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culture

The Hard Facts of Cultural Selfies

Instagram does not only generate dissatisfaction, it thrives on it.

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culture

Minority Report

It requires humility to acknowledge that your own ostensibly unique personality, conceptual vocabulary and social self-expression might be little more than a contingent recombinatory node of meaning in a dancing landscape of shifting patterns, linguistic fields, meanings and concepts.

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Alien Anthropology

An Unconscious Narrative

Unconscious and unacknowledged, the true power of narrative lies in the self-propagating autonomy it expresses – above and beyond any putative human control. We do not own the stories and meanings through which we live so much as they own us but an essential dissimulation of reflexive psychological self-definition endlessly fails, and is foundationally unable, to recognise this fallacy.

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culture

United Nations of Emptiness

The only way that systemic unity can exist is, enigmatically, by not existing.

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Alien Anthropology

Human Intelligence 2.0

A characteristically long and wordy waffle on the topic of human intelligence, the cognitive hyper-extension of technology, an iterative fracture of grand narrative into abbreviated artefacts, unconscious biases and a Global turn towards authoritarianism.

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Philosophy

Darkness and Light

There is darkness and there is light in every life.

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Philosophy

Own your own emptiness

We are all empty, don’t let the shambling leviathan of commercial culture make you feel less than you are, feel worthless or unvalued and unloved.

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Alien Anthropology

Fear of the Dark

Afraid of the Darkness that the Other and the Unknown represent, we inscribe this upon ourselves, into ourselves.

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Alien Anthropology

Self-Replication

Self-replication. Surely this is what life is all about.

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Digital

On the Presence of Absence

Sometimes the most profound truths (or at the very least – facts) emerge not from what does exist, but from what does not.

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Philosophy

Death

Death. Life. Mortality. Absence. Emptiness.

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Alien Anthropology

Lend me your ears…

No one is listening.