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reading Pattern Recognition for a cultural studies class. it's interesting the way Gibson blends science fiction and the historical novel (it's set in 2002). There really isn't a past or future so time is in suspension. It becomes an abstract model that can be reproduced ad infinitum. Really...

lots of pirate activity this year in addition to Somalia. Seasteads remind me of Peter Lamborn Wilson' pirate communities. Lenders hijacked the stock market. Guinea pirates (terrifying). Is that like the year of the Rooster in Chinese astrology? Don't worry. When Obama takes office we'll see...

Zeit und Sein

Given: 1 Degree Art, 2 Degrees Crime by Jean-Michel Rabate

anyone here heard of/taken part in the Radiator festival? A friend and I are submitting a psychogeography project - never been to Nottingham. I want to incorporate something like this in the performance installation, manipulating people at a deep-brain level etc. The power of suggestion alone...

i'm not sure if it's the right approach to isolate a space and say everything within certain parameters is haunted. i think benjamin said it was the spaces between point a and point b (in the modern city at least) that were haunted (with the aura of the reified object). ofc his model for this...

the next ill-advised revival movement: Chavinese art! The Chavinese were based in coastal Peru and have roots predating the Egyptians, Sumerians, etc. They had no military and their society was built around semi-annual rituals utilizing advanced acoustics and psychedelics (yopo/DMT and...

my favorite meth related story this year http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_/ai_n27972121

The psychical and the physical become interdependent features of the motor-intentional body. That is, intentionality of consciousness means, in part, that it is consciousness of something, such that to perceive is to perceive something, to will is to will something, and so on. Since, for...

I used to read Reza's wok on Hyperstition - i always liked the way he brought deleuzian analysis to bear on middle east studies, especially nomadology. deleuzes best work was in collaboration with felix guatarri imo. not sure where Reza teaches but when i was on contact (maybe 3-4 years ago) he...

no i wasn't making fun of anyone dude. sadly i actually wrote a screenplay about baader-meinhof and zombie porn, and then pitched it to asia argento via email. i regret it and all traces of the monster have been destroyed. but i think, generally speaking, it's a fascinating subject. most of the...

weird i wrote a script about baader-meinhof two years ago. it never got beyond that stage ;) i became interested because my dad was stationed in Germany in the early 70's and they were one of the terrorist groups he had to keep an eye on. my script involved a lot of zombies and weird pornography...

Artikulation must have been written when Ligeti was studying with Stockhausen at the Cologne School. It sounds so much like Kontakte. Very cool visuals.

as of, say, 1996: irrelevance I guess the style lived up to its name in the early nineties. I don't know. At this point it's kind of pathetic. I have nothing against them, I mean I know a few and they tend to be kind of empty-headed, and I honestly believe they have no souls, they creep me out...

PWEI absolutely, that was my first exposure to cyberpunk. I remember listening to that on the headphones while playing the SNES Judge Dred video game. For me though, cyberpunk ended in 1991 with the publication of Storming the Reality Studio, that's just my opinion, because it was so...

this thread title got me thinking: is this why our decade has no identity? because we don't know what to call ourselves? how do you translate the "00's" into words? and you can't call it the "new millennium", as others are wont to, because that would encompass the next 990 years :p

I'm bowing out. I will have no part of putting Jesus Jones in the same category, aesthetic or otherwise, with Chrome or Fad Gadget ;)

forget everything I said, this is the quintessential cyberpunk tune:

by way of example: you have cyberpunk/new flesh novels: William Burroughs's Soft Machine trilogy, anything by William Gibson, JG Ballard, etc. etc. It's a strongly established literary genre. Then you have cyberpunk/new flesh films: Blade Runner, Tetsuo, Videodrome, etc. There's cyberpunk...

shit you meant M.B.! I should've known that. Good call. Yeah definitely some new fleshness there, with crypto-fascist overtones.