February 2012
23 posts
What Frank Herbert's Dune Can Teach Us About the... →
You probably know that Frank Herbert’s Dune teaches that “fear is the mind-killer.” But what else can you learn from Dune about the power of using your mind and avoiding negative thoughts? Psychologist and blogger Maria Konnikova delves into the real-life neuroscience that Paul Atreides taps into.
Human Waste-Powered Robots May Be Future of... →
Today’s robots that fly, jump or roll around must refuel or recharge as does any gadget that runs out of energy. Tomorrow’s new generation of self-sustaining robots might keep going nearly forever by grazing on dead insects, rotting plant matter or even human waste.
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The Invention Of The Heterosexual - Salon →
The history of straightness is much shorter than you’d think. An expert explains its origins.
Your Chemical Romance: On musical subcultures and... →
“People born during a dip in the birth rate grow up consuming a lot of culture that’s aimed at someone older than them. People born during a boom do not do cultural apprenticeship, because everything is quickly aimed at them; they watch the things that appeal to their age group bloom and succeed, whether anyone else is interested in it or not.”
WatchHappy African History Month!
Kimani Nehusi on [socially constructed] color hierarchies, racial identity and linguistics. (by Halaqah Films)
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A CYBORG MANIFESTO →
Full text of Donna Harraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. Social reality is lived social relations, our most important political construction, a world-changing fiction....
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i'm back.
this place is awesome.
March 2011
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February 2011
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January 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.