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Here is a little piece of work I did a month ago for Karen, who as part of her assignment of 20th century art movements, needed to write an art manifesto for class. She provided the salient points, and I "manifestoized" it by emulating the style of the Futurists, amongst other things. As a manifesto, it's ridiculous by nature, but feel free to add ( Read more... )

I've discussed a number of times the politics and reality of copyright law in this information age, but I've never really delved into what "free as in beer" media means for the future. Some of you may be familiar with Chris Anderson's recent book Free: The Future of a Radical Price (which ironically, was only available for free as an experiment ( Read more... )

A response to this post about the inevitability of historical outcomes ( Read more... )

Anticipation ( Read more... )

“For Professor Skeat, psychopaths were nothing less than the horsemen of the apocalypse. Contemporary culture had digested the meaninglessness of natural events, the fact that they were indifferent to all things human. A few stubborn fools still shook their fists at God, but most simply shrugged their shoulders. Most knew better, no matter how ( Read more... )

I was debating someone with anarcho-primitivist leanings, so decided to post my reply, as it pertains to the critique of technology in a general sense.

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I just polished off The Judging Eye by fantasy author R Scott Bakker. It certainly bears his mark, as it is ridiculously dense, adding more questions to the already unanswered ones left over from his first trilogy. This book is the start of a new trilogy, The Aspect Emperor trilogy, which follows 20 years after the events in the first trilogy, the ( Read more... )

I received a reply from Les Knight, head of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement a few days ago. He didn't quite answer my question about how human ethics mean anything to the universe as a whole, and therefore makes our voluntary extinction the most ethical thing we could do, but I didn't feel like pressing the point further, and still remain ( Read more... )

I was kind of bored so I sent a letter to the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. If you visit the website, try to go there without the immediate reaction that the name raises in your mind. They aren't crazy or genocidal, and their position is quite well reasoned. However I do not think their fundamental assumption, that the world is better off ( Read more... )