Projekt: 0 - Lonely Sun; found here Fascinating visual (and musical) works by Václav Pajkrt!...

Besides an occasional landmark building, the cities we live in aren’t all that different from the...

intelligence: n. the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge (this post is a group Twitter...

Knowledge is power. I find every day more and more evidence pointing towards this proverbial fact,...

I realized some years ago as I was typing that, much like speaking english, I articulate ideas via...

In the 'tricity' of Gdynia-Sopot-Gdansk in Poland there is a suburb with a cathedral, Oliwa...

Exploring Posthuman Aesthetics “Thus a simple physical feeling is one feeling which feels...

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

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

This is one of 50 posts about cyborgs - a project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coining of the term. CC image from mondi. “He would see faces in movies, on T.V., in magazines, and in books. He thought that some of these faces might be right for him...” The word “cybernetic” derives from a Latin word, kybernetes,...

"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me...

” Art is the language, photography is the medium, perception is the subject.” Mohir Many...

From The New Yorker: Eric Sanderson is a landscape ecologist who is trying to determine exactly how...

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

“There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or...

NotMarie: “3V, I am still frustrated and quite unclear about the manner you implicate your...

...But then I think, I've seen this before, too, in some or other form. This thing I'm looking at, whatever it is. And the realization is that it was never mine or theirs to begin with, but Ours. All of this is Ours.

At this moment in the Internet's history I am one of many, I would suspect, who often prefers to...

We've entered into a new year, the channels have been flooded with list upon list of 2010 predictions and trends, and now we're laying the foundations for how we'd like to characterize the times - David Houle is calling it the Transformation Decade, a tweet from @RitaJKing mentioned The Imagination Age, and Seth Godin rang in the new year with a...

And yet the future is already in our midst; it is the extending tendrils of a past, laying ahead of...

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” Friedrich Nietzsche a bit of mock poetry first: " But since, alas! frail Beauty must decay, Curl'd or uncurl'd, since Locks will turn to grey; Since painted, or not painted, all shall fade, And she who scorns a Man, must...

Uncontrolled hubris – Unrestrained future* To the question 'what is the use of philosophy?'...

In response to Sjef et al. Commenting on Sjef’s rant about the mediocrity of some of SpaceCollective’s recent content Spaceweaver calls “most of human activity boring and pointless.” This apparent discontent with the current output on the site has started a discussion which prompted several of our core members to stir things up by...

This video is inspired, in part, by the ideas explored in David Deutsch’s new book, THE...

The past month had the great pleasure to condense time and networks. Initially at...

"Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be." Walt Whitman And what marvels we have in front of our very own eyes! Marvels of technology and science we could not have foreseen but always desired, marvels of understanding and...

“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.” Mark Twain (part 1) A number of articles these past weeks have caught my attention as I write these words, the first, coming from: The guardian: Population of world 'could grow to 15bn by 2100' (Nearly 7 billion people now inhabit planet but projections that number will double this...

RealiTTY is a series of dense, insightful media meditations on language, information, reality,...

A short story that beautifuly depicts a possible path in our present to future leap. credit for...

"We are as gods, and we might as well get good at it." Stewart Brand There is much...

I point at the small cardboard structure on the train's table. The guard stands blankly and...

From its inception Wigglism has promoted the notion that the truth, or that which seems true, is...

In prefacing this question, I thought of beginning with a kind of disclaimer, stating that...

They call it the "mandelbulb". It's the first true 3D representation of the famous...

There's this man named Louis Wain, who lived back in a time before computers, before mathematical...

I have been wondering lately on the actualization of the web’s nervous system, especially...

I have been reading with great interest and pleasure Rene's latest post bringing forth with...

Adolf Loos' Ornament and Crime holds a favourite ammunition of mine in defense of immateriality: I have therefore evolved the following maxim, and pronounce it to the world: the evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects. How would I define what ornament is today? Ornament, a constant in decoration culture,...

Editors note: The Trans – Luminal mail archives Trans Luminal mail is a repository of letters written by unknowns to unknowns, these letters carry no valid destinations and no convincing authors, these are simply fragments of impossible conversations, dialogues and monologues, treated as pieces of an indefinite puzzle which purpose we do not...

To Create Is To Consciously Exist. To be able to perceive the “arrow of time” (or our...

When I finally grow up I wish to be a philosophical virtual God, and the reason I wish to be such a virtual god is because I will create me a compound personae , a multiplexity of beings all in one, a multiversal and multivariable sense perception mechanism that will correlate a complex mind to a complex reality and in this mind the Vienna circle...

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build the courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.” Brian Massumi - Introduction to A Thousand Plateaus The social aspect of the hyperconnected web carries an update to the nature of propinquity. Propinquity is a conceptual brick we need re-acquire and redefine in the era of...

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

Who are those people? They are what remain of the original colony. What happened to the rest of them? No one really knows, but rumors suggest that they are not far from here, in what conspiracy theorists call the real Vanevar 7. But why did they leave? Vanevar 7 is already the most advanced human colony; open sourced government and...

Mushrooms and their mycelium are quiet allies that are essential for our healthy existence....

Alternatively titled: Knowmads, Knowledge and Madness “An image of thought called philosophy...

Exploring the concept of cyber-identities, their application, evolution and necessary reformulation "Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be." Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game) There are many reasons for this essay but the main one is to emphasize why we desire, all of us humans that...