Utopia has taken up residence in my frame of reference again, possessing me with glee, anguish, and...

I'm reading a copy of Douglas Rushkoff's 1994 book "Cyberia" on my computer (Click link...

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The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. quote from Alan Watts via Dmitri

Individualism is a subject the fascinates me and the comparison between societies based on...

“A philosopher’s ontology is the set of entities he or she assumes to exist in reality, the types of entities he or she is committed to assert actually exist. Although in the history of philosophy there are a great variety of ontological commitments, we can very roughly classify these into three main groups. For some philosophers reality...

"The universe is queerer than we can suppose" (02005) Biologist Richard Dawkins...

This post will describe how to construct a pair of goggles which can be used to induce...

I'm curious as to what the Space Collective thinks about this subject; namely, Bohm's thoughts that...

Words themselves are becoming antiquated. Rarely enough do we even find an arrangement as worthy as these: Today, Homo sapiens is faced with a rapid modification of his environment, a transformation for which he is the involuntary collective agent. I am not implying that our species is threatened with extinction or that the “end of the...

“Ostensibly physical objects like tables and chairs are really nothing more than collections of...

Just the first few paragraphs of the paper. Leaving it up here for archive and for comments! :-) In a time where physical possessions begin to lose their once-crucial roles, where more and more live in multiple countries and spend much of their time traveling, where identity is becoming less rooted to a physical form and more to an...

Watch the video here I’ve always experienced dreams as a direct reflection of my inner...

Biopunk (a portmanteau word combining "biotechnology" and "punk") is a term...

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...

Are you ready to have your mind blown? What if you can't count on another intelligence to speak your language? How do you communicate your accumulated knowledge? This is essentially the problem facing terrestrials in search of life "out there." We can take a clue from a past culture so strangely advanced (even by today's...

3v: “Your name is not Marie, but you have probably guessed that already” “how do you...

Contemplate replacing the concept of believing with the concept of holding. It’s hard to drop a...

It all begins when a Healer, guided by the Spirits, taps into the initiate's Kalimata or the...

Maps of science resulting from large-scale clickstream data provide a detailed, contemporary...

Extension of Human evolution or degradation of humanity ? Sony X905 Hyper Portable Data...

My brother just forwarded this cool post about the aesthetics of 'digital decay' to me. If anyone...

City of Words by Vito Acconci, 1999

In one of the most uncanny revelations in science fiction, the protagonist of H.G. Wells’ The...

To imagine: in a few years we'll have people regularly living and working on the moon. And, someday, hopefully not too far off, the possibility of humans living on more than one planet for the first time in this history... how far we've come for monkeys with hats.

Jonah Lehrer: Inside My Mind Feb 19 2009 San Francisco, CA - The Commonwealth Club of...

In this annexed posting, a coup d'œil is cast at the conflict between Mythos and Logos as being...

The Universe in 2009 In 2009, we are celebrating curiosity and creativity with a dynamic look...

"Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and...

Here is another beautiful animated visualization of a collaborative project on the...

When I was very young and my grandfather was very old we played a game that he taught me. He called...

Diamonds are forever. Are you ready to live with the clarity, brilliance, and high value of...

This is a work by Gordon Terry called "Superconsciousness". The noteworthy quality of...

We are used to doubt even our shadow. we move because of appearances, we go through the threshold...

Two realms of self-enhancement In three parts: Introduction The concrete realm The...

An exercise in seeing what's not there? Worth fullscreening with sound (follow...

"...We are at the beginning of a massive recontexting of our social life. We live in this new...