Humans are bad machines. Replace them with other ones. If they aren’t necessarily going to be better, they at least can’t be worse.

http://www.studio360.org/story/the-peculiar-sadness-of-a-toothbrush/

https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky  http://www.yudkowsky.net/

http://livestream.com/hammermuseum/wattsrebellion/videos/95822593 “On the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Watts rebellion, we discuss the past and present of race relations in the United States with historians Gerald Horne, University of Houston, author […]

http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02zdqn5.mp3 “The gun attack on the beach resort of Sousse that killed 38 tourists, deterred many holiday-makers from travelling to Tunisia. But not journalist, Frances Stonor Saunders. She packed her […]

see also: http://www.philpercs.com/2015/08/modernism-as-an-inclosure-paradox-thoughts-on-wasteland-and-prufrock-paradoxicalities.html

Originally posted on Larval Subjects .:
Perhaps we would do best to call it the material unconscious.  Freud famously said that there had been three blows to human narcissism:  Copernicus and…

The Peripheral is not his best work, the time travel-ish aspect is weak and in some ways a step backwards for his writing,  but worth a read. http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/books/the_peripheral_excerpt.aspy

https://soundcloud.com/herebemonsters/hbm038-do-crows-mourn-their-dead When we are faced with the uncanny, brute, aspects of life experiences ( like mourning can be)  we all too often default to anthropomorphizing, but what might it be […]

what if we read folks like D&G in terms of experimenting with thinking of matters of concern/interest as-if  (like Jane Bennett’s “strategic” animism/vitalism) and not as literal/scientific projects? What happens […]

Originally posted on Larval Subjects .:
Perhaps, for us, the question is how to continue thinking, philosophizing, creating art, creating literature, dancing, and, above all, doing politics, when we are the…

Originally posted on Larval Subjects .:
I haven’t been writing much here and hope to rectify that from here on out.  I suppose that I’ve found it difficult to write in…

Originally posted on Three Pound Brain:
The highest species concept may be that of a terrestrial rational being; however, we shall not be able to name its character because we…

Given the ways he has been used by the antipsychiatry folks it was interesting to hear him say that if he was deeply (even suicidally) depressed without any obvious external […]