Al, other people agree with your communication model. This one is from Goethe: We talk far too...

Love One Another Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup, but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread, but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone. Even as the strings of a...

The Large Hadron Collider is finally turning on. A quick step backwards: the LHC is particle accelerator, the largest of its kind, underwritten by all the wild money in science, a ringed tunnel some 27 kilometers long, deep underground, crossing the French-Swiss border at four points. It's been over twenty years in the making and has...

Looking at an old Arabic script in The British Museum Islamic World gallery, I found myself...

Heart in Voh, New Caledonia Yann Arthus-Bertrand's gorgeous aerial photos certainly deserve some...

22-04-2009 - Extra disclaimer time! This piece was written in order to provoke discussion at a time when SC was kind of stagnating. While I maintain a healthy cynicism for hippie shit, I don't necessarily actually hold the viewpoints expressed. So while I appreciate your concern, I don't need any more emails trying to enlighten me with new...

I am sitting on a couch staring, no, gazing into a white screen while the only noticeably audible...

A crash in civilization is an instance when people (either individuals under government control or...

Ceramic jellyfish by Toronto based artists Alissa Coe and Carly Waito

When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before...

We have drugs in our heads, they've been there since birth and exist in more or less ample supply....

Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth...

I strongly oppose attachment to ground. By becoming locked in our position, we become dependent on...

The digital settles in as background. We remember less and query more. Our identity play would...

Hi Space Collective. I am interested in the possibilities of genetic technology. To tell the...

I arrive now at the ineffable core of my story. And here begins my despair as a writer. All...

I felt that "White on White" was important, but I couldn't explain it. I kept talking...

An article by Jonah Lehrer, written in 2008, recently appeared on SEED — Jonah called for a collaboration between contemporary arts & sciences and suggested that realm of science should be more open to the artist and his interpretations of life, since artistic insights often lead to the discovery of truths. I couldn't agree more. I...

No-Where is my Home, ergo ... Now-Here is my Home. video...

Philosophers have long wondered about the connection between metaphor and thought:: "We...

Now I am a frog, far away from the shadow of an idea… Hijikata...

I've been teaching non-art/design undergrads for a few years and the one question I get every single year, innocently, is "What is art?" My responses have been philosophical and abstract, probably leaving them as baffled as before they asked the fateful question. In a way, I avoided answering the Question. This year, I've found an...

I’ve watched last week “ Transcendent Man” - the documentary about Ray Kurzweil, his life and ideas. For anyone who read the book “The singularity is near” or watched one of his lectures in the recent years there is not much new in the film. While I’ve got a lot to say about Ray Kurzweil and his work (maybe in another post) I would...

In-progress–feedback welcomed. [Drawing upon cultural anthropology, my current...

My grandpa has brain cancer and is probably going to die soon. Of course I feel sad about this. I see how it's affecting my parents, siblings, cousins etc and it seems as though they're all... more sad?... than I am. I want to feel really badly for Grandpa and his situation, thinking his $10 scratch ticket is a $4 million dollar winner must be...

Abstract. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double-spending. We...

Illustration by Charles Glaubitz The object as product. The time of the product as merely the...

There is a lingering humour, a taunting presence in the mundane scenery of sensory experience....

what’s the connection? I found this essay very interesting and wanted to share it. Copywright...

The evolutionary prospect of an ethical criterion Evolution is blind. No scientific theory...

Redefining human identity …. By August 3rd 2092, John B. Derrick will be 25 years old. He is...

what takes an idea from inception to actualization & execution, the visualization &...

While doing some research for a project I stumbled upon this book and thought I'd quickly share some excerpts: The difficulty lies in the evolutionary process itself. Empathic consciousness has grown slowly over the 175,000 years of human history. It has sometimes flourished, only to recede for long periods of time. Its progress has been...

My full-length article "FutureSelf: Emerging digitized life patterns and a personal future...

To Dutch designer, Tejo Remy, a fence could be so much more than simply a separation or...

beautiful installation by artists Dan Havel and Dean Ruck a few months before this house was to...

LEVELS OF CONVERGENCE by Renata Lemos, Lucia Santaella Part 2 - Mind and Matter;...

This is a study that explores the notion of direct, participative and processual democracy. ...

In case you didn't know, reality is science fiction. If you doubt me, read the news. Read,...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. A leading...

The following photos are of Socotra Island, a geographically isolated archipelago off the coast of...

In this short (8 minutes) video, some people give out their short response to the question: What we...

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger...

Here comes a collection of thought sketches (or the microevolution of ideas revealed, if you...

3V: “I have had a major breakthrough NotMarie, I wish to convey to you its implications.. I think you can adopt it as well and maybe adapt.. NotMarie:” what do you mean? I have left you here alone for less than a week and you had a major breakthrough? 3V: “ yes indeed, I have discovered the meaning of this strange motivator...

The intense world of differences, in which we find the reason behind qualities and the being...

Last night I asked google, "is the internet over?" This was the response (be warned if...