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TechnoCalyps - Part III - The Digital Messiah

Repost: TERRA NOVA

TERRA NOVA: Sinfonia Antarctica
www.djspooky.com

In December 2007 and January 2008 Paul D. Miller aka went to Antarctica to shoot a film and make a large scale multimedia performance work that will be an acoustic portrait of a rapidly changing continent called Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica. Sinfonia Antarctica transforms Miller’s first person encounter with the harsh, dynamic landscape of Antarctica into multimedia portraits with music composed from the different geographies that make up the land mass. It's about the environment, sound, hip hop, electronic music and what it means to be a composer in the 21st century.

Atlas, anyone?

This is how we thought that information traveled:



This, however, is how it actually travels:



Can you find your way?

Repost: Human grid cells tile the environment

Category: Neuroscience
Posted on: January 27, 2010 12:40 PM, by Mo

How does the brain encode the spatial representations which enable us to successfully navigate our environment? Four decades of research has identified four cell types in the brains of mice and rats which are known to be involved in these processes: place cells, grid cells, head direction cells and, most recently, border cells. Although the functions of most of these cell types are well characterized in rodents, it remains unclear whether they are also found in humans. A new functional neuroimaging study, by researchers from University College London, published online in the journal Nature, now provides the first evidence for the existence of grid cells in the human brain...

For the rest of the article, visit Neurophilosophy.

Nietzsche's Philosopher

From Beyond Good and Evil...

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A philosopher: that is a man who constantly experiences, sees, hears, suspects, hopes, and dreams extraordinary things; who is struck by his own thoughts as if they came from the outside, from above and below, as a species of events and lightning-flashes PECULIAR TO HIM; who is perhaps himself a storm pregnant with new lightnings; a portentous man, around whom there is always rumbling and mumbling and gaping and something uncanny going on. A philosopher: alas, a being who often runs away from himself, is often afraid of himself—but whose curiosity always makes him "come to himself" again.


Tool - Opiate  by  lacyfern

Disinformation is the New Information

The Network Evolves

.beat.

Excision - Rottun Dubstep Mix [2007] by ErPlInG

"Are you interested in science by any chance? I'm interested in molecules. The Sufis say each one of us is a planet spinning in ecstasy. But I say each one of us is a set of shifting molecules. Spinning in ecstasy. In the near future, worn out things will be made new again by reconfiguring their molecules. A pair of shoes. A tire. Molecular detection will also allow the determination of an object's physical history. This match box for example. Its collection of molecules could indicate everywhere it's ever been. They could do it with your clothes. Or even with your skin, for that matter. Wait three days until you see the bread. The guitar will find you. Among us, there are those who are not among us."

~From Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control

Emergent.

OCCUPATION: Movement I (Syscape#4) from Eric Schockmel on Vimeo.

A Media Lecture with Professor Sidney Eve Matrix

Intro to Media Research (Week2) from Film 240X on Vimeo.

Daniel Dennett on Dangerous Memes

They see you.

Yet, we cannot see ourselves. Not as we truly are. Not as the objects of their [redacted].

PANOPTICON from David's Reel on Vimeo.

I Struggle. I Emerge. I Deteriorate.

I am what's left behind. I am negative space. I am all.

I take my place Khoshekh. It's for you, I’m screaming.

My Motherboard is Fried

Disembodied. Disconnected. & Discontent.

Nine Inch Nails: March Of The Pigs (1994) from Nine Inch Nails on Vimeo.

Psychonautics

Self is fantasy.

Unfold.
Inspect.
Marvel.
Dance.
Repeat.



[Interesting Link: http://katiekin.blogspot.com/2006/07/emergent-ontologies-layers-of-multiple.html]

We Are the Real Estate

"What"s a brand? A singular idea or concept that you own inside the mind of the prospect."
~Al Ries

Dead All Along || Ceri Frost from Giles Timms on Vimeo.

[Relevant Link: http://www.clickz.com/1580881

You Are What You Eat

"Wharton marketing professor Americus Reed II notes that a successful identity-oriented marketing strategy consists of three critical links, including the consumer, the identity and the brand. “If these links are forged, then they create self-conceptual connections that can lead to advantageous marketing outcomes for companies that are savvy enough to incorporate identity into their marketing strategy,” he says...

"With the Nike logo or “swoosh” strongly seen as an emblem of an athletic person, it then acts as an “identity cue” for this lifestyle. Through the use of repetition of the logo and motto, the company creates a higher likelihood that those consumers who self-identify as ‘athletes’ will prefer those products that are synchronous with that image...

"Social identification with avocation, family, religious groups or gender appear to factor heavily into the buying patterns of consumers, and consequently also in the marketing efforts of advertisers...

"Reed describes the term ‘identity salience’ as the process through which an advertisement, product, brand or any marketing stimulus specifically brings to mind strong and positive thoughts of the consumer’s identity, rooted in personal situations or group memberships...

"According to Reed, his overall research findings attempt to illustrate the “interplay of identity cues and the self-importance of consumer social identities in determining responses to brands and products” designed to appeal to a particular lifestyle or social identity. The most important step, says Reed, is for a company to develop a strong ‘identification strategy,’ choosing an identity that consumers value, and then incorporating identity cues into an ad or message to spark an immediate and favorable response to the product...

Source || Exploring the Links between Brand Name and Consumer Identity: Knowledge@Wharton



[Relevant Link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3411/02.html]

Information Retrieval

ARTIFICIAL PARADISE,INC. from Jp Frenay on Vimeo.

In Limbo...

I feel myself vanishing. This morning around three, I awoke and felt like a ghost. It reminded me of my old composition notebooks. I felt like an erased pencil mark—still visible as an indentation. Am I that? Am I nothing more than my own footprint in a time that has already passed? Because I do not feel real. I do not feel solid.

I feel like a billboard—existing only to consume. A real life feels like a dream. Will this journey ever congeal? Will it ever provide a sensation of authenticity?

When time ends and looks back upon itself, will I be there or will I just be a painting on its wall?




[Relevant Link: http://artisticthings.com/]