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Body/Mind Operating Systems
We already have operating systems for machines, but what we really need are the operating systems for humans. A working proposal of the new body/mind operating system for human beings.
August 17, 2016
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8OS: Operating System for Bodymind
A working proposal and an ongoing practice for body/mind open source operating system based on adaptive development and 8-like oscillatory wave motion at its core.
June 30, 2016
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Arrythmorphone
The program below was created using a combination of rhythms that have the highest dynamic variability as opposed to standard 4/4 replications. For the maximum effect it is recommended to use a good quality sound system with a good low-frequency response range.
June 3, 2016
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Flow Shapes Substance
A field study on the relation between in~formational flow, its properties, and entropy of substance.
April 23, 2016
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Introduction to Polysingularity Practice
The transcript below is the summary of the introductory section on Embodied Network Dynamics offered by Nodus Labs / Special Agency as an online course or a 2-hour long workshop session. Polysingularity is a practice of soma~cognitive / body~mind reconfiguration. The main intention of the practice is to explore altered states of consciousness by […]
April 14, 2016
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Polysingularity Letters, volume 3 | Book 1
Polysingularity Letters, Volume 3 is out and available as a limited edition printed book or an interactive e-book PDF download. In this publication we lay bare all the main principles of polysingularity as well as everything that is related to it. Polysingularity Letters is available at Motto Distribution (online or at their shop on Skalitzer […]
April 14, 2016
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Re~Definition of Recognition
Recognition: from Latin re- “again” and cognoscere “know”. To know again and again, because you’ve already known before. Something can be recognized because it is familiar, a problem may be recognized ~ acknowledged, somebody may be recognized because they are already known, somebody may also be recognized for what they are. One could assume that […]
April 2, 2016
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Ignore Terror
This article was written as a response to terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015 and in Brussels in 2016. Terror works when it instills fear (from Latin terrere ‘frighten’). When something works there will be more and more of it (positive reinforcement feedback loops are everywhere). Therefore, the reaction to terror is its fuel and its […]
March 23, 2016
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Terrestriality
A selection of contemporary classical music, ambient, experimental, and dream techno tracks. Carefully blended to infuse low-frequency oscillatory movement for soothing effect on somacognitive constitution. “The materials that constitute our body are undoubtedly of this Earth and have participated in and experienced the creation process of the Earth. Therefore our body, living here and […]
March 5, 2016
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Stereotypes and Archetypes
In this world, there are stereotypes and then there are archetypes. Accordingly, one can live a life that is governed by stereotypes or one can live a life that is governed by archetypes. Or both – to a certain extent.
December 4, 2015
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Personal Space
In this world, everyone wants to have their personal space. A space where their persona can extend, stretch, and feel free to function. The subjects of our study pay double to have a little bit more of their personal space in the 1st class of a train.
November 26, 2015
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Crossing the Border
In this world, whenever you cross a border, be it a physical border, a more abstract transgression, or anything else, there will always be people who will position themselves on that demarkation line.
November 26, 2015
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Their War
A state of war is a state of exception, which pushes one to take a position: to fight back, to pray, to protect, to hide, to escape, to start acting and change the world, to be afraid and stay immobile, to give blood, to learn first-aid, to learn self-defence, to pretend like nothing is going […]
November 14, 2015
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The Observer Effect and the Hidden Spectacular
One of the quantum mechanics postulates says that by the very act of watching, the observer affects the observed reality. A common-place knowledge among security people: watching somebody who’s just about to steal through a CCTV screen actually makes them aware of being watched and prevents the act of stealing. People comply. People do what’s […]
July 19, 2015
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The System of Improper Conduct
“This is morally incorrect” they might say. // declaration of variables Morals are about the proper conduct, the customs. Ethics is the science of morals (meta-level zoom out). … Interestingly, the interest towards ethics increases, while the interest towards morals decreases. (especially since 1940) After all, what is right and what is wrong in the […]
July 9, 2015
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Dreams Incorporated
In this world, there are many different kinds of dreams, including the lucid ones. But one particular type of dream of interest is the Dream that is Incorporated.
July 9, 2015
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Special Agents and Special Agency
Everybody is special and everyone is an agent. Every human being is special even if just because they are unlike anyone else – hence, the “special”. Every human being acts in the world – hence, the “agency”. So even if you don’t yet know it, you are […]
February 5, 2015
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Unfathomable Loneliness
Now that those days are gone And the rooms are brighter with the light that we couldn’t see before And the air is fuller with the silence that we couldn’t hear before Let’s embrace this newly found emptiness silently observe and give in To the breeze of this newly found air. […]
February 4, 2015
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The Pessimism, Despair and Hypocrisy of Berlin’s Street Art
As I am writing these words this beautiful artwork that has over the years become the landmark of Berlin is being painted black. All over. Right now it looks like this: and by tomorrow it’s going to look like this: or like this: or finally like this: And it is not the city of Berlin […]
December 11, 2014
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Security
There is a thing about security: It positions itself On the border between whatever it is that is allowed and that, which is not. whatever it is that is protected and that, which is not. whatever it is that is concealed and that, which is not. In this way to be on the side of […]
December 1, 2014