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The death of wikipedia? http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/05/the_death_of_wi.php

I know Woebot had a thread a while back about euthanasia, but this is a bit different - I want people's personal view on it. Motivated by two things: 1) Reading "Atomised" - specifically the discussions about how no one wants to get old and be trapped in a failing body, he refers to Deleuze...

Bono in the Guardian today: "Red is where desire meets virtue, where consumerism meets philanthropy, where shopping attempts to meet the need of a continent in crisis, where once HIV/Aids meant a death sentence but where two pills a day can now have you back at work in 40 days. Really the deal...

What I meant was that I thought this way too, that continental philosophy was a load of bollocks, without any substance, obfuscatory etc... being told you are "asking the wrong questions" and "yes and no" happened a lot to me too. But once I got to grips with it a bit better, I came to...

There's also the Wittgenstienian take on Heidegger that Dreyfus, Blattner and Haugeland have been pushing for some time now, and more recently the moves from philosophers of cognitive science to embrace Husserlian phenomenology (Varela and Petitot). They seem to have the same problem as McDowell...

Some my experiences have been like this (incommensurable with the everyday) principly with salvia divinorum and ketamine. The two are pretty different - salvia I would almost describe as totally non-recreational, I've never really "enjoyed" it as such. It's a powerful experience and can show you...

I forgot about that - I started it and read the first few chapters before putting it down and reading something else. Not intentionally like, I just kind of forgot about it... it is quite unengaging, you're right.

I occasionally DJ in the Griffin, and he's often there - always makes me rather embaressed/nervous. You're right about his current dress styles though - always with the slick backed hair and mustache.

*shrug* I dunno, what does everyone else think?

Do we really need another burial thread? Can't any further discussion go in the one there is already, to keep it all together? Mods? And the album is great.

I actually would be very interested in this, but I doubt I will be able to attend. Does that mean you have to sign up for the whole course, or you have to arrive super early for each individual session?

I loved all that period TLS stuff - Swimming not Skimming, Stockwell Steppas, Bag of Blue Sparks, Stay Down, Virus with Shoes. All very varied, from the early underwater deep house on Swimming..., the "electro for welders" on Bag... and the much more relaxed electronica on Stay Down and Virus...

nitrous oxide is more fun, imo. although nitrous + amyl is the way to go... the nitrous anethestises you from the poppers headache..

I agree/disagree with this. I agree that there is too much made of the distinction between recreational and spiritual use - within modern psychedelic culture there is a strong strand of "psychedelic elitism" which values certain drugs and ways of using them more highly than others, and is...

There is no established causal link between LSD and mental health problems - you often hear about people who claim that LSD therapy in the 60s-70s destroyed their lives, gave them psychosis etc. But the studies that were conducted at the time (by Cohen and others), over sample sizes of around...

DMT is not, of course, orally active on its own - it's cleaved by MAOs in the gut and never makes it to the brain. /drug pedant :)

And this also happens in Western societies. My problem with this later discussion in this thread is the portrayal of "drug culture" as a homogenous mass. Yes, "drug culture...is capitalism at its destructive purest" if by "drug culture" we mean the general usage and mechanisms of supply of coke...

I'll see your Monome and raise you a Jazzmutant Lemur. http://www.jazzmutant.com/lemur_overview.php Now that's cool.

I don't see that trascendent experiences necessarily have to be a-human or dissociated from the earth etc. Surely anything that takes one beyond self is transcendent, whether it's something beyond humanity/reality, or intersubjectively based (absolute spirit?). I agree with your point, I just...

Obviously we need flashing Dissensus neon badges. Or hats. Would be helpful since I have no idea what any of you look like :o