January 2012
5 posts
The Thoughts
Incoming:
emotive thoughts
that swirl through blood as thick as sand
dribbling through the lips
of incoming demise
A siren whistles in the backdrop of a
quaint scene painted in the aura of dadaist
distaste
Output:
a sad childlike man
whose time has passed
whom fears the worst
whose life he does not know
whom has fallen
drifting ever so lightly
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What we really are?
There’s a stream of light that we wish to ignore. A brilliance that attempts to blind us, but never finishes the job—even though we wish deeply that the light would. Each and everyday I carry myself around desiring something that I can never quite place a finger on to touch—I desire to be carried outside of myself to view the world from the perch of a cloud, as well as from the...
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iNFOgraphic Response to Community Probz
I recently came across a short article about artist Tim Devin who does live polling in Boston by placing infographics on street signs, telephone poles etc asking questions regarding whether one feels a sense of community in their area. At the bottom of the infographic will be yes or no and a passer-by simply tears off a piece of paper to answer the pole. This simply action, on a larger scale,...
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The Search for Posthumanism
thenewinquiry:
Notes from the 2011 Singularity Summit
by Mike Thomsen
The idea that we can run out of time is peculiar. It’s a product of how we organize our memories.
Human consciousness is a kind of romance with the idea that time is finite and consumable. This assumption of finitude means that time can also become digested and metabolized urge, energizing the desire to imagine what is...
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What's Next
Where do we go from here? How can we unleash our creative technological capabilities in a society so disturbed by uninhibited technological growth and societal change? As the years move forward society seems to be afraid, and yet in the corner there are a few of us—the true future. We do not believe in prohibiting technological advances, religion plays no role in shaping the future, and we...
