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I agree 'finest political mind' was a bit of hyperbole. I just think his combination of research, distilled theory and then his ability to present it all as a coherent narrative is completely unparalleled. Totally, totally ballsy. Or maybe I'm just naive.

Just found former threads concerning Curtis, but what the hey http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?9561-It-Felt-Like-A-Kiss&highlight=adam+curtis http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?7327-Adam-Curtis.-Bloggers-Are-Bullies&highlight=adam+curtis...

Hope all you in the UK watched the first parts of Curtis' new doco 'All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace' last night (whilst I had to labour for about 3 hours to get proxy server shite working so I could watch it on BBC iPlayer). I assume there are Adam Curtis fans here? Viewing all of...

David Toop covers Debussy and Satie experiencing Gamelan at the Paris world fair in his book Ocean of Sound. His theory is that Gamelan's treatment of time and repetition is the source of all 'ambient' music of the 20th century - and that Debussy witnessing Gamelan was in essence 'the birth of...

I agree on all accounts here. Sherburne's writing is sublime, and the mnmlssgs guys writing, (especially Chris') more often than not is just simpleton hyperbole. Still, their coverage of techno today is far better than his, more raver-friendly, more intimate, and more frequent also.

Please enjoy this blog http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com/ by two fellow Melbournites - pretty much the best Techno in the world atm. They have far better taste than Phillip Sherburne. Sandwell et al are some of their favourites.

This here is a shout-out to anyone who can think of any great hiphop tracks that are 'nostalgia' themed. That doesn't just mean any track that makes you feel nostalgic (or we'd be here all day) - but tracks in which the subject matter is concerned with reminiscence about the past, growing up...

Well if you've studied it to a post-graduate level then that means you probably have more knowledge about it than I do. However, I know a few people who have - one imparticular who is doing a masters in physics and quantum theory and is on some sort of world-class elite panel of researchers...

Of course I see your point here and appreciate the sarcasm but that's not what I was really driving at. First of all telescopes and scientific instruments and the HG project and all that might be hinting at transcending perceptual limitations in one (very literal) sense, but still they do not...

I always assumed it was a stupid name that knucklehead party people here in Australia gave to any imported dubstep that has a particularly wobbly bass. But I guess it's just a stupid name that knucklehead party people everywhere gave to any dubstep that has a particularly wobbly bass

The atheist in the end fails because he is, metaphorically, trapped in his head. The atheist is imprisoned by an intellectual certitude that there is no possibility beyond the mundane spheres of his limited awareness, too arrogant to admit his awareness is limited in the first place, too afraid...

This is such a typical atheist response. The thing is of course is that this 'atheist tenet' is right (but bleatingly obvious) - most of the manifestations of institutionalized religion, and the standard 'concept of God' are nothing short of a con, that play into infantile desires for a...

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this whole issue proves why this is so great: case in point

Mr Tea: Fair enough, I don't know anything about the link you've posted and don't know enough really about quantum mechanics and the like to talk about it from a confident place of authority - rather, I like talking about it in relationship to esoteric matters because it aids in keeping a more...

In the context of both these models - it can be said this way. Working with understanding a map can be useful if it is helping your mind become more flexible to the value of indivisibility. In the context of the 8cb - that means rendering Circuit 3 (the intellect) more flexible so that it...

To respond as best I can: Abso-fucking-lutely Maps such as the 8-circuit brain and gurdjieff's are exactly what they are: maps. They are useful for navigational strategies, and that alone. Gurdjieff's entire premise was the fallacy of deluding yourself into thinking you have achieved...

Well Leary, despite other aspects of his history that discredit him (although nearly all of these are by his interpreters which either didn't understand him to begin with or simply hounded him as a poster-boy for a drug epidemic), probably offered the world the most with his 8-circuit brain...

? Perhaps I could have articulated it a bit clearer and not sounded so credulous. You don't see the value of understanding psychic and spiritual experiences with something like bell's theorem?

Perhaps this is an example of my/our conceptual intelligence acting as a receptor and transformer of mytho-genetic intelligence. The DNA code has spoken, and thus - we have a new word !