First post in the Space Collective. I hope I don't disappoint as posting some thoughts in this community next to some brilliant people makes one feel very humble. For those not aware of what the Aesthetics of Failure means, and using my own words, I'd describe it as the end result of a failed attempt to produce a desired outcome from a...

Apologies for the poor visibility of words. Will type up soon, this is just a dumping ground for...

There is no doubt that language offers both demonstrations of and a special window into the social...

But Its Not Google (its Microsoft) "So far in 2009, there are four and a half websites created EVERY SECOND as the web continues to expand. While more searchable information is cool, nearly half of all searches don’t result in the answer that people are seeking. At the same time, the way the world searches is changing. You want more than...

Hello all, So, I haven't been around here as much as I would have liked, not because I've been...

One Square Inch of Silence is the quietest place in the United States. Located in the Hoh Rain...

R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER + OLAFUR ELIASSON @ MCA in Chicago Take your time: Olafur Eliasson is the...

After watching Space Collective from the sideline, I decided to make a post about something that is...

I found this and thought I'd share it. Leo Tolstoy “What Is Art?” The art of the future is not the possession of a select minority but a means towards perfection and unity. People talk of the art of the future, meaning by art of the future some especially refined new art which they imagine will be developed out of that exclusive art...

I've been wondering about mind uploading. If our mind can be fully uploaded to a non-biological operating platform, and we do invent the necessary hardware requirements to house one, what will that machine have to do to convince a user to adopt it? If the subjective experience remains fundamentally private and unique, how could uploading be...

Although it focuses on individual action (so it kinda opposes to my structuralist views of the social world), I find Goffman's interpretation of the human action quite interesting. Those of you who have read Erving Goffman know exactly how "catchy" his sociology is, and those of you who haven't...well I can tell you this: you don't...

Valerie Hegarty Niagara Falls — 2007 Foamcore, paper, paint, wood, glue, gel medium 150 x...

Kraken is a short motion video. These images are a sneak peak to the work in progress based on...

"We do not really know what the human being truly is today, although our awareness and...

In it everyone I love and everything I'll lose.

Cymatics is the study of vibration yielding form in whatever medium. The image above is a...

The web cultural revolution Genius. Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving...

Denounce Religion for the Population Controlling Fraud it is No politician would ever denounce religion. For one, they've done too good a job so far increasing its credibility. If the people realise religion is a fallacy, they will have to take responsibility for their own actions, to actually make decisions in their own minds, rather than...

Human progress : first it was exponential, then climate change brought it down to linear, until our energy capture capacity brought everything to a slow and final halt. It took hundreds of years past the third world war to finally reach our carrying capacity. It is a state in which we let all go to waste, smothered and drowned in petrochemical...

The culture of environmental sustainability is unstable since it requires energy to be actively diverted to halt the growth of the technosphere. As long as human ingenuity exists to combat the slow retaliation of the biosphere, the technosphere will continue to grow and to consume the native biosphere. At this time practically no pristine...

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"Of course, foretelling the future in detail is impossible. But just as you can use Newtonian math to predict where a shell will land from a gun, so I think with Fractals we can now predict the shape of what will come."

SANSULA Dominik Eulberg musicvideo from dirk rauscher on Vimeo. "Nature is man's teacher. ...

What does the Rational Choice Theory tell us? Well, basically its assumptions are that human action lies at the heart of society, and that individuals, as social actors, are the ones who can choose to act. This immediately raises the question of social level outcomes, one that could only be explained by a theory on how human actions interact in...

Pier 3 Brooklyn October 2008 Halloween New York October 2008 High Street Station...

I am glad to find this community of forward thinkers, please say hi if you come by my neck of the woods. -Steven

Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges writes: "...the solution of a mystery is always...

"You remember that existence of God thing that I had so much trouble understanding? Well guess...

So I guess this would be it. I've had this account for over 3 months now, but I just haven't...

Scenario: The Naked Hearts and SUSU from New York City come to Panama to play with Panamanian...

A kōan is a question, statement or story, that on the surface, defies logic. It operates by...

Making the world's knowledge computable Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer. Based on a new kind...

In the first post on this series titled “futures as such” I wrote about the minds of futurists...

At the very core of being human, at the core of human social and cultural fabric lays the human...

NotMarie: “You trivialize me!” 3V: “How do you mean?” NotMarie: “in our previous conversation you said that your reality package is different than mine in that I consider origination as valid, and you do not..” 3V: “yes I did, however I fail to understand, in what fashion does that trivializes you?” NotMarie: “well, I...

UCLA November 2008 image: Michael Powers

If you like Fat-Boy Slim, it just makes this video even better. Great Stats. Excerpt:...

If two parties can not agree to the following five principles of debate, then the debate is unlikely to reach a correct and reasonable conclusion. Even with these principles in place, a debate may be unsolvable, as evidenced by apparent paradoxes in the perfectly logical and rigorous framework of mathematics. 1 : Both parties must be open to...