Monthly Archives: May 2011
The Snow Cone Theory
The snow cone is the paradigm of contemporary products, which is to say, contemporary life. It is a substrate plus two squirts of flavoring. The snow cone has no traction between its content and its form. Flavor has become alienated … Continue reading
Posted in Political Economy
Tagged analog past, foam, futurism, mass production, orthonormal, pulp, snow cone, Stockhausen, strange loop, white noise
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Pennemun Focus
CAPTCHA’s make me anxious. I worry that I am becoming a computer. How long will it be before I consistently fail to be able to prove that I am more human than machine? According to wikipedia, CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to … Continue reading
Posted in technology
Tagged alienation, anxiety, buddhism, captcha, chaos/random, cyborg, divination, dune, oracles, quantum foam, technology, uncanny
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Thor
I went with a friend to the movie Thor last weekend. Being both students of mythology and psychology, it seemed appropriate. I wonder how an experience like Thor differs from earlier experiences of the myth. For one thing, it is less … Continue reading
