Geek Quote of the Day
There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.
- - The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence M. Krauss, 1996.
Archive for June, 2011
Geek Media Round-Up: June 29, 2011
Art
- The 30 Greatest Hand Drawn Movie Posters
- Get your Portal 2 Stickers now
Comics
- Interview: The very peculiar world of Alan Moore: Comic book icon talks mysticism, snake gods and Hollywood.
Cross-Media
Neil Gaiman Sings
The Wits show, produced by Minnesota Public Radio, invited the famed author Neil Gaiman to perform a song he wrote about Joan of Arc. This video is from the show that was recorded on Saturday, June 25th.
Geek Quote of the Day
Post-biological technologies enable us to become directly involved in our own transformation, and are bringing about a qualitative change in our being. The emergent faculty of cyberception, our artificially enhanced interactions of perception and cognition, involves the transpersonal technology of global networks and cybermedia. We are learning to see afresh the processes of emergence in nature, the planetary media-flow, while at the same time re-thinking possibilities for the architecture of new worlds. Cyberception not only implies a new body and a new consciousness but a redefinition of how we might live together in the interspace between the virtual and the real.
- - “The Architecture of Cyberception” by Roy Ascott, June 1, 1994.
Geek Quote of the Day
Not only are we changing radically, body and mind, but we are becoming actively involved in our own transformation. And it’s not just a matter of the prosthetics of implant organs, add-on limbs or surgical face fixing, however necessary and beneficial such technology of the body may be. It’s a matter of consciousness. We are acquiring new faculties and new understanding of human presence. To inhabit both the real and virtual worlds at one and the same time, and to be both here and potentially everywhere else at the same time is giving us a new sense of self, new ways of thinking and perceiving which extend what we have believed to be our natural, genetic capabilities. In fact the old debate about artificial and natural is no longer relevant. We are only interested in what can be made of ourselves, not what made us. As for the sanctity of the individual, well we are now each of us made up of many individuals, a set of selves . Actually the sense of the individual is giving way to the sense of the interface. Our consciousness allows us the fuzzy edge on identity, hovering between inside and outside every kind of definition of what it is to be a human being that we might come up with. We are all interface. We are computer-mediated and computer-enhanced. These new ways of conceptualising and perceiving reality involve more than simply some sort of quantitative change in how we see, think and act in the world. They constitute a qualitative change in our being, a whole new faculty, the post-biological faculty of “cyberception.”
- - “The Architecture of Cyberception” by Roy Ascott, June 1, 1994.
Geek Media Round-Up: June 27, 2011
Art
- Check out the life-sized War Machine
- A gallery of Netflix Envelope Doodles from Doodlers Anonymous
- Paper sculptures in Pottermore video are beautiful, make book hard to read
- Star Wars of the Rings
- Transformers 3 fan posters
- Where’s Wally? Street Performance World Championships attempt to break Guiness World record
Comics
- Interview: A Bounty of Buffy: an interview with Dark Horse’s Scott Allie.
Geek Quote of the Day
We are mutating into another species—from Aquaria to the Terrarium, and now we’re moving into Cyberia. We are creatures crawling to the center of the cybernetic world. But cybernetics are the stuff of which the world is made. Matter is simply frozen information. . . . The critics of the information age see everything in the negative, as if the quantity of information can lead to a loss of meaning. They said the same thing about Gutenberg. . . . Never before has the individual been so empowered. But in the information age you do have to get the signals out. Popularization means making it available to the people. Today the role of the philosopher is to personalize, popularize, and humanize computer ideas so that people can feel comfortable with them. . . . The fact is that a few of us saw what was happening and we wrestled the power of LSD away from the CIA, and now the power of computers away from IBM, just as we rescued psychology away from the doctors and analysts. In every generation I’ve been part of a group of people who, like Prometheus, have wrestled with the power in order to hand it back to the individual.
- - Timothy Leary in Pataphysics Magazine, 1990.
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