Monthly Archives: December 2020
Message virus?
What if our message were transported in the manner of a virus, were in fact that of virus? :- Doug.
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Hitching our stories to
What natural desires do people have to which our stories/messages/images might hitch themselves for a ride and expand their range? Sweetness, beauty, intoxication, control? Beauty, truth, goodness? Ecstasy: “[O]ne ecstatic, wayward pulse of life.” Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire, … Continue reading
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Bend change
We must change. We must also bend change toward good. :- Doug.
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The changeling
This all is evocative: man the changeling. It is what we are about, and we are about to change more quickly and dramatically, if science and technology advance their promise. This will not hold only good, but is wholly good. … Continue reading
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Words creating worlds
Words creating worlds: what worlds would we make? :- Doug.
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To prod into changing
Here a half step beyond the edge touched when I guessed that complexity, mixing, unfinishing, undefining, just these things make us human. Now I see a new humanity or at least quality arising: humanity the changing. And this we owe … Continue reading
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Create in their mouths
Writers are prophets—speaking forth worlds: imaginers who create in their mouths. :- Doug.
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Homo mutabilis
Homo mutabilis: How will our generations differ from us, and what can we do to encourage them? :- Doug.
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Beauty must breathe
To send a message to another, especially across centuries, we must accept it will be a changeling. Meaning like beauty must turn to breathe. :- Doug.
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What flowers us?
If the “colors and shapes of flowers are a precise record of what bees find attractive,” as Frederick Turner writes us, what do humans find attractive? Recall that a shiver and disquiet also propel us. What then? What flowers us? … Continue reading
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A tension within
There is indeed a tension within our mixedness: we needs must hold all of it, we are a wholeness, not this nor that. :- Doug.
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Mixedness
Perhaps it is our complexity makes us human, our very mixedness, our unfinishedness, our indefinability. And so do cyborg aspects in fact make us more human? :- Doug.
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Disquiet. Shiver.
To be tough on self and others, to have an edge, is bigger than worthy. Disquiet. Shiver. :- Doug.
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Now some time to reflect
Now some time to reflect and rest and find my direction for this day. :- Doug.
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