personas pictoglyphs visionary … the main component is that of the eyes: the foresight...

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If we were able to take as the finest allegory of simulation the Borges tale where...

The reasonable man encounters circumstances and adapts himself to them. The unreasonable...

This is an explosive seed regarding the evolution of your superhuman powers. Very soon we will...

about who and what and why ..... "The first thing to be understood is what ego is. A...

Possible New Careers Emerging from Advances in Science and Technology (2010 – 2030) Final...

Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins...

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.... The painter should...

The following is crossposted from my blog on writing and format, though it belongs here as much as there. I consider the rant as some notes towards a transhuman language. Lojban, like the better known Esperanto, are constructed languages. Esperanto was constructed in order to help bring understanding between people who spoke different...

Collaborative Consumption: Reinventing not just what we consume but how we consume. A couple...

Erik Verlinde, a string theorist and professor of physics at the University of Amsterdam, is...

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is...

The need for reform and advances in education has been a recurring topic here on SC. In order to...

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

... Erin asked. "Yes." I said, without hesitation. We each began fantasizing the...

As a kid, books like Wolverton's "The Golden Queen" hit me with extreme force. Therein...

Did you know that in one day a full-grown oak tree expels 7 tons of water through its...

As the aging populations of Europe and Japan come to represent the local majority, it would seem...

Images of a rectangular grid under iterated conformal maps rendered using a (digital) video buffer...

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...

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

The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and...

I really enjoy my carnal existence; eating, drinking & exercising. But strangely I quite appreciate the idea of living forever - despite all of the negative connotations associated with it - what if this "Polytopia" was to be a hyperspace - kinda like second life, but controlled in the first person by our electrical selves,...

Fibers cradle a planet-like ball in an award-winning image meant to convey that Earth's future...

^ "Question 2010" by Katinka Mason ({ 172 Responses }) Excerpt: The most...

Just a quick thought, I agree with the video series on Spacecollective that in the next ~100 years homo sapiens will be done as a species. By done I mean basically extinct. There may be small amounts of people who decided not to modify themselves, the last sapiens. But then, we don't evolve into another species - we evolve into many species. We're...

ac_Sound Transform collage by Iuri Kothe Although our repositioning of augmented reality as...

We all go to the same source when we die. There is no heaven or hell, we all come from the same...

Simulated patterns for 5,6,7, &11 plane waves : This is a diffraction pattern of a real 3D...

Roles are immersive, dear diary app persona interface. Pause predicting bestsellers,measuring...

I found this quite profound, maybe I was too inebriated. The Secret Life of Chaos - BBC...

Watch this jaw dropping performing parrot called Snowball. It certainly makes one reconsider animal...

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Or, The Risk of Extrapolating Linear Trends Against Non-Linear Systems. A common habit in forecasting, particularly in energy futures & economic growth, is to take roughly linear trends and extend them over the next few decades. The notion is that there is inertia in what has already happened that will make the future look markedly similar,...

In many languages, Greek and Latin roots constitute an important part of the scientific...

I asked some questions a while back, in the entry No Secret. Namely, I wanted to...

I just found an excellent (5 year old) article to follow up an older post about Utopian...

And yet, and yet . . . Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the...

Biomimicry is a relatively new science that studies models, systems and processes from nature and...

I added a comment to this post today, about photographs of libraries. I reproduce it here. I...

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The choice of responsibility “Natural selection won’t matter soon, not anywhere near as much...