- Sensors as Transcendental Devices In this world, people sense things. They might rely on their senses, but since their scope may be limited (and also infinite), there are also devices that can be used for this same purpose. We call them sensors. Sensors are special because they enhance perception and let us see the beyond our limitations. They extend our senses. Becoming extrasensorial or […]
- Which Side Are You On? We live in a world that has multiple dimensions, however, too often we are forced to reduce everything to a single one. A simple straight line with opposite ends is used to define reality in all its complexity. Pro or anti. Black or white. Woke or conservative. Democrat or Republican. 1 or 0. People force […]
- Variability of a Text, Ecology of Attention How to modulate variability of attention and perception in order to promote ecological thinking? This article proposes a method and its practical implementation.
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
- Throwing the Violence Back onto Itself Gregory Bateson proposes a very interesting example in his description of the double-bind phenomena as a cause for schizophrenic reaction. A plane passenger faces the situation where she has a neighbor who really wants to talk to her. She cannot escape before the flight ends, she doesn’t want to engage into a conversation, […]
- Polysingularity Mix / 22 Major Arcanas of Tarot #listen Download MP3 The tracks in this mix follow the 22 Major Arcanas of Tarot. Click on the track to read the description for each card. 0. The Fool | Clams Casino – Lvl [A$AP Rocky] I. Magician | Cyril Hahn mashup: UZ x R Kelly – I’m a Flirt Trap II. Priestess | FKA Twigs […]
- The B….. Belly With Us All In It… Starts from 6:50. The B…. Belly With Us All In It The belly with us all in it Hangs above a bath of leaves That big woman Her body hurts And she wants To rest in green water The hand that brings us out of captivity Turns another page In a living room That […]
- Essence We now proceed to the discussion of es~sence. What is the essence of things? What is the essence of this question? This is absolutely essential. “The very essence of this idea…” The essential weakness of this, the essential weakness of that. It is essential to realize that whatever it is that is realized is essential […]
- Chaos and Circadian Rhythms 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 Search for the Local “We shall argue that the task of localization needs to be understood as an oblique procedure that operates by means of certain ‘perspective operators’ and ‘epistemic mediators’. These perspective operators or navigational tools are able to interweave depth and surface, the generic and the vague (particular) and diagonally connect the diachronic to the synchronic (telescopic […]
- Interfaces for Cognitive Reconfiguration Interfaces for Cognitive Reconfiguration. That is, language, software, music, clothes, situations, images and everything else that has the capacity. In other words, if there is a relation and then there is an interface that mediates this relation, then the interface affects the appearances. It is a question then whether the interface is merely translating or […]
- Some Unities are More Remarkable than Others Some unities are more remarkable than others. Because they stand out from the rest.
- Drugs as Advertising 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 […]