I have created some International Post-Scarcity Symbols for people to share I want to raise the...

Via tackling the fallacy of objectivity I am raising important points about rationality, reality, and subjectivity. Objectivity is a fallacy because if a human removes himself or herself from his or her emotions and perceptions the human then ceases to be human. It is simply not possible to be objective. Emotions are essential for higher brain...

There is something between life and death. You dance...

My first post, hope you like this image, hillutionations of the mind

Just found this collection of links, thought it was interesting though I wonder to what extent future music design needs to depart from its wear techno on the outside roots any time soon!

The following lines originate from a discussion that sparked with Kurt, following an article...

Most people do not understand PLUS and MULTIPLY when they see them in things they use almost...

The Whitney Music Box is “a musical realization of the motion graphics of John Whitney as...

On Social Learning, Sensemaking Capacity, and Collective Intelligence

A friend sent me this video, an idea worth spreading... One question though, who is going to...

The choice is with us still, but the civilization now in jeopardy, is all humanity. As the...

While eating a peach on this sunny midday I wondered : is not the taste of the sweet fruit the...

Personas/Metaconstructs = State/Mode :: Identity/Experience Filter = Timelines...

I would like some help! I want a tattoo that represents life's energy force, love, space,...

The Tromsø site did little to attract public attention until December 9th, 2009, the night...

Crossposted from Emergence Collective The Social API Lately there has been quite a bit of dialogue about writing a Social API (application programming interface) so that individuals and organizations can participate in "cross-platform" emergent innovation and action in a modular and plug-and-play manner. In our attempts to define...

This is part 7 in the series: The Rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization I've handled colour as...

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A few years back i watched this on youtube and it's amazing how a small accident changed this guys life forever..This was the first time i really had ever knew what an Idiot Savant meant...anyways enjoy and feel free to feedback. amazing story :o) <embed id=VideoPlayback src=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=2351172331453380070

Skepticism is refreshing, but at least the art is good.

In Jill's song we meet Jack Stone, and see a little of what makes him tick. It's a tragic and...

Does it leave a bad taste in your mouth? When you hear that word, what does it make you think or feel? Evil, greedy and exorbitantly wealthy individuals seem to come to many people's minds. I don't blame them, just look at the numbers for U.S. compensation rates. In 1968, the Chairman of General Motors received compensation of $795,000, which...

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"As president, I believe space exploration is not a luxury, not an afterthought, an...

At this stage, I believe, science and mathematics are the only ways of knowing. There are other ways. There is introspection to find and convey meaning. There are self-contained rules, as in gaming or computer programming, that can be made-up and learnt. Nevertheless, these ways of knowing are not concerned with empirical inquiry about the...

Eyeclipse: Open your eyes Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able...

Allegory is constituted on the principle that, there can be no direct presentation, or...

Claiming that something can move faster than light is a good conversation-stopper in physics. People edge away from you in cocktail parties; friends never return phone calls. You just don't mess with Albert Einstein. So when I saw a press conference at the American Astronomical Society meeting this past January on faster-than-light phenomena in...

It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions. ...

BBC News: Finland has become the first country in the world to make broadband a legal right for every citizen. From 1 July every Finn will have the right to access to a 1Mbps (megabit per second) broadband connection. Finland has vowed to connect everyone to a 100Mbps connection by 2015. In the UK the government has promised a minimum...

There are radical new patterns of power and response-ability emerging around the 21st century citizen. But we are also experiencing a strange kind of political impotence. We are powerful in new ways, yet often incapable of applying any kind of meaningful political force to the most crucial issues of our time ... I think there's a vital yet...

Stop Motion Animation Puppet

So people learned from the angels of God how to build bridges, and therefore, after fountains, the greatest blessing is to build a bridge and the greatest sin to interfere with one. - Ivo Andric Our first two topics in this 12 part series were Pattern Recognition and Environmental Scanning, both practices for enhancing the opportunity to create...

We recently discussed Pattern Recognition and the role it plays in understanding and decision making. The next topic in this 12 part series is pulled out of the Futures Thinking toolbox: ::Environmental Scanning:: Traditionally, environmental scanning is explained within a business context as a strategic approach to acquiring information...

Sensation and Forces "Not to reproduce what we can already see, but to make visible what we cannot" (Paul Klee) The task of art, in all its forms, is to capture forces. Deleuze and Guattari say that this, ultimately, is what makes art abstract - the "summoning" and making visible of otherwise imperceptible forces (Deleuze...

The Elements and Movements in Bacon's Paintings "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportions" (Sir Francis Bacon) Deleuze distinguishes 3 pictorial elements in Bacon's paintings, which together constitute a highly precise system - the field that is the spatializing material structure, the...

Painting, Its Ways and Faces "The adventure of painting is that it is the eye alone that can attend to material existence or material presence [...]" (39). Deleuze relates to two definitions of painting - one by line and color, which is visual, and the other by trait and color-patch, which is manual. He then proceeds to...

A Short Introduction "If you don’t admire something, if you don’t love it, you have no reason to write a word about it". (Deleuze and Parnet, Dialogues, 144; in O'Sullivan, 5) Though it may not have been recognized as such at the time of its publication, today, The Logic of Sensation has come to be recognized as one of...

"At the centre of my ironic faith, my blasphemy, is the image of the cyborg. (...)A cyborg...

Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan, Alessandro Poli 8 April to 19 September 2010 Main Galleries CCA...

Jukebots. A graphic novel of mine, featuring a mechanized band of robot jazz musicians. Not being...

It was the silence of her thoughts that awakened him He looked at her beautiful dolphin like shape; her legs folded within the larger transmutation she had undergone yesterday, her turquoise bluish tint reflected by the morning light. She needed no cover, her self-regulating nanobots thermostat taking care of her comfort zone temperature....

“To think what thought is not prepared to think is that which alone deserves the name of...