0013237932294
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Readers: Do you think in hypertext? The era of the linear tome is dead, information is a web -...
 
From obvious
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I just finished a book that I must reccomend. It is called The Survivors. I feel so down since I...
 
From mspencr
"Reality has no opposite. Reality IS. NIRVANA IS." (emphasis appears in original) This...
 
From greatgrey
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This is a short book. Sounds good when I put it like that, doesn't it? However, much as its plot...
 
From Robokku
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I made a short about a year ago that seems to be a fairly accurate metaphor for the Total...
 
From meganmay
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I am a bad reader. Slow, ill-disciplined, with a wandering mind. I will rarely manage a...
 
From Robokku
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If ever there was a book I read that "Defined Reality", Then Brian Greene's The Fabric of...
 
From James Dunlop
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I havn't been fortunate enough to finish reading this book yet. Regardless, this book has provided...
 
From James Dunlop
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"Words are the meeting points at which regions of experience which can never combine in sensation or intuition come together....
From obvious
While looking for our book club books at Counterpoint I came across Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur...
 
From mspencr
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I came across this story by the late great Arthur C. Clarke. I'm not going to reproduce it here because it's probably copyrighted to his estate or something like that, but if you're interested in reading a very short story about the fictional fate of a certain species, which just might be applicable to our own, I suggest you do so by clicking the...
From dmitridb
As I'm sure many of you are aware, the COS (Church of Satan, not be confused with Cult of...
 
From dragon
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We have constructed a ladder of how to think about – about what? Oh, yes, the pattern which...
 
From Spaceweaver
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“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh....
 
From Wildcat
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“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested:...
 
From Wildcat
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The Library of Alexandria was an enormous repository of ancient wisdom situated in Egypt. Due to...
 
From dmitridb
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred...
 
From rene
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Before the printed book there was the book as relic, the book as idol to knowledge. Those who...
 
From obvious
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It is possible that writing has an intrinsic relationship with lines of flight. To write is to trace lines of flight which are not imaginary, and which one is indeed forced to follow, because in reality writing involves us there, draws us in there. To write is to become, but has nothing to do with becoming a writer. That is to become something...
From Counterform
If you haven't read any Buckminster Fuller, you need to get on it. I don't think you...
 
From sjef
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Editorial
A huge welcome goes out to all new participants to this project, one of the first public projects on Space Collective. At the moment this space is in evolution mode. Please do let all participants know your musings by commenting here. Hopefully over the coming days/weeks we can forge an interesting and compelling collective project. I will start inviting more moderators as soon as ideas start...
From obvious
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Western intellectual tradition looks at Body and Mind as separate things existing in different...
 
From rene
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This post is meant for those who are in the strange habit of finishing what they start. All others...
 
From al
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"I cannot think it unlikely that there is such a total book on some shelf in the universe. I pray to the unknown gods that...
From obvious
It is possible to regard all culture as information and to view any single culture as an “information economy” in which...
From obvious
For the present we can say that creativity is not only the fresh perception of new meanings, and the ultimate enfoldment of this...
From obvious
Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph....
From obvious
Project Proposal: There are hundreds of thousands of books published every year. Many are...
 
From obvious
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Nary a post goes by when I don't feel compelled to share a relevant book. I'd like to propose a collective recommended reading list, and in beginning this list I'll paraphrase the first page of my first recommendation. It's from a book called "The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Many people, when they see an immense...
From FrankLloydWrong
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