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Art as Encoded Message

Information encoding for message transmission is a function expressed in (and as) visual culture and which evolves over time.

Tags art, artefact, creativity, culture, images, information, logic, material culture, pattern, recursion, self-replication, symmetry, visual culture

Alien Anthropology

Most of that which is “you” may not actually be you at all. What is original about you is the choices you make concerning the reconfiguration of preexisting things, concepts, objects, words, idioms and methods of self-expression.

Tags buddhism, culture, emptiness, logic, Philosophy, Psychology, self, zen

culture

A World at War with Itself

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Post date Jun 8, 2019
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At the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, it is a good time to reflect upon where we are all going as a civilisation and what we might plausibly achieve to inhibit, interdict or halt the possibility of any similar global catastrophes from ever occurring again.

Tags 1944, authoritarian, catastrophe, Civil War, civilisation, civilization, D-Day, fact, fear, future, hate, history, hope, ideology, information, Invasion, logic, Normandy, Peace, politics, populism, populist, Psychology, regime, truth, war, World War, WW2

logic Philosophy physics

A Boundless Cosmos

For a Universe to have spontaneously emerged from nothing may be an alternate view on the the same fact as that it has always existed. It is not the logic which fails so much as the implicit (or apparent) boundaries of our own minds.

Tags big bang, Complexity, cosmology, cosmos, emptiness, enigma, facts, infinity, information, life, logic, meaning, mystery, nothing, paradox, physics, purpose, recursion, truth, Universe, void

Alien Anthropology

Premonition of Civil War

The underlying momentum of evolving material logics, symmetries and information systems seem already oriented towards incurring dissonance, difference and entropy as an autonomous method through which their own accelerated logical metamorphosis self-propagates.

Tags America, China, civilisation, civilization, Complexity, conflict, culture, emergence, entropy, humanity, information, internet, logic, premonition, Russia, technology, United States, USA, war

culture

Idioms of Absence

An epigenetic self-replication of the spiritual void, manifest as cultural entities in the contemporary Chinese art of Mi Qiaoming.

Tags art, artist, Buddha, buddhism, China, chinese, culture, emptiness, icon, information, masterpiece, Mi Qiaoming, painting, void

culture

Cosmic Self-Discovery and Barbie Dolls

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Post date Jun 7, 2019
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In this painting of the “human Barbie doll”, Swiss artist Stefania Pinsone reflects the self-conscious self-replication of culture, self and art itself. The painting is titled “Valeria Lukyanova (white noise)”.

Tags art, Barbie, culture, entropy, information, painting, recursion, self-replication, Stefania Pinsone, Swiss, Switzerland, Valeria Lukyanova, white noise

Philosophy

Succeeding “against the odds” ?

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Post date Jun 7, 2019
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Do we make our own luck or does luck and the blind power of statistical necessity make us?

Tags adversity, banksy, carpe diem, carpediem, entropy, improvisation, information, life, luck, lucky, odds, opportunity, random, resilience, seize the day, statistics, success

Philosophy

Hollow Wisdom and Love

Do we fall in love with a person or do we fall in love with the idea of a person? We can never ever really get inside someone else’s head, experience the world as they do and through their eyes, so we are surely only ever as much in love with who we think that […]