I’ve been tweeting long enough (3 years) to know that there is no necessary correlation...

musings on Adorno & Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment.; crossposted from...

The digital settles in as background. We remember less and query more. Our identity play would...

As we're building out human-centered next-gen profiles for the Collaboratory, we wanted an...

I've been having a lot of fun the past few weeks fleshing out our next-gen profiles for the...

‘Matter’ becomes soft. It is the softening of matter, of ourselves, of our genes, of...

A meme to meditate about what it means to be in a tribe, to lead, to follow, or to get...

Q: How do the Amish raise a barn without money? A: Community, and the social capital that weaves it together. In my husband’s Latvian community, they have a concept similar to barnraising called “talka,” which describes collective volunteer work for the good of society and environment. Several times a year we come together at our camp...

... our children can only do as bad as we are doing, and this is the challenge we are facing - we...

The Future of Occupy project is neither about predicting nor advising the future of the movement....

This mini-paper was given at the Escapologies symposium, at Goldsmiths University, on the 5th of...

With File Sharing is the New Meditation I had a fast little thought. Now someone has made...

Minds might base cognition on 4d(space-time) representation. All conceivable things are located at...

Jeff Jonas wrote in General Purpose Sensemaking Systems and Information Colocation ... With...

The past month had the great pleasure to condense time and networks. Initially at...

Data by itself has no meaning. It fills databases. This data must be examined in order to become...

My Most Fundamental Principles by Ray Dalio In pursuing my goals I encountered realities,...

What Aesthetics dictates is the political act of infiltrating the sign; to infiltrate and to...

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds...

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving. Saves on...

“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.” Mark Twain (part 1) A number of articles these past weeks have caught my attention as I write these words, the first, coming from: The guardian: Population of world 'could grow to 15bn by 2100' (Nearly 7 billion people now inhabit planet but projections that number will double this...

I was driving through the Tenderloin the other night - one of the most socio-economically depressed areas of San Francisco. Across a long wall someone tagged "Occupy Wall Street" in big letters with a clean font and preceded by the Twitter "#" hashtag notation. It was a big, funky chorus bridging the grimy street with a...

The USA government is arrogant and proudly hangs their balls out for all to see, thinking...

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build the courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.” Brian Massumi - Introduction to A Thousand Plateaus The social aspect of the hyperconnected web carries an update to the nature of propinquity. Propinquity is a conceptual brick we need re-acquire and redefine in the era of...

Wave Riders have been with us always, usually unnoticed, or if noticed then treated as a...

Wave Riders are curious people possessed of an innate capacity to go with the flow, constantly...

Opening Space for Emerging Order. AKA barcamp, unconference. In the words of Harrison...

The science of complex systems is transforming science and its role in society. Building on the...

* Vicent Gisbert Soler - AU Erwin Olaf - Dusk Raftman's razor Worlds as...

The Science Network HIXGRID - developed by Neogrid e.V. - encourages Scientists, Knowledge Workers...

What is so peculiar, even curious in a strange sense, concerning the current events of global unrest is not the actuality of the events themselves but the fact that these events do not coalesce (as of yet that is) around a particular and immediately recognizable leader or agenda. In fact to a very large extent it could be called a non-prophet...

Sparked by a good month of #Occupy movement, people are engaged against, networking against....

We will never be able to describe the universe in a satisfactory way by mathematics. If this would...

This is a thought theory to be discussed - Think Tank and Brainstorming :-) Next Step in...

This weekend I experienced a snowcrash; a moment where the seemingly disparate pieces of information floating in my head came together. A synapse fired, a new connection was made, and I was brought to a new level of consciousness, a new way of seeing the world. In reading this over, it almost sounds obvious, but it took me a while to get here. I...

Alternatively titled: Knowmads, Knowledge and Madness “An image of thought called philosophy...

What if you were your own country? How is social media changing our national identity and concepts...

Logically it makes sense why they act like particles when observed and waves when not observed....

I've been thinking about how identity passes through ubicomp environments and the types of experiences that could occur in such a relationship. We each carry a digital ID in our smartphone. This ID is a key that grants access to voice, data, location, acceleration, and other information both in the net and in our devices. These handshakes...

I am a staunch PS advocate. Post-Scarcity is the only way forward. Recent riots in England UK...

Exploring the concept of cyber-identities, their application, evolution and necessary reformulation "Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be." Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game) There are many reasons for this essay but the main one is to emphasize why we desire, all of us humans that...

RealiTTY is a series of dense, insightful media meditations on language, information, reality,...

...or that's what they call me. i remember an early example of AUREC - aura recognition...

"Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be." Walt Whitman And what marvels we have in front of our very own eyes! Marvels of technology and science we could not have foreseen but always desired, marvels of understanding and...

infosynaesthesia & memetabiosis :: biological. neurological and physical :: science and art...

fyi ---- Unlike Us: Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives Invitation to join the network (a series of events, reader, workshops, online debates, campaigns etc.) Concept: Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures/HvA, Amsterdam) and Korinna Patelis (Cyprus University of Technology, Lemasol) Thanks to Marc...

Did you intentionally search for the things that came to be the most significant things in your...

... think about this one: the Fukushima Daiichi reactors will be a pain for some time from now...

"Modern” management is one of humanity’s most important inventions, Gary Hamel argues....