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Mat of microbes the size of Greece discovered on seafloor

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:02:10 -0700

Gargantuan whales and hefty cephalopods are typically thought of as the classic marine mammoths, but they might have to make way for the mighty microbes, which constitute 50 to 90 percent of the oceans’ total biomass, according to newly released data. These tiny creatures can join together to create some of the largest masses of life on the planet, and researchers working on the decade-long Census of Marine Life project found one such seafloor mat off the Pacific coast of South America that is roughly the size of Greece.

Trans Terra Form: Liquid Architectures And The Loss of Inscription

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:31:02 -0700

To inscribe is to write in, to place the mark of one thing within the fabric of another. Carving is the prototypical kind of inscription, though every other kind of writing partakes in this modification of one substance by another: the particles of ink lodge themselves within the roughness of the paper and will not leave without a trace. Even invisible ink enters the pores of the paper upon which secrets are trusted. Visibility itself is not a measure of inscription, modification of the substratum is. Digital writing celebrates the loss of inscription by removing the trace from acts of…

quote from High Techne - Rutsky

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:52:17 -0700

The position ofhuman beings in relation to this techno-cultural un-conscious cannot,therefore,be that ofthe analyst (or theorist) who,standing outside this space,presumes to know or control it.It must in-stead be a relation ofconnection to,ofinteraction with,that which hasbeen seen as “other,”including the unsettling processes oftechno-cultureitself.To accept this relation is to let go ofpart ofwhat it has meant to behuman,to be a human subject,and to allow ourselves to change,to mu-tate,to become alien,cyborg,posthuman.This mutant,posthuman sta-tus is not a matter ofarmoring the body,adding robotic prostheses,ortechnologically transferring consciousness from the body;it is not,inother words,a matter offortifying the boundaries ofthe subject,ofse-curing identity as a ﬁxed entity.It is rather…

The Ship Argo

Sun, 09 May 2010 12:37:00 -0700

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PKD letter to Jeff Walker regarding "Blade Runner"

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:35:00 -0700

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