Michael Rigley

Anticipation of Love Neither the intimacy of your look, your brow fair as a feast day, ...

...and a few more documentaries

ND Metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM-1)[1] is a gene that makes bacteria resistant to antibiotics of the...

What are they for... pictures of stars, of people bursting into stars, stars coming out of people, humans with star-skin, the idea of being made of star stuff that all of these embody – actually, it's transcendence. A totally physical, 21st-century transcendence of the, escape from the bodies, lives, world, geo-centric,...

Foton till boken Jag har scoutat runt i stan efter bilder till våran bok, de byggs om just...

The digital settles in as background. We remember less and query more. Our identity play would...

Researchers have succeeded in combining the power of quantum computing with the security of quantum...

A unique artist that I recently came across. He creates very striking photos and I thought...

I've been having a lot of fun the past few weeks fleshing out our next-gen profiles for the...

‘Matter’ becomes soft. It is the softening of matter, of ourselves, of our genes, of...

"Dance, Dance, otherwise we are lost.." Pina Bausch I have finally managed to watch...

Panama 2012 as Founder and Executive Director w/ Fundación ParqueArte Scenario: _A Free...

When someone is impatient and says: "I haven't got all day," I always wonder,...

Editors note: The Trans – Luminal mail archives Trans Luminal mail is a repository of letters written by unknowns to unknowns, these letters carry no valid destinations and no convincing authors, these are simply fragments of impossible conversations, dialogues and monologues, treated as pieces of an indefinite puzzle which purpose we do not...

A meme to meditate about what it means to be in a tribe, to lead, to follow, or to get...

Q: How do the Amish raise a barn without money? A: Community, and the social capital that weaves it together. In my husband’s Latvian community, they have a concept similar to barnraising called “talka,” which describes collective volunteer work for the good of society and environment. Several times a year we come together at our camp...

... our children can only do as bad as we are doing, and this is the challenge we are facing - we...

When someone is impatient and says: "I haven't got all day," I always wonder,...

Summary: A megacity synth looks for cooperation with transhumans while a corrupt cartel bot is out to get revenge. 1. INTERIOR -- megacity transport station -- day. There are members of multiple posthuman species on their way. Bots are machines. The transhumans are the most human-like. HYNT is a synth which is a form of artificial life that...

Its happened over and over in history, including why USA was created. In general the right to free speech always has and always will mean the right to communicate to others who want to receive those communications, without permission of anyone else. These days, there are many kinds of communication, and free speech applies to them...

Yesterday Stowe Boyd wrote a commentary (Getting to Trust: Better Swift than Deep) in response to my post about trust and collaboration, saying that the way of the future is connectives, not collectives; cooperation, not collaboration. He goes on to recommend assembling ourselves with swift trust, align professionally around a common...

Saving Humanity from Homo Sapiens SHfHS is dedicated to preventing threats to humankind brought about by humans.

What: Pasta by Design Who: George L. Legendre Foreword by Paola Antonelli Get it...

This mini-paper was given at the Escapologies symposium, at Goldsmiths University, on the 5th of...

Had said. I wish we are all crazy.

“I have not here been considering the literary use of language, but merely language as an instrument for expressing and not for concealing or preventing thought. Others have come near to claiming that all abstract words are meaningless, and have used this as a pretext for advocating a kind of political quietism. Since you don’t know what...

"Never Forever..." is a quantitative visualisation of the transient nature of empire. The...

With File Sharing is the New Meditation I had a fast little thought. Now someone has made...

In a few years humanity will have to enter space with industrial and permanent structures. There are several reasons to do so and I will touch on them briefly. First a presence in space will allow us to develop an industrial presence for harvesting asteroids and the moon (as well as doing general research), and such a presence is profitable....

A short documentary about outer space exploration and falling in love and how these 2 things can be...

This is a plan to solve a big problem everyone on Earth will soon have if we don't start working on a solution. The solution I'm looking for is technical but can quickly be calculated with pen and paper. Its a way of us observing eachother and keeping track of who can and can't be contacted, to make sure the reasons for anyone's unexpected...

“Put simply: cities are like ant colonies are like software is like slime molds are like...

Jeff Jonas wrote in General Purpose Sensemaking Systems and Information Colocation ... With...

This video is inspired, in part, by the ideas explored in David Deutsch’s new book, THE...

As humans, we have an innate faith in everything... Just like the animals we are, we are naive. Cognitive thinking has evolved us humans to the place we are now, and has created a turnoil from language. We are our own worst enemies. We compete against ourselves and the ones we love, yet we have the faith that we will always have something to fall...

Summary: Pense, a transhuman, is trying to prevent a new artifact from taking control of all consumers. Pense was not himself. The transhuman upgrade notice had been false. Whatever it was that had been loaded had made his system dysfunctional. He had to try to remove as much of the prostheses as he could which he had done before for repair....

The past month had the great pleasure to condense time and networks. Initially at...

In 1974, American professor of psychology Dr Clare W Graves wrote an article for The Futurist magazine titled Human Nature Prepares for a Momentous Leap. Graves described an impending change in human consciousness that would be, in his words: ‘…the most difficult, but at the same time the most exciting transition the human race has faced to...

The quality of being, as an aesthetic phenomenon, is radically altered in the age of...

expect some awesome photos

This is part 5 in a 12 part series. :: conscious awareness :: A recent article in the New York Times, Building One Big Brain,  prompted me to write up the next skill in this 12 part series. The piece quotes Nicholas Carr’s opinions about how the Internet is reducing the “capacity for concentration and contemplation,” scattering...

The original is unfaithful to the...

This is part 6 in a 12 part series. The first five skills were Pattern Recognition,...

[This is part 4 in a 12 part series. The topics covered so far are Pattern Recognition, Environmental Scanning, and Network Weaving.] ::Foresight:: The ability to develop foresight is a cornerstone for forward thinking individuals and change agents. I can say that on the personal level in my own life, when I did not have a clearly...

I arrive now at the ineffable core of my story. And here begins my despair as a writer. All...