Mestizo
Lately I’ve been reading a book I was assigned for an undergraduate class I took long ago, but never actually read. It’s called “Cyberspace: First Steps,” and it’s an edited collection of stores and...
View ArticleConsume
“People don’t know what they want, not before they see it. Every object of desire is a found object. Traditionally, anyway.” – William Gibson, All Tomorrow’s Parties It’s the time of year to consume....
View ArticleThe Augmented Man
It’s a new era… The enhanced human. In a nutshell, he’s not allowed to compete in the Olympics because he’s got an unfair edge. If that’s true, the prosthetics should be considered improvements over...
View ArticleA Meditation on Self and Control
I am a human being. My identity is correlative to my body, from which it springs. The mind produces self, and my mind is just the cognitive action of my brain. Yet the human being, what it does and...
View ArticleAre the Olympics a Harbinger of Liberty?
The upcoming Olympic games in China this year have generated a lot of controversy. The reasons are simple. China intends the event to signal their emergence on the world stage, so it’s clearly a matter...
View ArticleOne Thousand Movies+
A few of you know that for years, I have taken on a personal project to watch a thousand movies. Why? Well, I began to realize over the course of time that I’d seen a lot of movies, but there were so...
View ArticleThe Human Empire
We are the modern humans. Once, long ago, we nearly went extinct, and somehow survived, though that story is long forgotten. We overcame that which predates on us, developing myriad tools and...
View ArticleDust to Dust: Black Rock City
This is a time-lapse video of Black Rock City as it appeared for Burning Man 2011: There’s something very soothing about the playa experience presented this unique way, as a familiar object from an...
View ArticleThe Lesson of the Monkeys
I was first told of this experiment* by a former work colleague, and later discovered this illustration of it. It’s both illuminating and disturbing. There is a clunky word that describes this...
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