March 2011
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December 2010
5 posts
Humanity+ | Transhumanist Declaration →
The goal of the World Transhumanist Association is to support discussion and public awareness of emerging technologies, to defend the right of individuals in free and democratic societies to adopt technologies that expand human capacities, and to anticipate and propose solutions for the potential consequences of emerging technologies.
Humanity stands to be profoundly affected by science and...
October 2010
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June 2010
3 posts
“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total...”
– Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear. From Frank Herbert’s Dune (via mnmal)
“Mankind is a state of mind. Humanity is whatever they believe themselves to be.”
– Creation Of the Humanoids
(streaming free on AMC.tv — click movie title to watch. Very, very highly recommended.)
May 2010
16 posts
The Archdruid Report: The World After Abundance →
“In a contracting economy, it becomes easier to notice that the less you need, the less vulnerable you are to the ups and downs of fortune, and the more you can get done of whatever it is that you happen to want to do. That’s an uncongenial lesson at the best of times, and during times of material abundance you won’t find many people learning it. Still, in the world after abundance,...
WatchSwadeshi Dialogues: Neo-Subsistence (via Open Source Ecology)
C.G. Jung // The Red Book // Complete Work →
“The Red Book, also known as Liber Novus (Latin for A New Book), is a 205-page manuscript written and illustrated by Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung between approximately 1914 and 1930, which was not published or shown to the public until 2009. Until 2001, his heirs denied scholars access to the book, which he began after a falling-out with Sigmund Freud in 1913. Jung originally titled the...
Video: Transition Culture, the Global Swadeshi &... →
Must Watch. Excellent video on the Global Swadeshi, and the profound effectiveness of adopting D.I.Y. alternatives to our currently failing systems. If you can’t steer a sinking ship, why not just get off and make a new one?
WatchGenesis Breyer P-Orridge: Pandrogeny Project Lecture (by Rija Munfar)
Gay porn's most shocking taboo - Salon.com →
“Twincest” is pushing limits in an industry known for extremes. What is it, and why are so many people watching?
Heavy Metal - a set on Flickr →
Consistently some of the best magazine cover-art I’ve ever seen.
Watchjoin diaspora - the project
We are 140-character ideas. We are the pictures of your cat. We are blog posts about the economy. We are the collective knowledge that is Wikipedia. The internet is a canvas – of which, we paint broad and fine strokes of our lives with. It is a forward extension of our physical lives; a meta-self comprised of ones and zeros. We are all that is digital: If we weren’t,...
be yr own queero: Call for FTMs! →
matildastone:
hello everyone! my partner is working on an awesome photo project and is looking for more people to shoot. please read below for more information! thanks! -b (matildastone) also-if yr reading this through yr dashboard, make sure to click on those little boxes to the see the images!
© Dominic Perri 2010
“I’m currently working on a photography project, “Evolve: the trans love...
“Live your life like an incense stick - dissolve your self to spread peace and...”
– Yogiraj SatGurunath Siddhanath
Sun Ra - Space Is the Place (1974) [Full Video] →
Avant-garde jazz musician Sun Ra stars in the movie version of his concept album Space Is the Place. Not following a linear plot line, this experimental film is a bizarre combination of social commentary, blaxploitation, science fiction, and concert performance. The opening scene is set in an intergalactic forest, with Sun Ra introducing his plan to use music as salvation for the black...
Murray Bookchin: What Is Communalism? The... →
Society Against the State--Pierre Clastres →
“Primitive societies are societies without a State. This factual judgment, accurate in itself, actually hides an opinion, a value judgment that immediately throws doubt on the possibility of constituting political anthropology as a strict science. What the statement says, in fact, is that primitive societies are missing something - the State - that is essential to them, as...
April 2010
5 posts
Health care bill does not fix health care system |... →
Now that the dust has settled, however, a hard look at the legislation that prompted all the fuss suggests that, far from ‘fixing our broken health care system,’ it merely reproduces some of its worst features.
The bill does nothing to lessen the grip of the private insurance industry on our health care system. It won’t bring exploding health care costs under control. It does little to...
WatchThe Demonbabies Variety Show on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
March 2010
1 post
Skinput turns your arm into a touchscreen (w/... →
If you find yourself getting annoyed at the tiny touchscreens on today’s mobile devices, you might be interested in a “new” yet overlooked input surface: yourself. A new skin-based interface called Skinput allows users to use their own hands and arms as touchscreens by detecting the various ultralow-frequency sounds produced when tapping different parts of the skin.
February 2010
10 posts
From ocean to ozone: Earth's nine life-support... →
UP TO now, the Earth has been very kind to us. Most of our achievements in the past 10,000 years - farming, culture, cities, industrialisation and the raising of our numbers from a million or so to almost 7 billion - happened during an unusually benign period when Earth’s natural regulatory systems kept everything from the climate to the supply of fresh water inside narrow, comfortable...
DNA 2.0: A new operating system for life is... →
A new way of using the genetic code has been created, allowing proteins to be made with properties that have never been seen in the natural world. The breakthrough could eventually lead to the creation of new or “improved” life forms incorporating these new materials into their tissue.
In all existing life forms, the four “letters” of the genetic code, called...
David Lynch Interview Project: Ep. 078 - Theresa →
Watch(NSFW)
Is the Cherubim archetype a foreshadowing of... →
Once they abandon artificial gravity and adapt to weightlessness, humankind’s descendants will diverge from their Earthbound relatives biologically and psychologically, not just geographically.
One pronounced biological change will be an enrichment, or juvenilization, of brain tissue. Corresponding psychological changes could only...
Blame the childish, ignorant American public—not... →
In trying to explain why our political paralysis seems to have gotten so much worse over the past year, analysts have rounded up a plausible collection of reasons including: President Obama’s tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington, the blustering idiocracy of the cable-news stations, and the Senate filibuster, which has devolved...
January 2010
19 posts
He knows about Peak Oil: Bill Gates Warns Of... →
Bill Gates said he fears Earth might become a post-industrial wasteland plagued by heat, chronic food and energy shortages, and rampant disease unless governments and private organizations invest more time and money solving what the Microsoft chairman believes are the world’s most pressing problems.
“If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without innovation...