January 2010
2 posts
Or Maybe We Learn to Fly
The future, as we all know, is mathematically hopeless and pornographically doomed. I’m hip to that. I just don’t think that’s the end of the discussion, so long as we’re all committed to waking up every day and continuing to breathe and stuff. In a world where new humans are inventing new solutions to new problems every day, I’m not interested in what you can...
Ours is a Secret Science
The Stargate Conspiracy pg. 268: “Clearly, the ushering of a new aeon — of Horus, the child — is no minor task, perhaps especially when the wild and difficult characteristics of children are taken into consideration. Whereas the features of motherhood and fatherhood are, by and large, relatively easy to recognize, those of newborns and youngsters are more fluid and elusive....
December 2009
5 posts
A Toast to Jim Channon in 2010
All the text that follows is typed out of this scanned PDF copy of Jim Channon’s “First Earth Battalion” document.
THE FIRST EARTH BATTALION: “The Earth Battalion declares its primary alliegance to people and planet. You can become a part of that alliegance right where you are simply by allowing the exquisite human being inside to come out. When it’s...
Tracing Our Own Constellations
The Age of Horus offers ample employment opportunities in the field of demolition. The entire Enlightenment and the great edifice of Science Herself are more of an obstacle than a foundation for us now. Allowing our outdated paradigms, social systems and vested interests to crumble into decay is dangerous to pedestrians. We need to take them out in a systematic way, pretty much ASAP.
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Tomorrow's War and Tomorrow's War
JOE LIEBERMAN: “I was in Yemen in August. And we have a growing presence there, and we have to, of Special Operations, Green Berets, intelligence. We’re working well with the government of President Saleh there.
I leave you with this thought that somebody in our government said to me in the Sana’a, the capital of Yemen. Iraq was yesterday’s war. Afghanistan is...
Operations Research @ the Invisible College
What do we call ourselves in 2010? Do we need a new noun, or is it better that the Game remains nameless?
UFOlogy is a fallen science, and far too narrow a niche, besides. “Parapsychology” has been a mere epithet for decades. It’s the same problem that the cool kids have always had to face: anything we formalize gets co-opted and sold back to us…subverted into parody...
Marshall McLuhan: Operations Research Mentality
The following is typed out from “Understanding Me,”a compilation of Marshall McLuhan’s speeches and TV material. The first 2 paragraphs are from pages 29-30, and the rest is from page 238.
“In his Landmarks of Tomorrow, Peter F. Drucker has pointed to Operations Reserach as “organized ignorance.” It is a procedure in tackling problems which resembles the...
January 2009
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Mitchell Joachim Has a Posse
Dressed in architect black and sporting dreadlocks, Mitchell Joachim isn’t your average Whole Foods envirogeek. For one thing, he speaks in an intense staccato punctuated with words like peristaltic and epiphetic. And don’t get him started on sustainability. “I don’t like the term,” he says. “It’s not evocative enough. You don’t want your...
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Human Ecosystems: Building
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Human Ecosystems: Abandoned
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Human Ecosystems: Corridors
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Human Ecosystems: Commons
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My Perfect Future on a Friday Afternoon
What makes a dream so distinctly dreamlike? How can strange situations be so familiar? Most of all, how can we re-create the open, playful nature of our best dreams in our waking lives in waking communities? I would like more dream architecture in my waking world.
Architecture is ready to join music in a post-everything, omni-culture zone that incorporates the best of everything and...
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#mandalaOS Human Sensory Modality + Neural Network
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IN THE FUTURE, WE BETTER NOT BE BORING
OmnivateLLC Chief Visionary Tim sez:
Also found this: Anthropogenic Biomes, A Framework for Ecology & Earth Science in the 21st Century. This all feels like a convergence with the resilient communities of John Robb and the Urbanates as organizational units within the North American Technate. Which is neither here nor there. It’s just a...
#mandalaOS - Living Interface or SymbioticA...
This is a response to Tim’s Permaculture Software, Noogenics, Living Natural Organic Interface.
MINIATURE EARS? REALLY? REALLY?
Tissue culture and tissue engineering represent a new area for artistic engagement. These branches of biomedical research have a major influence on perceptions of body, self and medical thinking. Tissue engineering enable researchers to grow three dimensional...
#mandalaOS - Nature as Interface
“R&D = Research and Duplicate.”
Note: “nature as interface” doesn’t turn up very many results in El Goog — only one, in fact. Time to change that and own the phrase, nay? This is the new SEO, refuting the zero-sum logic of PPC competition. If you can push this meme harder, good. Do so.
“A clue to this function may be found in the circumstance...
December 2008
1 post
Masanobu Fukuoka
“…if modern agriculture continues to follow the path it’s on now, it’s finished. The food-growing situation may seem to be in good shape today, but that’s just an illusion based on the current availability of petroleum fuels. All the wheat, corn, and other crops that are produced on big American farms may be alive and growing, but they’re not products of real...