Jan 19 2013
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peace train, yusuf islam
Jan 13 2013
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Protecting Body Suit Series by Yoon Dujin (윤두진)
Ongoing sculpture series takes the clean naked porcelain human form, altered with cybernetic limbs - a take on our relationship with technology.
More at the Lee & Park Gallery here [Korean]
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Jan 08 2013
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Utopian for Beginners
“Natural languages are adequate, but that doesn’t mean they’re optimal,” John Quijada, a fifty-four-year-old former employee of the California State Department of Motor Vehicles, told me. In 2004, he published a monograph on the Internet that was titled “Ithkuil: A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language.” Written like a linguistics textbook, the fourteen-page Web site ran to almost a hundred and sixty thousand words. It documented the grammar, syntax, and lexicon of a language that Quijada had spent three decades inventing in his spare time. Ithkuil had never been spoken by anyone other than Quijada, and he assumed that it never would be.
(via wildcat2030)
Jan 01 2013
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1650 doctors from all over Spain including Galicia and Catalonia, announced that they REFUSE to comply with the provisions of the Spanish Health Ministry, ordering them NOT to provide medical care to immigrants. They insisted that their medical oaths and moral obligations exceeds all governmental order.
watch this .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBHYr-wbCck
my heart explodes.
we can be the future the world needs, now
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Dec 17 2012
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Dec 16 2012
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“ It is not just the entirety of my past that exists within me; it is the entirety of the past itself. My own past, my sensations, desires, memories, joys, do not arise outside the historical context in which I live. They arise within a legacy that is planted in me by history, a legacy that I might perhaps change but cannot escape. To live is to navigate the world immersed in a historically given context that is not of one’s own making. Thus my own past is a participant in, and at the same time a perspective on, the past itself. That past exists within me, and appears at each moment I am engaged with the world.
— Todd May, “Deleuze: An Introduction” (via basedrhizome)
(Source: lovevoltaireusapart, via anotherword)
Nov 27 2012
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“ Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
Nov 26 2012
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Edge: SEXUAL SELECTION AND THE MIND
Geoffrey Miller is known for his research which focuses on evolutionary psychology and sexual selection. In this regard, his work is in the tradition of scientists such as Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, and Steven Pinker. In support of his views on sexual selection, his published academic papers, conference talks, and colloquia, range across the areas of visual perception, cognition, learning, robotics, neural networks, genetic algorithms, human mate choice, evolutionary game theory, and the origins of language, music, culture, intelligence, ideology, and consciousness. Miller believes that our minds evolved not as survival machines, but as courtship machines.”Evolution is driven not just by natural selection for survival, but by an equally important process that Darwin called sexual selection through mate choice.,” he has noted. He proposes that the human mind’s most impressive, baffling abilities are courtship tools, evolved to attract and entertain sexual partners. By switching from a survival-centered view of evolution to a courtship-centered view, he attempts to show how we can understand the mysteries of mind.
