In a rather bland philosophy book I was reading the other day, there was a curious statement...

In protest of hyper-speed culture and media: How much of what you say is important? How much of...

Phenomenal short story. The Last Question by Isaac Asimov — © 1956 The last question...

Are you there? Can you help me? I like hearing music from Space Collective, especially whilst...

If we would want a space colony of 100 people to represent the world’s population accurately, the demographics would look something like this: The colony would have 60 Asians, 14 Africans, 12 Europeans, 8 Latin Americans, 5 from the USA and Canada, and 1 from the South Pacific 51 would be male, 49 would be female 82 would be...

We say the map is different from the territory. But what is the territory?...

Learning to swim or learning a foreign language means composing the singular points of...

The idea that change is a transitional phase between two stable states is ridiculed by everyday...

The inventions of philosophy are no less fantastic than those of art: Josiah Royce, in the...

"Nothing is now unconscious if your data search commands are powerful enough."

In my last post on HFD, I covered the basics of holopticism, noting that a many-membered view of...

Throughout human history, people have been asking the same questions about the nature of the...

The sticker network is a network made with wirelless stickers. Control over the internet leads to a new form of independent network: the sticker network. This is in fact an open internet wich may interconnect wirelless routers or work as standalone. All you have to do is stick arround. Glue stickers everywhere. Large quantities of stickers are...

The text below is an image of a Discursive (Hyper)text... Please click it to read the full,...

AR Aura Recognition Gabriel Shalom, KS12 Presented in the production track of the 1st...

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons,...

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" ~...

by Leon Tan and Tomas Skovgaard Mixed Reality Publics Networked publics are mixed reality...

I'm sure many of you know about the great mathematician, Paul Erdos, and may have heard this story about him (from Wikipedia): His colleague Alfréd Rényi said, "a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems", and Erdős drank copious quantities. (This quotation is often attributed incorrectly to Erdős himself.)[6] ...

Our body is our shell, it contains us in order to operate on this plane of experience. WIth...

I recently read an article by Manuel DeLanda discussing Non-Organic Life and the Mechanical...

I am an impression. From a massive field of energy far away from the physical world where no...

In the Polytopia, everyone can customize their interaction with cyberspace and meatspace. There...

There is an evolving practice of manifesting intention via aeshetics. I would like to see an...

Researchers Are Working to Make Touch Technology Feel Like the Real Thing Did you know...

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and...

If you are at a certain stage of awareness and being, in this polytopian unfolding, the...

Looks like visitors in the area. A beep in the biosphere signals that the session is beginning...

On September 12, 1962 John F. Kennedy visited Rice University and delivered a gripping speech in...

Down to the final weeks of my Master's project at the Danish Design School... I decided to do a...

In a lecture in 1933 Wittgenstein gave his students the following picture of his work and of...

I've been reading a lot lately, but unable to actually finish as much of that as I want. Sometimes I just move on to the next, or whatever is important at that time. Sometimes it's just because I get too busy. But actually the dilemma is that some of this material is very dense, and it's hard for me to get through. For example I had to put...

A call for a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our...

Published 2009-09-08 18:41:01 WSJ's Andy Jordan talks to currency renegades tired of...

In Hanif Kureishi's book The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), the main character Karim expresses...

The more we can find out about the future, the more keenly we tend to try to understand its...

This is an article I found very interesting from New Scientist Magazine. I am posting this here...

People are fascinated by language. An enormous amount has been discovered about language in...

I make art on plexiglas, acryilc plastics. I love the act of painting backwards. The first...

Started as a comment and evolved into a response to Keen's Terrance McKenna and DMT I used to...

How important are 'the latest news'? What would it mean to ignore most news and to concentrate on our present goals? These days many people are following an enormous amount of news sources. I myself notice how skimming through my Google Reader items is increasingly time-consuming. Is there maybe more to it than just curiosity and...

This post was first published as part two of a series of three posts on on Augmentology...

Revolving Realities is an autoreactive installation, one that plays with our sense of...

I have some thoughts about new community. In Russia we have very corrupted police, law courts and...

Book Autopsies by Brian Dettmer His flickr account contains more recent work to...

finally i added some more light to her backlight and lightened up the frills on her collar. i...