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i'm not sure if we think at all anymore, it is all dispersed/lost in media simulations, but to me thinking involves some kind of recursion. on a basic level, in terms of oranization, all life forms are intelligent. they are all cybernetic/autocatalytic systems. i think the difference is that we...

yeah i really liked House of Leaves. I tried to read something else by Daniewlski (Revolutions i think) but it didn't make sense. Kenji Siratori is easier to read. I should probably add DeLillo, PKD, and David Foster Wallace (wtf?), but only read half of Infinite Jest, and an essay on David...

reading pitchfork makes my nose bleed for some reason. i think it aggravates some kind of dormant evil in my soul. the only music critic i've really been paying attention to lately is alex ross: <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=""></param><param name="allowFullScreen"...

i'm writing a dissertation about postmodern horror and science fiction. could anyone recommend an anthology besides Storming the Reality Studio? the main writers i'm looking at are: william s. burroughs, jg ballard, william gibson, joyce, rimbaud, pynchon, nabokov, franz kafka, baudelaire, poe...

this is a good resource for donald theall and the kind of school that developed around McLuhan's literary criticism: http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/ he defines it somewhere in a book called 'james joyce's techno-poetics' but "beyond the word" is much better (kind of hard to find)...

i guess they haven't missed a beat after getting 'dismantled' by the bush administration in iraq, as today's attacks in Mumbai attest. reposted from a recent blog entry:

i think there are different categories for different kinds of revolutions. they don't always have to be visible but the most important are 1) political revolutions on the one hand (material) and 2) socio-cultural revolutions (communication, art, language). but for a political revolution to work...

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lucia joyce was an 'experimental dancer' (not sure what the really means)... i think she looks ok. jung maybe was the one who diagnosed her as schizophrenic.

i've studied a bit of Lacan and I like the analogy. In Seminar XI I think Lacan says something to the effect of "the real of the unconscious is sexual reality"... which would certainly be denied by most AI researchers. But i'm not sure if by reality here he means the real (that which eludes...

Lotte Lenya: James Joyce's "crazy" daughter Lucia Joyce:

i agree. kind of similar to this: http://history.sandiego.edu/GEN/st/~emily2/women_of_hitchcock.html

thanks- the one about psychological experiments looks pretty interesting. has anyone read the book by tamara chaplin on french philosophers and television? "turning on the mind: french philosophers on television"

lmao: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

i agree but the neocons were a culture - they emerged out of the same ivy league schools, read the same literature (Leo Strauss),attached to the same corporate-sponsored think tanks. I think there was at least something enabling in american culture that led to the neocon takeover (which was fed...

i should probably get a new gadget like this - google makes some nice apps also. there was a generative app a few years ago that produced fake academic papers in the postmodern vein. pretty funny shit actually. i know reza (last name kills me - author of cyclonopedia) was a fan. reza actually...

the boundary is very thin. both depend on abstract codes and specifically on language. Politics and the law are fundamentally anchored in the rhetorical traditions; also codes/scriptures, or value memes, but it takes on a new dimension that goes beyond language when pervasive control tech...

Thanks nomad, always enjoyed your posts. Zizek talks about the Turing test in The Parallax View - it seemed like he came to all kinds of contradictory conclusions. There's a section on cognitive psychology (Varela, memes, evolutionary psych). I tend to lean toward the idea that we're made up of...

William Gibson recently wrote an article for New Scientist about the future of science fiction. I thought this bit was interesting, something i've been thinking about for a while: Theall was McLuhan's only PhD student. He is probably the best art/literary critic in terms of connecting radical...

the quipu is really fascinating. it is a language system developed before cuneiform in peru. the language doesn't consist of visual signs or markings on a surface. It is based on colored knots of string that represent concepts and numbers. this was long before the mayan calendar system and all...