Reckon | The Whole World's a Stage

"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 want to beg of you much as I can to be patient
toward all that’s unsolved in your heart,
and learn to love the questions themselves,
like locked rooms, or like books that are
written in a very foreign tongue.

Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given you,
because you would not be able to live them,
and the point is to live everything.

Live the question now,
perhaps you will then, gradually, without noticing it,
live along some distant day into the answer.

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— Rainer Maria Rilke (via omgitsjpax) (via quote-book) (via exiledsoul) (via poetrynews) (via curate)

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”

—~ Jack Kerouac (via gatekeeper) (via spacecowboysfloat)

“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.”

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Steven Wright

Steven Wright

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“They willingly traded everything they owned…They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features…They do not bear arms and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance…They have no iron…Their spears are made of cane…They would make fine servants…With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.”

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Christopher Columbus writing in his diary upon landing in Hispaniola, from A People’s History of the United States

Fuck him.

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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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about Critics

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“Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.” — Benjamin Disraeli (British Prime Minister and Novelist. 1804-1881)

“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want. Indeed, the moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist, and becomes a dull or an amusing craftsman, an honest or dishonest tradesman. He has no further claim to be considered as an artist.” — Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man Under Socialism”

“I didn’t expect you to understand me,” he answered. “With your cold American intelligence you can only adopt the critical attitude. Emerson and all that sort of thing. But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up. You are a pedant, my dear fellow. The important thing is to construct: I am constructive; I am a poet.” — Somerset Maugham, “Of Human Bondage”

sniffed: The Fundamentals of Creative Design · By G. Ambrose and P. Harrissniffed: The Fundamentals of Creative Design · By G. Ambrose and P. Harris

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The Fundamentals of Creative Design · By G. Ambrose and P. Harris
84 “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” - George Orwell, 1984. via e-chan84 “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” - George Orwell, 1984. via e-chan

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“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
- George Orwell, 1984.

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“Unfold a street map.. place a glass, rim down any where on the map, draw around it’s edge. Pick up the map, go out into the city and walk the circle, keeping as close as you can to the curve. Record the experience as you go, in what ever medium you favour: film, photograph, manuscript, tape. Catch the textural run-off of the streets; the graffiti, the branded litter, the snatches of conversation. Cut for sign. Log the data-stream. Be alert to the happenstance of metaphors, watch for visual rhymes, coincidences, analogies, family resemblances, the changing moods of the street. Complete the circle, and the record ends. Walking makes for content: footage for footage.”

—Robert MacFarlane, A Road of One’s Own (via tsparks)
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

hdtv (via astrocruzan)

FLOWmarket. a word from the wise. (via stephmcg)FLOWmarket. a word from the wise. (via stephmcg)

FLOWmarket. a word from the wise. (via stephmcg)

“Because only when you fuck is everything that you dislike in life and everything by which you are defeated in life purely, if momentarily, revenged. Only then are you most cleanly alive and most cleanly yourself. It’s not the sex that’s the corruption - it’s the rest.”

—Philip Roth, The Dying Animal (via nightmarebrunette)
artpixie: allhailhermajesty: “Maybe the truth was, it shouldn’t be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something’s difficult to come by, you’ll do that much more to make sure it’s even harder-if not impossible-to lose.”—Along for the Ride artpixie: allhailhermajesty: “Maybe the truth was, it shouldn’t be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something’s difficult to come by, you’ll do that much more to make sure it’s even harder-if not impossible-to lose.”—Along for the Ride

artpixie:

allhailhermajesty:

“Maybe the truth was, it shouldn’t be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something’s difficult to come by, you’ll do that much more to make sure it’s even harder-if not impossible-to lose.”—Along for the Ride