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thanks Jess :) not sure how that's any different from saying a culture follows syntactical (or semiotic) rules, or any system for that matter. i mean, ultimately psychoanalysis is just two people talking to each other. if there's a problem (and a solution) it has to take the form of a...

"Tai Djin was born in China in 1849. He was born unique, afflicted with hypertrichosis. Unlike Jo-Jo, who would be born a few decades later, Tai Djin was born into a highly superstitious family. As A result they saw his affliction as the work of demons and he was left in the forest to die. A...

i'll never adopt the post-structuralist view of science, or Foucault's genealogies, because it is disingenuous. Science is more reliable (for what it claims to do, which is observe reality) than religion, or any of the so-called postmodern "myths" or little narratives (constructed logic systems...

i'm speechless. this sounds like a Daily Show segment: T

hmmm, to go back to another thread, maybe that's because God fucks everyone in the ass at some point, and God has herpes?

exactly, i couldn't agree more. i mean, if it was really conservative it would've been all pro-Reagan propaganda right? we need a "Ghostbusters is the shit" thread :D

the ones that confuse me are Gattacca and Brazil, which seem like satires directed against conservative-type ideologies, and both seem a little to 'arty' for the conservative crowd, i don't know. Ghostbusters is one of the best. i love the soundtrack - the creepy theremin music at the...

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the Resilience Alliance reminds me of the SFI - i used to go to their public lectures when i lived in NM: http://www.santafe.edu/ i'm interested in how this systems-cybernetic-complexity science approach might translate into politics. consumer researchers have been studying collective/emergent...

"Murders have their little differences and shades of merit as well as statues, pictures, oratorios, cameos, intaglios, or what not." - http://www.authorama.com/miscellaneous-essays-2.html

it's hard to keep up sometime. i'm not sure which one you're referring to. btw i posted a couple anthologies of pirated essays on my blog :)

Merleau-Ponty's last book The Visible and the Invisible, which may have been better because he died before he could finish it. the last third or so is all fragments and outlines.

http://twatter.org/

Alexander Scriabin created a whole system of musical annotations based on color associations, He was a self-professed synesthete. everyone has it to an extent. there was an article in NS recently about the genetic roots of synesthesia. it's related to autism:

The Mirror of Production

this is something I've thought about - we are limited biologically by how much energy, etc. we can harness and process, but i think we (humans) sidestep that with language, technology - anything that binds the past to the present, or encodes memories or information across time, gives us a huge...

Nick Cave is Christian? I've never read any of his books but the Birthday Party stuff is superb.

technology's evolution is outpacing biological evolution on some kind of exponential/fractal scale - that is if you consider, for example, Moore's Law to be a form of evolution. I'm trying to imagine a species of animal that would absolutely dominate the evolutionary landscape in Darwinian...

darwin turns 200 years old in 4 days: http://www.darwin200.org/ my guess is that middle aged schoolteachers (and their students) are celebrating this somehow. i learned about evolution in a lot of detail in public school in georgia (one of the worst public school systems in the US). if evolution...

so they are building killer robots in Austria? isn't that where the robot was first built, maybe it was for Italian Futurist theater or something, can't remember. The Germans had some secret technology that never became common knowledge, especially their rocket program (can't remember the guy's...