"It's a poor sort of memory that works only backwards."
--Queen to Alice, Alice in Wonderland
For scholars, writers, thinkers, comparative religionists, science historians, and speculative-fiction elitists who want to talk trash about the intersection between the cyborg episteme and art history, comparative religion, evolutionary ethics, literature, and historical critique of the Mediaverse.
Paradigm texts: TECHGNOSIS by Erik Davis, ESCAPE VELOCITY and THE PYROTECHNIC INSANITARIUM by Mark Dery, TOMORROW NOW and SHAPING THINGS by Bruce Sterling, ACCELERANDO by Charles Stross, S,M,L,XL by Rem Koolhaas, THE VATICAN TO VEGAS by Norman Klein, OUT OF CONTROL: THE NEW BIOLOGY OF MACHINES by Kevin Kelly, SEXUAL PERSONAE by Camille Paglia, THINKING THROUGH TECHNOLOGY by Carl Mitcham, NATURAL BORN CYBORGS by Andy Clark, PATTERN RECOGNITION by William Gibson, THE SPIKE by Damien Broderick, ENOUGH by Bill McKibben, THE LUCIFER PRINCIPLE and GLOBAL BRAIN by Howard Bloom, THE AXE-MAKER'S GIFT by James Burke, OUR OWN DEVICES by Edward Tenner, THE FOURTH DISCONTINUITY by Bruce Mazlish, WE HAVE NEVER BEEN MODERN by Bruno Latour, THE EXISTENTIAL PLEASURES OF ENGINEERING by Samuel C. Florman, THE ANCIENT ENGINEERS by L. Sprague de Camp, VIRTUAL REALITIES AND THEIR DISCONTENTS ed. David Porush, INFOCULTURE by Steven Lubar, THE MECHANICAL BRIDE by Marshall McLuhan, WHEN OLD TECHNOLOGIES WERE NEW by Carolyn Marvin, THE CULT OF INFORMATION by Theodore Rosnak, THE RELIGION OF TECHNOLOGY by David Noble, THE AMERICAN REPLACEMENT OF NATURE by William Irwin Thompson, TURING'S MAN by Jay Bolter, THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR by Ray Kurzweil, MEDIA VIRUS by Douglas Rushkoff, ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig, THE TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY by Jacques Ellul, VIRTUAL REALISM by Michael Heim, THE FUTURE OF MAN by Teilhard de Chardin, THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM and ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE by Fredric Jameson, DARWIN AMONG THE MACHINES by George Dyson, THE NEW HUMANISTS ed. Peter Brockman, TECHNOLOGY AS MAGIC: THE TRIUMPH OF THE IRRATIONAL by Richard Stivers, NO LOGO by Naomi Klein, CHAOS, GAIA, EROS by Ralph Abraham, CONVERGENCE CULTURE by Henry Jenkins, and related works/texts/movements.
http://www.media-ecology.org
Intrepid and enterprising minds are encouraged to browse my other think-tanks: EcoGnosis: Art, Spirituality, Conservation, MetroGnosis: Urban Archaeology, Museum Consciousness, and the Soul of the City, Earth Is An Alien Planet: Xenophilosophy and the Poetics of Estrangement, Audiodrome: Emotion and Meaning in Music, Die Laughing: The Art, Science, and Psychology of Comedy and Laughter, On Bullshit: The Psychology of Lying, Self-Deception, and Confidence Games, The Mind At Night: REM Sleep and Dream Research, The History of Beauty: Facial Disfigurement and Body-Horror Deformity, Narratology Think Tank: The Core of Literary Cognition, Heartwork: Love Trauma Survivors, Harmony Korine, Camille Paglia, How To Be Alone, or: Solitude, The Academy of Genius, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People: The Art of Misanthropy, and Storming the Reality Studio: The Meaning of Everything.
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