December 2009
“‘Whenever our brains successfully pursue the ingenious strategy of creating a...”
– Thomas Metzinger’s ‘The Ego Tunnel
Imagining is a Human Core Competence « Just Seven Things
“We won’t need a psychologist to tell us why we feel unhappy. All we’ll need to...”
– Top scientists share their future predictions - Times Online
“By 2020, genetics and brain simulation will be giving us personalised...”
– Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain project
Top scientists share their future predictions - Times Online
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”
– Voltaire (via marsymars) (via libraryland) (via booklover)
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via lapetitebaobab) (via @pareidoliac) (via naxos)
“By digitizing surgical commands, we’ve already created transitional moments in...”
– Book Review - History of Darpa - ‘The Department of Mad Scientists,’ by Michael Belfiore - Review - NYTimes.com
“Form is arrived at whenever a stable, even though moving, equilibrium is...”
– Art as Experience, John Dewey (via lethebashar)
“The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves...”
– Mark Weiser (via devilduck)
“Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their...”
– Richard Dawkins (via tamburina) (via rhea137)
“One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other...”
– B.Fuller
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
“Precariousness implies living socially, that is, the fact that one’s life...”
– Judith Butler (in Judith Butler, “Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?,” (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Verso, 2009), pp. 13-14.
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It was flow all right.
“It was the cucumber that made the difference, the crunching made real, the angst of eating disappearing, the jaw unperturbed, and ears flowing smoothly into the motherland of silent mastication. When the sight appeared unblemished, the vision colorful and engaging, riots subsiding into the longing moment, flow ensued. It was flow all right. What came about was the connectivity, the smoothness of...
“The intense world of differences, in which we find the reason behind qualities...”
– Outlining his “transcendental empiricism”, Deleuze, in Difference and Repetitio
Bogue on Deleuze and Art « Larval Subjects .
“Nevertheless, if life continues and if in continuing it expands, there is an...”
– Art as Experience, John Dewey (via lethebashar)
“To have proved an hypothesis false, is indeed the peak of knowledge.” The...”
– Warren McCulloch in a lecture at the University of Virginia in 1948.
Ernst von Glasersfeld - Cybernetics and the Art of Living
“The new architecture of participation will cause us to reweave the social fabric...”
– Odessa to the Future» Blog Archive » Think The Unthinkable
“Blogs created the bourgeoisie of the Internet, and social networking sites...”
– ICTlogy » Predictions for Social Media in 2010
“The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a...”
– Theodore Zeldin (via nihilnoetia)
“Maybe it’s a defensive maneuver on my part, but my rationale is that I don’t...”
– Scientist at Work - Russell T. Hurlburt - Psychologist Uses Snapshots in Time to Plumb Consciousness - NYTimes.com
“The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.”
– Douglas Horton
“A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.”
– Robert A. Heinlein (via nihilnoetia)
“In a logical system, it is convenient to say that possibility passes over into...”
– Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Vigilius Haufniensis (The Concept of Anxiety ,1844) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment with...”
– Anaïs Nin
“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
– Anaïs Nin
“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by...”
– Anaïs Nin
“Something that happens too quickly to have happened, actually, is virtual. The...”
– digital digs: actualized virtualities in Latour: the case of the tweckled lecturer
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is...”
– Italo Calvino
“You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people...”
– Philip Roth
“Not merely individuals, but communities and nations, put their cultural good...”
– Art as Experience, by John Dewey (via lethebashar)
“I will accept the rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no...”
– Robert A. Heinlein (via nihilnoetia) (via rawsilk)
“My real concern was and is philosophic: not what we do or what we ought to do,...”
– Hans-Georg Gadamer
“..technology might be seen not just as a channel for communication and...”
– Heather Raikes
“a man is only a particle inserted in unstable and entangled wholes. These wholes...”
– G.Bataille
(“The Labyrinth,” 174).
“Language is communication. Language is culture. Language is poetry. Language is...”
– Language as Virus
“The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.”
– Jawaharlal Nehru (via lastchatwithphontaine)
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for...”
– Aldous Huxley (via nihilnoetia)
“Cybernetic totalism according to Jaron Lanier
Here is a partial roster of the...”
– Cybernetic totalism according to Jaron Lanier
EDGE: ONE HALF A MANIFESTO
“What we call the Enlightenment and hold on to only tenuously, by our...”
– Kool-Aid Psychology: Realism versus Optimism: Scientific American
“Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration,...”
– J. G. Ballard. (via devilduck)
