January 2011
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We conjure up so much that is not in our current sensory fields that we live as if in a video game, cultivating some virtual scenarios and trying to avoid others, able to even prevent the intrusion of physical reality in many cases, but unable to prevent the intrusion of imagined horror in other cases. Much (I would say most) reward that modern people experience from goods of various kinds is...
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“If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and I don’t know the kind of person...”
– William Edgar Stafford, A Ritual To Read To Each Other
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Existentialism is a Cyborg.
In technical rather than common usage, the term ‘robot’ denotes a programmable machine that is designed to perform tasks in the place of a living agent, and indeed robots are an integral part of contemporary industrial production. Unlike humans, though, for robots essence precedes existence: like Sartre’s example of the paper knife, they are built for a purpose, and their instrumentality is...
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“What if some day or night a demon were to steal into your loneliest loneliness...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche.
Paragraph 341 of The Gay Science : The Heaviest Weight.
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“My argument is that a conspiracy is a caricature of politics. We always tend to...”
– via Invisible Constraints: An Interview with Carlo Ginzburg
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listening to "Pauline Oliveros - Suiren" →
Garden hose, whistling & voices in a 2 million gallon cistern = eerie music ♫ Pauline Oliveros – Suiren
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