Dmitry Paranyushkin
  • Annihilation In this world, annihilation is known as the movie, Annihilation. In this movie we encounter the new form of alien life, which does not use flying saucers or other means of aerial transportation (nor any sort of conventional transportation) to reach the humanity and invade. Instead, they choose to invade through the DNA. Attracting a […] 0 Comments July 29, 2018
  • Legitimization and Cultivation In this world, there are things that inhabitants do on a regular basis: be it routine actions or practice. … Every time they act they can ask themselves: “What do I legitimize with what I’m doing?” Example 1. When you’re reading this text from the screen of your iPhone or any other device you are legitimizing several things and […] 0 Comments December 9, 2017
  • Re~Definition of a Special Agent During my practice, between 2015 and 2018, I liked to use the term “Special Agent”. Apart from other elements, it consists of two words: “special” and “agent”. Why? … The word special relates to one’s specialty: be it a brain better suited for solving mathematical problems or the ability to cook amazing Italian food. To be […] 0 Comments December 9, 2017
  • Special Agent’s Manual Special Agent’s Manual Download PDF We have multiple manuals for devices and systems, but almost none for our body/mind. This manual is especially designed to resolve this issue. It offers a set of concrete methodologies, exercises and practices that can help activate the special agency from within, functioning as a cognitive stimulant. Based on ∞OS […] 0 Comments May 16, 2017
  • Operational Strategy of Desire The more something lacks     the more it is needed. The absence produces desire. The presence precedes the absence. a sudden distraction extraction pre-occupation ostentation retaliation. … Only 0 days 17 hours 14 minutes 29 seconds left … Otherwise it will be too late. Only today and only tomorrow. Touch me and we will never talk […] 0 Comments May 14, 2017
  • Cognitive Stimulants Cognitive stimulants are the things that alter perception and stimulate imagination and sensitivity. Their main importance is in bringing different points of view and expanding the phase space of possibilities available at every moment of time, acting as a deterrent against stagnation, boosting innovation and evolutionary development. Any form of expression can manifest itself as […] 0 Comments April 25, 2017
  • Changing the Picture The report below was written in response to Changing the Picture – the conference on storytelling and technology that took place in Berlin’s Babelsberg studios in November 2016.  … Everyone lives in the stories they’re telling themselves. Many of those stories are imagined and told by somebody else and that’s where the one who speaks can have […] 0 Comments November 24, 2016
  • Crimean Surfers While most surfers ride the waves with their bodies, Crimean surfers ride the waves with their нутро or “gut chakra”. This changes everything, including the surfer and the concept of surfing itself, but as everything that is simple it also demands more explanation. Crimea is a beautiful desolate peninsula located at the Black Sea. It […] 0 Comments November 21, 2016
  • Software Takes Command A post on Facebook says “there was 9/11, now there is 11/9”.  The scale of disaster is almost comparable: who could have predicted that Donald Trump would become the next president of the US? A recent piece from NiemanLab (a leading think tank on journalism) asks if this election is the turning point for media’s […] 0 Comments November 9, 2016
  • 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. 0 Comments August 17, 2016
  • 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. 0 Comments June 30, 2016
  • 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. 0 Comments June 3, 2016
  • Flow Shapes Substance A field study on the relation between in~formational flow, its properties, and entropy of substance. 0 Comments April 23, 2016
  • 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 […] 0 Comments April 14, 2016
  • 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 […] 0 Comments April 14, 2016
  • 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 […] 0 Comments April 2, 2016
  • 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 […] 0 Comments March 23, 2016
  • 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 […] 0 Comments March 5, 2016
  • 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. 0 Comments December 4, 2015
  • 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. 0 Comments November 26, 2015