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,...

James T. Kirk: You know, coming back in time, changing history... that's cheating. Spock Prime: A...

Recently a friend brought the following article by Drake Bennett to my attention. It appeared...

Painting, like us, begins in the caves Painting, like us, begins in the caves, along our...

Looking at the present from the perspective of the future is probably one of the most interesting capabilities of the human mind, how much more so when the amount of interest we have invested in our futures has grown exponentially. Looking at the present from a future vantage point assumes we can project ourselves into an indefinite state of...

Second entry in the The Trans Luminal Mail Archives (TLMAP) TLMAP 00348-31 (Letter the second) following TLMAP – 088011 (Letter the first) The Editors -- ‘Elegant intimacy’, a Preliminary report on the success of vision endeavor 17dash23 (As documented by assistant supporter of the council on Karoote, third cycle of...

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...

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...

I've been greatly anticipating the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition to open for the past...

This iteration/generation of the Polytopia Project map (derived from notthisbody's conversation...

by Manuel DeLanda One constant in the history of Western philosophy seems to be a certain conception of matter as an inert receptacle for forms that come from the outside. In other words, the genesis of form and structure seems to always involve resources that go beyond the capabilities of the material substratum of these forms and structures....

3V: “I have found an existential space for you to evolve into NotMarie ..You need only encroach...

This is part 8 in the series: The Rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization "..the...

Recently I came across a very interesting article by Timothy Lenoir, bringing a fresh perspective on the concept Singularity and posthumanist future. In the introductory note Lenoir writes: Most researchers agree that there is no reason in principle why we will not eventually develop conscious machines that rival or surpass human...

For quite a while, I have the idea to invite Space Collective members to reflect, discuss and...

i think we need to be really careful when it comes to this whole pursuit of perfection. a lot has been said for the negatives of human nature, we are irrational, often violent and hurtful, and essentially slow paced and fragile creatures. but is this necessarily a bad thing? i am strongly inclined to believe that the positives of human...

"At the dawn of societies, men saw their passage on Earth as nothing more than a labyrinth of...

I spend much of my time making installations like these out of paper and wire, hung from the...

"Onto what surface shall a theory of aesthetics and consciousness be mapped?" Gregory...

Dream are cool. have you heard of lucid dreaming? It's when you become aware that you are dreaming and are able to control it. I have only experienced this twice in my life when I was much younger, around age 10 or so. I don't remember much of the dream now but I do remember the feeling of amazement and excitement for the next time I got...

"The psychology of the mature human being is an unfolding, emergent, oscillating, spiraling process marked by progressive subordination of older, lower-order behavior systems to newer, higher-order systems as man's existential problems change.
" Clare W. Graves (the futurist-1974) Abstract Quality I shall define here not...

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the...

There are only interfering and noninterfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles...

"Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with...

Bear with me as I ramble through some general thoughts on the upcoming development of us humans... The topic of this project is an interesting one, as it's something we'll probably actually have to deal with within our lifetimes. Something bothers me about the project description from the first line though. What will happen when for the...

A theme has presented itself over the past two days: the flexibility of the human brain and the way...

'Testing 1,2,3.' is the fourth entry in the Trans Luminal Mail Archives (TLMAP) TLMAP 002276-88 (Letter the fourth) following TLMAP 00776-26 (Letter the third- Ideational Sensate) The Editors -- These are the real spaces you can choose from. Of course there are also spaces that are not real that you can still choose from, there are...

Ideational Sensate is the third entry in the The Trans Luminal Mail Archives (TLMAP) TLMAP 00776-26 (Letter the third) following TLMAP – 00348-31 (Letter the second- Elegant Intimacy) The Editors -- Dear Claimer to Sentiency, Of course I do not have a soul, nor a spirit for that matter, actually that is the full point of my...

“There is neither a materialization of thought, nor a spiritualization of language; language and thought are only two moments of one and the same reality.” Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Specter of a Pure Language, translation by John O’Neill Prologue She came from the order of beyond.. and .. Of course she was bored, how else...

In 1738, in a rented hall in Paris, Jacques Vaucanson presented a duck. Not just any duck mind you,...

Mind inhabits body, body inhabits space, space inhabits time, time inhabits memory, memory inhabits mind.

In 1977, NASA sent a pair of unmanned probes named Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 into space. Among...

“Put simply: cities are like ant colonies are like software is like slime molds are like...

“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...

As I listen to Ruben Blades haunting rendition of Patria, I hear the gratitude he feels to those who have gone before, whose efforts have made the comforts and pleasures we enjoy, and whose labours, inspiration and invention we use in our efforts to improve this world and to contribute our gifts in the most effective way we can. Even in this...

It is an open and never ending question, the yeast that animates the brush into a stroke and...

Contrast is Relational Structure is Indicative Form is Meaning Vision Updates...

In the chapter titled Author as Producer of Walter Benjamin's Reflections, he introduces Sergei Tretiakov's 'operating writer', and how his/her mission, as opposed to the 'informing writer', is "not to report but to struggle; not to play the spectator but to intervene actively". This description is of the author not as activist--because...