One could say that diagnosis and surveillance are friends. They detect deviation. When it is identified, it is categorized and acted upon. The objective is to normalize and to minimize. To minimize the risk of infection, we recommend that you wash your hands thoroughly. We should try to minimize our carbon footprint. To normalize one’s […]

How to modulate variability of attention and perception in order to promote ecological thinking? This article proposes a method and its practical implementation.

Too often we’re driven by the notion of value that has nothing to do with us. In the most basic case we might think that something is valuable just because it can be measured in something else: the money or the amount of attention that it can be exchanged for. // “How many likes did this post […]

Что мы легитимизируем тем, что мы делаем?

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this world, there is a certain class, which we will call the “internet proletariat”. A median representative of this class spends most of their resources (that is, their time) browsing the internet for opportunities, be it social networks, art funding bodies, chat messengers, or instant aura trading platforms. They do not own the means […]

If there is something inside the innocence that wants to be corrupted, it is the total lack of resistance towards the eyes of the beholder. As soon as it is corrupted, it is not innocent anymore. “I surrender”, “I give myself up to you”. Fully, univocally, completely. But only this one time. What’s next? Both […]

In this world, there are several facts that are scientifically confirmed. The state of cognitive rest is characterized by chaotic variability. Chaotic variability has a pattern of pink noise. Pink noise: oscillation amplitudes negatively correlate with their frequencies. The smaller the amplitude, the higher the frequency. The higher the amplitude, the lower the frequency. Everyday things happen more often than […]

In this world, when pouring water onto the earth or a flower one can easily see how it penetrates layer by layer diffusing through granules, in semi-concentrical shapes. (just like on this picture) The action and the moment it reaches the very end of itself separated in time. And even then the rainforest flower grows […]

In this world borderline magic coincidences may be experienced. … “I was just thinking of you when you sent me the text.” [1] “I was Googling my name and then this crazy picture of my favorite X comes up…” [2] “I literally just checked her profile and then she wrote…” [3] … Modeling this world as […]

To say that something is commercial is almost an offense for some people. However, commerce is first and foremost about connections. “Commerce” means connecting markets together. Com – “together” + merx – “merchandise” (from market). Finding disjointed amalgamations and merging them into functioning entities. Bringing people together. Turning singularities into multiplicities. Bridging structural gaps in networks. In […]

To act accordingly is to act consequently. To act accordingly is to act correspondingly. To act accordingly to the environment. To act accordingly to the situation. To act accordingly is to follow the heart. From Latin ad- ‘to’ + cor, cord- ‘heart’. … What does the situation demand? What is the situation? To act accordingly […]

In this world, drugs are like advertisements. Things can get complicated. What’s promised may be perceived to be real and the other way round. Drugs advertise. They direct attention to something. We are told what’s possible. It turns out that everything is. We know that already. It’s good to have a reminder. However, the “What” (is […]