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In Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology, Eric Drexler outlines what promises to be the technology of the 21st century. In a nutshell, Drexler describes how the genetic…
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When NASA’s first images of the “big blue marble,” planet Earth, hit television in 1966, the philosopher Martin Heidegger was overcome by a wave of existential nausea. “The uprooting of…
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The last 13,000 years of human history is a mere nanosecond on a geological timescale. In terms of human evolution, it represents a mere 1% of…
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In the midst of incessant technological and social upheavals, ecological disasters, and capital excess a band of modern primitives are downloading designer wetware (another term for drugs) and cataleptically conspiring…
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Contemporary technologically advanced societies appear to have actualized magic. Humans living in these cultures harness energies that were once the providence of sorcerers: they can fly, communicate instantly, cure ailments…
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Trance parties, festivals, squat-parties and ‘alternative’ cultural events’ are highly contested spaces. Aside from the invariable troubles they pick up with authorities, they are often prone to internal conflicts over…
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November 2008's Mandala Project was a massive
success, with official numbers well exceeding the 2000 mark. On the main floor,
under specially commissioned Mandala-themed banners, guest-stars Logic Bomb and
Tranan…
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Welcome to the postmodern present where reality is remixed ‘live’ to CNN theme-muzak. In a world where the real is no longer hip enough, there can be no talk of…
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Swarming insects are the defining symbols of our newly emergent global culture. Assailed by a raging sea of pictures, icons and branded coding, the humanity of the new millennium is…
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Apocalypse culture surpasses the usual sardonic postcards from the abyss such as Manson-style pop Satanism, kiddie porn, and iconic serial killers. The tipping of society's sacred cows is a time-honoured…
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