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How to stay in touch with our biological origins in a world devoid of nature? The majestic nature that once inspired poets, painters and philosophers with a sense of awe and ecstasy no longer exists. Putting humanity firmly at the top of the food chain we have separated ourselves from...
 
technology has domesticated us. as fast as we remake our tools, we remake ourselves. we are...
From nagash
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Weird, let us not go to war with the plants. watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EcRSKEIucjk
From majelanik
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year unknown Contains first-hand accounts of some of the Western world's first interactions with many of the major plant hallucinogens of the meso and southern Americas including Ayahuasca, Peyote, Psilocybe mexicana, and DMT snuffs (virola snuffs). This is a primary source of the bedrock of modern hallucinogenic research which coupled up...
From OneQuantaAway
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In the future there's a bench so smooth that it feels like sitting on water. There people drown in,...
From majelanik
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In the vision, intelligent robots will handle our daily frustrating home routines. But in the...
From nethunt
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"You have asked us, younger ones, to tell you a story," Great Oak said, "but...
From meika
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At low tide, in an industrial rockpool, an eight-ratcheted Chiton and a Limpet in pinion were...
From meika
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In my last post I considered the ability of science-fiction – and the impossible objects it...
From Rourke
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(Homo superstes,...
From amzamz
 
Before Columbus, Dobyns calculated, the Western Hemisphere held ninety to 112 million people....
From nagash
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by Terrence McKenna This essay first appeared in the fall 1989 issue of Whole Earth...
From HelloAlexCL
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As a kid, books like Wolverton's "The Golden Queen" hit me with extreme force. Therein...
From Olena
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On lines of similitude languid with reference secondary virtues arise as still Doric...
From meika
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You Be The Judge: The Critique • In the past three decades, one-third of the planet’s...
From First Dark
 
Oil Fields No. 19 (California) & Bao Steel #7 (Shanghai) These images are meant as metaphors...
From First Dark
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MW - China, Factory For The World: Image #1, EB - Manufacturing #17 (Dehui City, Jilin...
From First Dark
 
CJ - Crushed Cars #3 (Tacoma) & Mixed Recycling (Seattle) Exploring around [the United...
From First Dark
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MW - Architecture of Density: Images #a15 & #a101 Hong Kong is one of the most densely...
From First Dark
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EB - Dam #6 (Yangtze River) The Three Gorges Dam is the world’s largest and most powerful...
From First Dark
 
EB - Tanggu Port (Tianjin) In one scene [of Manufactured Landscapes] we were in the largest coal...
From First Dark
 
Biomimicry is a relatively new science that studies models, systems and processes from nature and...
From denis
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By Murray Bookchin [Originally published in Bookchin’s newsletter Comment in 1964 and republished in the British monthly Anarchy in 1965.] I am posting part of the essay/manifesto (it can be found here in full): In almost every period since the Renaissance, the development of revolutionary thought has been heavily influenced by a branch...
From Xárene
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A new book on the influence on art of our ability to perceive depending on the different cultural...
From meika
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From josh
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Nature has made a determined comeback In the 20 years since Chernobyl's reactor No. 4 turned a...
From A0013237932294
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Freedom of Creation is a design + research company based in Amsterdam. Their designers are...
From Counterform
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Project:
The great enhancement debate
 
What is described by Bernard Huberman as an ‘ecology’ of information ‘characterized by...
From meika
Project:
The great enhancement debate
 
From How supercomputers enhance our understanding of genes Biological functionality is...
From meika
Adolf Loos' Ornament and Crime holds a favourite ammunition of mine in defense of immateriality: I have therefore evolved the following maxim, and pronounce it to the world: the evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects. How would I define what ornament is today? Ornament, a constant in decoration culture,...
From Xárene
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I was waiting for Mona to drive her VW Beetle through the gate I had opened. We were entering...
From meika
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Project:
Start your own revolution
 
In the 'tricity' of Gdynia-Sopot-Gdansk in Poland there is a suburb with a cathedral, Oliwa...
From meika
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It must have been twelve years ago. I was sitting in the Retro Cafe down at Salamanca Place here...
From meika
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The posts at emplaced (in What happen to nature?) and the internation initiative (in terrestrials)...
From meika
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Leather Landscape (02003) silicone, acrylic, leather, human hair, clothing, timber from We Are...
From First Dark
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Every molecule, atom, in our body... is self-interested... is self-aware, and determined as...
From Counterform
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Paul Stamets, American mycologist & author, is a passionate believer that mushrooms/funghi,...
From Counterform
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Andy Goldsworthy is the zen master of environmental art. His process & work possess a deep...
From Counterform
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