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"Civilization is entirely the product of phonetic literacy. As it dissolves with the electronic revolution, we rediscover a tribal integral awareness that manifests itself in a complete shift in our sensory lives....This new electronic environment itself constitutes an inner trip, collectively, without benefit of drugs. The impulse to use hallucinogens is a kind of empathy with the electronic environment." - Marshall McLuhan

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I believe that all people should be given the opportunity to see things the way they are. - Stanley Kubrick savingoldlitter: strepitupido: secondopiano I believe that all people should be given the opportunity to see things the way they are. I believe that all people should be given the opportunity to see things the way they are. - Stanley Kubrick savingoldlitter: strepitupido: secondopiano I believe that all people should be given the opportunity to see things the way they are.

I believe that all people should be given the opportunity to see things the way they are. - Stanley Kubrick

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“it’s important to understand that my work — even in the sense of the long-term goals that I was doing software verification as the first step towards — was not actually focused on AGI as we use the term today. Rather, as the name of my company indicates, it was focused on creating machines with enough common sense to relieve us of the tedious aspects of the human condition as we know it today, but not to rival us (let alone exceed us) in the creative sense. I’m still quite doubtful that it would, in fact, be desirable to create machines with sufficiently general intelligence to merit being considered as conscious.”

—Aubrey de Grey on “The Singularity” and “The Methuselarity”
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The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. - Marshall Mcluhan hdtv (via astrocruzan)The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. - Marshall Mcluhan hdtv (via astrocruzan)

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

- Marshall Mcluhan

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Strange Skies The Millenium Hilton is the prime address for visiting New York City’s premiere financial institutions and corporate headquarters. Walking distance to downtown’s best shopping, restaurants and cultural and historical landmarks - as well as Wall Street, Greenwich Village, SoHo, TriBeCa, and South Street Seaport. The Millenium Hilton proudly reopened in April 2003 following a total redesign & refurbishment - fully updated and technologically enhanced for the new century - including plasma TVs in guest rooms. The hotel is a high-rise black glass building which pays homage to Arthur C. Clarke’s vision of the Monolith in “2001: A Space Odyssey” - complete with canopy, flags and ornamental trees at the entrance. All guestrooms, meeting rooms and public areas offer incredible, breathtaking views of the famous New York City skyline and New York Harbor, and the property boasts one of the only hotel swimming pools in New York City. via trAvelpigStrange Skies The Millenium Hilton is the prime address for visiting New York City’s premiere financial institutions and corporate headquarters. Walking distance to downtown’s best shopping, restaurants and cultural and historical landmarks - as well as Wall Street, Greenwich Village, SoHo, TriBeCa, and South Street Seaport. The Millenium Hilton proudly reopened in April 2003 following a total redesign & refurbishment - fully updated and technologically enhanced for the new century - including plasma TVs in guest rooms. The hotel is a high-rise black glass building which pays homage to Arthur C. Clarke’s vision of the Monolith in “2001: A Space Odyssey” - complete with canopy, flags and ornamental trees at the entrance. All guestrooms, meeting rooms and public areas offer incredible, breathtaking views of the famous New York City skyline and New York Harbor, and the property boasts one of the only hotel swimming pools in New York City. via trAvelpig

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The Millenium Hilton is the prime address for visiting New York City’s premiere financial institutions and corporate headquarters. Walking distance to downtown’s best shopping, restaurants and cultural and historical landmarks - as well as Wall Street, Greenwich Village, SoHo, TriBeCa, and South Street Seaport.

The Millenium Hilton proudly reopened in April 2003 following a total redesign & refurbishment - fully updated and technologically enhanced for the new century - including plasma TVs in guest rooms.

The hotel is a high-rise black glass building which pays homage to Arthur C. Clarke’s vision of the Monolith in “2001: A Space Odyssey” - complete with canopy, flags and ornamental trees at the entrance.

All guestrooms, meeting rooms and public areas offer incredible, breathtaking views of the famous New York City skyline and New York Harbor, and the property boasts one of the only hotel swimming pools in New York City.

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The Limits of Control by William S. Burroughs
DAVIS: Mr. Dick, the world has only been getting stranger since you left us. We are surrounded with clones, identity theft, patented genes, faster-than-light particles, Aibo, and obsessive virtual gaming. Some scientist in England promises to build a chip called a “soul catcher” that will sit behind your eyeballs and record your life. Doesnt all this sound strangely familiar? DICK: Over the years it seems to me that by subtle but real degrees the world has come to resemble a PKD novel. Several freaks have even accused me of bringing on the modern world by my novels. DAVIS: How exactly would you characterize those novels? DICK: My writing deals with hallucinated worlds, intoxicating and deluding drugs, and psychosis. But my writing acts as an antidote, a detoxifying, not intoxicating, antidote. (via 21C Magazine)DAVIS: Mr. Dick, the world has only been getting stranger since you left us. We are surrounded with clones, identity theft, patented genes, faster-than-light particles, Aibo, and obsessive virtual gaming. Some scientist in England promises to build a chip called a “soul catcher” that will sit behind your eyeballs and record your life. Doesnt all this sound strangely familiar? DICK: Over the years it seems to me that by subtle but real degrees the world has come to resemble a PKD novel. Several freaks have even accused me of bringing on the modern world by my novels. DAVIS: How exactly would you characterize those novels? DICK: My writing deals with hallucinated worlds, intoxicating and deluding drugs, and psychosis. But my writing acts as an antidote, a detoxifying, not intoxicating, antidote. (via 21C Magazine)

DAVIS: Mr. Dick, the world has only been getting stranger since you left us. We are surrounded with clones, identity theft, patented genes, faster-than-light particles, Aibo, and obsessive virtual gaming. Some scientist in England promises to build a chip called a “soul catcher” that will sit behind your eyeballs and record your life. Doesnt all this sound strangely familiar?

DICK: Over the years it seems to me that by subtle but real degrees the world has come to resemble a PKD novel. Several freaks have even accused me of bringing on the modern world by my novels.

DAVIS: How exactly would you characterize those novels?

DICK: My writing deals with hallucinated worlds, intoxicating and deluding drugs, and psychosis. But my writing acts as an antidote, a detoxifying, not intoxicating, antidote.

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“There’s an old saying that rich people see their servants as “part of the furniture” and it would seem that Kubrick has taken this phrase and manifested it in the Shining’s visual theme structure. The affluent guests of the Overlook (America) see the hotel servants and workers as objects, existing merely for their own pleasure and comfort. Unknown to them these pieces of furniture are living, breathing people with real emotions and a life of their own. The independent movements of these servants is forever destined to haunt the conscience of their masters, bringing unpleasant disruptions to the illusion of ruling class paradise.”

—Mazes, Mirrors, Deception and Denial
J.G. Ballard - The Atrocity Exhibition sympathyfortheartgallery: via savingoldlitter RIP. After reading an interview with him in the Guardian some months ago I can only aspire to become more like him. Some people have that effect on me. He did. Oh, and this one on the wishlist. J.G. Ballard - The Atrocity Exhibition sympathyfortheartgallery: via savingoldlitter RIP. After reading an interview with him in the Guardian some months ago I can only aspire to become more like him. Some people have that effect on me. He did. Oh, and this one on the wishlist.
J.G. Ballard - The Atrocity Exhibition

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RIP. After reading an interview with him in the Guardian some months ago I can only aspire to become more like him. Some people have that effect on me. He did.

Oh, and this one on the wishlist.

“What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance. And that beliefs should be put aside, and that a psychedelic society would abandon belief systems [in favor of] direct experience and this is, I think much, of the problem of the modern dilemma, is that direct experience has been discounted and in its place all kind of belief systems have been erected… If you believe something, you’re automatically precluded from believing in the opposite, which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of this belief.”

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Interesting.

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“In these very rare cases the patient imagines that everything happening around him is a veiled reference to his personality and existence. He excludes real people from the conspiracy - because he considers himself to be so much more intelligent than other men. Phenomenal nature shadows him wherever he goes. Clouds in the staring sky transmit to one another, by means of slow signs, incredibly detailed information regarding him. His inmost thoughts are discussed at nightfall, in manual alphabet, by darkly gesticulating trees. Pebbles or stains or sun flecks form patterns representing in some awful way messages which he must intercept. Everything is a cipher and of everything he is the theme. Some of the spies are detached observers, such as glass surfaces and still pools; others, such as coats in store windows, are prejudiced witnesses, lynchers at heart; others again (running water, storms) are hysterical to the point of insanity, have a distorted opinion of him and grotesquely misinterpret his actions. He must be always on his guard and devote every minute and module of life to the decoding of the undulation of things. The very air he exhales is indexed and filed away.”

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Riazm (of No Correlation and these amazing photos) posted this quote from Vladimir Nabokov’s “Signs and Symbols.”

Nabokov was such a talented stylist it’s almost hard to bear; I could read this over and over. The “…darkly gesticulating trees,” the composition of the “awful messages” from nature, the world as cipher coding a message for oneself, the glass and the coats-as-lynchers: this whole passage ought to be required reading for students of psychosis, fear, and/or literature.

“He must…devote every minute and module of life to the decoding of the undulation of things.”

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