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Against Woman Suffrage by Lysander Spooner [cached]
'Women are human beings, and consequently have all the natural rights that any human beings can have. They have just as good a right to make laws as men have, and no better; AND THAT IS JUST NO RIGHT AT ALL. No human being, nor any number of human beings, have any right to make laws, and compel other human beings to obey them. To say that they have is to say that they are the masters and owners of those of whom they require such obedience. The only law that any human being can rightfully be compelled to obey is simply the law of justice. And justice is not a thing that is made, or that can be unmade, or altered, by any human authority. It is a natural principle, inhering in the very nature of man and of things. This natural principle, which we will call justice, and which assigns to each and every human being, is, I repeat, not a thing that is made, but is a matter of science to be learned, like mathematics, or chemistry, or geology. And all the laws, so called, that men have ever made, either to create, define, or control the rights of individuals, were intrinsically just as absurd and ridiculous as would be laws to create, define, or control mathematics, or chemistry, or geology.'
law  "rights"  reality  2+2=4  LysanderSpooner  * 
december 2011 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- Rectification of names
'Confucius believed that social disorder often stemmed from failure to perceive, understand, and deal with reality. Fundamentally, then, social disorder can stem from the failure to call things by their proper names, and his solution to this was the rectification of names. He gave an explanation to one of his disciples: "A superior man, in regard to what he does not know, shows a cautious reserve. If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. What the superior man requires is just that in his words there may be nothing incorrect." — Confucius.' -- "The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper names." — Proverb
quotes  wisdom  2+2=4  reality  language  oldspeak  newspeak  themapisnottheterritory  from delicious
march 2011 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- The Global Awakening: Alex Jones speech from Santa Cruz, CA
"Because we cannot recognize evil; because we have been trained from birth to ... engage in crimestop – we cannot face reality." -- "You know you're a good person."
reality  pathocracy  denial  crimestop  doublethink  2+2=5  AlexJones  irrationality  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: TNS Radio Interview 15 December 2010
"People have a very hard time living in reality. Reality is not a comfortable place for most people – and it's not because reality is inherently threatening... unfortunately we are told so many lies when we're growing up that reality becomes the enemy of our very identity later on in life." -- "If you don't know why you resist the truth, you have no chance of achieving it. And to know why you resist the truth requires introspection, it requires self-knowledge, and a real pursuit of your own soul and motivations." -- @ 46:00 "Capitalist" 'exploitation'.
emotionalintelligence  reality  humiliation  denial  falseself  2+2=5  StefanMolyneux  irrationality  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- CorbettReport: Richard Lindzen on the State of Climate Science
'Atmospheric physicist, MIT Professor of Meteorology and former IPCC lead author Richard S. Lindzen joins us to discuss the state of the climate change debate, the lack of evidence for catastrophic warming and what the science really tells us.' -- Do we live inside a climate computer model or do we live inside empirical objective reality?
globalwarming  climate  science  reality  RichardLindzen  from delicious
november 2010 by adamcrowe
Jolie O'Dell -- Bread and Circuses: The State of Web App Startups
'While people are sleeping in cardboard boxes, you can’t sell me on “getting together with friends” as a legitimate fucking problem.'
hackersvsvectoralists  reality  greatestdepression  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: Fire Engines of the Future!
'Will a free society be able to put out fires? Yes, after it puts out the inferno of the state!' -- But who will build the roads?!?!?!
statism  vanity  hubris  reality  humility  philosophy  StefanMolyneux  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- TheAntiTerrorist on The Communist Manifesto
'Better Well-Read than Dead?' -- None dare call it.
reality  communism  commerce  legalese  TheAntiTerrorist  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Alex Jones TV: The Lawlessness of Government: 5/6
"Do you understand how real all of this is? ... Look, you can't choose reality; perception is not reality."
reality  AlexJones  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
REALITY BLOG -- Conspiracy 101: A Breakdown of Reality
'Since nothing in the American culture of politics, religion, and society is what it appears to be on the surface, I’d like to just cover a basic truth for each paradigm we “believe” in...' -- Disabusing.
reality 
june 2010 by adamcrowe
zero hedge -- Hugh Hendry: "I Would Recommend You Panic"
'Hendry: "Let's purge this system of its rottenness. Let's take on a recession. It's going to be tough, people are gonna lose their jobs. They are going to lose their jobs anyway. We can spread this over 20 years, or we can get rid of it over 3 years." Of course, the Columbia professor, is completely against purging the system: how else can US higher "educators" continue to indoctrinate generation after generation with the flawed principles of a bankrupt ideology, and continue getting getting paid handsomely if there is an global reset? Even funnier, Jeffrey Sachs loses it when Hendry calls him out on his BS at 5 minutes into the clip.'
economics  reality 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Plato's Cave (animated version)
The Death of Socrates: Socrates asks Glaucon to consider the condition of the man returning to the cave: "Wouldn't he remember his first home, what passed for wisdom there, and his fellow prisoners, and consider himself happy and them pitiable? And wouldn't he disdain whatever honors, praises, and prizes were awarded there to the ones who guessed best which shadows followed which? Moreover, were he to return there, wouldn't he be rather bad at their game, no longer being accustomed to the darkness? Wouldn't it be said of him that he went up and came back with his eyes corrupted, and that it's not even worth trying to go up? And if they were somehow able to get their hands on and kill the man who attempts to release and lead up, wouldn't they kill him?"
realityprogramming  puppetry  illusion  delusion  pseudoworlds  newspeak  1984  thematrix  denial  Socrates  reality  enlightenment  truth  philosophy 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Terence McKenna: "Reality is made of language"
"In the beginning was the word and the word was made flesh. The world is a thing of words; the world is made of language. I can't say that enough." -- ;^)
literaryculturevsoralculture  words  language  reality  realityprogramming  shamanism  magick  TerenceMcKenna 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Did Philip K. Dick disclose the real 'Matrix' in 1977?
"A dark-haired girl shows up at the door of the protagonist and tells him that his [word] is delusional." -- We are living in a word-programmed reality and whenever one word is changed an alternative reality branches off.
PKD  pseudoworlds  literaryculturevsoralculture  legalese  words  realityprogramming  magick  thematrix  fake  delusion  reality  philosophy 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- Abbas Kiarostami
"We can never get close to the truth except through lying."
reality  reflexivity  cinema  art  productnarratives 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
The Last Psychiatrist -- The Limits Of Control: The Movie
'In the last scene, the movie picture appears to jolt suddenly; the only way I can describe it is that it's as if the camera operator started putting the camera down before he turning it off. What's the significance of that jolt? It's in such contrast to the stillness of the rest of the movie. Does it mean it's all a dream? He's killed? What? No, believe it or not, that jolt happens because the camera operator actually did put the camera down before he turned it off. And the director liked the effect.' -- I've *seen* this movie before, but I can't say what it is because the comment above would ruin it for you, though I'm keen to recommend it. Interesting... I kinda feel art finds you, rather than the other way around, so I'm careful not to intervene but— If you'd like to chance my ruining it for you rather than leaving things to fate: Amazon > Search: "Abbas Kiarostami Close Up" > Add to basket > Checkout > ??? > !!! yw ;^)
art  cinema  fourthwall  productnarratives  stage  reality  simulacra  existentialism  reflexivity 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
So I Don't Write About Heroes: An Interview with Philip K. Dick
'The human being is fascinating to me because he is capable of the most incredibly funny, childish, self-serving acts. I mean, of greed and incompetence, I mean, you could not invent, fictionally, the kind of petty, selfish things that a human being will do. And then that same person will turn around and will balk, for example, and will refuse to do something that is really bad. -- What we have in the universe is obviously badly constructed. I mean, it doesn't work well. The entire universe and all the parts therein continually malfunction. But the great merit of the human being is that the human being is isomorphic with his malfunctioning universe. I mean, he too is somewhat malfunctioning. And when he recognizes that he is a malfunctioning part in a malfunctioning system instead of succumbing to this realization and just lying down and saying, well, it's all hopeless, you know, there's nothing that can be done— He goes on trying.'
reality  humanity  people  tragedy  comedy  chaos  kindness  hope  PKD 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
Promethea -- Notes & Annotations: No Man's Land
Moore: "Before the Age of Reason was announced, humanity had polished strategies for interacting with the world of the imaginary and invisible: complicated magic-systems; sprawling pantheons of gods and spirits, images and names with which we labelled powerful inner forces so that we might better understand them. Intellect, Emotion and Unconscious Thought were made divinities or demons so that we might better know them; deal with them; become them. Ancient cultures did not worship idols. Their god-statues represented ideal states which, when meditated constantly upon, one might aspire to. ...the domain of thought is the one place where gods inarguably exist, wielding tremendous power. The world of ideas is deeper, truer than reality... Ideas do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is."
ideas  ideals  archetypes  reality  reflexivity  AlanMoore 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- Consensus reality
'...reality is either what exists, or what we can agree by consensus seems to exist; the process has been (perhaps loosely and a bit imprecisely) characterised as "[w]hen enough people think something is true, it... takes on a life of its own." The term is usually used disparagingly as by implication it may mean little more than "what a group or culture chooses to believe," and may bear little or no relationship to any "true reality", and, indeed, challenges the notion of "true reality"'
philosophy  reality  realityprogramming  consensusreality  groupthink 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- Brute fact
'Brute facts are opposed to institutional facts, in that the former do not require the context of an institution to occur.'
2+2=4  facts  reality 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
Fuck Yeah Philosophy! -- George Orwell: 'Objective truth'
'There is some hope that the liberal habit of mind, which thinks of truth as something outside yourself, something to be discovered, and not as something you can make up as you go along, will survive […] [T]he feeling that the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world […] frightens me much more than bombs." — George Orwell: The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell
2+2=5  hyperreality  reality  objectivism  GeorgeOrwell  quotes 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
Salon.com -- The man who invented the future
'There's so much information to absorb in "From Hell" that it's almost impossible to gather it in at one sitting. In one 38-page chapter alone, Moore's Jack the Ripper takes his driver on a city-wide tour of London's points of diabolical interest, connecting the bastions of secret societies, mythical and true lineages, transcendent architectures, phallic topographies and other landmarks into a pentagram shape. This allegorical voyage, which Moore says he made himself, relying on both recent and ancient maps of London, so terrifies Jack's driver that he vomits, sick with the realization that he is connected to his culture, his history and his employer in ways he never could have conceived. -- The lesson there, as Moore explains it, is that to understand the world one lives in, one has to give "coherence to ... complexity, to say that it is possible to think about politics, history, mythology, architecture, murder and the rest of it all at the same time to see how it connects."'
storytelling  complexity  reality  AlanMoore 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
Signs of the Times News -- The Trick of the Psychopath's Trade: Make Us Believe that Evil Comes from Others (9)
'Psychopathic lying is not mere deception, it is "creating reality" so that it conforms to the psychopath's wants. Psychopaths demonstrate an extremely distorted understanding of what we call facts. Normal humans really have difficulty conceiving of this because to us, facts are a basic part of our lives. We live by them, base our assessments and decisions on them. We establish facts, and then test things and establish more facts. When we debate, we start with facts and show how we derive our conclusions from those facts. When we perform such operations, we place value on those "facts" being true. Psychopaths do not do that. Being devoid of real emotional depth, they have no attachment to the idea of "truth". But, because people project their own internal structure onto the psychopath, most do not understand this. -- A psychopath becomes an expert at creating "facts" that cause normal people to form beliefs that benefit the psychopath.'
*  psychology  psychopathy  sociopathy  ponerology  evil  parasitism  sociology  pathocracy  power  reality  realityprogramming  mindcontrol 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset
'Hans Rosling uses his fascinating data-bubble software to burst myths about the developing world. Look for new analysis on China and the post-bailout world...' -- Health is wealth.
economics  statistics  data  visualization  history  reality 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
io9 -- Six Theorists Explain What TV Is Doing To Your Mind
'#Simulations, by Jean Baudrillard ...when the world is so saturated by media that people have seen fake versions of things before seeing the things themselves. If you've played thousands of combat videogames, then go to war, are you no longer capable of grasping the truth of what you're experiencing? If you've seen hundreds of "dates" on reality shows, can you ever make a genuine connection with a person you go on dates with? Or will your mind be so fogged by simulation that you are unable to access your true feelings and experiences? Though Simulations is about more than just television, Baudrillard's fears about a media-created reality seem especially relevant to TV (and, today, the internet).' -- Nice discussion on McLuhan in the comments.
media  tv  theory  theoryobjects  objects  simulation  simulacra  fake  reality  reflexivity  circumscription  themediumisthemassage  kipple  television 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
BBC -- Will Self: Naturalism and Sanity: Is the Mind Really as it's Portrayed?
'Celebrated author and essayist Will Self launches the festival arguing that the way the mind is portrayed in most novels is preposterous. Why are we so resistant to attempts to represent the mind as we really experience it, in all its terror, exhilaration and confusion? Are many of our finest novels designed to reassure us that we are 'normal'?'
psychology  writing  prose  poetry  mind  consciousness  multitude  semiosis  language  literaryculturevsoralculture  words  verisimilitude  narrativefallacy  reality  realityprogramming  WillSelf 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
ImageTexT -- The Tides of History: Alan Moore's Historiographic Vision by Sean Carney
'"History, unendingly revised and reinterpreted, is seen upon examination as merely a different class of fiction [...]. Still, it is a fiction that we must inhabit. [...] All that remains in question is whose map we choose, whether we live within the world's insistent texts or else replace them with a stronger language of our own." --- ... Moore understands that in order to change history one must become a part of history, and thus engage in a kind of human sacrifice, as much as he would like to imagine some other way. -- "There's no space and there's no time. It's just as easy for you to think about what you were doing this morning as Victorian street scenes. You can go there instantly. You can imagine a scene from ten years in the future." Idea Space is the medium through which human consciousness draws connections across space and time, finds meaningfulness in the immediate through its mediation within larger contexts. -- Fiction is how reality is made...'
*  meta  storytelling  liminality  fiction  reality  dialectics  time  space  simultaneity  literaryculturevsoralculture  history  metanarratives  postmodernism  language  culture  ideaspace  magic  shamanism  sacrifices  semiosis  realityprogramming  consciousness  philosophy  mythology  meaning  AlanMoore  comics 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
Truth Quotes
"The difference between truth and fiction: fiction has to make sense." -- Mark Twain
fiction  reality  quotes 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
Last.fm -- Saul Williams 'Penny For A Thought'
what have you bought into? how much will it cost to buy you out? /
theamericandream  delusion  reality  poetry  hiphop  music  SaulWilliams 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
GreenCine -- "A Growing Public Distrust": Adam Curtis
'Curtis: I'll tell you what I think about the neo-conservatives. In a way, I admire them for nostalgic reasons. They are the last revolutionaries - and some of them actually came out of a Trotskyite revolutionary tradition. They are making an awesome attempt to remake and reshape the world, much as Trotsky tried to do in the Russian Revolution, using military power. It's amazing. It has an epic-ness to it. I feel nostalgic for it, in the face of a managerial politics that just seem to want to tweak and adjust its policies to those of the focus groups and the soccer moms. -- ...when it becomes obvious that a lot of this is a constructed fantasy, based often on idealism and not necessarily on conspiracy, there will be a growing public distrust about the very nature of how reality is described to them. ...the neoconservatives have taken us into a philosophical quagmire, which is, "How do you describe reality, how do you make sense of the world? How do you construct it?"'
storytelling  metanarratives  ideology  idealism  conspiracy  reality  realityprogramming  reflexivity  AdamCurtis 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
Marginal Utility -- Japanese 2-D lovers
'Perhaps the idea is that a relationship with a product is always already compromised, so one can’t be disappointed or disappointing. These people are not resisting the effects of romantic capitalism; they are embracing them more completely. Romantic love deeply ingrained competitive individualism and became the alibi for authorizing a certain righteous hedonism (expressed in the market through purchases) in the name of discovering who we really are. The 2-D lovers represent the completion of that arc; they have dispensed with the alibi and have moved directly to an open and virtually unashamed love for products instead of people. A 2-D lover named Momo, the most disturbing of those mentioned in the article, puts it pretty succinctly: “I don’t care if people understand or not,” Momo said. “I just want them to leave me alone. I don’t have any nostalgia for reality. I’m happy living in the 2-D world.”'
relationships  relationalobjects  objects  reality  fake  japan  okatu 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- BBC Storyville: Hammer & Tickle (Playlist)
'Hammer & Tickle, Ben Lewis's acclaimed documentary about the history of humor under communism. Ben Lewis's documentary tells the real history of Communism through the jokes told by ordinary people about the oppressive Communist regimes of the Soviet Union and its satellites. Jokes became the language of truth in a society denied free speech and confronted daily with the gap between political propaganda and reality.'
documentaries  history  communism  russia  stoicism  humor  sarcasm  satire  jokes  reality 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
Wired -- The Second Coming of Philip K. Dick
#1. FALSE REALITIES Dick remains the supreme mythmaker of the false reality. His 1959 novel, Time Out of Joint, was the original Truman Show, while his 1964 book, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, describes a society that succumbs to permanent hallucination. Faced with such illusions, Dick's characters have to ask, "What is real?" because their lives (and sanity) are on the line. That's why hipster Hollywood loves him: Dick turned metaphysics into a whodunit. #3. ENTROPY One thing you learn from drug addiction, five marriages, and a visionary imagination is how easily your world can fall apart. Perhaps this was why Dick was obsessed with how things decay. He even invented a word for one of entropy's most ordinary manifestations: "kipple," which he defined as all the useless crap that creeps into our daily lives, like junk mail and gum wrappers and old newspapers. Don't bother fighting it - Dick's First Law of Kipple states that "Kipple drives out nonkipple."'
sciencefiction  PKD  kipple  reality  fake 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Max Keiser The Truth About TWITTER 2/6
'In the twittersphere, if you just take the tweetstream and put it on Fox News, people are going to be tweeting and looking at their own tweets and making assumptions on their own tweets in this divine narcissistic loop of ego destruction and id aggrandizement to the point where all information to do with self-preservation beyond the next 5 minutes is discounted as having no meaning; so all science, all religion, all philosophy, all the body of knowledge accumulated is meaningless in the twittersphere which is merely an open nerve that's being poked at by the aberant nature of individuals whose illnesses are being carried on the mainstream networks as "news".'
twitter  news  herd  sentiment  reactivity  reality  reflexivity  #bandwidth  #socialization 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
Little Atoms -- Adam Curtis Interview (cont.)
'Most journalists have run out of knowing what's going on in the world. And they have embraced this idea of media democracy as a way to disguise that fact. I'm deeply suspicious of it. The whole reason why journalism was invented in the first place is that we have the time, the money, and the power of the organisation to go places, push through doors, find things out, bring it back, and tell you it and allow you to make up your mind about it. ...those who are the promoters of the internet, the boosters, the people who put forward the utopian dream of the internet, and those who basically run silicon valley, are arch individualists, they portray the internet as a playground where every individual can invent their own identity, and it's a new form of democracy without hierarchies of power.' -- On the paradox of the booster dependence on datamining: -- 'it's a completely contradictory view of what human beings are, how they behave, to what these boosters actually portray the internet as.'
internet  technoutopianism  utopia  individualism  hype  temes  collectiveintelligence  algorithms  datamining  homogeneity  theadvertisedlife  doublethink  metanarratives  ideology  conspiracy  discourse  recuperation  rhetoric  reality  journalism  AdamCurtis 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
Max Keiser -- [1044] The Truth About Markets (04 July 2009)
In a word: Bleak.
economics  reality  dystopia  MaxKeiser  podcasts 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
CynicusEconomicus -- Economic Reality: The World Got Tougher
'Very few analysts and economists are looking at the underlying causes of the crisis, but are instead looking at the symptoms. I think that, in part, this is because the underlying reality is so difficult to accept, and in part because the problem is beyond any simple solutions. The US and Western economies are less and less able to compete. Instead of accepting the reality, like spoilt children, we bleat about our entitlements. At the heart of it all is that we think that we are entitled to our wealth. It has still not entered our complacent minds that, as long as a Chinese or Indian worker is willing to work for half our wage, we are too expensive. Instead we blather on about sweat shops, when most Chinese workers are simply grateful to be given freedom from the grinding life as a peasant on the land. They are hungry for success and willing to compete with us. The real question that is not being raised is this; are we willing to compete with them?'
economics  reality  denial  hubris  china 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
Max Keiser -- If Iraq Was Main Stream Media's Failure, Will Iran Be Social Network Media's Failure?
'"Some critics of our coverage during that time have focused blame on individual tweeters. Our examination, however, indicates that the problem was more complicated. Bloggers at several levels who should have been challenging twitterers and pressing for more skepticism were perhaps too intent on rushing scoops onto the homepage. Accounts of Iranian protesters were not always weighed against their strong desire to have Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ousted. Tweets based on dire claims about Iran tended to get prominent homepage display, while follow-up tweets (and on the ground articles) that called the original tweets into question were sometimes buried. In some cases, there was no follow-up at all." -- ...a healthy democracy needs also to have a dispassionate journalism that is able to question the motives of sources....even when that leads to discovery of information that is terribly inconvenient to our own assumptions or to the geo-politcal outcomes we as individuals may desire.'
journalism  news  authenticity  reality  iranelection  MaxKeiser 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- HELP!!! If you can
"I wanna be a real part of reality."
reality  realitytv 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- Map–territory relation
'The map is not the territory is a remark by Polish-American scientist and philosopher Alfred Korzybski, encapsulating his view that an abstraction derived from something, or a reaction to it, is not the thing itself.' -- 'The development of electronic media blurs the line between map and territory by allowing for the simulation of ideas as encoded in electronic signals, as Baudrillard argues in Simulacra & Simulation: "Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: A hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it. It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory - precession of simulacra - that engenders the territory."'
reality  abstraction  mapping  representation  language  simulacra 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
NYTimes.com -- Latest Updates on Iran’s Disputed Election
'“...appealed to the media not to use Twitter names because, they say, doing so could put people’s lives in danger.” One of the difficulties of asking us to not identify our anonymous sources is that, given how easy it is to stage hoaxes on Twitter, we have tried to identify those feeds that seem most reliable and we have reason to believe are actually coming to us from inside Iran. In other words we have tried to point only to feeds that have established a reputation for accuracy in the past few days. That said, it is entirely likely that the authorities in Iran may well be monitoring these Twitter feeds themselves and we will refrain from identifying individual feeds from now on.' -- With no verifiable usernames and the spread of Tehran timezone spoofings, it is '...impossible for journalists to trust that any Twitter feeds are in fact coming from inside Iran.'
reality  journalism  news  twitter  iran  iranelection  surveillance  censorship  anonymity  pseudoanonymity  activism  smartmobs  cyberwarfare  realityprogramming  standalonecomplex 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
New Scientist -- Time moves too slowly for hyperactive boys
'CHILDREN with ADHD might appear rowdy and indisciplined, but they are actually trying to cope with a faulty perception of time. What to most of us seems like a short stretch of time would drag unbearably for someone with ADHD. Because novelty-seeking and risky behaviour increase dopamine levels, children with ADHD may be become hyperactive as a way of "self-medicating" with dopamine. Researchers are realising that faulty time perception may be at the root of many more psychiatric disorders. People with depression experience time moving more slowly than usual, while those with mania perceive it as passing much faster. ...people with schizophrenia experience varying time perception. It is highly disorienting when someone's internal perception doesn't match up with cues from the outside world. "Most psychiatric disorders are associated with a certain discrepancy between objective worldly time and subjective time. At some point, patients would need to meet with reality."
psychology  time  attentiondeficithyperactivedisorder  ADHD  depression  schizophrenia  dopamine  asynchronous  reality 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
Google Videos -- Atom: The Illusion of Reality
'Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores how studying the atom forced us to rethink the nature of reality itself. He discovers that there might be parallel universes in which different versions of us exist, finds out that empty space isn't empty at all, and investigates the differences in our perception of the world in the universe and the reality.'
philosophy  reality  physics  quantum  mechanics  paralleluniverse  multitude  documentaries 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
Principia Cybernetica Web -- Coherence
'Coherence as a criterion of truth is emphasized by the epistemology of constructivism, which is espoused by most cyberneticists, and emphasized in "second-order" cybernetics (von Foerster, 1996) and the theory of autopoiesis (Maturana & Varela, 1992). According to this philosophy, knowledge is not a passive mapping of outside objects (the reflection-correspondence view), but an active construction by the subject. That construction is not supposed to reflect an objective reality, but to help the subject adapt or "fit in" to the world which it subjectively experiences. Since models are only compared with other models, the lack of access to exterior reality no longer constitutes an obstacle to further development. In such an epistemology, knowledge is not justified or "true" because of its correspondence with an outside reality, but because of its coherence with other pieces of knowledge (Rescher, 1973; Thagard, 1989).'
epistemology  reality  mentalmodels  selection  retention 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
CynicusEconomicus -- Green Shoots of Reality
"As time moves forwards, it is possible to see that the mainstream media eventually catches up with the underlying realities of the current economic situation. It is interesting to watch how they take cautious steps, with a few commentators daring to speak the unspeakable, before eventually the rest of the 'herd' follows suit. ...realities are starting to finally sink in. It is no longer a few lone voices - bloggers, conspiracy theorists, and the occasional maverick - but mainstream commentators, nation states, politicians and economists who are increasingly questioning the sustainability of the Western economies. ...the responses of government, are leading towards disaster, the problem remains that they are still fixated on the wrong explanations for the economic crisis. In particular, they still actually believe that the financial crisis caused the economic crisis, rather than seeing that an underlying economic crisis caused the financial crisis."
economics  debt  reality 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
Guardian -- I'm not a Pollyanna by Carrie Quinlan
'When the crappier bits of life are ­considered more real than the joyful bits, everyone is cheated. Happy people's happiness gets undermined and, tragically, sad people's sadness gets termed acceptable. The problem is that implying to people who have tough lives that those lives are more real or natural than those of people with an easier time is a tacit way of opting out of helping. "You may be struggling to make ends meet, getting punched by your partner and having racist abuse screamed at you, but at least your life's real." It's not a massive leap forward from, "You'll get your reward in heaven". Here's a suggestion. Why don't we use as our starting point the notion that people are generally a good thing, noble and willing to improve themselves and their communities, and find ways to help everyone do that.'
relativism  cynicism  nihilism  realism  authenticity  reality  real  objectivism  reflexivity  consequence  empathy  philosophy  civility  happiness 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
CynicusEconomicus -- The World is Changed: We are Starting to see How
"... the governments of the Western world are seeking to sustain an economic 'shape' that was itself a product of an illusion. The change in the shape of the world economy has already taken place, and is just now become clear to see. As the illusion is dissipating, the world, the markets and individuals are starting to see the underlying reality. It is primarily the governments of the West that still seek to persuade us that we are in the illusory world that has already passed from existence, and seek to persuade us that it is still within reach. It is an illusion that flatters our dreams and aspirations, and is therefore an illusion that is aimed at a receptive audience. It is pushing at an open door.....we want to believe...."
economics  bubble  delusion  denial  reality 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
The Atlantic -- What Makes Us Happy?
'The healthiest, or “mature,” adaptations include altruism, humor, anticipation (looking ahead and planning for future discomfort), suppression (a conscious decision to postpone attention to an impulse or conflict, to be addressed in good time), and sublimation (finding outlets for feelings, like putting aggression into sport, or lust into courtship). -- ... positive emotions make us more vulnerable than negative ones. One reason is that they’re future-oriented. Fear and sadness have immediate payoffs—protecting us from attack or attracting resources at times of distress. Gratitude and joy, over time, will yield better health and deeper connections—but in the short term actually put us at risk. That’s because, while negative emotions tend to be insulating, positive emotions expose us to the common elements of rejection and heartbreak. -- "It's very hard for most of us to tolerate being loved."'
*  research  psychology  happiness  emotion  emotionalintelligence  relationships  memory  narrativefallacy  reality  reflexivity  life  love 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- Unknown unknown
'"There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don’t know." - This statement was made at a press briefing given by former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on February 12 2002. -- Psychoanalytic philosopher Slavoj Zizek extrapolates from these three categories a fourth, the unknown known, that which we don't know or intentionally refuse to acknowledge that we know - the disavowed beliefs, suppositions and obscene practices we pretend not to known about, even though they form the background of our public values.' -- "What you don't know you know controls you but you don't control it." (The Reality of the Virtual, Zizek)
blackswans  risk  wrong  philosophy  epistemology  psychoanalysis  consciousness  unconsciousness  reality  virtuality  repression  freud  quotes  SlavojŽižek  unconscious  denial  memoryhole 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
nationalpost -- Colby Cosh: Watching boomers in turmoil is worth a recession
'... the lesson that economic growth is a contingent accomplishment is one that every generation must learn. Why are young people so vulnerable to preposterous political ideas? Why is it the young, most egregiously, who romanticize poverty, cultural backwardness and unspoiled nature?
economics  austerity  reality 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
The Boston Globe -- Inside the baby mind
'.. the baby brain is abuzz with activity, capable of learning astonishing amounts of information in a relatively short time. Unlike the adult mind, which restricts itself to a narrow slice of reality, babies can take in a much wider spectrum of sensation – they are, in an important sense, more aware of the world than we are ...their reality arrives without a filter. -- "Adults can follow directions and focus, and that's great," says John Colombo, a psychologist at the University of Kansas. "But children, it turns out, are much better at picking up on all the extraneous stuff that's going on. And this makes sense: If you don't know how the world works, then how do you know what to focus on? You should try to take everything in."' -- On purposefully reducing activity in the brain's prefrontal cortex: 'Baudelaire was right: "Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will."' -- Life in widescreen with fat pipes
psychology  neuroscience  brain  mind  consciousness  cognition  context  reality  learning  puzzle  attention  mystery  immersion  flow  imagination  creativity  #bandwidth  #complexity  #diversity 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- A Day in the Afterlife of Philip K. Dick
'Philip.K. Dick documentary on BBC's "Arena" originally broadcast on 9th April 1994.' -- Rubbish fllling up the streets, rubbish filling up the houses, rubbish filling up your head.
PKD  fake  reality  simulacra  kipple  philosophy  documentaries 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
City Journal -- The Postmodern Financial Crisis by André Glucksmann
'The speculative bubble was based on a bet that served as its own foundation. It was “performative,” in the terminology of the linguistic philosopher John Austin. “This session is now open,” proclaims the president in an assembly. It’s true because he says it: here reality is based on speech, while in ordinary cases speech is based on reality—that is, it is not performative but indicative. Similarly, the financial bubble, piling credit on top of credit, got rich on self-affirmation. It was contained in its self-relation, which is what made it a bubble. It gradually eliminated the principle of reality: nothing counted but the financial products invented by people’s investments.' -- Must re-read McLuhan on America being somewhat backward (in the electronic age) due to having been born of and stuck in a linear/literal/words -based culture. For older, oral-based cultures, this is a postmodern/systemic/accoustic crisis; for America, it's a modernist/determinist/linear one.
economics  america  literaryculturevsoralculture  verbs  words  performance  reflexivity  reality 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Wired -- The Messy Future of Memory-Editing Drugs
'It might not be long before memories are pharmaceutically targeted, just as moods are now. #Sandberg: People are more worried about deletion [than adding memories]. We have a preoccupation with amnesia, and are more fearful of losing something than adding falsehoods. The problem is that it's the falsehoods that really mess you up. If you don't know something, you can look it up, remedy your lack of information. But if you believe something falsely, that might make you act much more erroneously. You can imagine someone modifying their memories of war to make them look less cowardly and more brave. Now they'll think they're a brave person. At that point, you end up with the interesting question of whether, in a crisis situation, they would now be brave. We can't trust our memories. But on the other hand, our memories are the basis for most of our decisions. We take it as a given that we can trust them, which is problematic. We have authentic fake memories, in a sense.'
psychology  drugs  memory  editing  experience  authenticity  self  perception  realityprogramming  reality  virtuality  fake  illusion  delusion  simulation  philosophy 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
CynicusEconomicus -- The RMB as the Reserve Currency
'My prediction of the (not yet arrived?) demise of the $US is that the underlying weakness of the $US is resultant from the abuse of the reserve status to build up a debt mountain, and the use of the reserve status to finance that debt. It can only service that debt through new currency issuance. There is no reason to see why China might follow such a course as a major creditor nation, and this is why it is so well positioned as a reserve currency. They only need to expand the money supply such that they provide sufficient units for exchange, not to finance debt. This is the inherent strength in the RMB, and why it might replace the $US. The big question in my mind is when belief will end, and when will reality reassert itself?'
economics  dollar  RMB  reservecurrency  geopolitics  reality  denial 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Mises Institute -- Deliberately Misplaced Blame by Sean W. Malone
'The official story seems to be that everyone knows the financial crisis represents a failure of the capitalist system, and now only a "gigantic program of economic defense" will save us. Sadly, it's all indicative of a bigger problem. The narrative itself is being shaped before our very eyes. Over time, it will come to be generally accepted as historical "fact." Our children will learn the stories of the financial collapse of 2008. And everything they will be told about its causes, the philosophical roots, the main players, it's prolonging, and even the reasons for the next 20 years of (inevitable) inflation will be lies. The fact that it was the Austrians — the heirs of Mises and Hayek — like Peter Schiff who publicly predicted the collapse (and were ridiculed for it) will largely get swept under the rug. That is, unless those of us who are actually interested in truth and liberty stand up right now and come together to defend it.' -- Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
economics  history  metanarratives  thoughtcrime  revisionism  propaganda  realityprogramming  reality  truth  truepast  1984  "capitalism" 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Telegraph -- 'We don't need a Twittericulum'
'"Think of a princess, a beautiful princess locked up in a tower. Think about how she must feel, yearning to escape. Now, imagine you are reading a book about that princess, engrossed in what is to become of her. You feel for her, you care about her, you want her to escape. Yes?" she asks. Ah, yes, I suppose so, I nod, wondering where we are going. "You see," she says flashing her trademark, wide-mouthed smile. "Don't tell me youngsters playing a computer game in which the princess is locked in the tower give a stuff if she gets out or not. They don't. They don't because those sort of computer games aren't about empathising with or understanding her plight. She is just there as a goal. The game is all about getting her out of the tower because that means they win. Game over. It's all so meaningless. In the truest sense of the word," she says shaking her head in exasperation. "It… means… nothing," she says slowly, drumming her red fingernails on her desk to emphasise each word.' -- True
*  psychology  thegamingofeverydaylife  gaming  behaviours  augmentationistsvsimmersionists  immersion  imagination  empathy  emotionalintelligence  simulation  numbers  points  continuouspartialattention  attention  concentration  intermittentvariablerewards  feedback  addiction  virtuality  reality  children  learning  education  socialmedia  twitter  boredom 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Escape from the Zombie Food Court by Joe Bageant
'More than any other people I have met, Americans fear loss of uniqueness. Yet you and I are not unique in the least. Despite the American yada yada about individualism, you are not special. Nor am I. Just because we come from the manufacturer equipped with individual consciousness, does not make us the center of any unique world, private or public, material, intellectual or spiritual. The fact is, you will seldom if ever make any significant material or lifestyle choices of your own in your entire life. If you don't buy that house, someone else will. If you don't marry him, someone else will. If you don't become a psychologist, lawyer or a telemarketer, someone else will. We are all replaceable parts in the machinery of a capitalist economy. "Oh but we have unique feelings and emotions that are important," we say. Yet I venture to say that none of us will ever feel an emotion that someone long dead has not felt, or some as yet unborn person will not feel.' -- *gulps a gritty red pill*
*  economics  psychology  spectacle  immateriallabour  corporatism  paternalism  propaganda  control  consciousness  stockholmsyndrome  mimicry  hegemony  ideology  mythology  consumerism  narcissism  individualism  delusion  hologram  theadvertisedlife  debt  slavery  feudalism  reality  compassion  empathy  truth  gaia  one 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Rolling Stone -- Philip K. Dick: The Most Brilliant Sci-Fi Mind on Any Planet by Paul Williams (November 6, 1975)
'Philip K. Dick has described his novels as books that "try to pierce the veil of what is only apparently real to find out what is really real." Paranoia is true perception. Dick's characters are all ultimately small (that is, ordinary, believable) people made big by their stamina in the face of an uncertain world. Dick cares about the people in his books–true, he contrives horrible things to happen to them, but that is in some sense beyond his control; he is like a god condemned to watch his universes fall apart as fast as he creates them, with his poor beloved characters are trapped inside–and ultimately we, the readers, empathize with the characters as much as the author does. We share their small triumphs and disappointments; we laugh at their absurd behaviour because we recognize their anxieties as our own.'
storytelling  writing  sciencefiction  paranoia  reality  PKD  pdf 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
BBC iPlayer -- Newswipe: Episode 2
'Charlie Brooker sets his satirical sights on news and current affairs. In charting the rise of the public's role in making the news via vox pops and mobile phone footage, Brooker examines the good, the bad and the absurd in citizen journalism. Plus, reviews of two big stories making the news, controversial authored pieces, a poem and much more.'
journalism  news  content  emotionallabour  voyeurism  sousveillance  reality  realityprogramming  culture  satire  newswipe  CharlieBrooker 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
BBC iPlayer -- Newswipe: Episode 1
'Charlie Brooker returns to train his sights firmly on news and current affairs. He looks at the news's obsession with the credit crunch, and the potty levels it has reached. Nick Davies authors a piece about the influence the PR industry has over the news and Tim Key performs a poem.' -- Vids on YouTube too
journalism  pr  news  reality  realityprogramming  ignorance  satire  newswipe  CharlieBrooker 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
AdFreak -- Playboy TV pities you and your lame reality
'Zig unzips an ad campaign for Playboy TV with the tagline, "A better reality awaits."' -- A golden land of fapping and adventure!
advertising  reality  realitytv  realityprogramming  theadvertisedlife 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
CynicusEconomicus -- More on Quantitative Easing.....
"As I am writing this post, I can not help but find the situation in the world economy to be ever more surreal. When I first started writing this blog, whilst being able to see the oncoming crisis, I could never have imagined that the policy makers would take actions that could take a major crisis and turn it into catastrophe. I am genuinely baffled that so many otherwise intelligent people, are undertaking the policies that they are. -- ... the Economist's thinking [see quoted passage] illustrates the central delusion that Western economies are 'well managed', and that problems such as hyper-inflation are only applicable to non-Western countries. It appears to be a quite astonishing form of arrogance built upon a self-satisfied sense of superiority. The belief is that 'it can not happen here', but there really is no justification for such a belief. I can not see any difference between the policies in the UK and US and those in Zimbabwe." -- Life in a WTF? SRSLY? ROFLMAO! world.
economics  debt  fraud  fiat  ponzi  QE  inflation  ignorance  hubris  denial  delusion  irrealism  surrealism  reality 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
CNN.com -- Humbled banker parts with yuppie past
'"It took a lot for me to put that ad on Craigslist, because I had to change what I was before," he said, breaking down in tears. "I wasn't this rich little yuppie anymore, driving expensive cars, having expensive suits. I'm in this just like everybody else looking for work. It humbles you. This is real." The whole experience has given him a dose of humility. When he sees homeless people these days, he wants to help them.'
economics  humility  reality 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
Guardian -- Amelia Gentleman on a portrait of 21st-century poverty
'Providing a week's worth of meals for three people for £6.66 a head is easy once you work out how. Louise, 24, doesn't smoke, drink or take drugs and she very rarely goes out with her friends. She spends pretty much all the money she gets in benefits on her children. She rejects the suggestion that her family might be described as poor. "Oh no," she says firmly. "We get by." -- "Of course I'd rather be working than being on benefits. If I were working, I wouldn't be living in a two-bedroom council flat, underneath someone with mental-health problems and a couple of addicts.". But she doesn't expect to find work soon. "My CV would say: left school. Worked one month in a nursing home. Got pregnant. That's not going to get me a job. There aren't enough jobs to go around." -- Supreme budgeting skills, the anticipation and accomodation of life's surprises, the ability to say no, self-sacrifice, extra-human patience, maturity, humility, optimism. You're worth ten of 'us'. You're hired.
*  economics  poverty  uk  stoicism  parenting  education  sociology  reality  via:diemkay 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
Guatemala News -- Blame the Economists, Not Economics
"Economics is really a toolkit with multiple models - each a different, stylized representation of some aspect of reality. One's skill as an economist depends on the ability to pick and choose the right model for the situation. Economics' richness has not been reflected in public debate because economists have taken far too much license. Instead of presenting menus of options and listing the relevant trade-offs - which is what economics is about - economists have too often conveyed their own social and political preferences. Instead of being analysts, they have been ideologues, favoring one set of social arrangements over others."
economics  solipsism  myopia  context  reality 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
Harpers -- Faustian economics: Hell hath no limits by Wendell Berry
"... once greed has been made an honorable motive, then you have an economy without limits. It has no place for temperance or thrift or the ecological law of return. It will do anything. It is monstrous by definition ... the commonly accepted basis of our economy is the supposed possibility of limitless growth, limitless wants, limitless wealth, limitless natural resources, limitless energy, and limitless debt. The idea of a limitless economy implies and requires a doctrine of general human limitlessness: all are entitled to pursue without limit whatever they conceive as desirable... this credo of limitlessness clearly implies a principled wish not only for limitless possessions but also for limitless knowledge, limitless science, limitless technology, and limitless progress. And, necessarily, it must lead to limitless violence, waste, war, and destruction. That it should finally produce a crowning cult of political limitlessness is only a matter of mad logic." -- Supersize We
*  economics  debt  ponzi  criticism  consumption  consumerism  delusion  denial  insanity  virtuality  reality  freedom  friendship  ethics  trust  loyalty  empathy  communities  civility  ecology  sustainability  austerity  humanity  philosophy  religion  art  life 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
Twitter -- Buckminster Fuller: You never change things by ...
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
reality  paradigms  change  quotes  BuckminsterFuller  via:preoccupations 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
Marginal Utility -- Realtime and realspace
"Optional paralysis, indifference and solipsism loom, as the coping strategies for the onslaught of realtime and realspace. When our social reality is ironed out into a stream of broadcasts on a feed, mediated by devices that guarantee each of us an isolation in an environment that gratifies our fantasies of total control, the illusion that friends can be monitored entirely on our own terms grows; the requirement of reciprocity begins to seem provisional, old-fashioned, a signal of a breakdown of the better technologies for person management. ...it seems to me a continuation of the space of consumerism—of impulsiveness, instrumentality, convenience for its own sake, and ersatz individualism. And obviously it is not just going to go away. We are all complicit in it, eventually. At some point it suits our purposes and we go along, as though we control the terms by which we interact with it. We don’t notice the creeping ways in which it begins to dictate terms to us."
realtime  time  ambientintimacy  relationships  voyeurism  surveillance  telepresence  technology  data  control  individualism  solipsism  reality  realityprogramming  #socialization  #ubiquity  psychology 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
I am thinking about buying a new video game because it looks cool.
"Don’t understand why u would spend hours per day in front of a screen pretending that ur some1 ur not, just to accomplish these arbitrary goals. After u ‘beat’ a video game, do u feel more ‘accomplished’? Do u call ur family and tell them that u ‘won’? I wish I could be a ‘gamer’ and really unite with a network of people who I know in real life and not in ‘real’ life. I wish I could engage in teambuilding experiences. I wish I could share the beauty of gaming with people who are addicted to getting NEW information instantaneously on the internet. If only they could see that there is a value in escaping from ‘the real world.’ Who needs to know everything right away? Who needs to be so connected? I want to be a gamer. I want to take breaks from ‘internet reality’ and accomplish goals and missions in an environment that was created by AZN engineers who work in a free spirited workplace." -- Hehe.
psychology  gaming  authencity  virtuality  reality  lulz 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
Marginal Utility -- Theses inspired by Hipster Runoff
Quotable! -- "#2. Social criticism has been resolved into self-expression. #3. Hipsterism consists of its own repudiation. #4. Social networks mandate identity formation on the model of cloud computing ...we now have self as a service. #5. The variables we transfer to the cloud increasingly delimit the field of identity and condition what sorts of data will subsequently be considered relevant or applicable. #6. Existence online... forces on us unremitting self-consciousness. There can be no harmonizing of action and its preconception; no spontaneous authenticity. #9. The collapse of language into abbreviations, arbitrary conditions of brevity, self-enforced infantilism and the like are attempts to import the the inflexible conditions of reality, against which we shape ourselves, to the online world, which lacks such conditions and threatens us with an amorphous and intolerable incontinence of identity." -- Phew!
internet  web  self  identity  infantilism  criticism  selfservers  sousveillance  feedback  criticaldistance  precuperation  authenticity  reality  virtuality  popculture  culture 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
Republibot -- BREAKING NEWS: Philip K. Dick is Still Dead! (1928-1982)
"Philip K. Dick's deathday is today. He'd be 81, if he hadn't been dead for 27 years. His potboilers - and he wrote a lot of them - contained more ideas, atmosphere, characterization, and gleeful paranoia than most people's entire careers. The books tended to echo what was going on in Phil's own mind/soul at the time, and he was a bit of a mistic, a bit of a traditionalist, a bit of a whack job, and entirely brilliant. ... [the] search for the truth that pervaded his life and his work invigorates his best writing, because unlike many True Seekers, Phil was willing to question everything and anything, even stuff that, frankly, he probably would have been better off to not question, just for his own state of mind."
PKD  reality  truth 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
Christy's Corner of the Universe -- On Seeing: There’s Gold in Them Thar “FAILS”
d'Aquili 's and Newberg's cognitive operators: #1 Holistic: allows us to view reality as a whole or as a gestalt #2 Reductionistr: allows us to look at the whole picture and break it down into an analysis of individual parts #3 Causal: permits reality to be viewed in terms of causal sequences #4 Abstractive: permits the formation of general concepts from the perception of individual facts #5 Binary: allows us to extract meaning from the external world by ordering abstract elements into dyads. A dyad is a group of two elements that are opposed to each other in their meaning. Therefore, dyads include good and evil, right and wrong, justice and injustice, happy and sad, and heaven and hell…each opposite, in some ways, derives its meaning from its contrast with the other opposite #6 Quantitativer: permits the abstraction of quantity from the perception of various elements #7 Emotional Value: permits us to assign a particular emotional value to various elements of perception and cognition
thinking  coginition  meaning  reality  framing  FAIL  WIN  binary  socialmedia  ChristyDena  cognition 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
CynicusEconomicus -- The Economic Crisis: The Underlying Cause
"... the emerging economies lent their new found wealth from their increasingly large workforce into the West, and in doing so allowed the emergence of the so called 'service economy', or 'post-industrial economy'. The lending was built on an unfounded belief that, because the West had been economically dominant for so long, it would always be in a position to pay back the lending. The problem with the lending was that there were no productive wealth creating opportunities to soak up the money, (e.g. investment in manufacturing was being directed towards the emerging economies themselves) such that the money pouring into countries like the UK and US was directed into asset price inflation (real estate), consumption and consumer credit, and excessive government borrowing. ... the world economy has been shaped around a perception of growth in wealth in countries like the UK and US, whilst the real growth in wealth has been taking place elsewhere." -- Hollow-gram (Recommended)
*  economics  malinvestment  debt  credit  bubble  multipliereffect  consumption  GDP  growth  wealth  capital  deflation  inflation  reality  virtuality  illusion  misdirection  fake  uk  america  china  japan 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
"If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others" By Philip K. Dick
"I, in my stories and novels, often write about counterfeit worlds, semi-real worlds, as well as deranged private worlds inhabited, often, by just one person, while, meantime, the other characters either remain in their own worlds throughout or are somehow drawn into one of the peculiar ones. This theme occurs in the corpus of my twenty-seven years of writing. At no time did I have a theoretical or conscious explanation for my preoccupation with these pluriform pseudoworlds, but now I think I understand. What I was sensing was the manifold of partially actualized realities lying tangent to what evidently is the most actualized one, the one that the majority of us, by consensus gentium [general consent], agree on."
storytelling  sciencefiction  pseudoworlds  solipsism  consciousness  simulacra  fake  fraud  reality  virtuality  alternativereality  memory  philosophy  religion  madness  PKD 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
Sherry Turkle -- Virtuality and its Discontents (PDF)
"Is the real self always the naturally occurring one? If a patient on the antidepressant medication Prozac tells his therapist he feels more like himself with the drug than without it, what does this do to our standard notions of a real a self? Where does the medication end and the person begin?"
psychology  virtualworlds  MUDs  communities  authenticity  reality  virtuality  simulation  simulacra  roleplay  self  multitude  transformation  reflexivity  SherryTurkle  pdf  mecosystem 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
Sherry Turkle -- Seeing Through Computers: Education in a Culture of Simulation (PDF)
"understanding the assumptions that underlie simulation is a key element of political power. People who understand the distortions imposed by simulations are in a position to call for more direct economic and political feedback, new kinds of representation, more channels of information. They demand greater transparency in their simulations (particularly the ones we use to make real-life decisions) make their underlying models more accessible. We come to written text with centuries-long habits of readership. At the very least, we have learned to begin with the journalist's traditional questions: Who wrote these words, what is their message, why were they written, how are they situated in time and place, politically and socially? A central goal for computer education must now be to teach students to interrogate simulations in much the same spirit. The specific questions may be different but the intent is the same: to develop habits or readership appropriate to a culture of simulation."
criticism  psychology  politics  simulation  education  learning  literacy  interface  transparency  opacity  reality  virtuality  realityprogramming  representation  reflexivity  ideology  hegemony  power  thegamingofeverydaylife  SherryTurkle  pdf 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
Wired -- Sex, Lies, and Avatars (PDF)
'What is real? What is virtual? What is living? What is nonliving? Of the many selves I am, who is he real me?' -- 'Computing would offer [Turkle] endless moments of sweet epiphany when theories that had seemed right but abstract were suddenly right and manifest. Constructing the self with language and the notion of permeable boundaries? There it was on the screen. You could almost substitute computing for terms of Lacan's manifesto: computing is constructed as a set of languages; language (the relationship of terms to each other) is the structure that forms computing; the boundaries between data and execution are blurred; and so forth. What in other contexts has seemed like the gibberish of postmodernism–decentering (oh, you mean multiple users), intertextuality (oh, hypertext), fragmentation (oh, me in the Parenting conference, me in the Eros conference), blurring (oh, object-oriented languages)–is rendered clear at last.'
psychology  psychoanalysis  Freud  postmodernism  simulation  culture  bricolage  language  reflexivity  Lacan  theory  theoryobjects  objects  existentialism  reality  virtuality  identity  multitude  self  selfobjects  liminality  media  computers  metaphysics  virtualworlds  MUDs  avatars  roleplay  improvisation  performance  transformation  SherryTurkle  pdf  improv 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
Harvard Business Review -- Technology and Human Vulnerability: A Conversation with MIT's Sherry Turkle (PDF)
'We are ill prepare for the new psychological world we are creating. We make objects that are emotionally powerful; at the same time, we say things such as "technology is just a tool" that deny the power our creations both on us as individuals and on our culture. I find it amazing how in less than one generation people have gotten used to the idea of giving their children Ritalin–not because the childen are hyperactive but because it will enhance their performance in school. who are you, anyway–your unmedicated self or your Ritalin self? for a lot of people, it has become unproblematic that their self is their self with Ritalin or their self with the addiction of a Web connection as an extension of mind. As one student with a wearable computer with a 24-hour Internet connection put it, "I become my computer. It's not just that I remember people or know more. I feel invincible, sociable, better prepared. I am naked without it. With it, I'm a better person."'
psychology  relationships  robots  replicants  toys  toyfriends  nurturance  relationalobjects  objects  simulation  simulacra  reality  virtuality  authenticity  humanity  cyborg  aliveness  emotion  projection  transference  philosophy  rorschach  identity  play  reflexivity  transformation  technology  productnarratives  SherryTurkle  pdf 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
Sherry Turkle -- Who Am We? (PDF)
'... we "project ourselves into our own drama, dramas in which we are producer, director, and star... computer screens are the new location for our fantasies, both erotic and intellectual."' -- '... once we take virtuality seriously as a way of life, we need a new language for talking about the simplest things. Each individual must ask: What is the nature of my relationships? What are the limits of my responsibility? And even more basic: who and what am I? What is the connection between my physical and virtual bodies? And is it different in different cyberspaces? These questions are equally central for thinking about community. What is the nature of our social ties? What kind of accountability do we have for our actions in real life and in cyberspace? What kind of society or societies are we creating, bot on and off the screen?'
psychology  virtualworlds  simulation  transformation  roleplay  self  multitude  identity  reflexivity  reality  virtuality  liminality  philosophy  psychoanalysis  Freud  SherryTurkle  pdf  mecosystem 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
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