Author: m1k3y

Transmission #4 of the Cosmic Anthropology Broadcast System: The Team Machine Chat Prologue

SHOW NOTES RELATED EPISODES Transmission #1 of the Cosmic Anthropology Broadcast System – the Neanderthal Pride ep Mad Max trilogy posts: Mad Max: Fury Road and the pre Jackpot Years Mad Max : Fury Road – Review MAD MAX GROUND ZERO Fortitude Review [Daily Grail]   Dark Extropian Musings [Patreon]   WORKS MENTIONED: 12 Monkeys (tv show) […]

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The technological construct of identity and the social construct of identity are different and have different implied social contracts. The social construct of identity includes the property of imperfect human memory that allows the possibility of forgiving and forgetting, and redemption and reinvention. Machine memory, however, is perfect and can act as a continuous witnessing agent, never forgiving or forgetting, and always able to re-presence even the smallest detail at any future moment.

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WHY EFFORTS TO RESURRECT THE MAMMOTH WILL NOT ONLY SAVE THE ELEPHANTS, BUT ALSO GUARANTEE THE CONTINUED SURVIVAL AND EXPANSION OF THE HUMAN RACE

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WHY EFFORTS TO RESURRECT THE MAMMOTH WILL NOT ONLY SAVE THE ELEPHANTS, BUT ALSO GUARANTEE THE CONTINUED SURVIVAL AND EXPANSION OF THE HUMAN RACE

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We live in times so strange that to say “we live in strange times” has moved beyond the facile, through irony, and deep into boring. We live in times so strange that to state otherwise would be strange. This has the faint air of paradox about it, a nagging intuition that whatever models we come up with the explain the world, reality is constantly slipping out from under them, like we’re trying to pick up mercury. And like trying to catch mercury, the process carries the distinct possibility of at least driving us mad, if not killing us outright.
Philosophy feels, to someone like me who’s more of a hobbyist than a professional in the field, like it’s reached some kind of dead-end. Derrida has written himself under erasure, Deleuze and Guattari have built incredible landscapes which we are still exposing, but as fascinating as they are, it feels like navigating within the frame, rather than pushing the boundaries of the possible. Philosophy doesn’t feel like an exploration anymore, it feels like a tunneling under the boundaries of reality, to try to escape some weird jail sentence. The rhizome tries to undermine the walls of the black iron prison, but we spend most of out time mapping ever more convoluted tunnels, and every time we come up for air, they’ve built a new wing.

her: that’s fucking bleak
me: it’s ok if it’s bleak, it’s only the second paragraph
me: hope arrives later in the form of OOO
me: IN A WORLD… WHERE ONTOLOGY HAS FAILED
me: alternatively, WHERE WE’RE GOING, WE DON’T NEED ONTOLOGY!

I try to spend my time on the outer borders of philosophical awareness. It’s a prerequisite for being a Sci-Fi writer, you go out into the Zone and bring back radioactive trinkets for the village. This happens on a number of levels, but one of them is recognizing that the only difference between the Fringe and the Now is whether the growth gets pruned back or becomes the new center. So I’m always on the lookout for philosophical inquiries that promise a genuine new direction. Timothy Morton’s Hyperobjects is the most promising of these I’ve seen in years.

READ ON : Fractal Interpolation 016: Hyperobjects Book Report
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Selection from my Mad Max – Fury Road review

This is the overall message George Miller brings us after a thirty year hiatus between Mad Max films: the apocalypse is not necessarily the end. No extinction event has ever been total. Humanity has neared the brink of annihilation before and rebounded. The cycle of history will always continue, but the key to avoiding another Fall involves dismantling the dominant paradigm; the Patriarchy. An incredibly liberal and feminine idea to find in what might otherwise be expected to be a purely testosterone-filled film. Again, to contrast this against the Fast & Furious films, which talk a lot about family, but are foremost about the bonds of brotherhood. Miller offers up an act of synthesis here, uniting the feminine and masculine aspects. Creating a piece of culture that serves as a landmark to chart a better way forward. The fact that it has evoked such a strong, visceral response from certain segments of the population tells us just how its much needed. For the rest of us it’s a visual feast with a message to be treasured, and a litmus test to identify fellow travellers.

I celebrate George Miller’s vision in weaving together such a compelling film that works so well on two levels, where others would have stopped at storyboarding and choreographing its amazing, complex, compelling action sequences. Mad Max: Fury Road is already being called a masterpiece with good reason.

Review: Mad Max – Fury Road | The Daily Grail

since wolvensnothere already helpfully posted the non spoiler intro, here’s the non spoiler conclusion to my review of Mad Max : Fury Road.

SO MANY SPOILERS IN BETWEEN THOUGH, SO READ THIS AFTER YOU’VE SEEN IT. THEN GO SEE IT AGAIN. THAT’S MY PLAN FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE.

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Review: Mad Max – Fury Road | The Daily Grail

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In which m1k3y says many of the words I want to say about this film. Spoilers at the link, after the first three paragraphs or so.

Review: Mad Max – Fury Road | The Daily Grail

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“What if aliens also have some fundamental social construct we don’t?”

azzandra: Whenever I see a post on tumblr suggesting aliens don’t have gender, I always think–‘but what if also the reverse. What if aliens also have some fundamental social construct we don’t’. Like, they come and meet us and they’re like ‘hey this is an awkward question but what’s your gooblebygark?’ And we’re like what. ‘You […]

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easily the best part of INFINI.

this little indie aussie sf deservedly has a 5.4 rating on IMDB, but is totally watchable, unlike his previous effort, Gabriel, and for Cyclonopedia fans… a must-see.

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That’s a radome.  They started popping up in Britain in the 1950s, and by the Seventies were prime Weird Britain landmarks.  Always in bleak, remote places, always looking like bubbles of eerie retro science-fiction dropped on the landscape.  They’re used for radio intelligence gathering.  Rovers from THE PRISONER, paused on the moorland and sniffing the air for microwaves.

– W

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