In 1996 former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and internet pioneer, John Perry Barlow, addressed...

All the ways about here belong to me! The Red Queen in ‘Through the Looking Glass’ by Lewis...

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

Part 5 in the series : The Rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization If it works its already...

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

What is so peculiar, even curious in a strange sense, concerning the current events of global unrest is not the actuality of the events themselves but the fact that these events do not coalesce (as of yet that is) around a particular and immediately recognizable leader or agenda. In fact to a very large extent it could be called a non-prophet...

Now, when the tears find no ink but a keyboard to excite. Now, when the arch of life is...

I recently had an email exchange about Space Collective with our well-known friend, Obviously Subtle . In the email, he said something that really stuck with me. Referring to what Space Collective is all about, he called it "post religion and post politics." Of course, I already knew what Space Collective was about before I read...

"The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the...

It started as a comment to Starwalker’s post but in the course of writing it gained the volume of...

A short aesthetic exploration into longevity and its implications on our emotional lives- including...

The idea for this post came up while reflecting on Wildcat’s latest posts on the Knowmad and from...

I was just reading about iraq in the newspaper, about the state of negotionations between the...

Some interesting books were recently brought to my attention by Carel. In one of them, Barry...

Now summer has passed, As if it had never been. It is warm in the sun. But this isn't...

Project Proposal: There are hundreds of thousands of books published every year. Many are...

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

Within our mythological sphere an epic-edge is unfolding, disclosing the current narration: we as...

A response to Wildcat's "My cranium, my castle?" Thank you Wildcat for the...

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. — Arthur Schopenhauer Free will does not and cannot imply without cause, randomness or unpredictability. All those qualities, although present in complex systems, would contradict the notion of willful intent. What we want, and therefore do, must be based on reasonable ground....

Previously on BWBW: "I know you know that there are no intrinsic problems as such, but only difficulties in maintaining a multilayered reality in immediacy but keep in mind that the essence of the warrior poet is a re-arrangement without thought, consciously keeping the direction of repetition but not allowing the order to emerge until an...

I had the pleasure to meet several other polytopians in the flesh recently at the TransVision 2010...

Part 6 in the series : The Rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization The peculiar ‘liquidity’...

There's a general widespread anger about education lately, and not only that but the...

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

Note the first: regarding Intelligence in CI As an initial view consider the idea that a...

"In 1969, R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), the pre-eminent 20th Century engineer for the...

As life in our world becomes ever more complex, there is an ever increasing pressure on us to...

It is undeniable that the world has grown increasingly complex, and it has become increasingly complex to live in. I mean this not only in the sense of there being more and more factors and information to know of and respond to, but in the sense that new technology and global interconnectedness creates new and increasingly bizarre situations,...

The crucial subject matter that crosses paths with the current evolution of technology is that of...

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is somewhat new kind of religion. I...

Previously on BWBW: ” But what happens when the very task that we set to compute is an iterative branching of meaning? What happens when the arrangement itself of matter re-coheres itself continuously to fit the desire of the task at hand which is a non-given in chaotic poetry? I’ll tell you what happens, because I saw it with my very...

In a recent post by Connor, who is one of several recent SpaceCollective members whose...

Contemporary human being exists inherently in several environments simultaneously; one’s...

Today: People are shifting their focus to the energy in their work and its impact rather than...

Through technology the span of human life will increase, approximating towards immortality; in...

Yet another augmented prologue It took me a while to figure how to continue from here. There...

“The deterritorialization of the self is the essential feature that marks human entry into...

An email my brother Michael Anissimov sent to me in response to the three rant clips posted toward The Great Enhancement Debate, with short response commentary by myself: Haha interesting. Was this from that one interview with your friend's dad? Great to get these ideas out there for people to debate, I'll post these videos on my blog. ...

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

This is the third of a series of articles jointly written by Wildcat and Spaceweaver, summing our...

Having participated in the development of the Polytopia Project since its outset here on...

I've seen a bunch of posts bubble up over the past few days that are really sparking my curiousity about what is really going on with Twitter, so I need to do a little brain dump. Bear with me. Insight #1 An article by Rosabeth Moss Kanter was just published today on the Harvard Business Review website, titled On Twitter and in the...

Why do creative and/or intelligent people often suffer from some kind of mental illness, or at...

I am currently reading one of (probably) the best books in the hard sci-fi genre, it appears that...

“The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. “ Paul...

The Space Collective is a place for new ideas, and as such, some of them may be elusive even for forward thinking terrestrials. This dictionary is meant to be a collaborative effort help familiarize members of the collective (and possibly curious foreigners) with terms native to or born within the SC. If you happen upon something that needs...

We behold an increase of attention to two very interesting concepts: plasticity and collective....

"We may be on the edge... ...of nothing particularly important."   - Bruce...