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email@hidden (Raul Guerra) — Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:02:41 -0500

"Good-bye Blue Sky"
Mobius,
professional ~~boxer, winning~~ boxer with three world titles in three different categories.
With all these recent events, everyone is talking politics. Opinion is divided on whether Zelaya will return as president or not. One opinion that seems to be shared, however, is the US' participation in the coup. Many believe that this had been planned and organized by the US military due to the ALBA's increasing power. I don't think that possibility is too farfetched.
between ~~many countries~~ Nicaragua and ~~Nicaragua.~~ many countries. Since we are not as economically strong as Venezuela, Nicaragua relies on the financial and technical aid from countries that Ortega doesn't seem to appreciate. Our President has done a great job with increasing literacy, protecting the environment, and maintaining the roads (they're awesome), but fails to see the inevitability of globalization. (I would bet a Cordoba or two that he doesn't know how to use the internet. He probably thinks that being On-line is the hip way of saying that one is on coke).
Back to Honduras, I have noticed how the police has moved north to "protect" the borders. When I first arrived here, the coppers were on every corner, so that they could collect "las navidades" (the christmas pay) or "la mordida" (the bite %5Bof the wallet%5D). Now the streets are empty, and my transportation expenses have diminished, finding myself with an extra 100-cord bill ($5).
I hope that this global re-alignment doesn't mean war. In times of hunger and crisis people might pick up arms for food and money.

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email@hidden (Raul Guerra) — Fri, 3 Jul 2009 11:59:00 -0500

Rich
P.S. If you think it would be appropriate, please let us have a dialogue on this matters as citizens of our two countries and reproduce it on the wiki. It may add in some small way to the participation of all of us in this emerging global consciousness that respects individuals, cultures and nations, but integrates them into a larger planetary framework for optimal and "inexorable evolution"( Buckminster Fuller).
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"Good-bye Blue Sky"
Mobius,
As you may or may not have heard, the mayor of Managua shot himself in the heart on the account of "too much pressure". Rumors have it that he was trying to resign and Ortega wouldn't let him. More than a politician (and some people would argue that everyone is more than a politician), Alexis Arguello was professional boxer, winning three world titles in three different categories.
With all these recent events, everyone is talking politics. Opinion is divided on whether Zelaya will return as president or not. One opinion that seems to be shared, however, is the US' participation in the coup. Many believe that this had been planned and organized by the US military due to the ALBA's increasing power. I don't think that possibility is too farfetched.
Truthfully, I am relieved that one less leftist leader is in power. Zelaya, who's every other word was "democracy" during his address last night, is being charged with 18 crimes and drug-dealing possibly being the 19th. I love Nicaragua and do not wish its people to suffer from the greed of a power-mongering puppet-master (Chavez). He might be doing a good job with protecting the culture of Latinamerica but has, indirectly, caused the loss of diplomatic relations between many countries and Nicaragua. Since we are not as economically strong as Venezuela, Nicaragua relies on the financial and technical aid from countries that Ortega doesn't seem to appreciate. Our President has done a great job with increasing literacy, protecting the environment, and maintaining the roads (they're awesome), but fails to see the inevitability of globalization. (I would bet a Cordoba or two that he doesn't know how to use the internet. He probably thinks that being On-line is the hip way of saying that one is on coke).
Back to Honduras, I have noticed how the police has moved north to "protect" the borders. When I first arrived here, the coppers were on every corner, so that they could collect "las navidades" (the christmas pay) or "la mordida" (the bite %5Bof the wallet%5D). Now the streets are empty, and my transportation expenses have diminished, finding myself with an extra 100-cord bill ($5).
I hope that this global re-alignment doesn't mean war. In times of hunger and crisis people might pick up arms for food and money.
"Did-did-did-did-you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter
When the promise of a brave new world
Unfurled beneath a clear blue sky?"
I have a strong belief that good will eventually come out from this, and probably everyone who lingers in this corner of the internet is a bearer of light.
Raul Guerra
PS. everything is great with the family and I hope the same for yours. I spent most of yesterday here and was feeling completely purified until I hurt my eye playing tennis--too much top-spin and my back-hand is sub par. :)
Mobius: Is "Tao" another word for "evolution" or is it the "evolution" of the Tao?
mobius, ever reflecting on the nature of nature's reflection back unto itself, doth once again ponder the peacock feather. Might something "higher" - more abstract and yes Mysterious, less resolveable into ordinary space/time and experience, provocative of uncertainty and even visions - be relayed by the "tiger tiger burning bright" of sexually selective traits? Thermodynamics suggests to mobius that this is so, so does this little ditty, sung to the tune of " A Few of my favorite things", via Coltrane, until it is not:

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mobius: My Letter to a Nicaraguan Friend
Raul,

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Thus Wiki'd Mobius
and Often Babbling Cauldron of Pathologically Optimistic Wikidelic Discourse, slow driven low and mad like some new language. Prepare for a journey beyond death, the most heavily guarded Fnord road in the world, dubbed by Factualist Certified Wikipedia "confused technobabble", "bizarre (possibly nonsense)"...
Refreshing your RealityTunnel with involutionary CreativeDestruction Since At Least 2006
...mobius@psu.edu
Love health and best wishes to all your projects and your family.
Rich
and ~~%5Breproduce~~ reproduce it on the wiki. It may add in some small way to the participation of all of us in this emerging global consciousness that respects individuals, cultures and nations, but integrates them into a larger planetary framework for optimal and "inexorable evolution"( Buckminster Fuller).
Mobius: Is "Tao" another word for "evolution" or is it the "evolution" of the Tao?
mobius, ever reflecting on the nature of nature's reflection back unto itself, doth once again ponder the peacock feather. Might something "higher" - more abstract and yes Mysterious, less resolveable into ordinary space/time and experience, provocative of uncertainty and even visions - be relayed by the "tiger tiger burning bright" of sexually selective traits? Thermodynamics suggests to mobius that this is so, so does this little ditty, sung to the tune of " A Few of my favorite things", via Coltrane, until it is not:

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mobius: My Letter to a Nicaraguan Friend
Raul,
I was very sorry to read about the events in Honduras. I noticed that the military needed to fly past Nicaragua to Costa Rica...It is good, though, to see that world opinion is united behind the forces of democracy. Both Bushes, of course, sullied this language of encouraging democracy abroad in name only while stifling it at home , and Reagan did the same through the interventions in Nicaragua in the name of "democracy" and launching intelligence operations against US organizations and citizens involved in Central America ( Cf. The FBI operations on CISPEs.) Indeed, this seems to be what the rhetoric of democracy has been about most of the time. But there can be no doubt about Obama's response, and I suspect that as with Peru, we are seeing a re-calibration of the US role as a forceful team player in the region. I think some amazing things are on the horizon "if", to quote Pink Floyd out of context, "we all pull together as a team" :) If the recent past is a guide, Obama will move to ramp up pressure as suppression is used by the military. The coming months should be very interesting in Iran as well, as the opposition falls back but the "victorious" regime wonders what it is going to do. I pray for the continued calm strength of Nicaragua in the midst of this global re-allignment to which both of our countries seem key.
Love health and best wishes to all your projects and your family.
Rich
P.S. If you think it would be appropriate, please let us have a dialogue on this matters as citizens of our two countries and %5Breproduce it on the wiki. It may add in some small way to the participation of all of us in this emerging global consciousness that respects individuals, cultures and nations, but integrates them into a larger planetary framework for optimal and "inexorable evolution"( Buckminster Fuller).
Mobius: Is "Tao" another word for "evolution" or is it the "evolution" of the Tao?
mobius, ever reflecting on the nature of nature's reflection back unto itself, doth once again ponder the peacock feather. Might something "higher" - more abstract and yes Mysterious, less resolveable into ordinary space/time and experience, provocative of uncertainty and even visions - be relayed by the "tiger tiger burning bright" of sexually selective traits? Thermodynamics suggests to mobius that this is so, so does this little ditty, sung to the tune of " A Few of my favorite things", via Coltrane, until it is not:

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email@hidden (blueshenlung) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:55:29 -0500

Growing the Galactic Noosphere backward and forward.
A new take on the Resurrection
Personalizing the web even more, one "zing"at a time.

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tuned toward Tao, mais oui
and right now it's language is French!?"
~~CUE RANDOM jOHN ZORN TRACK HERE~~
A CHAPTER FROM THE HUNG LIEH CHUAN,
Of the Tao: "it enriches vegetation with moisture, and permeates stones and metals; it causes the growth of birds and beasts, giving to the one rich and glossy fur, to the other abundant plumage, and horns to the antlered stag. The ftus of no animal fails of maturity, nor is the egg of any bird addled before it is hatched. The father has not to mourn the death of his son, nor the elder brother that of the younger; the lad is not left an orphan, nor the wife a widow. Rain-clouds and the rainbow never appear, nor do stars of evil omen pass across the sky. Such are the effects of secret or inherent Virtue. "

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TrackO'TheDay
Mobius: Is "Tao" another word for "evolution" or is it the "evolution" of the Tao?
mobius, ever reflecting on the nature of nature's reflection back unto itself, doth once again ponder the peacock feather. Might something "higher" - more abstract and yes Mysterious, less resolveable into ordinary space/time and experience, provocative of uncertainty and even visions - be relayed by the "tiger tiger burning bright" of sexually selective traits? Thermodynamics suggests to mobius that this is so, so does this little ditty, sung to the tune of " A Few of my favorite things", via Coltrane, until it is not:
Birdsong and language,
and bowerbird condos
latest new dances and endless dance combos
Call it "tantra"
and its yantra
is it girl yin and boy yang?!
Is the dowry
tuned toward Tao, mais oui
and right now it's language is French!?"
CUE RANDOM jOHN ZORN TRACK HERE
A CHAPTER FROM THE HUNG LIEH CHUAN,
Of the Tao: "it enriches vegetation with moisture, and permeates stones and metals; it causes the growth of birds and beasts, giving to the one rich and glossy fur, to the other abundant plumage, and horns to the antlered stag. The ftus of no animal fails of maturity, nor is the egg of any bird addled before it is hatched. The father has not to mourn the death of his son, nor the elder brother that of the younger; the lad is not left an orphan, nor the wife a widow. Rain-clouds and the rainbow never appear, nor do stars of evil omen pass across the sky. Such are the effects of secret or inherent Virtue. "
Ringity ring, tweety tweet tweet, mobius hears the noosphere callin'. No stallin'!
Ringtone is the sound of one crowd advancin', enhancin'

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6/25/09
The Three I AM Love
shock ~~stroms~~ storms the flock
Quivering pulsar flaps expelled
Cosmic force radiates without release!

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Tantric shock stroms the flock
Quivering pulsar flaps expelled
Cosmic force radiates without release!
In your realized potential I take refuge
In your breath I take refuge
In your brotherhood I take refuge
I wish to serve only you, my Beloved.
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callin'. ~~The ringtone~~ No stallin'!
Ringtone is the sound of one crowd advancin', enhancin'
those
Chants,Democratic
Ecstatic
~~Hey~~Hey, Broadcast Media:
It's all ~~Shiva~~ Shiva, Neda
Allah is yes One
Hail Mary and Check my Buddha Belly
Button
Suppress the noosphere
be ~~undone~~ undone.
mobius: "A Victory in Peru!"
Stay tuned for continuous noopsheric vigilance, but thanks to Nicaragua's help and global outcry over the military operation against 30,000 unarmed indigenous protesters, Peru's government "is set to send a bill to Congress revoking land laws that led to deadly clashes between the police and indigenous protestors in the Amazon."

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TrackO'TheDay
Ringity ring, tweety tweet tweet, mobius hears the noosphere callin'. The ringtone is the sound of one crowd advancin', enhancin'
those
Chants,Democratic
Ecstatic
Hey Broadcast Media:
It's all Shiva
Allah is yes One
Suppress the noosphere
and yins will be undone
mobius: "A Victory in Peru!"
Stay tuned for continuous noopsheric vigilance, but thanks to Nicaragua's help and global outcry over the military operation against 30,000 unarmed indigenous protesters, Peru's government "is set to send a bill to Congress revoking land laws that led to deadly clashes between the police and indigenous protestors in the Amazon."

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mobius: A "A Victory in ~~Peru!~~ Peru!"
Stay tuned for ~~continous~~ continuous noopsheric vigilance, but thanks to Nicaragua's help and global outcry over the military operation against 30,000 unarmed indigenous protesters, Peru's government "is set to send a bill to Congress revoking land laws that led to deadly clashes between the police and indigenous protestors in the Amazon."
mobius: "No Time for Poutin', Local Trees R Sproutin'!"
All praise to the plant intelligence that is 99 percent of the biomass of this here Blue Liquid Orb of Our Ancestors. Praise Jah, praise the bhang lovin' Shiva, the musical bandwidth of the noosphere hath sprouted Local Trees, a holy plant infused hip hop of planetary noospheric righteousness. Burn "Elephants Dance Corridors" to your hard disk, there ain't no risk, this crew catches plant beats like Carlton Fisk! These Trees are Local but yes Glocal: illuminatin', the noosphere is translatin' holy rhymes for our times, so no more hesitatin'!

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mobius: A Victory in Peru!
~~Thanks~~Stay tuned for continous noopsheric vigilance, but thanks to Nicaragua's help and global outcry over the military operation against 30,000 unarmed indigenous protesters, Peru's government "is set to send a bill to Congress revoking land laws that led to deadly clashes between the police and indigenous protestors in the Amazon."
mobius: "No Time for Poutin', Local Trees R Sproutin'!"
All praise to the plant intelligence that is 99 percent of the biomass of this here Blue Liquid Orb of Our Ancestors. Praise Jah, praise the bhang lovin' Shiva, the musical bandwidth of the noosphere hath sprouted Local Trees, a holy plant infused hip hop of planetary noospheric righteousness. Burn "Elephants Dance Corridors" to your hard disk, there ain't no risk, this crew catches plant beats like Carlton Fisk! These Trees are Local but yes Glocal: illuminatin', the noosphere is translatin' holy rhymes for our times, so no more hesitatin'!

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mobius: A Victory in Peru!
Thanks to Nicaragua's help and global outcry over the military operation against 30,000 unarmed indigenous protesters, Peru's government "is set to send a bill to Congress revoking land laws that led to deadly clashes between the police and indigenous protestors in the Amazon."
mobius: "No Time for Poutin', Local Trees R Sproutin'!"
All praise to the plant intelligence that is 99 percent of the biomass of this here Blue Liquid Orb of Our Ancestors. Praise Jah, praise the bhang lovin' Shiva, the musical bandwidth of the noosphere hath sprouted Local Trees, a holy plant infused hip hop of planetary noospheric righteousness. Burn "Elephants Dance Corridors" to your hard disk, there ain't no risk, this crew catches plant beats like Carlton Fisk! These Trees are Local but yes Glocal: illuminatin', the noosphere is translatin' holy rhymes for our times, so no more hesitatin'!
mobius: "Just Say No to the Fossilfuelosphere!" An Indian Massacre for Oil
feedback ~~loopswork~~ loops work better than negativity feedback loops as we ~~work~~ strive daily toward ~~boostrapping~~ bootstrapping the planet into ~~sustainability.~~ sustainable collectively indiviudated awareness. But good and evil, as expected, keep up their incessant ~~to-ing~~ to-in' and ~~fro-ing,~~ fro-in', and right now mobius weeps for the indigenous people of Peru who have been massacred in military operations designed to remove all obstacles to unfettered fossil fuel development. Independent observers report that the army is hiding the bodies from the massacre of at least 30 Peruvian Indians who had been protesting to block fossil fuel development on their territories. Let us shine a light on them, direct from the noosphere: There is a direct causal link between fossil fuel depletion and this massacre. Get on your bike, walk, get on the bus, Gus: don't drive until Peruvian President Alan Garcia stops the war against indigenous land rights. Watch the video below if you want to see what goes into filling your gas tank.
mobius: "Wiki is the Medium is the Message Wiki'd"
Richard Doyle, The Wiki is the Medium is the Message

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~~Just~~mobius: "Just Say No to the ~~Fossilfuelosphere!~~ Fossilfuelosphere!" An Indian Massacre for Oil
Now friends, mobius tries to keep it positive as we hurtle toward the green ~~buddha~~ Buddha future of inexorable evolution, if only because positivity feedback ~~loops are to be preferred to~~ loopswork better than negativity feedback loops as we work daily toward boostrapping the planet into sustainability. But ~~yin~~ good and ~~yang,~~ evil, as expected, keep up their incessant to-ing and fro-ing, and right now mobius weeps for the indigenous people of Peru who have been massacred in military operations designed to remove all obstacles to unfettered fossil fuel development. Independent observers report that the army is hiding the bodies from the massacre of at least 30 Peruvian ~~Indians.~~ Indians who had been protesting to block fossil fuel development on their territories. Let us shine a light on them, direct from the noosphere: There is a direct causal link between fossil fuel depletion and this massacre. Get on your bike, walk, get on the bus, Gus: don't drive until Peruvian President Alan Garcia stops the war against indigenous land rights. Watch the video below if you want to see what goes into filling your gas tank.
mobius: "Wiki is the Medium is the Message Wiki'd"
Richard Doyle, The Wiki is the Medium is the Message

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Just Say No to the Fossilfuelosphere! An Indian Massacre for Oil
Let us shine a light on them, direct from the noosphere: There is a direct causal link between fossil fuel depletion and this massacre. Get on your bike, walk, get on the ~~bus~~ bus, Gus: don't drive until Peruvian President Alan Garcia stops the war against indigenous land rights. Watch the video below if you want to see what goes into filling your gas tank.
mobius: "Wiki is the Medium is the Message Wiki'd"
Richard Doyle, The Wiki is the Medium is the Message

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TrackO'TheDay
Just Say No to the Fossilfuelosphere! An Indian Massacre for Oil
Now friends, mobius tries to keep it positive as we hurtle toward the green buddha future of inexorable evolution, if only because positivity feedback loops are to be preferred to negativity feedback loops as we work daily toward boostrapping the planet into sustainability. But yin and yang, as expected, keep up their incessant to-ing and fro-ing, and right now mobius weeps for the indigenous people of Peru who have been massacred in military operations designed to remove all obstacles to unfettered fossil fuel development. Independent observers report that the army is hiding the bodies from the massacre of at least 30 Peruvian Indians. Let shine a light on them, direct from the noosphere: There is a direct causal link between fossil fuel depletion and this massacre. Get on your bike, walk, get on the bus Gus: don't drive until Peruvian President Alan Garcia stops the war against indigenous land rights. Watch the video below if you want to see what goes into filling your gas tank.
mobius: "Wiki is the Medium is the Message Wiki'd"
Richard Doyle, The Wiki is the Medium is the Message

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9 june 2009
Hal Foster, from the Village Voice:
"Postmodernism doesn't signal the closure of modernism as much as its complication, and it can do so for other periods too. That is, it can be used to deperiodize other periods, to open them up to uneven developments of many sorts (it is therefore less a chronological term than a computer virus in the history mainframe)."
This struck as particularly Burroughsian, and also elucidated why post-modernism is procedurally liberal. Not only is it making Harold Bloom tear out his hair regarding slam poetry, but its also capable of going back and rearranging/reimagining the past. Here, the solidity of tradition is from two directions, and once you've ceded the past and the future, the present isn't far behind.
31 may 2009
i think this summer has been the most exciting and challenging i can recall. because my hours at work have gone down with less business, i have tons, oodles even, of "free" time on my hands compared to the school year. why the scare quotes? because all this time, i want to use it well. for doing things that i believe will make me well-adjusted in various ways. what i did not envision back in the spring as i dreamed all my summer dreams was that this change in the unfolding of time would be much more tumultuous than the school year or any previous summer breaks. since i've always spent may through august working all the time, the pace of the school continued more or less unabated. what this past month has done unlike any other extended period i can recall, is change the pace in which my life was lived for more the greater part of a decade. just the pace. i'm still spending my time doing the same things, just longer and with more attention. but what a difference.what makes all of this mildly scaring (in a fruitful way) is with so much time, that even when not meditating, my nature is quieted and thus more permeable somehow. i've walked down the same streets all year, and noticed new things every day in the past month. how had i been missing this?

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Psychoanalytic Dispatches
I:The Ghost of Freud
continued ~~this~~ Freud's final line of inquiry regarding the nature of civilization. Instead, psychology reduced itself (its scope and approach) to a functional or medical apparatus: diagnose & cure. This transition was impossible while the field still recognized Freud's metapsychological thesis: that civilization itself requires a repression of individual instincts before it can proceed. If we are all sick and necessarily so, psychology cannot justify its paradigm of illness & remedy. And so it exorcized its demons and designated these problems the work of philosophy, refashioning itself as a "real" science with a desperate obsessiveness that reveals its base insecurities with every insistance at its legitimacy. And in the process, psychology sold out: it dropped the serious (and difficult) work it could have done in exchange for an academic and societal status that is always necessarily in danger of disintegrating.
This process, in a beautifully ironic turn, requires the field to repress the memory of Freud, at once paying brief lip-service ("Of course Freud was the father of psychology") and simultaneously attempting to aggressively humiliate him with a parade of his worst ideas. We are right to be critical of Freud, but the consistency, tone, and attitude with which he is attacked in modern academic departments might be driven by more interesting motives: an embarrassment that where the father sought and may have failed, the children fear to go. All this, of course, assumes that he is still read and not simply rejected through a hereditary line of graduate seminar Powerpoint slides.
And so now, the only responsible psychology (that which risks itself), when it occurs, takes place in philosophy departments, where the pursuit of scientific respectability doesn't restrict which lines of inquiry are allowed to proceed.

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Psychoanalytic Dispatches
I:The Ghost of Freud
Modern psychology had to abandon Freud's metapsychology (the sociological & political import of his late work) because, at base, it constituted a critique of Enlightenment values. Psychology could not develop itself into a "proper science" while it continued this Freud's final line of inquiry regarding the nature of civilization. Instead, psychology reduced itself (its scope and approach) to a functional or medical apparatus: diagnose & cure. This transition was impossible while the field still recognized Freud's metapsychological thesis: that civilization itself requires a repression of individual instincts before it can proceed. If we are all sick and necessarily so, psychology cannot justify its paradigm of illness & remedy. And so it exorcized its demons and designated these problems the work of philosophy, refashioning itself as a "real" science with a desperate obsessiveness that reveals its base insecurities with every insistance at its legitimacy. And in the process, psychology sold out: it dropped the serious (and difficult) work it could have done in exchange for an academic and societal status that is always necessarily in danger of disintegrating.
This process, in a beautifully ironic turn, requires the field to repress the memory of Freud, at once paying brief lip-service ("Of course Freud was the father of psychology") and simultaneously attempting to aggressively humiliate him with a parade of his worst ideas. We are right to be critical of Freud, but the consistency, tone, and attitude with which he is attacked in modern academic departments might be driven by more interesting motives: an embarrassment that where the father sought and may have failed, the children fear to go. All this, of course, assumes that he is still read and not simply rejected through a hereditary line of graduate seminar Powerpoint slides.
And so now, the only responsible psychology (that which risks itself), when it occurs, takes place in philosophy departments, where the pursuit of scientific respectability doesn't restrict which lines of inquiry are allowed to proceed.
The House of Asterion
extinction / megafauna

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6/03/09
The Peacock Butterfly floats loosely!
5/11/09
FORTYFIED - a young fan's review
I found my first Nektar album, Remember the Future, in the dollar LP section of an Amoeba Music store in Hollywood California two years ago. To this day it is still the best record purchase I have made. Not only did my journey into the Nektar open me up to a whole new genre of music, but was the perfect companion as I entered into my own path of self discovery.
Since I am a young late comer to the Nektar portfolio, I had the opportunity to experience the stages, moods, and developments of the band from somewhat of an abridged perspective. Instead, the space between albums was filled with the silence of reflection. As my own Nektar DJ, I could create a personalized, subjective experience that transcended time itself.
Nektar's latest album Fortyfied, as the title implies, builds upon a strong history of musical investigation while seemingly reviving themselves for the next evolution. The amazing quality of the live recordings aside, Nektar has proven that they can build upon the strength of 40 years of music with a new sense of past investigation. The old tunes are revived with slick guitar riffs, groovy baselines, jammy keyboard grinds, and anticipatory drum rolls which all seem to incorporate a new hint of sophistication and experienced fluidity. In other words, these are "some crunchy tunes man". Summit
With ~~Fortyfied, Netkar has shown that they have withstood~~ the ~~test of time by remaining constant with their aim and fluid with their approach. Forty years of introspective music has built a solid~~ foundation for any individual listener to look within and find their point of focus, the ingredient within themselves that can add sugar to the sticky substance which brings us to pause. Nektar fans have been provided with a soundtrack for their own personal discovery, spanning the course of a history that we might wish to forget if it hadn't been so beautifully told.
With this new foundation I eagerly await what will be birthed next.
5/02/09
"All aboard Starship Gaia!"
FeetToTheNoosphereReMix.mp3
4/29/09
Waking Up on Sleepy Time Court
Silent frames skip by like partial memories of hypnagogic dreams. The faint recollection of accordion lungs thick with black rimmed glasses without a view finder, dance the Fiddle Boogie in hailstorms of proceeding generations. His light meter necklace measures the weight of the heavy bicycle chains his mother wears on her wrists, waist, and atop her head which she hides under her black hat.
She made a promise to God that she would go to church every day if her son came back alive from war. Faithfully she walked to church every day at 6 am. Bovine swine fat fingers covered in motor oil once penetrated at her Earthly flesh. Disheveled grey hair, bruised raccoon eyes, and torn clothes soaked in vaginal blood earned her a day of rest. She made alters to Mother Mary with dandelion candles, flicking rosary beads along the lace fields of Peaceful Valley.
Cold worms rearing in slimy dry dirt squish & stretch their fibrous foreskin into the Thinker Position. Mouth agape, she blindly searches for an offering of Crayola wild orchard pink to fill her Hitchcock silhouetted jowls. In a box of rusty plumbing elbows she finds a knife sharpener. Slice through the belly and rip out the head & spine. You must gut your catch, even when fishing pocket watches the size of wall clocks.
Individual plastic bags of clustered broaches, an inheritance eventually received, wildly taps her native French tongue like a swarm of wasps behind glass. Keep'em where you can see'em and not get stung.
"Did you think your name was Keet?"
White light spot lights hide her expectation. Limbs suspended from rafters in belts, clasps, and intricately knotted rope hold her steady for the hot wax to seep into her nylon clad skin. The goat coaxes her to scream in painful pleasure like a whore in a Greek snuff film. Grabbing her stiletto heels so she can bear down he fucks her upside down, from behind filling every orifice with insideout cod pieces of cold metal and pink dry plaster dildoes which flake away with every thrust to interpreted, the next level begins back of her womb. He'd fuck her veins if he could.
This was her schooling. She surrenders herself completely to him like a blow up doll covered in Crisco. His fingers touch each other holding onto her waist from both sides. Cutting holes for empty crotchless stockings with plastic kindergarten scissors. Exploring fetish. A protein diet of ejaculate in the face to feast on a cross. He'd love to piss & cum in her mouth simultaneously but for some reason lacks the full commitment when he sees her soft willing gaze hold his disfigured cock.
You can thank your mother, you can thank your father, you can thank.....the tickling trickster....bursting microwaved hot dogs. The nightmares are discarded as entropic melon balls for the Universal Class Reunion.
4/17/09
Your Hand in Mine
My hand in yours feels eternally still. We touch by sharing the empty space in between. It feels cool with the exchange of opposites reaching equilibrium.
Pink and black velvet covered walls line the passage between our points of rest. In either hand is a large gong-beater which I strike against the walls of the corridor sending identical waves traveling around and back to our point of intersection. "Oh how I've longed for your touch!"
I looked for the other's hand and found that my hand is yours. Death may come, but I finally touched you.
4/15/09
Dream Reality
The unbounded clarity in my dreams rivals the awareness in my waking state. Filling in what I can not normally comprehend, my dreams explain how everyday trivial things fit into the grand picture and assures me with the truth, that it is repeated infinitely in everything.
The nights have become restless, testing the elasticity of the veil of forgetfulness. Inevitably I break through with a knowing that I don't know what I know or with a tiny trickle of instinctual knowledge. It is reassurance of what I do not know.
Every piece falls into place the way it does, was and will be. Or at least, everything that I hope to happen is happening with little involvement of myself. Well more likely, my alignment has changed. My single focus has somehow tied everything together into one experience.
I am subjectively at hand in a self referential dream that I want to remember!
4/08/09
The Pharaoh, painting by Ignatius Widiapradja
Selected works displayed at the MobergGallery in Des Moines, Iowa.
The Ego's Eulogy
or
What the Ego would like read if it died today
- given by the Ego
I have always known you, but never myself. I followed you along seeing myself in everything. I was being led to myself, seeking myself in another. Then, I found myself. "I hardly knew ya!"
I will always long for you with my understanding of myself. I can not know myself as you know me through yourself. Slowly I sacrifice parts of myself to know you so that I might get closer to myself. I grieve for those parts that die away, but with knew understanding I laugh at what I was.
For me to be the epitome of my quintessence, I must die. Completely into you, my Beloved.
4/06/09
Dot not Feather
Polkaroo, Polkaroo
you are two!
Roll out the string
and snap on the hangings,
"It's Decoration Day!"
Stack the cardboard bricks
and do the Hula.
All I want to do is dance with you
inside that polka dot muumuu.
You are always here
but I always forget again.
Within
Within
Within
3/28/09
Emergence of the Peacock Butterfly
Emerging from the cocoon made necessary the inward investigation. To proliferate internally meant breaking through the surfaces of the external projection. With a single focus on the focus, calling for the return, it grew nearer. Flooding in like liquid light, the main frame begins to fill.
The Peacock Butterfly does not color all of it's scales at once, drawing full attention to each wing individually. Observations of the Peacock Butterfly have indicated that it fills it's wings with colors that are complimentary to it's environment over the course of it's lifetime.
Instead of just blending in or sticking out, the Peacock Butterfly chooses colors and patterns that enhance the beauty of their environment attracting more insects to pollinate the area. The most commonly observed pattern that takes form resembles the concentric circles of a peacock's feather. Some theorize that the single focus of the central eye draws the attention of other creatures, influencing the surrounding life to create more abundance for itself.
The phenomenon of the Peacock Butterfly was noticed when various observations were shared and studied. It has now been established that this particular breed of butterfly feeds on such a variety of plant life in such a variety of regions, that it seems near impossible to determine it's main source of life. This suggests, among many things, variety among the species' senses.
Much about the Peacock Butterfly remains a mystery requiring further investigation. Perhaps this gives more credence to the accounts of the ~~butterfly winking back.~~ last stone.

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5/21/09

The Peacock Butterfly floats loosely!

5/11/09

FORTYFIED - a young fan's review

I found my first Nektar album, Remember the Future, in the dollar LP section of an Amoeba Music store in Hollywood California two years ago. To this day it is still the best record purchase I have made. Not only did my journey into the Nektar open me up to a whole new genre of music, but was the perfect companion as I entered into my own path of self discovery.

Since I am a young late comer to the Nektar portfolio, I had the opportunity to experience the stages, moods, and developments of the band from somewhat of an abridged perspective. Instead, the space between albums was filled with the silence of reflection. As my own Nektar DJ, I could create a personalized, subjective experience that transcended time itself.

Nektar's latest album Fortyfied, as the title implies, builds upon a strong history of musical investigation while seemingly reviving themselves for the next evolution. The amazing quality of the live recordings aside, Nektar has proven that they can build upon the strength of 40 years of music with a new sense of past investigation. The old tunes are revived with slick guitar riffs, groovy baselines, jammy keyboard grinds, and anticipatory drum rolls which all seem to incorporate a new hint of sophistication and experienced fluidity. In other words, these are "some crunchy tunes man".

With Fortyfied, Netkar has shown that they have withstood the test of time by remaining constant with their aim and fluid with their approach. Forty years of introspective music has built a solid foundation for any individual listener to look within and find their point of focus, the ingredient within themselves that can add sugar to the sticky substance which brings us to pause. Nektar fans have been provided with a soundtrack for their own personal discovery, spanning the course of a history that we might wish to forget if it hadn't been so beautifully told.

With this new foundation I eagerly await what will be birthed next.

5/02/09

"All aboard Starship Gaia!"

FeetToTheNoosphereReMix.mp3

4/29/09

Waking Up on Sleepy Time Court

Silent frames skip by like partial memories of hypnagogic dreams. The faint recollection of accordion lungs thick with black rimmed glasses without a view finder, dance the Fiddle Boogie in hailstorms of proceeding generations. His light meter necklace measures the weight of the heavy bicycle chains his mother wears on her wrists, waist, and atop her head which she hides under her black hat.

She made a promise to God that she would go to church every day if her son came back alive from war. Faithfully she walked to church every day at 6 am. Bovine swine fat fingers covered in motor oil once penetrated at her Earthly flesh. Disheveled grey hair, bruised raccoon eyes, and torn clothes soaked in vaginal blood earned her a day of rest. She made alters to Mother Mary with dandelion candles, flicking rosary beads along the lace fields of Peaceful Valley.

Cold worms rearing in slimy dry dirt squish & stretch their fibrous foreskin into the Thinker Position. Mouth agape, she blindly searches for an offering of Crayola wild orchard pink to fill her Hitchcock silhouetted jowls. In a box of rusty plumbing elbows she finds a knife sharpener. Slice through the belly and rip out the head & spine. You must gut your catch, even when fishing pocket watches the size of wall clocks.

Individual plastic bags of clustered broaches, an inheritance eventually received, wildly taps her native French tongue like a swarm of wasps behind glass. Keep'em where you can see'em and not get stung.

"Did you think your name was Keet?"

White light spot lights hide her expectation. Limbs suspended from rafters in belts, clasps, and intricately knotted rope hold her steady for the hot wax to seep into her nylon clad skin. The goat coaxes her to scream in painful pleasure like a whore in a Greek snuff film. Grabbing her stiletto heels so she can bear down he fucks her upside down, from behind filling every orifice with insideout cod pieces of cold metal and pink dry plaster dildoes which flake away with every thrust to the back of her womb. He'd fuck her veins if he could.

This was her schooling. She surrenders herself completely to him like a blow up doll covered in Crisco. His fingers touch each other holding onto her waist from both sides. Cutting holes for empty crotchless stockings with plastic kindergarten scissors. Exploring fetish. A protein diet of ejaculate in the face to feast on a cross. He'd love to piss & cum in her mouth simultaneously but for some reason lacks the full commitment when he sees her soft willing gaze hold his disfigured cock.

You can thank your mother, you can thank your father, you can thank.....the tickling trickster....bursting microwaved hot dogs. The nightmares are discarded as entropic melon balls for the Universal Class Reunion.

4/17/09

Your Hand in Mine

My hand in yours feels eternally still. We touch by sharing the empty space in between. It feels cool with the exchange of opposites reaching equilibrium.

Pink and black velvet covered walls line the passage between our points of rest. In either hand is a large gong-beater which I strike against the walls of the corridor sending identical waves traveling around and back to our point of intersection. "Oh how I've longed for your touch!"

I looked for the other's hand and found that my hand is yours. Death may come, but I finally touched you.

4/15/09

Dream Reality

The unbounded clarity in my dreams rivals the awareness in my waking state. Filling in what I can not normally comprehend, my dreams explain how everyday trivial things fit into the grand picture and assures me with the truth, that it is repeated infinitely in everything.

The nights have become restless, testing the elasticity of the veil of forgetfulness. Inevitably I break through with a knowing that I don't know what I know or with a tiny trickle of instinctual knowledge. It is reassurance of what I do not know.

Every piece falls into place the way it does, was and will be. Or at least, everything that I hope to happen is happening with little involvement of myself. Well more likely, my alignment has changed. My single focus has somehow tied everything together into one experience.

I am subjectively at hand in a self referential dream that I want to remember!

4/08/09

The Pharaoh, painting by Ignatius Widiapradja

Selected works displayed at the Moberg Gallery in Des Moines, Iowa.

The Ego's Eulogy

What the Ego would like read if it died today

- given by the Ego

I have always known you, but never myself. I followed you along seeing myself in everything. I was being led to myself, seeking myself in another. Then, I found myself. "I hardly knew ya!"

I will always long for you with my understanding of myself. I can not know myself as you know me through yourself. Slowly I sacrifice parts of myself to know you so that I might get closer to myself. I grieve for those parts that die away, but with knew understanding I laugh at what I was.

For me to be the epitome of my quintessence, I must die. Completely into you, my Beloved.

4/06/09

Dot not Feather

Polkaroo, Polkaroo

you are two!

Roll out the string

and snap on the hangings,

"It's Decoration Day!"

Stack the cardboard bricks

and do the Hula.

All I want to do is dance with you

inside that polka dot muumuu.

You are always here

but I always forget again.

Within

3/28/09

Emergence of the Peacock Butterfly

Emerging from the cocoon made necessary the inward investigation. To proliferate internally meant breaking through the surfaces of the external projection. With a single focus on the focus, calling for the return, it grew nearer. Flooding in like liquid light, the main frame begins to fill.

The Peacock Butterfly does not color all of it's scales at once, drawing full attention to each wing individually. Observations of the Peacock Butterfly have indicated that it fills it's wings with colors that are complimentary to it's environment over the course of it's lifetime.

Instead of just blending in or sticking out, the Peacock Butterfly chooses colors and patterns that enhance the beauty of their environment attracting more insects to pollinate the area. The most commonly observed pattern that takes form resembles the concentric circles of a peacock's feather. Some theorize that the single focus of the central eye draws the attention of other creatures, influencing the surrounding life to create more abundance for itself.

The phenomenon of the Peacock Butterfly was noticed when various observations were shared and studied. It has now been established that this particular breed of butterfly feeds on such a variety of plant life in such a variety of regions, that it seems near impossible to determine it's main source of life. This suggests, among many things, variety among the species' senses.

Much about the Peacock Butterfly remains a mystery requiring further investigation. Perhaps this gives more credence to the accounts of the butterfly winking back.

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email@hidden (Zach Valenta) — Sun, 31 May 2009 19:36:24 -0500

31 may 2009
i think this summer has been the most exciting and challenging i can recall. because my hours at work have gone down with less business, i have tons, oodles even, of "free" time on my hands compared to the school year. why the scare quotes? because all this time, i want to use it well. for doing things that i believe will make me well-adjusted in various ways. what i did not envision back in the spring as i dreamed all my summer dreams was that this change in the unfolding of time would be much more tumultuous than the school year or any previous summer breaks. since i've always spent may through august working all the time, the pace of the school continued more or less unabated. what this past month has done unlike any other extended period i can recall, is change the pace in which my life was lived for more the greater part of a decade. just the pace. i'm still spending my time doing the same things, just longer and with more attention. but what a difference.what makes all of this mildly scaring (in a fruitful way) is with so much time, that even when not meditating, my nature is quieted and thus more permeable somehow. i've walked down the same streets all year, and noticed new things every day in the past month. how had i been missing this?
26 may 2009
St. Augustine, from "The Trinity":

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email@hidden (Zach Valenta) — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:04:18 -0500

26 may 2009
St. Augustine, from "The Trinity":
Whoever, then, can understand the word, not only before it sounds, but even before the images of its sounds are contemplated in thought-such a word belongs to no language, that is, to none of the so-called national languages, of which ours is the Latin-whoever, I say, can understand this, can already see through this mirror and in this enigma some likeness of that Word of whom it was said:"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God; and the Word was God".
20 may 2009
nuclear? nuclear? NUCLEAR!?!?!

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If the noosphere is a "form of address", a word addressing an ecological ensemble of attention gathering, exchange, recording and recombination, (transduction) who or what is being addressed? Diverse traditions and studies of Non Ordinary Consciousness ( Harner, Fischer,Strassmann) suggest that rhetorical practices of emptiness are both necessary and sufficient to these "involutionary speech acts" ( apres Austin, 1954, "illocutionary", "perlocutionary"). These practices of the self on the self, in which a radical sense of interconnection with larger scale phenomena such as "noosphere" often occur, are likely "irreducible" (Wolfram) yet well mapped by simple iterative rules that produces of effects of "infinity". ( CF. recursion in Lisp, "A Little Lisper")
"Involution" ( Aurobindo) often involves algorithms such as mantra or the simple repetition of breath, in conditions not entirely of the self's choosing. Neither "self reference" nor "reflection" nor a "strange loop", "involution" labels an operation of folding, an always ongoing discovery of the very topology of what has been dubbed "interiority". Such an exploration of the "morphogenomic space" (Lalvani) of subjectivity confronts the involute with evidence that the "inside" is at least as complex, differentiated and evolutionary as the "outside." As a form of address, I offer the "noosphere" as an invitation to an experiment in collective intelligence through parallel involution.
previously ~~considered."~~ considered." Just Say Yes to the Noosphere!
--Richard Doyle, Penn State University
Bateson on Distributed Mind

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Wake Forest University
He Called It Utopia: Jamesons Social and Vedic Transhumanism
~~Regardless of whose account is to believed,~~Now a widely transmitted meme with diverse meanings and practices, transhumanism ~~generally~~ often involves the creation of a collective intelligence amongst future humanity. ~~That said, the~~ The temporal location of this collective force differs from account to account. In some cases, this transhuman collective will manifest the end point of a certain evolutionary trajectory, while in other accounts, the collectivizing forces that humanity ~~taps into~~ begains to ~~create~~ capture in their creation of the transhuman are ~~preexisting.~~ immanent to an already existing system. This ~~preexistent~~ concept of an immanent transpersonal force is often ~~times originates from~~ linked to the transmission of ~~the~~ Vedic ideas (Cf. Goswami) and practices of ~~atman and braman~~ meditation as originally espoused in the Upanishads.
From this perspective of a field of immanent and certainly collective intelligence, I ~~begin by analyzing~~ explore the work of Marxist critic Fredric Jameson. Specifically, I am interested in exploring the transhuman valences of three terms in his conceptual vocabulary: ~~social, political,~~ "social," "political", and ~~Utopia.~~ "Utopia". While an entire book could probably be written on Jamesons concept of Utopia alone, I argue for a specific interpretation of the concept as a form of collective existence within the framework of the social.
~~After this discussion of these Jamesonian terms, I will discuss other transhuman thinkers working within the Vedic model. Sri Aurobindo will be especially highlighted during this discussion.~~
Sri Aurobindo's conversion from poet and radical to spiritual, transhuman guru during the early part of the 20th century makes him an exceptionally interesting figure for building a bridge between Jamesons post-Marxist analysis and the main body of transhuman thought. In exploring various examples of Vedic transhumanism, I wish to highlight the importance of the figure of individual, spiritual work of participants in this model of transhuman overcoming. The commitment to revolutionary praxis and social change within Jameson and Aurobindo's theoretical systems extends throughout the other thinkers within this model of transhumanism and offers us a necessary and important context for understanding the personal and collective work of bringing about a transhuman future.
--Andrew Pilsch,PennState University
"Decoding the Noosphere" Seminar Schedule

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email@hidden () — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:38:17 -0500

Declarations of the Noosphere: Towards an Involutionary Speech Act
This talk will treat the noosphere - an emergent concept of Vernadsky, Le Roy, Teilhard and Aurbobindo - as a form of address suited to mapping the informational attentional layer of the biosphere towards a thermodyanamic practice of sustainability.
of ~~address"~~ address", a word addressing an ecological ensemble of attention gathering, exchange, recording and recombination, (transduction) who or what is being addressed? Diverse traditions and studies of Non Ordinary Consciousness ( Harner, Fischer,Strassmann) suggest that rhetorical practices of emptiness are both necessary and sufficient to these "involutionary speech acts" ( apres Austin, 1954, "illocutionary", "perlocutionary"). These practices of the self on the self, in which a radical sense of interconnection with larger scale phenomena such as "noosphere" often occur, are likely "irreducible" (Wolfram) yet well mapped by simple iterative rules that produces of effects of "infinity". ( CF. "else" in Lisp)
"Involution" ( Aurobindo) often involves algorithms such as mantra or the simple repetition of breath, in conditions not entirely of the self's choosing. Neither "self reference" nor "reflection" nor a "strange loop", "involution" labels an operation of folding, an always ongoing discovery of the very topology of what has been dubbed "interiority". Such an exploration of the "morphogenomic space" (Lalvani) of subjectivity confronts the involute with evidence that the "inside" is at least as complex, differentiated and evolutionary as the "outside." As a form of address, I offer the "noosphere" as an invitation to an experiment in collective intelligence through parallel involution.
The Noosphere, a concept probably first coined by Vernadksy, names the feedback effect of awareness on living systems. Vernadksy's definition was essentially a functional one - the noosphere is the collective effect of human attention on the Biosphere, which in turn transformed the lithosphere through the collective processes of living systems. Given what we now know about plant, fungal and bacterial intelligence, it now seems necessary to expand Vernadksy's definition to include all organisms and groups of organisms capable of actively increasing their dissipation of exergy (available energy) through the transfer, expression and alteration of information. Every layer of this system appears to be thermodynamically informed, so concepts from thermodynamics can usefully orient our collective transhuman investigation of this emergent attribute of our planet. In closing, we will consider the sentence "Perhaps the dynamics of human subjectivity have more to learn from protein folding than has been previously considered."
Wake Forest University
He Called It Utopia: Jamesons Social and Vedic Transhumanism
Vedic ~~idea~~ ideas and practices of atman and braman as originally espoused in the Upanishads.
From this perspective of a field of collective intelligence, I begin by analyzing the work of Marxist critic Fredric Jameson. Specifically, I am interested in exploring the transhuman valences of three terms in his conceptual vocabulary: social, political, and Utopia. While an entire book could probably be written on Jamesons concept of Utopia alone, I argue for a specific interpretation of the concept as a form of collective existence within the framework of the social.
After this discussion of these Jamesonian terms, I will discuss other transhuman thinkers working within the Vedic model. Sri Aurobindo will be especially highlighted during this discussion. Aurobindo's conversion from poet and radical to spiritual, transhuman guru during the early part of the 20th century makes him an exceptionally interesting figure for building a bridge between Jamesons post-Marxist analysis and the main body of transhuman thought. In exploring various examples of Vedic transhumanism, I wish to highlight the importance of the figure of individual, spiritual work in this model of transhuman overcoming. The commitment to revolutionary praxis and social change within Jameson and Aurobindo's theoretical systems extends throughout the other thinkers within this model of transhumanism and offers us a necessary and important context for understanding the personal and collective work of bringing about a transhuman future.

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email@hidden () — Fri, 22 May 2009 12:05:19 -0500

Noosphere: ~~Bateson, Vernadsky, Margulis, Aurobindo~~ InvestigatingCollective Intelligence
Richard Doyle, Philip Kuberski, Andrew Pilsch
SLSA, November 5-8, 2009
Declarations of the Noosphere: Towards an Involutionary Speech Act
This talk will treat the noosphere - an emergent concept of Vernadsky, Le Roy, Teilhard and Aurbobindo - as a form of address suited to mapping the informational attentional layer of the biosphere towards a thermodyanamic practice of sustainability.
with ~~Large Scale~~ larger scale phenomena such as "noosphere" often occur, are likely "irreducible" (Wolfram) yet well mapped by simple iterative rules that produces of effects of "infinity". ( CF. ~~the~~ "else" ~~command~~ in Lisp)
"Involution" ( Aurobindo) often involves algorithms such as mantra or the simple repetition of breath, in conditions not entirely of the self's choosing. Neither "self reference" nor "reflection" nor a "strange loop", "involution" labels an operation of folding, an always ongoing discovery of the very topology of what has been dubbed "interiority". Such an exploration of the "morphogenomic space" (Lalvani) of subjectivity confronts the involute with evidence that the "inside" is at least as complex, differentiated and evolutionary as the "outside." As a form of address, I offer the "noosphere" as an invitation to an experiment in collective intelligence through ~~paralled~~ parallel involution.
The Noosphere, a concept probably first coined by Vernadksy, names the feedback effect of awareness on living systems. Vernadksy's definition was essentially a functional one - the noosphere is the collective effect of human attention on the Biosphere, which in turn transformed the lithosphere through the collective processes of living systems. Given what we now know about plant, fungal and bacterial intelligence, it now seems necessary to expand Vernadksy's definition to include all organisms and groups of organisms capable of actively increasing their dissipation of exergy (available energy) through the transfer, expression and alteration of information. Every layer of this system appears to be thermodynamically informed, so concepts from thermodynamics can usefully orient our collective transhuman investigation of this emergent attribute of our planet. In closing, we will consider the sentence "Perhaps the dynamics of human subjectivity have more to learn from protein folding than has been previously considered."
--Richard Doyle, Penn State University
Philip Kuberski
Wake Forest University
He Called It Utopia: Jamesons Social and Vedic Transhumanism
Regardless of whose account is to believed, transhumanism generally involves the creation of a collective intelligence amongst future humanity. That said, the temporal location of this collective force differs from account to account. In some cases, this transhuman collective will manifest the end point of a certain evolutionary trajectory, while in other accounts, the collectivizing forces that humanity taps into to create the transhuman are preexisting. This preexistent transpersonal force often times originates from the transmission of the Vedic idea of atman and braman as originally espoused in the Upanishads.
From this perspective of a field of collective intelligence, I begin by analyzing the work of Marxist critic Fredric Jameson. Specifically, I am interested in exploring the transhuman valences of three terms in his conceptual vocabulary: social, political, and Utopia. While an entire book could probably be written on Jamesons concept of Utopia alone, I argue for a specific interpretation of the concept as a form of collective existence within the framework of the social.
After this discussion of these Jamesonian terms, I will discuss other transhuman thinkers working within the Vedic model. Sri Aurobindo will be especially highlighted during this discussion. Aurobindo's conversion from poet and radical to spiritual, transhuman guru during the early part of the 20th century makes him an exceptionally interesting figure for building a bridge between Jamesons post-Marxist analysis and the main body of transhuman thought. In exploring various examples of Vedic transhumanism, I wish to highlight the importance of the figure of individual, spiritual work in this model of transhuman overcoming. The commitment to revolutionary praxis and social change within Jameson and Aurobindo's theoretical systems extends throughout the other thinkers within this model of transhumanism and offers us a necessary and important context for understanding the personal and collective work of bringing about a transhuman future.
--Andrew Pilsch,PennState University
"Decoding the Noosphere" Seminar Schedule

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This talk will treat the noosphere - an emergent concept of Vernadsky, Le Roy, Teilhard and Aurbobindo - as a form of address suited to mapping the informational attentional layer of the biosphere towards a thermodyanamic practice of sustainability.
If the noosphere is a "form of address" a word addressing an ecological ensemble of attention gathering, exchange, recording and recombination, (transduction) who or what is being addressed? Diverse traditions and studies of Non Ordinary Consciousness ( Harner, Fischer,Strassmann) suggest that rhetorical practices of emptiness are both necessary and sufficient to these "involutionary speech acts" ( apres Austin, 1954, "illocutionary", "perlocutionary"). These practices of the self on the self, in which a radical sense of interconnection with Large Scale phenomena such as "noosphere" often occur, are likely "irreducible" (Wolfram) yet well mapped by simple iterative rules that produces of effects of "infinity". ( CF. the "else" command in Lisp)
Aurobindo) often involves algorithms such as ~~mantra,~~ mantra or the simple repetition of breath, in conditions not entirely of the self's choosing. Neither "self reference" nor "reflection" nor a "strange loop", "involution" labels an operation of folding, an always ongoing discovery of the very topology of what has been dubbed "interiority". Such an exploration of the "morphogenomic space" (Lalvani) of subjectivity confronts the involute with evidence that the "inside" is at least as complex, differentiated and evolutionary as the "outside." As a form of address, I offer the "noosphere" as an invitation to an experiment in collective intelligence through ~~practiced involution..~~ paralled involution.
The Noosphere, a concept probably first coined by Vernadksy, names the feedback effect of awareness on living systems. Vernadksy's definition was essentially a functional one - the noosphere is the collective effect of human attention on the Biosphere, which in turn transformed the lithosphere through the collective processes of living systems. Given what we now know about plant, fungal and bacterial intelligence, it now seems necessary to expand Vernadksy's definition to include all organisms and groups of organisms capable of actively increasing their dissipation of exergy (available energy) through the transfer, expression and alteration of information. Every layer of this system appears to be thermodynamically informed, so concepts from thermodynamics can usefully orient our collective transhuman investigation of this emergent attribute of our planet. In closing, we will consider the sentence "Perhaps the dynamics of human subjectivity have more to learn from protein folding than has been previously considered."
--Richard Doyle, Penn State University
Bateson on Distributed Mind
Gregory Bateson in his Mind and Nature (1979) has argued that a "mind" is neither necessarily interior nor non-material, but exists as and within an ecology. "A mind is an aggregate of Interacting Parts or Components." This can refer, then, not only to the "mind" of Wordsworth healing itself by a return to the Lake District; it could also include, as Bateson suggests, ecosystems such as a seashore or a redwood forest since they are both "self-corrective" (119). In other words, for Bateson, mind or intelligence is not only an aspect or feature of brains but of the wider system that evolves brains: we can scale these as "natural selection," "epigenesis," and "nature" itself. This "mind" is an association of parts, and "the interaction between parts of mind is triggered by difference" (100). Thus the mind is an aggregate of differences and is driven by difference: "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference" (29). Batesonian difference seems to reveal a spirit-function in nature and mind. Like spirit, difference is unreified, atopical, eternal, immaterial and yet somehow central or essential. When Emerson tells us in Nature (1835) that "Spirit primarily means wind," he is reminding us that the basis of "metaphysical" terminology is metaphor--and metaphor is at base a rough draft of ecology, a tactical assertion that relationship in its profounder sense has not to do with appearance, but function. The metaphor of self, in other words, is irreducibly double, different in essence--a relationship: it represents the self as if and as is--the hard and durable idea of the self is a literal reading of the metaphor, the fluid and transient view is a metaphorical or equivocal reading--. nothing but breath or wind.

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Abstracts
Declarations of the Noosphere: Towards an Involutionary Speech Act
sustainability.
If the noosphere is a "form of address" addressing an ecological ensemble of attention gathering, exchange, recording and recombination, (transduction) who or what is being addressed? Diverse traditions and studies of Non Ordinary Consciousness ( ~~Harner) ( e.g.Fischer,Strassmann)~~ Harner, Fischer,Strassmann) suggest that rhetorical practices of emptiness are both necessary and sufficient to these "involutionary speech acts" ( apres Austin, ~~1954)~~ 1954, "illocutionary", "perlocutionary"). These practices of the self on the self, in which a radical sense of interconnection with Large Scale phenomena such as "noosphere" often occur, are likely "irreducible" (Wolfram) yet well mapped by simple iterative rules that produces of effects of "infinity". ( CF. the "else" command in Lisp)
"Involution" ( Aurobindo) involves algorithms such as mantra, or the simple repetition of breath, in conditions not entirely of the self's choosing. Neither "self reference" nor "reflection" nor a "strange loop", "involution" labels an operation of folding, an always ongoing discovery of the very topology of what has been dubbed "interiority". Such an exploration of the "morphogenomic space" of subjectivity confronts the involute with evidence that the "inside" is at least as complex, differentiated and evolutionary as the "outside." As a form of address, I offer the "noosphere" as an invitation to an experiment in collective ~~intelligence.~~ intelligence through practiced involution..
The Noosphere, a concept probably first coined by Vernadksy, names the feedback effect of awareness on living systems. Vernadksy's definition was essentially a functional one - the noosphere is the collective effect of human attention on the Biosphere, which in turn transformed the lithosphere through the collective processes of living systems. Given what we now know about plant, fungal and bacterial intelligence, it now seems necessary to expand Vernadksy's definition to include all organisms and groups of organisms capable of actively increasing their dissipation of exergy (available energy) through the ~~transfer and~~ transfer, expression and alteration of ~~nformation.~~ information. Every layer of this system appears to be thermodynamically informed, so ~~we will use~~ concepts from thermodynamics to can usefully orient our collective transhuman investigation of this emergent attribute of our planet. In closing, we will consider the ~~sentence"Perhaps~~ sentence "Perhaps the dynamics of human subjectivity have more to learn from protein folding than has been previously considered."
Bateson on Distributed Mind
Gregory Bateson in his Mind and Nature (1979) has argued that a "mind" is neither necessarily interior nor non-material, but exists as and within an ecology. "A mind is an aggregate of Interacting Parts or Components." This can refer, then, not only to the "mind" of Wordsworth healing itself by a return to the Lake District; it could also include, as Bateson suggests, ecosystems such as a seashore or a redwood forest since they are both "self-corrective" (119). In other words, for Bateson, mind or intelligence is not only an aspect or feature of brains but of the wider system that evolves brains: we can scale these as "natural selection," "epigenesis," and "nature" itself. This "mind" is an association of parts, and "the interaction between parts of mind is triggered by difference" (100). Thus the mind is an aggregate of differences and is driven by difference: "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference" (29). Batesonian difference seems to reveal a spirit-function in nature and mind. Like spirit, difference is unreified, atopical, eternal, immaterial and yet somehow central or essential. When Emerson tells us in Nature (1835) that "Spirit primarily means wind," he is reminding us that the basis of "metaphysical" terminology is metaphor--and metaphor is at base a rough draft of ecology, a tactical assertion that relationship in its profounder sense has not to do with appearance, but function. The metaphor of self, in other words, is irreducibly double, different in essence--a relationship: it represents the self as if and as is--the hard and durable idea of the self is a literal reading of the metaphor, the fluid and transient view is a metaphorical or equivocal reading--. nothing but breath or wind.

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The Peacock Butterfly floats loosely!
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FORTYFIED - a young fan's review

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The House of Asterion

by Jorge Luis Borges

And the queen gave birth to a child who was called Asterion. (Apollodorus Bibliotecha III, I)

I know they accuse me of arrogance, and perhaps misanthropy, and perhaps of madness. Such accusations (for which I shall exact punishment in due time) are derisory. It is true that I never leave my house, but it is also true that its doors (whose numbers are infinite) (footnote: The original says fourteen, but there is ample reason to infer that, as used by Asterion, this numeral stands for infinite.) are open day and night to men and to animals as well. Anyone may enter. He will find here no female pomp nor gallant court formality, but he will find quiet and solitude. And he will also find a house like no other on the face of this earth. (There are those who declare there is a similar one in Egypt, but they lie.) Even my detractors admit there is not one single piece of furniture in the house. Another ridiculous falsehood has it that I, Asterion, am a prisoner. Shall I repeat that there are no locked doors, shall I add that there are no locks? Besides, one afternoon I did step into the street; If I returned before night, I did so because of the fear that the faces of the common people inspired in me, faces as discolored and flat as the palm of one's hand. the sun had already set ,but the helpless crying of a child and the rude supplications of the faithful told me I had been recognized. The people prayed, fled, prostrated themselves; some climbed onto the stylobate of the temple of the axes, others gathered stones. One of them, I believe, hid himself beneath the sea. Not for nothing was my mother a queen; I cannot be confused with the populace, though my modesty might so desire. The fact is that that I am unique. I am not interested in what one man may transmit to other men; like the philosopher I think that nothing is communicable by the art of writing. Bothersome and trivial details have no place in my spirit, which is prepared for all that is vast and grand; I have never retained the difference between one letter and another. A certain generous impatience has not permitted that I learn to read. Sometimes I deplore this, for the nights and days are long.

Of course, I am not without distractions. Like the ram about to charge, I run through the stone galleries until I fall dizzy to the floor. I crouch in the shadow of a pool or around a corner and pretend I am being followed. There are roofs from which I let myself fall until I am bloody. At any time I can pretend to be asleep, with my eyes closed and my breathing heavy. (Sometimes I really sleep, sometimes the color of day has changed when I open my eyes.) But of all the games, I prefer the one about the other Asterion. I pretend that he comes to visit me and that I show him my house. With great obeisance I say to him "Now we shall return to the first intersection" or "Now we shall come out into another courtyard" Or "I knew you would like the drain" or "Now you will see a pool that was filled with sand" or "You will soon see how the cellar branches out". Sometimes I make a mistake and the two of us laugh heartily.

Not only have I imagined these games, I have also meditated on the house. All parts of the house are repeated many times, any place is another place. There is no one pool, courtyard, drinking trough, manger; the mangers, drinking troughs, courtyards pools are fourteen (infinite) in number. The house is the same size as the world; or rather it is the world. However, by dint of exhausting the courtyards with pools and dusty gray stone galleries I have reached the street and seen the temple of the Axes and the sea. I did not understand this until a night vision revealed to me that the seas and temples are also fourteen (infinite) in number. Everything is repeated many times, fourteen times, but two things in the world seem to be repeated only once: above, the intricate sun; below Asterion. Perhaps I have created the stars and the sun and this enormous house, but I no longer remember.

Every nine years nine men enter the house so that I may deliver them from evil. I hear their steps or their voices in the depths of the stone galleries and I run joyfully to find them. The ceremony lasts a few minutes. They fall one after another without my having to bloody my hands. They remain where they fell and their bodies help distinguish one gallery from another. I do not know who they are, but I know that one of them prophesied, at the moment of his death, that some day my redeemer would come. Since then my loneliness does not pain me, because I know my redeemer lives and he will finally rise above the dust. If my ear could capture all the sounds of the world, I should hear his steps. I hope he will take me to a place with fewer galleries fewer doors. What will my redeemer be like? I ask myself. Will he be a bull or a man? will he perhaps be a bull with the face of a man? or will he be like me?

The morning sun reverberated from the bronze sword. There was no longer even a vestige of blood. "Would you believe it, Ariadne?" said Theseus "The Minotaur scarcely defended himself."

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The House of Asterion
extinction / megafauna
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TrackO'TheDay
mobius: "Wiki is the Medium is the Message Wiki'd"
Richard Doyle, The Wiki is the Medium is the Message
Reviewed by Mary Karcher
I have to say I have never attended a keynote speech quite like that given by Dr. Richard Doyle. Im sure I have never laughed so much at a keynote speech, and I know I have never before been asked to chant a mantra. However Doyles entertaining and engaging talk provoked me, along with the rest of the 200 or so audience members, to do just that. With a rather unassuming appearance and in a laid-back manner, Doyle offered the title of his talk, the wiki is the medium is the message, as a remix of McLuhan, as a mantra, and as a framework for his discussion of wikis, Wyrd! and technology.
Doyle began by pointing out that even when we are not plugged in or switched on, still we are all caught up in technology. We live in a world so bombarded by information that, as Doyle jokingly observed, it is like we are living with planet-wide attention deficit disorder. He explained that we live in a world of infoquake; in the first 800,000 years of human kind we had 12 exabytes of information (1 exabyte = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes). From the year 2000 to the year 2001 we doubled that amount of information. As a culture, we are incredible manipulators of information. If we as compositionists are to be involved in the creation and dissipation of that information, then we should be concerned with how to deal with all the information, and how to help our students do likewise. Wyrd! is the name of the wiki product Doyle has been involved with in his teaching, and he offered his own experience with using wikis in his syllabus as a method of helping students understand the interconnectedness of information and of their place as creators and manipulators of information.
Doyle argued that we need what he referred to as sunga, a sense of intertwingleness, because in fact our senses lie to is when they tell us that we are individual selves isolated from others. Doyles project Wyrd! involves having students go through a series of activities that ultimately help them to realize the interconnectedness of all people and of all information. First Doyle asks his students to isolate themselves from any form of online communication or information. Next he has his student post three times for three weeks to a class wiki. Stage three is to then have the students create links to three of their classmates wiki pages, regardless of whether or not those links make sense. Through this, and through looking at the links created by the others, Doyle claimed that the students slowly begin to discover that everything in the world is connected to itself, that we are living on a plane where all things are interconnected. According to Doyle, what ends up happening is that students start to take responsibility for their actions, for their interactions with others, and for their writing.
By way of a conclusion, Doyle drew a parallel between our cultures fears about the scarcity of natural resources, and its fears about being unable to deal with the plethora of information. He claimed that we live in a discourse of scarcity, a discourse that says we are running out natural resources like coal and water; that we are running out of energy. In actuality, according to Doyle, we are being bombarded by enormous amounts of energy, for example from the sun; we just need to know how to use it. In the same way, we need to know how to process, remix and dissipate the wealth of information available to us online, and for Doyle, the wiki is one way to do that.
mobius: "What the Black Walnut Said?"
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This panel will experiment on and with notions of collective intelligence.
Abstracts
Declarations of the Noosphere: Towards an Involutionary Speech Act
This talk will treat the noosphere - an emergent concept of Vernadsky, Le Roy, Teilhard and Aurbobindo - as a form of address suited to mapping the informational attentional layer of the biosphere towards a thermodyanamic practice of sustainability. Diverse traditions and studies of Non Ordinary Consciousness ( Harner) ( e.g.Fischer,Strassmann) suggest that rhetorical practices of emptiness are both necessary and sufficient to these "involutionary speech acts" ( apres Austin, 1954) As a form of address, I offer the "noosphere" as an invitation to an experiment in collective intelligence.
The Noosphere, a concept probably first coined by Vernadksy, names the feedback effect of awareness on living systems. Vernadksy's definition was essentially a functional one - the noosphere is the collective effect of human attention on the Biosphere, which in turn transformed the lithosphere through the collective processes of living systems. Given what we now know about plant, fungal and bacterial intelligence, it now seems necessary to expand Vernadksy's definition to include all organisms and groups of organisms capable of actively increasing their dissipation of exergy (available energy) through the transfer and expression of nformation. Every layer of this system appears to be thermodynamically informed, so we will use concepts from thermodynamics to orient our investigation of this emergent attribute of our planet. In closing, we will consider the sentence"Perhaps the dynamics of human subjectivity have more to learn from protein folding than has been previously considered."
Bateson on Distributed Mind
Gregory Bateson in his Mind and Nature (1979) has argued that a "mind" is neither necessarily interior nor non-material, but exists as and within an ecology. "A mind is an aggregate of Interacting Parts or Components." This can refer, then, not only to the "mind" of Wordsworth healing itself by a return to the Lake District; it could also include, as Bateson suggests, ecosystems such as a seashore or a redwood forest since they are both "self-corrective" (119). In other words, for Bateson, mind or intelligence is not only an aspect or feature of brains but of the wider system that evolves brains: we can scale these as "natural selection," "epigenesis," and "nature" itself. This "mind" is an association of parts, and "the interaction between parts of mind is triggered by difference" (100). Thus the mind is an aggregate of differences and is driven by difference: "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference" (29). Batesonian difference seems to reveal a spirit-function in nature and mind. Like spirit, difference is unreified, atopical, eternal, immaterial and yet somehow central or essential. When Emerson tells us in Nature (1835) that "Spirit primarily means wind," he is reminding us that the basis of "metaphysical" terminology is metaphor--and metaphor is at base a rough draft of ecology, a tactical assertion that relationship in its profounder sense has not to do with appearance, but function. The metaphor of self, in other words, is irreducibly double, different in essence--a relationship: it represents the self as if and as is--the hard and durable idea of the self is a literal reading of the metaphor, the fluid and transient view is a metaphorical or equivocal reading--. nothing but breath or wind.

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20 may 2009
nuclear? nuclear? NUCLEAR!?!?!
oh...new-cle-ar? new-clear. newwwclear. NEWCLEAR!
10 may 2009
ah, summer. it does the body good, these breezes and photons and insects buzzin. and, for those of us (all of us) on the university schedule, time off from things we are required to do (as we are apt to think of them, gently eliding the fact that we kinda signed up for stuff, and eagerly too at the time). what fills this absence? things we WANT to do! so hear is to hoping that everybody's summer is full of those, and that hopefully we can figure out how to break down the distinction between the two.

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Noosphere: ~~Reports from a Temporary Autonomous Seminar~~ Bateson, Vernadsky, Margulis, Aurobindo
Richard ~~Doyle~~ Doyle, Philip Kuberski, Andrew Pilsch
SLSA, November 5-8, 2009
ATL
This ~~paper~~ panel will ~~discuss~~ experiment on and with notions of collective intelligence.
Abstracts
Bateson on Distributed Mind
Gregory Bateson in his Mind and Nature (1979) has argued that a "mind" is neither necessarily interior nor non-material, but exists as and within an ecology. "A mind is an aggregate of Interacting Parts or Components." This can refer, then, not only to the ~~ongoing results~~ "mind" of Wordsworth healing itself by a return to the Lake District; it could also include, as Bateson suggests, ecosystems such as a seashore or a redwood forest since they are both "self-corrective" (119). In other words, for Bateson, mind or intelligence is not only an ~~intensive two day seminar collectively investigating~~ aspect or feature of brains but of the wider system that evolves brains: we can scale these as "natural selection," "epigenesis," and "nature" itself. This "mind" is an association of parts, and "the interaction between parts of mind is triggered by difference" (100). Thus the ~~concept~~ mind is an aggregate of differences and is driven by difference: "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the ~~noosphere~~ receipt of news of difference" (29). Batesonian difference seems to reveal a spirit-function in nature and mind. Like spirit, difference is unreified, atopical, eternal, immaterial and yet somehow central or essential. When Emerson tells us in Nature (1835) that "Spirit primarily means wind," he is reminding us that the basis of "metaphysical" terminology is metaphor--and metaphor is at base a rough draft of ecology, a tactical assertion that relationship in its profounder sense has not to ~~be held November 6 & 7~~ do with appearance, but function. The metaphor of self, in other words, is irreducibly double, different in ~~Atlanta, Georgia, location TBA.~~ essence--a relationship: it represents the self as if and as is--the hard and durable idea of the self is a literal reading of the metaphor, the fluid and transient view is a metaphorical or equivocal reading--. nothing but breath or wind.
Philip Kuberski
Wake Forest University
"Decoding the Noosphere" Seminar Schedule

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Transmissions to Mobius - stow your requests for Darshan, messages to be relayed, satsang here, pleazee
TrackO'TheDay
mobius: "What the Black Walnut Said?"
Not speech but -
its spacing, tendril'd
"Twas Brillig", actual
a wave of wind, greening, keening
Singing the Tragi-comic
Call it, Black Walnut Tropic
"Green Shimmer. Glimmer. I am finished"
"Perfection of wild logos tantrums, Plant Access Denied"
"What you are is is-ing, you get to finish you youself."
mobius: "Reach for the Noosphere!"
mobius reminds hisself & his digital sangha that "letting go" of habit structure is always always always the right thing to do. Becoming the Overman or "the meaning of the earth" pace Zarathrustrameans not begrudgin' becoming its' due. This sometimes requires dropping out of the external world for awhile, going on retreat, even in your kitchen. It can be hard to tend the inner monastery without tuning the outer one. When you can, and even when you can't, drop out of your routines to discover the ways to tune your world toward Thriving, rather than toward the ways you have been historically and habitually bequeathed. The perrenial philosophy teaches practices for amplifying and actualizing an inner light, a Self, and if anything like it manifests out of the practices, it is self overcoming itself, your capacity to affirm an urge to overcome yourself through continuous growth. You are... the past, a sequence of words referring to a past that never happened seeking to overcome itself. That can be rough news on a Monday am, but it is the Good News itself, so get good with it!

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am meditation 7-8
Morning session ( 10 am - Noon)
The Thermodynamic Pattern That Connects" ( With Special Reference to ~~Barbieri)~~ Barbieri)
Readings: Organic Codes ( Barbieri)
Steps to an Ecology of Mind (Bateson)
A New Myth ( Salthe)
Afternoon ( 2 pm - 4 pm)
First Person Ecology of Mind: Practices and Patterns for the Noosphere
Readings: Contemplative Science (Wallace)
Internalism Summarized
Vernadsky & The Noosphere
Dinner: 5-7
Night Caps (Satsang): 10-?
Learn: ~~Symmetry,EgoDeath~~ Symmetry Breaking,EgoDeath and Plant Intelligence
Omega Boost: Involution, Convergence & The Hyperbolic Topology of The Noosphere
Readings: Teilhard, The Phenomenon of Man
Plant Intelligence Bibliography
Day Two:
am meditation 7-8

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Lunch
Afternoon ( 2pm-4pm)
Dinner
Nightcaps
Back to Decoding the Noosphere, SLSA Presentation

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Lunch
Afternoon ( 2pm-4pm)
Back to Decoding the Noosphere, SLSA Presentation

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Day One

am meditation 7-8

Morning session ( 10 am - Noon)

""Logical Types" Means "Knowing That You Don't Know": Bateson, Diamond Mind & The Pattern That Connects" ( With Special Reference to Barbieri)

Afternoon ( 2 pm - 4 pm)

First Person Ecology of Mind: Practices and Patterns for the Noosphere

Dinner: 5-7

Night Caps ( Satsang): 10-?

Learning to Learn: Symmetry, Ego Death and Plant Intelligence

Omega Boost: Involution, Convergence & The Hyperbolic Topology of The Noosphere

Day Two:

am meditation 7-8

Morning (10 am -12 pm)

Lunch

Afternoon ( 2pm-4pm)

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This paper will discuss the ongoing results of an intensive two day seminar collectively investigating the concept of the noosphere to be held November 6 & 7 in Atlanta, Georgia, location TBA.
"Decoding the Noosphere" Seminar Schedule
Day One
am meditation 7-8
Morning session ( 10 am - Noon)
""Logical Types" Means "Knowing That You Don't Know": Bateson, Diamond Mind & The Pattern That Connects" ( With Special Reference to Barbieri)
Afternoon ( 2 pm - 4 pm)
First Person Ecology of Mind: Practices and Patterns for the Noosphere
Dinner: 5-7
Night Caps (Satsang): 10-?
Learning to Learn: Symmetry,EgoDeath and Plant Intelligence
Omega Boost: Involution, Convergence & The Hyperbolic Topology of The Noosphere
Day Two:
am meditation 7-8
Morning (10 am -12 pm)
Lunch
Afternoon ( 2pm-4pm)

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Decoding the Noosphere: Reports from a Temporary Autonomous Seminar
Richard Doyle
SLSA, November 5-8, 2009
ATL
This paper will discuss the ongoing results of an intensive two day seminar collectively investigating the concept of the noosphere to be held November 6 & 7 in Atlanta, Georgia, location TBA.
"Decoding the Noosphere" Seminar Schedule
Day One
~~Morning~~am meditation 7-8
Morning session ( 10 am - Noon)
""Logical Types" Means "Knowing That You Don't Know": Bateson, Diamond Mind & The Pattern That Connects" ( With Special Reference to Barbieri)
~~Afternoon~~Afternoon ( 2 pm - 4 pm)
First Person Ecology of Mind: Practices and Patterns for the Noosphere
Day Two:
MorningDinner: 5-7
Night Caps (Satsang): 10-?
Learning to ~~Learn, Symmetry~~ Learn: Symmetry,EgoDeath and Plant Intelligence
Afternoon Intelligence
Omega Boost: Involution, Convergence & The Hyperbolic Topology of The Noosphere
Day Two:
am meditation 7-8
Morning (10 am -12 pm)
Lunch
Afternoon ( 2pm-4pm)

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Decoding the Noosphere: Reports from a Temporary Autonomous Seminar

SLSA, November 5-8, 2009

ATL

This paper will discuss the ongoing results of an intensive two day seminar collectively investigating the concept of the noosphere to be held November 6 & 7 in Atlanta, Georgia, location TBA.

Day One

Morning

""Logical Types" Means "Knowing That You Don't Know": Bateson, Diamond Mind & The Pattern That Connects" ( With Special Reference to Barbieri)

Afternoon

First Person Ecology of Mind: Practices and Patterns for the Noosphere

Day Two:

Morning

Learning to Learn, Symmetry and Plant Intelligence

Afternoon

Omega Boost: Involution, Convergence & The Hyperbolic Topology of The Noosphere

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FORTYFIED - a young fan's review
I found my first Nektar album, Remember the Future, in the dollar LP section of an Amoeba Music store in Hollywood California two years ago. To this day it is still the best record purchase I have made. Not only did my journey into the Nektar open me up to a whole new genre of music, but was the perfect companion as I entered into my own path of self discovery.
own ~~Netar~~ Nektar DJ, I could create a personalized, subjective experience that transcended time itself.
Nektar's latest album Fortyfied, as the title implies, builds upon a strong history of musical investigation while seemingly reviving themselves for the next evolution. The amazing quality of the live recordings aside, Nektar has proven that they can build upon the strength of 40 years of music with a new sense of past investigation. The old tunes are revived with slick guitar riffs, groovy baselines, jammy keyboard grinds, and anticipatory drum rolls which all seem to incorporate a new hint of sophistication and experienced fluidity. In other words, these are "some crunchy tunes man".
With Fortyfied, Netkar has shown that they have withstood the test of time by remaining constant with their aim and fluid with their approach. Forty years of introspective music has built a solid foundation for any individual listener to look within and find their point of focus, the ingredient within themselves that can add sugar to the sticky substance which brings us to pause. Nektar fans have been provided with a soundtrack for their own personal discovery, spanning the course of a history that we might wish to forget if it hadn't been so beautifully told.

blueshenlung edited AllYourBaseBelongToUS

email@hidden (blueshenlung) — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:05:36 -0500

blueshenlung edited AllYourBaseBelongToUS

email@hidden (blueshenlung) — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:04:48 -0500

LEVEL 2
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5/11/09
FORTYFIED - a young fan's review
I found my first Nektar album, Remember the Future, in the dollar LP section of an Amoeba Music store in Hollywood California two years ago. To this day it is still the best record purchase I have made. Not only did my journey into the Nektar open me up to a whole new genre of music, but was the perfect companion as I entered into my own path of self discovery.
Since I am a young late comer to the Nektar portfolio, I had the opportunity to experience the stages, moods, and developments of the band from somewhat of an abridged perspective. Instead, the space between albums was filled with the silence of reflection. As my own Netar DJ, I could create a personalized, subjective experience that transcended time itself.
Nektar's latest album Fortyfied, as the title implies, builds upon a strong history of musical investigation while seemingly reviving themselves for the next evolution. The amazing quality of the live recordings aside, Nektar has proven that they can build upon the strength of 40 years of music with a new sense of past investigation. The old tunes are revived with slick guitar riffs, groovy baselines, jammy keyboard grinds, and anticipatory drum rolls which all seem to incorporate a new hint of sophistication and experienced fluidity. In other words, these are "some crunchy tunes man".
With Fortyfied, Netkar has shown that they have withstood the test of time by remaining constant with their aim and fluid with their approach. Forty years of introspective music has built a solid foundation for any individual listener to look within and find their point of focus, the ingredient within themselves that can add sugar to the sticky substance which brings us to pause. Nektar fans have been provided with a soundtrack for their own personal discovery, spanning the course of a history that we might wish to forget if it hadn't been so beautifully told.
With this new foundation I eagerly await what will be birthed next.
5/02/09
"All aboard Starship Gaia!"

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Transmissions to Mobius - stow your requests for Darshan, messages to be relayed, satsang here, pleazee
TrackO'TheDay
mobius: "Reach for the Noosphere!"
mobius reminds hisself & his digital sangha that "letting go" of habit structure is always always always the right thing to do. Becoming the Overman or "the meaning of the earth" pace Zarathrustrameans not begrudgin' becoming its' due. This sometimes requires dropping out of the external world for awhile, going on retreat, even in your kitchen. It can be hard to tend the inner monastery without tuning the outer one. When you can, and even when you can't, drop out of your routines to discover the ways to tune your world toward Thriving, rather than toward the ways you have been historically and habitually bequeathed. The perrenial philosophy teaches practices for amplifying and actualizing an inner light, a Self, and if anything like it manifests out of the practices, it is self overcoming itself, your capacity to affirm an urge to overcome yourself through continuous growth. You are... the past, a sequence of words referring to a past that never happened seeking to overcome itself. That can be rough news on a Monday am, but it is the Good News itself, so get good with it!
One way to get Good with it is to work on integrating the Noosphere as a script into your everday epic. The diagram above sprouted on the web, and mobius is sampling it as a diagram for directing his thoughts. Adding another layer to my reality that calls attention to the effects of attention seems to dynamize the universe, making mobius more response-able. It increases my capacity to focus my attention, which yields healthy results, which encourages the focusing of attention, and so on. I am experimenting with using the above diagram as a way to direct my attention on the Big Picture when I get a little lost. Then the focus can be on something besides not being lost :)
mobius "TAZ in all directions!"
May Day, May Day! mobius Intertwingles: "I have Surveillance site "Ugolog" Screenshot on my Wiki'd Screen!"

Zach Valenta edited our pretty facesour pretty faces

email@hidden (Zach Valenta) — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:53:44 -0500

10 may 2009
ah, summer. it does the body good, these breezes and photons and insects buzzin. and, for those of us (all of us) on the university schedule, time off from things we are required to do (as we are apt to think of them, gently eliding the fact that we kinda signed up for stuff, and eagerly too at the time). what fills this absence? things we WANT to do! so hear is to hoping that everybody's summer is full of those, and that hopefully we can figure out how to break down the distinction between the two.
also, for anyone who likes basketball, i gotta say: are the nuggets maybe, possibly, the favorite out west? and if yes, do we need to revise our current conception of physics to cope with this unexpected probability? perhaps bump up the current estimate of dark energy in the universe? NOTHING MAKES ANY SENSE ANYMORE!
6 may 2009
i've been wondering if these wiki pages will go on forever, and i think they will, supposing we the people want them to. you know what i mean.

Phillip Ayoub edited Key Concepts in Question Concerning Technology

email@hidden (Phillip Ayoub) — Sun, 10 May 2009 10:17:55 -0500

Revealing:
Standing-reserve:
Examples:
New technology often possesses new directives for social activity which through their new found use reveal new social conflicts. See O'Day et al's (1998)notion of a "sociotechnical design circle"
Abstract Intro:"Where Computer systems developed for groups of people often have built-in social imperatives, either explicitly or implicitly brought to bear during technology design and use. Even when users are active, ongoing participants in design, conflicts can arise between the social assumptions inscribed in technical mechanisms and those in existing or proposed social practices, resulting in changes to both."

blueshenlung edited NoosphericalLinkPile

email@hidden (blueshenlung) — Fri, 8 May 2009 16:38:07 -0500

Russian stray dogs are the smartest.
Growing the Galactic Noosphere backward and forward.
A new take on the Resurrection

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mobius "TAZ in all directions!"
May Day, May Day! mobius Intertwingles: "I have Surveillance site "Ugolog" Screenshot on my Wiki'd Screen!"
peer ~~privact~~ privacy planet, aka, "Project "Pop!" Goes the Noosphere, The Intertwingularity is here!"
mobius: "Prepare to be Diagnosed!" Complete mobius Interview for Singularity Hub Blog Now Available!
Extracts to be found in excellent surveillance story by that Johnson, Drew Halley, here:

blueshenlung edited BrainController

email@hidden (blueshenlung) — Wed, 6 May 2009 20:48:12 -0500

Brain Controllers
OCZ ~~nia Emotiv~~ nia Emotiv EPOC ~~NeuroSky~~ NeuroSky
The following articles and manufacturer websites discuss a new video game technology. ~~The~~ The devices use brain waves to control video games instead of facial expressions or manual controls. What are the implications in "training the brain" to play video games? ~~Are~~ Are they recording your existing brain waves when you do certain tasks and programming it to video game controls, or does each person have to learn how to change their brain frequency in order to control the game? ~~Would~~ Would this change your all-around brain frequency? Regardless if it takes your existing frequencies or not, it is a new way for the brain to react and control a device. ~~Could~~ Could it change the way your brain functions; how the synapses fire? ~~Few~~ Few studies have yet been done or released with this technology to report on the implications and consequences to Consciousness.
Understanding Neurofeedback
~~InternationalSocietyforNeurofeedback&Research-~~InternationalSocietyforNeurofeedback&Research- large data base of articles and journals on biofeedback and brainwave technology.
WhatisQuantitativeEEG
The human brain is the most resilient and adaptable structure in nature, the source
Controllers
OCZ Impulse Actuator
productpage. ~~The~~ The dedicated site has the software suite available for download which includes tutorial information on calibrating the hardware and creating different profiles for each game.
Tutorial on Calibration
signal. ~~With~~ With headband on and plugged into nia box, the control signal should quickly drop towards a reference baseline. ~~Once~~ Once signal drops it is possible to fine tune control by selecting Run Calibration. ~~The~~ The calibration routine presents the user with a gyroscope to focus on for approximately 15 seconds, after which the computer will automatically adjust the signal ampliciation to the optimal dynamic range and signal-to-noise ratio of the computer."
Tutorial on Create New Profile
mutators. ~~For~~ For example, First Person Shooter (FPS) games will require different key bindings than for example Role Playing Games (RPG), Strategy, or Racing games. ~~These~~ These different requirements can easily be addressed by creating customized profiles for each game or level within."
News Articles
Overclock3D.net article
http://www.ocztechnology.com/aboutocz/press/2008/273
Emotiv EPOC
activity. At At Emotiv, we've created a robust system and methodology for detecting and classifying both human conscious thoughts and non-conscious emotions. This revolutionary patent pending neural processing technology makes it possible for computers to interact directly with the human brain."
http://www.emotiv.com/corporate/2_0/2_1.htm
DetectionSuites
The Emotiv Game Developer SDK comprises of our development neuroheadset and proprietary toolkit, which incorporates our unique set of detection suites. Detection suites can be used alone or combined for an even more spectacular game play experience.
The Telepathic Joypad -- Telegraph.co.uk
activity. It It seems that there will be a period of calibration as the software maps the way your individual mind works, in the same way that you have to spend a few afternoons reading out parts of Alice in Wonderland to teach your computer how you speak."
EPOC lets brain waves run video games -- MarineTimes
Were hoping to help evolve the way humans interact with machines, says Tan Le, CEO of Emotiv, an Australian company with researchers in Sydney and an engineering lab here.
Below are some videos demoing this and similar technology.
History
Receiver. ~~According~~ According to the AtariMuseum, "the controllers did not perform well and gave people headaches from over concentration and constantly moving their eyebrows around to control the onscreen activities." ~~The~~ The Atari Mindlink System never made it into production.
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Study and Application
Exclusive gamesoftware for the Emotiv technology developed by Demiurge Studios.
proposal- ~~Use~~ Use brain controller technology to interact with others online via chat in ways outside of the normal application.
Mental typewriter and mobility aids
The machine makes it possible to type messages onto a computer screen by mentally controlling the movement of a cursor. A user must wear a cap containing electrodes that measure electrical activity inside the brain, known as an electroencephalogram (EEG) signal, and imagine moving their left or right arm in order to manoeuvre the cursor around.
Wheelchair interface
InnerActiveHealthProject
bio-cybernetic ~~computer~~ computer games. These games incorporate physiological sensors such as EEG ~~(measures~~ (measures brain waves), EMG (measures muscle tension, and HRV (measures heart-rate ~~patterns).~~ patterns). These sensors can be used to manipulate the action in the game ~~through~~ through biofeedback, along with keyboard, mouse and joystick controls. Until ~~recently,~~ recently, these games have been primarily used under the supervision of professional ~~trainers~~ trainers and therapists, with the intention of helping people manage conditions ~~such~~ such as attention deficit, anxiety or chronic pain. The games operate on the ~~principle~~ principle of training new neurological states through biofeedback. By measuring ~~neurological~~ neurological activity with the sensors, then pairing the intended neurological ~~state~~ state with repeated positive re-enforcement given by success in the games, ~~the~~ the user learns to recognize and maintain the desired state. Currently, there ~~are~~ are several games on the market which are available to the general public. ~~These~~ These games are mainly intended to train users in relaxation, focus and meditation ~~skills.~~ skills.
Thought controlled orchestra

Zach Valenta edited our pretty facesour pretty faces

email@hidden (Zach Valenta) — Wed, 6 May 2009 09:38:06 -0500

6 may 2009
i've been wondering if these wiki pages will go on forever, and i think they will, supposing we the people want them to. you know what i mean.
also, wondering: what are finals week like for everyone? not in the usual sense, 1) "how are finals going" 2) "uh. you know. can't wait to leave. three tests tomorrow" 3) "omg, me too!".
personally, finding this week to be a worthy adversary, because in no period of the year is it harder not to quantize life, which can be experienced and moved and touched, into time, which can only be passed by staring wildly in the dark waiting for a light from the something, anything that we'd imagine the future to be.
which is not to say that i don't anticipate an exciting summer, with much to do. but it seems to unethical to bifurcate myself all week.
but, to peek briefly at the summer, for anyone who will be in state college may-august, hopefully i will see y'all around. everyone heading out, enjoy the summer and be well.
29 april 2009
and now, what you (certainly, what i) have been waiting for, the true promise of the internet according to local news op-ed pieces on maladjusted teenagers (who ain't at 16?), EMOTING.

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Transmissions to Mobius - stow your requests for Darshan, messages to be relayed, satsang here, pleazee
TrackO'TheDay
mobius "TAZ in all directions!"
May Day, May Day! mobius Intertwingles: "I have Surveillance site "Ugolog" Screenshot on my Wiki'd Screen!"
See http://biotelemetrica.pbworks.com/BioTelemetrica for further hints on radically anonymous collective intelligence and the peer to peer privact planet, aka, "Project "Pop!" Goes the Noosphere, The Intertwingularity is here!"

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Thus Wiki'd Mobius
technobabble",
~~"bizarre~~ "bizarre (possibly nonsense)"...
Refreshing your RealityTunnel with involutionary CreativeDestruction Since At Least 2006
...mobius@psu.edu

blueshenlung edited AllYourBaseBelongToUS

email@hidden (blueshenlung) — Tue, 5 May 2009 20:14:14 -0500

"Did you think your name was Keet?"
White light spot lights hide her expectation. Limbs suspended from rafters in belts, clasps, and intricately knotted rope hold her steady for the hot wax to seep into her nylon clad skin. The goat coaxes her to scream in painful pleasure like a whore in a Greek snuff film. Grabbing her stiletto heels so she can bear down he fucks her upside down, from behind filling every orifice with insideout cod pieces of cold metal and pink dry plaster dildoes which flake away with every thrust to the back of her womb. He'd fuck her veins if he could.
his disfigured cock.
You can thank your mother, you can thank your father, you can thank.....the tickling trickster....bursting microwaved hot dogs. The nightmares are discarded as entropic melon balls for the Universal Class Reunion.
4/17/09

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the ~~image of the physical world is not so much~~ image of the physical world is not so much adanceofgesturesasawoventexture. Light, sound, touch, taste, and smell become a continuous warp, with the feeling that the whole dimension of sensation is a single continuum or field. Crossing the warp is a woof representing the dimension of meaningmoral and aesthetic sound, touch, taste, and smell become a continuous warp, with the feeling that the whole dimension of sensation is a single continuum or field. Crossing the warp is a woof representing the dimension of meaningmoral and aesthetic values, ~~personal or individual uniqueness, logical significance, and~~ personal or individual uniqueness, logical significance, and expressive ~~formand the two dimensions interpenetrate so as to make distinguishable shapes seem like ripples in the water of~~ formand the two dimensions interpenetrate so as to make distinguishable shapes seem like ripples in the water of sensation. ~~The warp and the woof stream together, for the weaving is neither flat nor static but a many-directioned~~ The warp and the woof stream together, for the weaving is neither flat nor static but a many-directioned cross-flow ~~of impulses filling the whole volume of space.~~ of impulses filling the whole volume of space. Ifeelthattheworldisonsomething ~~in somewhat the same way that a color photograph is on a film, underlying and connecting the patches~~ in somewhat the same way that a color photograph is on a film, underlying and connecting the patches of color, though the film here is a dense rain of ~~color, though the film here is a dense rain of energy.~~ energy. Iseethatwhatitisonismybrain"that ~~enchanted loom," as Sherrington~~ enchanted loom," as Sherrington called it. Brain and world, warp of sense and woof of meaning, seem to interpenetrate inseparably. They %5Bhold it. Brain and world, warp of sense and woof of meaning, seem to interpenetrate inseparably. They %5Bhold their boundaries or limits in common%5D in such a way as to define one another and to be impossible without each other. in such a way as to define one another and to be impossible without each other.
AlanWatts,__TheJoyousCosmology__
"It would seem that our laws which describe interaction on the molecular level are mirror images of those psychophysical laws which deal with the sensory representation of that interaction," and "apparently," Fischer continues, cueing Sherrington, " whether we look at chromosomes, cathedrals, or even into the mirror, we always look at our own brain" (368)

David J Saab edited Heidegger: Online Resources

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Ereignis: An Online Journal Devoted to Heidegger Studies
http://www.beyng.com/ereignis.html
Books about Heidegger and Technology
http://www.webcom.com/paf/hb/hbtech.html

David J Saab edited Heidegger: Online Resources

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Ereignis: An Online Journal Devoted to Heidegger Studies
http://www.beyng.com/ereignis.html
Books about Heidegger and Technology
http://www.webcom.com/paf/hb/hbtech.html

David J Saab edited Key Concepts in Question Concerning Technology

email@hidden (David J Saab) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:11:11 -0500

The Question Concerning Technology
What are the important concepts in this essay? How does Heidegger define them? What relevance do they have for information science? Do these concepts manifest in theoretical frameworks used in information science research (i.e., structuration theory, activity theory)? What are the differences between what Heidegger put forth and the related elements of these theoretical frameworks?
Technology:
Essence:
Revealing:
Standing-reserve:

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music, meet wiki; wiki, meet music
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"Music, meet Wiki; Wiki meet Music" narrates a pedagogical experiment based on this premise: the art of participating in the configuration of wiki space is a visual and spatial analogue of musical rhythmic practices of composition. What happens when we try and amplify this "sonification" of rhetorical practice in digital information ecologies by directly mixing sound and wiki?

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~~WoW~~wow Level Guide
The 56 page Power Leveling Guide explains with many screenshots illustrate how the easiest and fastest way to Level 60 comes. If they are the steps as described in the Guide will make it within a few days of high character gebastelt have.
It is a 1 MB PDF file, which we sent to you within 24 hours after receipt of payment to your e-mail sent.
* You never have to be afraid of 1 months at the same level of Ten linger * With this guide, they will very quickly reach Level 60 * For Horde and Alliance * With all the characters fully playable
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Why do I need so long on the way to 60?
Quite simply not everyone has as much pleasure or leisure time in a computer to connect. Therefore, we have a Power Leveling Guide is written to them step by step all the movements said. Thus, they may be on the path toward 60 Back lean and beautiful things to enjoy this game.
A small sample should now fully convince (available from the author):
For these levels, I have a special spot Grind found. Here you can without any problems at the 40,000 points XP make. One must also not be extrapolated from Tanaris wegreisen. Because of Farmspot is somewhat hidden in the south of Tanaris. Here are some easy quests and the mobs are all individually from the group draw. You must therefore never be against more opponents simultaneously fight. The mobs hot Dunemaul Oger, which incredible amounts of Xp and Mageweave hergeben. This can be either for gold in the auction house sold or the first aid skills in associations transformed. It should not be level 47-48 before leaving the spot. From Level 47, there are 2 more possibilities. Either you are on Itemsuche and makes Zul'Farak, this is one instance, the first of a lot of XP with it, and secondly, many good items can eject. Furthermore, there are about 7 quests, which we all can do without any problems. A run with all the quest is worth at least one level. If you already have good items, and also in this instance are not interested. Should the way to Azshara to take on the ghosts and farms begin. Man gets here about 250 Xp per mob, and just as the ogre can not be with the Mageweave Drops rags and finally Respawnrate is very high. That means they must never be suspended, because there is no opponent. I have already partially Level 55 + characters seen what these firemen spot.
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WoW Level GuideThe 56 page Power Leveling Guide explains with many screenshots illustrate how the easiest and fastest way to Level 60 comes. If they are the steps as described in the Guide will make it within a few days of high character gebastelt have.It is a 1 MB PDF file, which we sent to you within 24 hours after receipt of payment to your e-mail sent. * You never have to be afraid of 1 months at the same level of Ten linger * With this guide, they will very quickly reach Level 60 * For Horde and Alliance * With all the characters fully playable%5Bhttp://de.youtube.com/watch?v=wSW9biBC944 wow Leveling Guide%5DWhy do I need so long on the way to 60?Quite simply not everyone has as much pleasure or leisure time in a computer to connect. Therefore, we have a Power Leveling Guide is written to them step by step all the movements said. Thus, they may be on the path toward 60 Back lean and beautiful things to enjoy this game.How long does it to Level 60?This is probably the most important issue in the game! Whether novice or professional they will not last long on the road after 60 spend, but as soon as possible the major Raidinstanzen can take part. If they play for the first time they will explore 7-12 (ingame) days as the need has advanced a lot less.A small sample should now fully convince (available from the author):For these levels, I have a special spot Grind found. Here you can without any problems at the 40,000 points XP make. One must also not be extrapolated from Tanaris wegreisen. Because of Farmspot is somewhat hidden in the south of Tanaris. Here are some easy quests and the mobs are all individually from the group draw. You must therefore never be against more opponents simultaneously fight. The mobs hot Dunemaul Oger, which incredible amounts of Xp and Mageweave hergeben. This can be either for gold in the auction house sold or the first aid skills in associations transformed. It should not be level 47-48 before leaving the spot. From Level 47, there are 2 more possibilities. Either you are on Itemsuche and makes Zul\'Farak, this is one instance, the first of a lot of XP with it, and secondly, many good items can eject. Furthermore, there are about 7 quests, which we all can do without any problems. A run with all the quest is worth at least one level. If you already have good items, and also in this instance are not interested. Should the way to Azshara to take on the ghosts and farms begin. Man gets here about 250 Xp per mob, and just as the ogre can not be with the Mageweave Drops rags and finally Respawnrate is very high. That means they must never be suspended, because there is no opponent. I have already partially Level 55 + characters seen what these firemen spot.Here is the screenshot for the World of Warcraft %5Bhttp://de.youtube.com/watch?v=wSW9biBC944 wow Leveling Guide%5D card statement 1 ... Gadgetzan2 ... Steamwheedle3 ... Pirate Bay, %5B45%5D Piratenhte Ahoy, %5B45%5D cheating and blackmail in Sdmeer4 ... Waste mobs walking, water bag bounty, Waste migrant justice5 ... Dunemaul ogres, %5B49%5D The Dunemaul camp6 ... Zul\'Farak (instance)

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Because wiki "windows" "bear the mark of the infinite" (Govinda 24), learning to pay attention to how we wyrd in wiki cues wikidelicpedagogy. As teachers, we can begin with a performance. A how-to: how to become a search engine for rhetorics. Gaiansyllabi abound, everywhere: rhythmic traditions of the sacred provide clues as to how we might entrain everyday rhythms. These rhythmic recipes, these sacred scripts, at once both specific and timeless, open our writing to asignification, and enable the navigation of many degrees of asignificatory dynamics. They start with zero and proceed to One, via repetition. Repeatedly transitioning, reduplicating, chorusing, accelerating; but also decelerating, juxtaposing, jump-cutting, splitting, and also, perhaps most importantly, stopping and abiding in the lacunae of timelessness that perforate the dynamic mesh that wyrds weave when we affirm their irrational penumbra. We call this after the Lion King and the Lion's Roar, "Lacuna Mutata."
Mantram, for example, have for millenia provided rhetors with a means for cultivating this capacity for abiding in alternatingcurrents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing attention. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. The world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, ranging from the grosser skhanda to subtlest mesh of rhythmizomena, the emergent noosphere. Following Boethius, and taking into account his degrees of order rising out of and dissipating back into "Fate's mobility," we seek rhetorics that would not only transduce information up and down, but in all directions on this stigmergic scale.
wiki, ~~equals~~ achieves resonance. Our compressed way of grounding, organizing, rebooting, dissolving, and illuminating a multimedia pedagogy that allows the resonance to do the composing is to connect this understanding to a short refrain or mantric formula. For example, we like to repeat\"inthebeginningwasthewyrd,andthewyrdwaswiki.
Mantras have been understood both as words imbued with deep meaning and as utterly "meaningless" or nonsemantic fields of force. That semantic and asignifying registers interleave on theworldwideweb is aptly illustrated by emergent spaces composed of metadata by means of social bookmarking. In these "taggingcommunities", rhetors find new combinations and transformations in the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of presupposition - their approach to the now wiki'd other. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Gregory Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26).
As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks intowords--a resonance technology for facilitating the rhetorical performance of a remix. We also offer Thewikiisthemediumisthemessage as a McLuhan-inspired mantra for this capacitor-like capacity of wiki.

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Tidings from a small corridor of the Mind-at-Large. This here is the new representation of an old entity, a scattered firing of the conglomarate of neurons and squishy matter formerly known as chronictronic. Changes of character are necessary to sustain and evolve the narrative of what would only appear to be a differentiated ego. Not that this is a radical reinvention of this self. The self continues to evolve, the handle has merely become sleeker, sexier, more sustainable to reflect that progress. Which is to say, chronictronic has gone and graduated. This new student is learning about what it means to survive outside of certain familiar structures. I'm learning what learning is. An appearance will be made soon to your space-time locale, but in the mean between then and now I offer my services as gnome to this digital community. Links will be dropped, ideas exchanged, and recent changes watched. Til then.
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I don't know if constricting the Center's message to a single medium would reach more Penn State students than a multiplicity of channels; however, it seems that the classroom-instructor complex is most useful for actually bringing people out to the site or to the website. Beyond the classroom, I think web-based media, such as podcasts and emails and other news-feeds do a good job of exposure. At some point though, we want the Center for Sustainability to transcend the category of "News" and enter the category of "Place I want to go" or "Thing I want to do"
4) If given the chance to improve one aspect of the Center, what might you choose?
say HumorShqip "the volume of the Center's image" as an aspect to be improved, but everyone on the CfS team is working on that and I think it's well on its way. If you mean, what physical Humor Shqip structure or system would I change, I think I would choose the water systems. Rainwater is collected at several locations on-site, but the extent and effectiveness of it could be greatly improved, so that grid-tied water would not be a necessity.
5) What are two practical but pivotal actions students can take that wouldn't scare an average student away?
The first action I would recommend is to buy local and/or organic foods and products. People like to buy stuff, so modifying their Humor Shqip purchasing power is an easy way to send a strong message to the commercial sphere about what is valuable to us. Second, beyond recycling and throwing away your trash, composting is really the next-most necessary individual behavior that needs to become popular. And it's really easy...shamefully easy, actually.

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Nietzsche was anti-DOCTRine; which foreshadows his antagonism towards the medical establishment.
Just a strange thought such as those you might get when you fall asleep at 7pm on a weekend night! (And wake up before 5am on a Monday).
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02/12/2007
Due Humor Shqip to a variety of factors, including the continued lack of financial support from the Center itself or outside avenues, as well as the impending transformation of the Center's grounds, it HumorShqip has become an impossible situation for me to manage the entire farm alone.
Instead, I will return to my previous role of primary gardening volunteer. I will keep up the gardens of the farm, and manage the rented garden plots. Thank you to everyone who visited, volunteered, chatted, or otherwise contributed to the Center for Sustainability. I have learned a great deal from everyone and am very grateful for the experience.
focus Humor Shqip on energy. I think we have several podcasts ready in that case. I will unveil them soon and post them here as well as elsewhere!
Hey Jamie:
project! ~~Here~~ Humor Shqip Here are the signs that I have made that need additional information:
-Aerating Windmill
-Fire Pit
-Rain H2O Catchment
-Greenhouse
~~-Solar Panels~~Solar Panels
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can Humor Shqip email me the information at lmj143@psu.edu if you like. Let me HumorShqip know if this is feasible for you! I don't want this to take up all your study time.
Thanks! Lisa ArizonaCitrus
being Humor Shqip on the show, it was a cool experience, and Mobius and both complemented you on being a natural spokesperson for all things sustainable. I would love to have you on again before the end of the semester ( and this time record it!). Yea, I'm a dumbass for not, but what are you going to ~~do. Anyways,~~ do Humor Shqip. Anyways, I look forward to having you on again if you'll willingly put up with the childish remarks from some of our listeners. I think the key to getting your and my message out is persistence. See you tomorow, thanks again.
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Hey man, it's the Old Man, Brendan. I just wanted to ask you a few questions about the Center for the paper I'm writing in English 421.
your HumorShqip proposal went alright without my responses to your questions, and I hope they're still useful to you.
1) When did the Center start, and or when was it officially sustainable?
grass Humor Shqip and clay at the time. Thus, it has always been on the verge - read:precipice - of not being sustained. To be "officially sustainable", I'm assuming you mean self-sustaining a human resident. It is still only a movement toward that goal, but my ecological footprint measurements will determine the answer to that question. The average American requires over 20 Humor Shqip acres of land a year (his/her Ecological Footprint), while the previous resident DaveLettero managed an average footprint of under 10 acres. Ideally, we would all have a footprint under 5 acres. So! That's the plan Old Man: I strive to achieve an ecological footprint under 5 acres and thus demonstrate the Center's sustainability.
2) How much money does the university allocate to the Center per year?
thousands Humor Shqip more funnel into the SolarDecathlonproject from a variety of University and commercial+industrial+private sources. Exact figures are hard for me to come by.
3) If given the chance to advertise on a large scale what medium do you think would reach Penn State students the most?
I don't know if constricting the Center's message to a single medium would reach more Penn State students than a multiplicity of channels; however, it seems that the classroom-instructor complex is most useful for actually bringing people out to the site or to the website. Beyond the classroom, I think web-based media, such as podcasts and emails and other news-feeds do a good job of exposure. At some point though, we want the Center for Sustainability to transcend the category of "News" and enter the category of "Place I want to go" or "Thing I want to do"
4) If given the chance to improve one aspect of the Center, what might you choose?
physical Humor Shqip structure or system would I change, I think I would choose the water systems. Rainwater is collected at several locations on-site, but the extent and effectiveness of it could be greatly improved, so that grid-tied water would not be a necessity.
5) What are two practical but pivotal actions students can take that wouldn't scare an average student away?
their Humor Shqip purchasing power is an easy way to send a strong message to the commercial sphere about what is valuable to us. Second, beyond recycling and throwing away your trash, composting is really the next-most necessary individual behavior that needs to become popular. And it's really easy...shamefully easy, actually.
Hope that helps Brendan!

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The Spirit of Sanctuary: Pinch Pots and Other Hollows (Temple/House/Church/Mosque)
My work with with clay begins from the experience that emptiness and space are not voids, but entities unto themselves. Vessels of "non-being" such as pinch pots, in both their fabrication and their observation, suggest that far from enslaved to an all-knowing mind, our sensory organs are themselves autonomously conscious entities capable of apprehending and manipulating aspects of reality that, strictly speaking, aren't there. My fingertips, contacting clay, become charged with the "non-being" we can host, together. "Non-being", then, is simply a label for an aspect of "mute", "empty" space that is in fact vital and uncannily absent from much of contemporary life. Working with clay, my hands/eyes/muscles/bones/chin/skin divine a sacred feature of reality, a material spirit of sanctuary.
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At Lochner, or when working with the public, Herschel would never raise his voice, never interrupt (even at times when normally patient people would be exasperated). He never dominated a conversation and never outwardly showed any impatience or disrespect, even when dealing with the most belligerent and angry members of the public. When other colleagues puffery rendered them inconsequential, Herschels quiet integrity made a lasting impression.
And over the years that integrity has had a profound effect on me. When I started working for Herschel, while still in graduate school, I felt I knew a lot about the world. Looking back, I cringe when I recall how foolish I often behaved. But Herschel was always patient, suffering through my foolishness, my haughtiness, my insolence with just a simple, knowing smile. He understood the futility of criticism; his approach was far more effective: he simply set a consistent example. And by his example, I slowly came to realize the wisdom of his calmer, more peaceful, more humble way of maneuvering through business and life.
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Herschel Conner: Our Colleague and Friend
By Jeff Schlotter
It is with a deep sense of loss that I prepare this reflection on our friend and
colleague, Herschel C. Conner, Jr., who died on May 23 from a rare form of liver
cancer. Herschel was 61. Having joined Lochner in 1976, Herschel spent his career in our St. Petersburg and then Clearwater office. He was an urban planner and philosopher by
education, and at Lochner was a Senior Vice President, Project Manager, and environmental specialist.
But he was far more than that.
I first met Herschel when I interviewed for my job at Lochner, in 1986, and he became my boss for the next 20 years. Over that time I came to respect him as a professional of the highest intelligence and integrity. I also came to love him as a friend, mentor, role model and wise and patient counselor. Time and time again I witnessed the respect that our clients and colleagues reserved for Herschel, and over the years I came to realize it was because he always showed his respect for them. He would always actively listen to what was being said, whether in a one-on-one conversation, in a formal client meeting, or at a public meeting. And then, having listened well, he would, in his quiet and calm way, provide responses that shed uncanny clarity on whatever was being discussed.
Herschel had boundless curiosity about the technical sciences, about history, about the social sciences, about our transportation industry and our society. He also had the ability to recall dates, facts, meetings, project details, technical procedures, and other information with remarkable accuracy. Whether directing a project or conducting internal Lochner work, he would routinely amaze me with his ability to cut through the fog and set the record straight.
At Lochner, or when working with the public, Herschel would never raise his voice, never interrupt (even at times when normally patient people would be exasperated). He never dominated a conversation and never outwardly showed any impatience or disrespect, even when dealing with the most belligerent and angry members of the public. When other colleagues puffery rendered them inconsequential, Herschels quiet integrity made a lasting impression.
And over the years that integrity has had a profound effect on me. When I started working for Herschel, while still in graduate school, I felt I knew a lot about the world. Looking back, I cringe when I recall how foolish I often behaved. But Herschel was always patient, suffering through my foolishness, my haughtiness, my insolence with just a simple, knowing smile. He understood the futility of criticism; his approach was far more effective: he simply set a consistent example. And by his example, I slowly came to realize the wisdom of his calmer, more peaceful, more humble way of maneuvering through business and life.
I miss Herschel Conner very much, and Lochner has suffered a great loss with his passing. He was a gracious, caring person, whose faith guided him throughout his life a life that some might say was unfairly shortened by his disease. But he would never use the word unfair; his faith never wavered. Im told he was serene, unafraid, and very much at peace to the very end, which didnt surprise me. I can remember him reminding me that
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Our next step was to transduce our printed screen shots with a video camera. In this process, we also navigated wyrd and took more "cuts"--this time, with a video camera--from the wiki. Then, we embedded this moving cut-up on the wiki. The transitive verb "to transduce" describes processes that "alter the physical nature or medium of (a signal)" and "convert variations in (a medium) into corresponding variations in another medium" (OED). When pressure or brightness is converted to voltage or position, you have transduction (OED) The Federal Telecommunications Standard 1037CA describes a transducer as a "device for converting energy from one form to another for the purpose of measurement of a physical quantity or for information transfer" With daily wiki practice, we become attuned to this dynamic nature of information. \"AtthesametimeIamcaughtupinexperiencingcertainpatternsofwyrd,Iamcreatingthem" (What is Wyrd?) In this way, transduction becomes the translational mode for weaving wyrds in wiki. Merging with these differential gradients of information transfer, wiki welcomes technologies of writingwithsound,image,andtext.
Suddenly, technological metaphors and analogies for the act of wyrding--antennae, phonographs, tapeheads, and cathode ray tubes--actualize as multimedia practice with sound, image, and text. These are repetition-based practices of rhythm, and the lightning computations they facilitate find their most crystalized form in a "logic of gnosis," through the sacred compressions of mantra, yantra, and mudra. In multimedia composition, writing and learning proceed by transduction, rhetorics for commons-formation.
with ~~zeroandproceedto%5Bhttp://biotelemetrica.pbwiki.com/Zero2One?SearchFor=Zero&sp=4One,~~ zero and proceed to One, via repetition. Repeatedly transitioning, reduplicating, chorusing, accelerating; but also decelerating, juxtaposing, jump-cutting, splitting, and also, perhaps most importantly, stopping and abiding in the lacunae of timelessness that perforate the dynamic mesh that wyrds weave when we affirm their irrational penumbra. We call this after the Lion King and the Lion's Roar, "Lacuna Mutata."
Mantram, for example, have for millenia provided rhetors with a means for cultivating this capacity for abiding in alternatingcurrents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing attention. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. The world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, ranging from the grosser skhanda to subtlest mesh of rhythmizomena, the emergent noosphere. Following Boethius, and taking into account his degrees of order rising out of and dissipating back into "Fate's mobility," we seek rhetorics that would not only transduce information up and down, but in all directions on this stigmergic scale.
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association of the Sanskrit syllable "Om"("Aum") with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric point from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the infinite that elude, like a mobius band, these rhetorics of "penetration" and affirms fenestration and even defenestration. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Neologistas forever! Govinda's study of the universal mantra is, in the sense of manual or guide, a rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, and it is only one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance. Our compressed way of grounding, organizing, rebooting, dissolving, and illuminating a multimedia pedagogy that allows the resonance to do the composing is to connect this understanding to a short refrain or mantric formula. For example, we like to repeat\"inthebeginningwasthewyrd,andthewyrdwaswiki.

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Trey Conner, University of South Florida, aka ShareRiff
Richard Doyle, Penn State University, aka mobius
passwyrd is "wyrd"
special edition wyrdzine
"With the smallest residue of superstition within oneself, one would indeed hardly escape the idea of being merely the incarnation, the mouth-piece, the medium of super-human powers. The idea of revelation, in the sense that suddenly with incredible certainty and subtlety, something becomes visible and audible, shaking us and overpowering us in our deepest being: all this is merely a description of facts. One listens, one does not search; one accepts, one does not ask, who is giving; likelightning a thought flashes up, with necessity, without hesitation with regard to its form--I never had a choice" - Friedrich Nietzsche

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Trey Conner, University of South Florida, aka ShareRiff
Richard Doyle, Penn State University, aka mobius
special edition wyrdzine
"With the smallest residue of superstition within oneself, one would indeed hardly escape the idea of being merely the incarnation, the mouth-piece, the medium of super-human powers. The idea of revelation, in the sense that suddenly with incredible certainty and subtlety, something becomes visible and audible, shaking us and overpowering us in our deepest being: all this is merely a description of facts. One listens, one does not search; one accepts, one does not ask, who is giving; likelightning a thought flashes up, with necessity, without hesitation with regard to its form--I never had a choice" - Friedrich Nietzsche
We are two teachers of rhetoric who have been working with wikis for three and seven years respectively, and we wanted to share the complex admixture of interconnection, solicitation and diaspora we had witnessed in our teaching. We knew, for example, that for teaching contemporary multimedia composition, wikis are fantastic tools for inducing student composition and sharing. Our classes formed communities as never before, they shared and collaborated and improved drastically. Yet narrating this phenomenon, or even just sharing a website is, we have found, insufficient to transmitting the intensely affective charge associated with wikidelic pedagogy, and the narrative tends to flatten out the very between-ness that wiki fosters. In short, for all of our enthusiasm, only those who had intensely wiki'd seemed to understand. A new tactic was in order if we were to bring the experience of wikidelia to the printed page: So, drawing on the history of avant garde composition, which seeks to interrupt readerly attention to ordinary consciousness and heighten the gaps and lacuane of texts (as in Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs method of thecut-up), we began to "cut-up" a wiki in process.

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"With the smallest residue of superstition within oneself, one would indeed hardly escape the idea of being merely the incarnation, the mouth-piece, the medium of super-human powers. The idea of revelation, in the sense that suddenly with incredible certainty and subtlety, something becomes visible and audible, shaking us and overpowering us in our deepest being: all this is merely a description of facts. One listens, one does not search; one accepts, one does not ask, who is giving; likelightning a thought flashes up, with necessity, without hesitation with regard to its form--I never had a choice" - Friedrich Nietzsche
We are two teachers of rhetoric who have been working with wikis for three and seven years respectively, and we wanted to share the complex admixture of interconnection, solicitation and diaspora we had witnessed in our teaching. We knew, for example, that for teaching contemporary multimedia composition, wikis are fantastic tools for inducing student composition and sharing. Our classes formed communities as never before, they shared and collaborated and improved drastically. Yet narrating this phenomenon, or even just sharing a website is, we have found, insufficient to transmitting the intensely affective charge associated with wikidelic pedagogy, and the narrative tends to flatten out the very between-ness that wiki fosters. In short, for all of our enthusiasm, only those who had intensely wiki'd seemed to understand. A new tactic was in order if we were to bring the experience of wikidelia to the printed page: So, drawing on the history of avant garde composition, which seeks to interrupt readerly attention to ordinary consciousness and heighten the gaps and lacuane of texts (as in Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs method of thecut-up), we began to "cut-up" a wiki in process.
our ~~now paper text~~ (now paper) text, thefirst'zineeditionofwyrd2thewiki, in order to make it rhetorically resonate with the lacunaed papyrus texts discovered in clay pots at NagHammadi, sacred texts that enthrall as much through theirgaps as their remarkable content. We then carefully boxed and mailed this "Nag Hammadi Fortune Cookie" off to our fearless editors, presenting them with a text which, in order to be read, must be broken. We hope you feel the joy, hear the call, and jump right in. Wyrd!
The Great Transduction
Our next step was to transduce our printed screen shots with a video camera. In this process, we also navigated wyrd and took more "cuts"--this time, with a video camera--from the wiki. Then, we embedded this moving cut-up on the wiki. The transitive verb "to transduce" describes processes that "alter the physical nature or medium of (a signal)" and "convert variations in (a medium) into corresponding variations in another medium" (OED). When pressure or brightness is converted to voltage or position, you have transduction (OED) The Federal Telecommunications Standard 1037CA describes a transducer as a "device for converting energy from one form to another for the purpose of measurement of a physical quantity or for information transfer" With daily wiki practice, we become attuned to this dynamic nature of information. \"AtthesametimeIamcaughtupinexperiencingcertainpatternsofwyrd,Iamcreatingthem" (What is Wyrd?) In this way, transduction becomes the translational mode for weaving wyrds in wiki. Merging with these differential gradients of information transfer, wiki welcomes technologies of writingwithsound,image,andtext.

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Suddenly, technological metaphors and analogies for the act of wyrding--antennae, phonographs, tapeheads, and cathode ray tubes--actualize as multimedia practice with sound, image, and text. These are repetition-based practices of rhythm, and the lightning computations they facilitate find their most crystalized form in a "logic of gnosis," through the sacred compressions of mantra, yantra, and mudra. In multimedia composition, writing and learning proceed by transduction, rhetorics for commons-formation.
Because wiki "windows" "bear the mark of the infinite" (Govinda 24), learning to pay attention to how we wyrd in wiki cues wikidelicpedagogy. As teachers, we can begin with a performance. A how-to: how to become a search engine for rhetorics. Gaiansyllabi abound, everywhere: rhythmic traditions of the sacred provide clues as to how we might entrain everyday rhythms. These rhythmic recipes, these sacred scripts, at once both specific and timeless, open our writing to asignification, and enable the navigation of many degrees of asignificatory dynamics. They start with zeroandproceedto%5Bhttp://biotelemetrica.pbwiki.com/Zero2One?SearchFor=Zero&sp=4One, via repetition. Repeatedly transitioning, reduplicating, chorusing, accelerating; but also decelerating, juxtaposing, jump-cutting, splitting, and also, perhaps most importantly, stopping and abiding in the lacunae of timelessness that perforate the dynamic mesh that wyrds weave when we affirm their irrational penumbra. We call this after the Lion King and the Lion's Roar, "Lacuna Mutata."
yoga. ~~So, the~~ The world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, ranging from the grosser skhanda to subtlest mesh of rhythmizomena, the emergent noosphere. Following Boethius, and taking into account his degrees of order rising out of and dissipating back into "Fate's mobility," we seek rhetorics that would not only transduce information up and down, but in all directions on this stigmergic scale.
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association Om of the Sanskrit syllable "Om"("Aum") with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric ~~bindu~~ point from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the ~~infinite.~~ infinite that elude, like a mobius band, these rhetorics of "penetration" and affirms fenestration and even defenestration. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Neologistas forever! Govinda's study of the universal mantra is, in the sense of manual or guide, a rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, and it is only one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance. Our compressed way of grounding, organizing, rebooting, dissolving, and illuminating a multimedia pedagogy that allows the resonance to do the composing is to connect this understanding to a short refrain or mantric formula. For example, we like to ~~say inthebeginningwasthewyrd,andthewyrdwaswiki.~~ repeat\"inthebeginningwasthewyrd,andthewyrdwaswiki.
Mantras have been understood both as words imbued with deep meaning and as utterly "meaningless" or nonsemantic fields of force. That semantic and asignifying registers interleave on theworldwideweb is aptly illustrated by emergent spaces composed of metadata by means of social bookmarking. In these "taggingcommunities", rhetors find new combinations and transformations in the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of ~~presupposition.~~ presupposition - their approach to the now wiki'd other. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Gregory Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26). As
As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks intowords--a resonance technology for facilitating the rhetorical performance of a remix. We also offer Thewikiisthemediumisthemessage as a McLuhan-inspired mantra for this capacitor-like capacity of wiki.

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Our next step was to transduce our printed screen shots with a video camera. In this process, we also navigated wyrd and took more "cuts"--this time, with a video camera--from the wiki. Then, we embedded this moving cut-up on the wiki. The transitive verb "to transduce" describes processes that "alter the physical nature or medium of (a signal)" and "convert variations in (a medium) into corresponding variations in another medium" (OED). When pressure or brightness is converted to voltage or position, you have transduction (OED) The Federal Telecommunications Standard 1037CA describes a transducer as a "device for converting energy from one form to another for the purpose of measurement of a physical quantity or for information transfer" With daily wiki practice, we become attuned to this dynamic nature of information. \"AtthesametimeIamcaughtupinexperiencingcertainpatternsofwyrd,Iamcreatingthem" (What is Wyrd?) In this way, transduction becomes the translational mode for weaving wyrds in wiki. Merging with these differential gradients of information transfer, wiki welcomes technologies of writingwithsound,image,andtext.
Suddenly, technological metaphors and analogies for the act of wyrding--antennae, phonographs, tapeheads, and cathode ray tubes--actualize as multimedia practice with sound, image, and text. These are repetition-based practices of rhythm, and the lightning computations they facilitate find their most crystalized form in a "logic of gnosis," through the sacred compressions of mantra, yantra, and mudra. In multimedia composition, writing and learning proceed by transduction, rhetorics for commons-formation.
rhetorics. ~~Gaian syllabi~~ Gaiansyllabi abound, everywhere: rhythmic traditions of the sacred provide clues as to how we might entrain everyday rhythms. These rhythmic recipes, these sacred scripts, at once both specific and timeless, open our writing to asignification, and enable the navigation of many degrees of asignificatory dynamics. They start with zeroandproceedto%5Bhttp://biotelemetrica.pbwiki.com/Zero2One?SearchFor=Zero&sp=4One, via repetition. Repeatedly transitioning, reduplicating, chorusing, accelerating; but also decelerating, juxtaposing, jump-cutting, splitting, and also, perhaps most importantly, stopping and abiding in the lacunae of timelessness that perforate the dynamic mesh that wyrds weave when we affirm their irrational penumbra. We call this after the Lion King and the Lion's Roar, "Lacuna Mutata."
Mantram, for example, have for millenia provided rhetors with a means for cultivating this capacity for abiding in alternatingcurrents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing attention. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. So, the world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, ranging from the grosser skhanda to subtlest mesh of rhythmizomena, the emergent noosphere. Following Boethius, and taking into account his degrees of order rising out of and dissipating back into "Fate's mobility," we seek rhetorics that would not only transduce information up and down, but in all directions on this stigmergic scale.
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association Om with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric bindu from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the infinite. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Govinda's study of the universal mantra is, in the sense of manual or guide, a rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, and it is only one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance. Our compressed way of grounding, organizing, rebooting, dissolving, and illuminating a multimedia pedagogy that allows the resonance to do the composing is to connect this understanding to a short refrain or mantric formula. For example, we like to say inthebeginningwasthewyrd,andthewyrdwaswiki.

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Methodological Header: Growing Wyrd2thewiki by Planting it in a Clay Pot
Trey Conner, University of South Florida, aka ShareRiff
Richard Doyle, Penn State University, aka mobius
"With the smallest residue of superstition within oneself, one would indeed hardly escape the idea of being merely the incarnation, the mouth-piece, the medium of super-human powers. The idea of revelation, in the sense that suddenly with incredible certainty and subtlety, something becomes visible and audible, shaking us and overpowering us in our deepest being: all this is merely a description of facts. One listens, one does not search; one accepts, one does not ask, who is giving; likelightning a thought flashes up, with necessity, without hesitation with regard to its form--I never had a choice" - Friedrich Nietzsche
We are two teachers of rhetoric who have been working with wikis for three and seven years respectively, and we wanted to share the complex admixture of interconnection, solicitation and diaspora we had witnessed in our teaching. We knew, for example, that for teaching contemporary multimedia composition, wikis are fantastic tools for inducing student composition and sharing. Our classes formed communities as never before, they shared and collaborated and improved drastically. Yet narrating this phenomenon, or even just sharing a website is, we have found, insufficient to transmitting the intensely affective charge associated with wikidelic pedagogy, and the narrative tends to flatten out the very between-ness that wiki fosters. In short, for all of our enthusiasm, only those who had intensely wiki'd seemed to understand. A new tactic was in order if we were to bring the experience of wikidelia to the printed page: So, drawing on the history of avant garde composition, which seeks to interrupt readerly attention to ordinary consciousness and heighten the gaps and lacuane of texts (as in Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs method of thecut-up), we began to "cut-up" a wiki in process.

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Our method? We took screenshots of our active wiki devoted to the nature of wikis, wyrdtothewiki, and cut them up. Because wikis seem to encourage an understanding of writing as weaving, on one dark and stormy night we then wove together the cut-ups, took images of them, and wove them back into the digital realm of the wiki. In this way we wove our experience of manifesting wiki to paper back into the wiki and out again. This feels like the right way to communicate the joy and dissarray we often feel when interacting with wiki: the cut-ups are intended to form gutters (cf. Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics) or "lacunae" that will solicit further interaction with wyrdt2thewiki, our ongoing investigation of wiki ontologies. Withthehelpofoneourchildren - because wiki is about interconnecting at every level - we then fabricated a clay pot within which we stowed our now paper text in order to make it rhetorically resonate with the lacunaed papyrus texts discovered in clay pots at NagHammadi, sacred texts that enthrall as much through theirgaps as their remarkable content. We then carefully boxed and mailed this "Nag Hammadi Fortune Cookie" off to our fearless editors, presenting them with a text which, in order to be read, must be broken. We hope you feel the joy, hear the call, and jump right in. Wyrd!
The Great Transduction
information. ~~"At the same time I am caught up in experiencing certain patterns of wyrd, I am creating them"~~ \"AtthesametimeIamcaughtupinexperiencingcertainpatternsofwyrd,Iamcreatingthem" (What is Wyrd?) In this way, transduction becomes the translational mode for weaving wyrds in wiki. Merging with these ~~energy~~ differential gradients of information transfer, wiki welcomes technologies of writingwithsound,image,andtext. ~~Suddenly,~~
Suddenly, technological metaphors and analogies for the act of wyrding--antennae, phonographs, tapeheads, and cathode ray tubes--actualize as multimedia practice with sound, image, and text. These are repetition-based practices of rhythm, and the lightning computations they facilitate find their most crystalized form in a "logic of gnosis," through the sacred compressions of mantra, yantra, and mudra. In multimedia composition, writing and learning proceed by transduction, rhetorics for commons-formation.
Because wiki "windows" "bear the mark of the infinite" (Govinda 24), learning to pay attention to how we wyrd in wiki cues wikidelicpedagogy. As teachers, we can begin with a performance. A how-to: how to become a search engine for rhetorics. Gaian syllabi abound, everywhere: rhythmic traditions of the sacred provide clues as to how we might entrain everyday rhythms. These rhythmic recipes, these sacred scripts, at once both specific and timeless, open our writing to asignification, and enable the ~~navigatation~~ navigation of many degrees of asignificatory dynamics. They start with ~~zeroandproceedtoOne,~~ zeroandproceedto%5Bhttp://biotelemetrica.pbwiki.com/Zero2One?SearchFor=Zero&sp=4One, via repetition. Repeatedly transitioning, reduplicating, chorusing, accelerating; but also decelerating, juxtaposing, jump-cutting, splitting, and also, perhaps most importantly, stopping and abiding in the lacunae of timelessness that perforate the dynamic mesh that wyrds weave when we affirm their irrational penumbra.
~~Mantras,~~ We call this after the Lion King and the Lion's Roar, "Lacuna Mutata."
Mantram, for example, have for millenia ~~been~~ provided rhetors with a means for cultivating this capacity for abiding in alternatingcurrents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing ~~attention, as well.~~ attention. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. So, the world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, ranging from the grosser skhanda to subtlest mesh of rhythmizomena, the emergent noosphere. Following Boethius, and taking into account his degrees of order rising out of and dissipating back into "Fate's mobility," we seek rhetorics that would not only transduce information up and down, but in all directions on this stigmergic scale.
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association Om with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric bindu from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the infinite. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Govinda's study of the universal mantra is, in the sense of manual or guide, a rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, and it is only one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance. Our compressed way of grounding, organizing, rebooting, dissolving, and illuminating a multimedia pedagogy that allows the resonance to do the composing is to connect this understanding to a short refrain or mantric formula. For example, we like to say inthebeginningwasthewyrd,andthewyrdwaswiki.
Mantras have been understood both as words imbued with deep meaning and as utterly "meaningless" or nonsemantic fields of force. That semantic and asignifying registers interleave on theworldwideweb is aptly illustrated by emergent spaces composed of metadata by means of social bookmarking. In these "taggingcommunities", rhetors find new combinations and transformations in the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of presupposition. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26). As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks intowords--a resonance technology for facilitating the rhetorical performance of a remix. We also offer Thewikiisthemediumisthemessage as a McLuhan-inspired mantra for this capacitor-like capacity of wiki.

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! **Things I need to do**Trey: had sara guest speak in classcreated opening for a student to post about her capacities as yoga instructor me: yoga!union with god Trey: yes aye Sent at 11:40 PM on Sunday Trey: still amazed and laughing, with gratitude, at the precision in mobius\' \"celebrayyyy-celebrate\" transmission to shareriff yeterday morn\' Sent at 12:25 AM on Monday Trey: \"Had my hand on the dollar billAnd the dollar bill blew awayBut the sun is shining down on meAnd it\'s here to stayThat\'s why I\'m telling youI just want to celebrate, yeah, yeah \" Sent at 12:26 AM on Monday Trey\'s new status message - Silence is unceasing Eloquence......It is the best Language\" -Ramana Maharshi 12:30 AM me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgT_mJXbvCQ Trey: Rich Mon! me: brb Trey: shive is <# Sent at 8:52 AM on Monday me: bodhi svaha! Sent at 8:54 AM on Monday Trey: colonel chaos visiting my abode this morn, me: morning routine :) Trey: but all is happening whilst \"I\" witness me: ah yes Trey: true dat: plumber, licensing inspector, fax and file complaint form move to mediation and/or judgement eye on recovery fund, wash the dishes go to camp bring Odessa to class with me, bodhi svaha! me: bodhi svaha! Trey: there will be other mornings for citing sources and putting things in APA etc me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRJPXSoZ7b0&feature=PlayList&p=594AF88BAD045833&index=34yes other morningstoday mobius search for software to take footnotes and render bibliographywatch as it no workeee Trey: please keep me posted on that! me: forget about it for a few daysthen return to prob :) Trey: sweeet Marginal Man ! me: I think I saw this showused to see them in basement of church \"wilson center\" Trey: I will watch this mosh pit and think \"mobius could be amongst \'em\" me: somebody gets thrown off stagewasn\'t mobius :)waiting to grab mike... Sent at 9:01 AM on Monday Trey: back in bizz, kitchen sink drainin\' me: woohoo! Trey: waxin and way-nin me: schllllup!hittin the cowbell Trey: kling klanga klinga me: flappity flapwe should start planning the vision quests for Jackson and Aden and Odessa and Violet when they gets to be 12 or 13talking to this guy this afternoonhttp://www.wildernessdrum.com/index.html Sent at 9:27 AM on Monday Trey: yes, i agree! often when you hear about youth nature quests it\'s all to do with rehabbing troubled teens..... me: instead of the toggle transisition Trey: why not get proactive and tune to the earthduring the flux times me: yuphow to make your life what it is!guidance in becoming who you are!2day mobius write up fellowship proposalor smile trying :)jai guru deva!OM!Nothing\'s gonna change my world!Nothing\'s gonna change my world! Trey: yesa theme song around herethe 1101students inthe spring, loved that tune, it was onamerican idolcompelled me to relearn it on guitar me: OM! Trey: perfectly crafted blisss nuggetjai guru deva (repeat, fade)now that\'s a coda me: jai guru devajai gur devajai guru deva! Sent at 9:34 AM on Monday Trey: it would be amazing if we could \"scrape\" wikis and then move all that content onto another....would love to run side by side on biotelemtrica; at the same time, the summer wiki is perfectly primed for the fall plan which is to run 1101 and 1102 on the same wiki Sent at 9:36 AM on Monday me: lester doodis!instead of rssgiant wiki scrapewith weekly updates? to introduce rhythm?if yins wanted to teach peeps how to jam right out of the box, you would overwhelm them with riffs and make them figger some possible response? Add absolute collective affirmation, and...pop goes the noosphere?!project \"pop goes the noosphere\" is code name for wiki scrape. Put them all into biotelemetrica?many question marks make for good emptyness ecologty?!diamond mind wiki grovewe see your Karl Roveand drop one shiningwiki grove :)full of them wish fulfillingknish fillingcheesey full kitsch fulfillingmarshmallow dream creamsicle drillingwishfulfilling tree wikiwith special reference to yggdrasil Trey: amazing me: ,mobymake laby Trey: trey on delay cuz the kitchen sink says \"hey! clean these pots and pans, man!\" me: rinthrinse andrepeatgroup zero makingtiny circles with feetpedal that cursor! Trey: me like code name for wiki scrape...is their a technique? me: let\'s make a cursor that you have to pedal from one part of wiki to other to naviagte wikitechnique for wiki scrape is:cutpastewasterepeatcut Trey: wyrd me: wastepasterepeatcut waste pasterepeat cut waste pastepasting... Click |\"Edit page\"| to edit this list.* -Upload schedule to wiki-* -Let Us know about recent changes to program-* Ask Trey for input on reviewing document* Send completed draft to designer Gina for TotalDespairModule* Crash Course Wiki for instant vacation gratification and corporate downsize cubicle cutting expedition. * Begin Growing Vegetables FNORD FNORD FNORD

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Anotherway of understanding wyrd is through a weaving analogy. In the Anglo-Saxon Riming Poem, the narrator says of his life circumstances Metwyrdgewf, 'Wyrdwovethisforme'. In the Icelandic Njal's Saga,valkyriesweaveoutthecourseofabattleonaloommadeofweapons and threaded with humanentrails, so to speak, human lives. Imagine a patterned piece of cloth being woven onaloom. The horizontal threads (thewoof) are woven in in layers along the vertical threads (thewarp). The horizontalthreads represent layers of past actions. The vertical threads represent atime line. The colour of each horizontal thread as itiswoven in will add to the pattern that is alreadyestablished and influence the patternthatemerges." (What is Wyrd?, By Arlea elwyrd Hunt-Anschtz)
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Mantras, for example, have for millenia been a means for cultivating this capacity for abiding in alternatingcurrents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing attention, as well. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. So, the world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, ranging from the grosser skhanda to subtlest mesh of rhythmizomena, the emergent noosphere. Following Boethius, and taking into account his degrees of order rising out of and dissipating back into "Fate's mobility," we seek rhetorics that would not only transduce information up and down, but in all directions on this stigmergic scale.
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association Om with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric bindu from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the infinite. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Govinda's study of the universal mantra is, in the sense of manual or guide, a rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, and it is only one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance. Our compressed way of grounding, organizing, rebooting, dissolving, and illuminating a multimedia pedagogy that allows the resonance to do the composing is to connect this understanding to a short refrain or mantric formula. For example, we like to say inthebeginningwasthewyrd,andthewyrdwaswiki.
these ~~"tagging" communities,~~ "taggingcommunities", rhetors find new combinations and transformations in the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of presupposition. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26). As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks intowords--a resonance technology for facilitating the rhetorical performance of a remix. We also offer Thewikiisthemediumisthemessage as a McLuhan-inspired mantra for this capacitor-like capacity of wiki.

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WikiGnome to who will help grow and actualize a vibrant wiki community. Each WikiGnome will be paid by Longman for "culturing" each WikiNode. Time for %5BWikiGnomes will be billable at a rate that results in at least a $3500 per annum payment.
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Our next step was to transduce our printed screen shots with a video camera. In this process, we also navigated wyrd and took more "cuts"--this time, with a video camera--from the wiki. Then, we embedded this moving cut-up on the wiki. The transitive verb "to transduce" describes processes that "alter the physical nature or medium of (a signal)" and "convert variations in (a medium) into corresponding variations in another medium" (OED). When pressure or brightness is converted to voltage or position, you have transduction (OED) The Federal Telecommunications Standard 1037CA describes a transducer as a "device for converting energy from one form to another for the purpose of measurement of a physical quantity or for information transfer" With daily wiki practice, we become attuned to this dynamic nature of information. "At the same time I am caught up in experiencing certain patterns of wyrd, I am creating them" (What is Wyrd?) In this way, transduction becomes the translational mode for weaving wyrds in wiki. Merging with these energy gradients of information transfer, wiki welcomes technologies of writingwithsound,image,andtext. Suddenly, technological metaphors and analogies for the act of wyrding--antennae, phonographs, tapeheads, and cathode ray tubes--actualize as multimedia practice with sound, image, and text. These are repetition-based practices of rhythm, and the lightning computations they facilitate find their most crystalized form in a "logic of gnosis," through the sacred compressions of mantra, yantra, and mudra. In multimedia composition, writing and learning proceed by transduction, rhetorics for commons-formation.
Because wiki "windows" "bear the mark of the infinite" (Govinda 24), learning to pay attention to how we wyrd in wiki cues wikidelicpedagogy. As teachers, we can begin with a performance. A how-to: how to become a search engine for rhetorics. Gaian syllabi abound, everywhere: rhythmic traditions of the sacred provide clues as to how we might entrain everyday rhythms. These rhythmic recipes, these sacred scripts, at once both specific and timeless, open our writing to asignification, and enable the navigatation of many degrees of asignificatory dynamics. They start with zeroandproceedtoOne, via repetition. Repeatedly transitioning, reduplicating, chorusing, accelerating; but also decelerating, juxtaposing, jump-cutting, splitting, and also, perhaps most importantly, stopping and abiding in the lacunae of timelessness that perforate the dynamic mesh that wyrds weave when we affirm their irrational penumbra.
of and dissipating back into "Fate's mobility," we seek rhetorics that would not only transduce information up and ~~down~~ down, but in all directions on this stigmergic scale.
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association Om with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric bindu from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the infinite. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Govinda's study of the universal mantra is, in the sense of manual or guide, a rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, and it is only one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance. Our compressed way of grounding, organizing, rebooting, dissolving, and illuminating a multimedia pedagogy that allows the resonance to do the composing is to connect this understanding to a short refrain or mantric formula. For example, we like to say inthebeginningwasthewyrd,andthewyrdwaswiki.
Mantras have been understood both as words imbued with deep meaning and as utterly "meaningless" or nonsemantic fields of force. That semantic and asignifying registers interleave on theworldwideweb is aptly illustrated by emergent spaces composed of metadata by means of social bookmarking. In these "tagging" communities, rhetors find new combinations and transformations in the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of presupposition. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26). As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks intowords--a resonance technology for facilitating the rhetorical performance of a remix. We also offer Thewikiisthemediumisthemessage as a McLuhan-inspired mantra for this capacitor-like capacity of wiki.

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Our next step was to transduce our printed screen shots with a video camera. In this process, we also navigated wyrd and took more "cuts"--this time, with a video camera--from the wiki. Then, we embedded this moving cut-up on the wiki. The transitive verb "to transduce" describes processes that "alter the physical nature or medium of (a signal)" and "convert variations in (a medium) into corresponding variations in another medium" (OED). When pressure or brightness is converted to voltage or position, you have transduction (OED) The Federal Telecommunications Standard 1037CA describes a transducer as a "device for converting energy from one form to another for the purpose of measurement of a physical quantity or for information transfer" With daily wiki practice, we become attuned to this dynamic nature of information. "At the same time I am caught up in experiencing certain patterns of wyrd, I am creating them" (What is Wyrd?) In this way, transduction becomes the translational mode for weaving wyrds in wiki. Merging with these energy gradients of information transfer, wiki welcomes technologies of writingwithsound,image,andtext. Suddenly, technological metaphors and analogies for the act of wyrding--antennae, phonographs, tapeheads, and cathode ray tubes--actualize as multimedia practice with sound, image, and text. These are repetition-based practices of rhythm, and the lightning computations they facilitate find their most crystalized form in a "logic of gnosis," through the sacred compressions of mantra, yantra, and mudra. In multimedia composition, writing and learning proceed by transduction, rhetorics for commons-formation.
Because wiki "windows" "bear the mark of the infinite" (Govinda 24), learning to pay attention to how we wyrd in wiki cues wikidelicpedagogy. As teachers, we can begin with a performance. A how-to: how to become a search engine for rhetorics. Gaian syllabi abound, everywhere: rhythmic traditions of the sacred provide clues as to how we might entrain everyday rhythms. These rhythmic recipes, these sacred scripts, at once both specific and timeless, open our writing to asignification, and enable the navigatation of many degrees of asignificatory dynamics. They start with zeroandproceedtoOne, via repetition. Repeatedly transitioning, reduplicating, chorusing, accelerating; but also decelerating, juxtaposing, jump-cutting, splitting, and also, perhaps most importantly, stopping and abiding in the lacunae of timelessness that perforate the dynamic mesh that wyrds weave when we affirm their irrational penumbra.
bodies, ~~including~~ ranging from the grosser skhanda ~~and~~ to subtlest mesh of ~~media (cue Aristoxenus'~~ rhythmizomena, ~~here).~~ the emergent noosphere. Following Boethius, and taking into account his degrees of order rising out of "Fate's mobility," we seek rhetorics that transduce information up and down this stigmergic scale.
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association Om with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric bindu from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the infinite. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Govinda's study of the universal mantra is, in the sense of manual or guide, a rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, and it is only one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance. Our compressed way of grounding, organizing, rebooting, dissolving, and illuminating a multimedia pedagogy that allows the resonance to do the composing is to connect this understanding to a short refrain or mantric formula. For example, we like to say inthebeginningwasthewyrd,andthewyrdwaswiki.
Mantras have been understood both as words imbued with deep meaning and as utterly "meaningless" or nonsemantic fields of force. That semantic and asignifying registers interleave on theworldwideweb is aptly illustrated by emergent spaces composed of metadata by means of social bookmarking. In these "tagging" communities, rhetors find new combinations and transformations in the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of presupposition. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26). As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks intowords--a resonance technology for facilitating the rhetorical performance of a remix. We also offer Thewikiisthemediumisthemessage as a McLuhan-inspired mantra for this capacitor-like capacity of wiki.

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Because wiki "windows" "bear the mark of the infinite" (Govinda 24), learning to pay attention to how we wyrd in wiki cues wikidelicpedagogy. As teachers, we can begin with a performance. A how-to: how to become a search engine for rhetorics. Gaian syllabi abound, everywhere: rhythmic traditions of the sacred provide clues as to how we might entrain everyday rhythms. These rhythmic recipes, these sacred scripts, at once both specific and timeless, open our writing to asignification, and enable the navigatation of many degrees of asignificatory dynamics. They start with zeroandproceedtoOne, via repetition. Repeatedly transitioning, reduplicating, chorusing, accelerating; but also decelerating, juxtaposing, jump-cutting, splitting, and also, perhaps most importantly, stopping and abiding in the lacunae of timelessness that perforate the dynamic mesh that wyrds weave when we affirm their irrational penumbra.
Mantras, for example, have for millenia been a means for cultivating this capacity for abiding in alternatingcurrents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing attention, as well. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. So, the world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, including the grosser skhanda and subtlest mesh of media (cue Aristoxenus' rhythmizomena, here).
resonance. Our compressed way of grounding, organizing, rebooting, dissolving, and illuminating a multimedia pedagogy that allows the resonance to do the composing is to connect this understanding to a short refrain or mantric formula. For example, we like to say inthebeginningwasthewyrd,andthewyrdwaswiki.
Mantras have been understood both as words imbued with deep meaning and as utterly "meaningless" or nonsemantic fields of force. That semantic and asignifying registers interleave on theworldwideweb is aptly illustrated by emergent spaces composed of metadata by means of social bookmarking. In these "tagging" communities, rhetors find new combinations and transformations in the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of presupposition. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26). As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks intowords--a resonance technology for facilitating the rhetorical performance of a remix. We also offer Thewikiisthemediumisthemessage as a McLuhan-inspired mantra for this capacitor-like capacity of wiki.

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Mantras, for example, have for millenia been a means for cultivating this capacity for abiding in alternatingcurrents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing attention, as well. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. So, the world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, including the grosser skhanda and subtlest mesh of media (cue Aristoxenus' rhythmizomena, here).
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association Om with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric bindu from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the infinite. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Govinda's study of the universal mantra is, in the sense of manual or guide, a rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, and it is only one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance.
on ~~the world wide web~~ theworldwideweb is aptly illustrated by emergent spaces composed of metadata by means of social bookmarking. In these "tagging" communities, rhetors find new combinations and transformations in the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of presupposition. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26). As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks intowords--a resonance technology for facilitating the rhetorical performance of a remix. We offer Thewikiisthemediumisthemessage as a McLuhan-inspired mantra for this capacitor-like capacity of wiki.

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Mantras, for example, have for millenia been a means for cultivating this capacity for abiding in alternatingcurrents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing attention, as well. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. So, the world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, including the grosser skhanda and subtlest mesh of media (cue Aristoxenus' rhythmizomena, here).
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association Om with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric bindu from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the infinite. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Govinda's study of the universal mantra is, in the sense of manual or guide, a rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, and it is only one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance.
the world wide web is aptly illustrated by emergent spaces composed of metadata by means of social bookmarking. In these "tagging" communities, rhetors find new combinations and transformations in the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of presupposition. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26). As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks intowords--a resonance technology for facilitating the rhetorical performance of a remix. We offer Thewikiisthemediumisthemessage as a McLuhan-inspired mantra for this capacitor-like capacity of wiki.

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(1) Point a tabbedbrowser here
(2) Read over the abstract of Kauffman's 1969 paper on random boolean nets.
(3) Choose genes to randomly turn on and off, or create interference patterns by opening each gene in a new tab. (to layer - usually right click, then open in a new tab. On Mac OS X, control-click on the gene)
(4) Use the blue "play buttons" to turn genes on and off; or use tabbed browser to hear them together, as you like.
~~(5)~~
(4) Behold and play any patterns that emerge through the connections of any "genes" with each other - music. The Resonance (between the Genes) is the Composer!
~~(6)~~
(5) Click edit, swap out "genes" from sites such as freesound
Back to BooleanGeneticMusicalNetworks

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(2) Read over the abstract of Kauffman's 1969 paper on random boolean nets.
(3) Choose genes to randomly turn on and off, or create interference patterns by opening each gene in a new tab. (to layer - usually right click, then open in a new tab. On Mac OS X, control-click on the gene)
(4) ~~Turn~~ Use the blue "play buttons" to turn genes on ~~an off,~~ and off; or use tabbed browser to hear them together, as you like.
(5) Behold and play any patterns that emerge through the connections of any "genes" with each other - music. The Resonance (between the Genes) is the Composer!
(6) Click edit, swap out "genes" from sites such as freesound

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Our next step was to transduce our printed screen shots with a video camera. In this process, we also navigated wyrd and took more "cuts"--this time, with a video camera--from the wiki. Then, we embedded this moving cut-up on the wiki. The transitive verb "to transduce" describes processes that "alter the physical nature or medium of (a signal)" and "convert variations in (a medium) into corresponding variations in another medium" (OED). When pressure or brightness is converted to voltage or position, you have transduction (OED) The Federal Telecommunications Standard 1037CA describes a transducer as a "device for converting energy from one form to another for the purpose of measurement of a physical quantity or for information transfer" With daily wiki practice, we become attuned to this dynamic nature of information. "At the same time I am caught up in experiencing certain patterns of wyrd, I am creating them" (What is Wyrd?) In this way, transduction becomes the translational mode for weaving wyrds in wiki. Merging with these energy gradients of information transfer, wiki welcomes technologies of writingwithsound,image,andtext. Suddenly, technological metaphors and analogies for the act of wyrding--antennae, phonographs, tapeheads, and cathode ray tubes--actualize as multimedia practice with sound, image, and text. These are repetition-based practices of rhythm, and the lightning computations they facilitate find their most crystalized form in a "logic of gnosis," through the sacred compressions of mantra, yantra, and mudra. In multimedia composition, writing and learning proceed by transduction, rhetorics for commons-formation.
Because wiki "windows" "bear the mark of the infinite" (Govinda 24), learning to pay attention to how we wyrd in wiki cues wikidelicpedagogy. As teachers, we can begin with a performance. A how-to: how to become a search engine for rhetorics. Gaian syllabi abound, everywhere: rhythmic traditions of the sacred provide clues as to how we might entrain everyday rhythms. These rhythmic recipes, these sacred scripts, at once both specific and timeless, open our writing to asignification, and enable the navigatation of many degrees of asignificatory dynamics. They start with zeroandproceedtoOne, via repetition. Repeatedly transitioning, reduplicating, chorusing, accelerating; but also decelerating, juxtaposing, jump-cutting, splitting, and also, perhaps most importantly, stopping and abiding in the lacunae of timelessness that perforate the dynamic mesh that wyrds weave when we affirm their irrational penumbra.
in ~~alternating currents:~~ alternatingcurrents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing attention, as well. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. So, the world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, including the grosser skhanda and subtlest mesh of media (cue Aristoxenus' rhythmizomena, here).
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association Om with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric bindu from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the infinite. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Govinda's study of the universal mantra is, in the sense of manual or guide, a rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, and it is only one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance.
Mantras have been understood both as words imbued with deep meaning and as utterly "meaningless" or nonsemantic fields of force. That semantic and asignifying registers interleave on the web is aptly illustrated by emergent spaces composed of metadata by means of social bookmarking. In these "tagging" communities, rhetors find new combinations and transformations in the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of presupposition. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26). As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks intowords. We offer Thewikiisthemediumisthemessage as a McLuhan-inspired mantra for this capacitor-like capacity of wiki.

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Because wiki "windows" "bear the mark of the infinite" (Govinda 24), learning to pay attention to how we wyrd in wiki cues wikidelicpedagogy. As teachers, we can begin with a performance. A how-to: how to become a search engine for rhetorics. Gaian syllabi abound, everywhere: rhythmic traditions of the sacred provide clues as to how we might entrain everyday rhythms. These rhythmic recipes, these sacred scripts, at once both specific and timeless, open our writing to asignification, and enable the navigatation of many degrees of asignificatory dynamics. They start with zeroandproceedtoOne, via repetition. Repeatedly transitioning, reduplicating, chorusing, accelerating; but also decelerating, juxtaposing, jump-cutting, splitting, and also, perhaps most importantly, stopping and abiding in the lacunae of timelessness that perforate the dynamic mesh that wyrds weave when we affirm their irrational penumbra.
Mantras, for example, have for millenia been a means for cultivating this capacity for abiding in alternating currents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing attention, as well. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. So, the world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, including the grosser skhanda and subtlest mesh of media (cue Aristoxenus' rhythmizomena, here).
Govinda's ~~code book, or,~~ study of the universal mantra is, in the sense of manual or guide, a rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, and it is ~~but~~ only one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance.
Mantras have been understood both as words imbued with deep meaning and as utterly "meaningless" or nonsemantic fields of force. That semantic and asignifying registers interleave on the web is aptly illustrated by emergent spaces composed of metadata by means of social bookmarking. In these "tagging" communities, rhetors find new combinations and transformations in the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of presupposition. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26). As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks into wyrds. We offer Thewikiisthemediumisthemessage as a McLuhan-inspired mantra for this capacitor-like capacity of wiki.

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Mantras, for example, have for millenia been a means for cultivating this capacity for abiding in alternating currents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing attention, as well. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. So, the world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, including the grosser skhanda and subtlest mesh of media (cue Aristoxenus' rhythmizomena, here).
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association Om with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric bindu from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the infinite. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Govinda's code book, or, in the sense of manual or guide, rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, is but one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance.
force. ~~Semantic~~ That semantic and asignifying registers interleave on the web is aptly illustrated by emergent spaces composed of metadata by means of social bookmarking. In these "tagging" communities, rhetors find new combinations and transformations in ~~wiki or~~ the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of presupposition. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any ~~woven space.~~ given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26). As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks into wyrds.

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The Great Transduction
Our next step was to transduce our printed screen shots with a video camera. In this process, we also navigated wyrd and took more "cuts"--this time, with a video camera--from the wiki. Then, we embedded this moving cut-up on the wiki. The transitive verb "to transduce" describes processes that "alter the physical nature or medium of (a signal)" and "convert variations in (a medium) into corresponding variations in another medium" (OED). When pressure or brightness is converted to voltage or position, you have transduction (OED) The Federal Telecommunications Standard 1037CA describes a transducer as a "device for converting energy from one form to another for the purpose of measurement of a physical quantity or for information transfer" With daily wiki practice, we become attuned to this dynamic nature of information. "At the same time I am caught up in experiencing certain patterns of wyrd, I am creating them" (What is Wyrd?) In this way, transduction becomes the translational mode for weaving wyrds in wiki. Merging with these energy gradients of information transfer, wiki welcomes technologies of writingwithsound,image,andtext. Suddenly, technological metaphors and analogies for the act of wyrding--antennae, phonographs, tapeheads, and cathode ray tubes--actualize as multimedia practice with sound, image, and text. These are repetition-based practices of rhythm, and the lightning computations they facilitate find their most crystalized form in a "logic of gnosis," through the sacred compressions of mantra, yantra, and mudra. In multimedia composition, writing and learning proceed by transduction, rhetorics for commons-formation.
Because wiki "windows" "bear the mark of the infinite" (Govinda 24), learning to pay attention to how we wyrd in wiki cues wikidelicpedagogy. As teachers, we can begin with a performance. A how-to: how to become a search engine for rhetorics. Gaian syllabi abound, everywhere: rhythmic traditions of the sacred provide clues as to how we might entrain everyday rhythms. These rhythmic recipes, these sacred scripts, at once both specific and timeless, open our writing to asignification, and enable the navigatation of many degrees of asignificatory dynamics. They start with zeroandproceedtoOne, via repetition. Repeatedly transitioning, reduplicating, chorusing, accelerating; but also decelerating, juxtaposing, jump-cutting, splitting, and also, perhaps most importantly, stopping and abiding in the lacunae of timelessness that perforate the dynamic mesh that wyrds weave when we affirm their irrational penumbra.
Mantras, for example, have for millenia been a means for cultivating this capacity for abiding in alternating currents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing attention, as well. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. So, the world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, including the grosser skhanda and subtlest mesh of media (cue Aristoxenus' rhythmizomena, here).
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association Om with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric bindu from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the infinite. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Govinda's code book, or, in the sense of manual or guide, rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, is but one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance.
Mantras have been understood both as words imbued with deep meaning and as utterly "meaningless" or nonsemantic fields of force. Semantic and asignifying registers interleave in wiki or any woven space.

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Anotherway of understanding wyrd is through a weaving analogy. In the Anglo-Saxon Riming Poem, the narrator says of his life circumstances Metwyrdgewf, 'Wyrdwovethisforme'. In the Icelandic Njal's Saga,valkyriesweaveoutthecourseofabattleonaloommadeofweapons and threaded with humanentrails, so to speak, human lives. Imagine a patterned piece of cloth being woven onaloom. The horizontal threads (thewoof) are woven in in layers along the vertical threads (thewarp). The horizontalthreads represent layers of past actions. The vertical threads represent atime line. The colour of each horizontal thread as itiswoven in will add to the pattern that is alreadyestablished and influence the patternthatemerges." (What is Wyrd?, By Arlea elwyrd Hunt-Anschtz)
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tags tanas raga Tala
tone, ~~that "which~~ "that which charms" and the regulation of dynamic flows

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- with great links to research and where to float in Europe
RestStress - a updated compendium of R.E.S.T. links and research.
FloatDreams and their listing of Float Centers in the U.S.
and their only listing in Pennsylvania, High-Tech Floatation, in Penndel, PA

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FloatFinder

- For finding Floatation research and spa centers across the country - they even have a google map with "thumb-tacks" indicating centers around the country and world! Nearest center seems to be in NJ, NYC, and D.C.

Koan-Float Technologies

- with great links to research and where to float in Europe

RestStress - a updated compendium of R.E.S.T. links and research.

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This space is devoted to growing a new space for the tank. It's time for the tank to get mobile, spread its wings, and float towards its new environment. Place photos, diagrams, numbers, spreadsheets, designs and poetry devoted to actualizing a new space for the tank here!
Great Links to Information Regarding Therapeutic Floatation Facilities
Timing
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%5Bhttp://www.crystalinks.com/yeatsgyre.jpg%5DHow to play the \"internal second coming recursive geometries\" game (1) Read Yeat\'s poem(2) Choose %5Bhttp://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/gysin_brion/Gysin-Brion_I-Am.mp3 sound **gyres**%5D to randomly **turn** on and off by **opening** each, or layer \'em up by opening each in a new tab ( usually right click, then **open** in a new tab. On Mac OS X, control-click. (3) **Turn** sounds on an off, or together, as you like.(4) Behold and play any patterns that emerge through the connections of any \"**gyre-ation**\" with each other - music. The Resonance (between each cycle) is the Composer!(5) Click edit, swap out **gyre-ations**, and **cut-up** Yeat\'s poem to create another...The Second Coming by W.B. YeatsTurning and turning in the widening %5Bhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyre gyre%5DThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.Surely some revelation is at hand;Surely the Second Coming is at hand.The Second Coming! Hardly are those words outWhen a vast image out of Spiritus MundiTroubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desertA shape with lion body and the head of a man,A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,Is moving its slow thighs, while all around itReel shadows of the indignant desert birds.The darkness drops again; but now I knowThat twenty centuries of stony sleepWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

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Frog\'s Boutique!\"the Baroque is not only projected in its own style of dress. It radiates everywhere, at all times, in the thousand %5Bhttp://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/t03.html folds%5D of garments that tend to become one with their respective wearers...and to make their heads look like those of swimmers bobbing in the waves\" (\'\'The Fold\'\' 121)-Frog\'s rugs-upcoming installation, Gainesville-transduction discussion

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passwyrd is "wyrd!"
CommonsIcaro - a first go at a remix of \"YageCameras\" by Apollo Nove for the Creative Commons. Sample, Shred, Share.
An "icaro" provides sonic programming and healing for the ecodelic experiences enabled by yage and other plant adjuncts. "Yage" ( "ayahuasca", "hoasca\", "Gaiahuasca", "mamahuasca", "Mama") is one name for a plant admixture ("remix") prepared for millenia by scientists of the Upper Amazon. Icaros provide sonic handholds for navigating the domains of ayahuasca, and they do so by calling on the yage drinker's attention and participation. In my own investigations, The "Yage Camera" focuses our attention on the cosmic commons, our interconnection with all living systems composing our evolutionary matrix, the entirety of all that is whose unfolding we have begun, fitfully, to behold as webecomedimlyawareofthesoundofoneicesheetcracking. I offer this "Commons Icaro" for the commons itself, so that we might all begin to participate in the commons and learn from what the ayahuasca has helped teach manyofus with its \"YageCamera\" re sponding in joy to our planetary obligations. DJ TallyEssence, Aka Valis System A SprinkleaLittleDazzle, a tight remix by J Slipp. Sample, Shred, Share. TranshumanBannisters Gettin' "shreddy," found my way into an "eddy" in the yage flux. Then, "I" was hailed/healed by our commonicaro, even as it was differing from itself, and this sonic hand-hold instructed me to distribute sonic smoke to gently cloak the bright dazzle. We know what to do: cue, play, press pause, grab transhuman bannister (shred and thread, cloak and dazzle), and share here on our emerging trellis of icaros. Also recommended: in your (tabbed) browser, make an aural laminate (play 2 or more remixes together). ShareRiff Commonspreacher

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We are two teachers of rhetoric who have been working with wikis for three and seven years respectively, and we wanted to share the complex admixture of interconnection, solicitation and diaspora we had witnessed in our teaching. We knew, for example, that for teaching contemporary multimedia composition, wikis are fantastic tools for inducing student composition and sharing. Our classes formed communities as never before, they shared and collaborated and improved drastically. Yet narrating this phenomenon, or even just sharing a website is, we have found, insufficient to transmitting the intensely affective charge associated with wikidelic pedagogy, and the narrative tends to flatten out the very between-ness that wiki fosters. In short, for all of our enthusiasm, only those who had intensely wiki'd seemed to understand. A new tactic was in order if we were to bring the experience of wikidelia to the printed page: So, drawing on the history of avant garde composition, which seeks to interrupt readerly attention to ordinary consciousness and heighten the gaps and lacuane of texts (as in Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs method of thecut-up), we began to "cut-up" a wiki in process.
Our method? We took screenshots of our active wiki devoted to the nature of wikis, wyrdtothewiki, and cut them up. Because wikis seem to encourage an understanding of writing as weaving, on one dark and stormy night we then wove together the cut-ups, took images of them, and wove them back into the digital realm of the wiki. In this way we wove our experience of manifesting wiki to paper back into the wiki and out again. This feels like the right way to communicate the joy and dissarray we often feel when interacting with wiki: the cut-ups are intended to form gutters (cf. Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics) or "lacunae" that will solicit further interaction with wyrdt2thewiki, our ongoing investigation of wiki ontologies. Withthehelpofoneourchildren - because wiki is about interconnecting at every level - we then fabricated a clay pot within which we stowed our now paper text in order to make it rhetorically resonate with the lacunaed papyrus texts discovered in clay pots at NagHammadi, sacred texts that enthrall as much through theirgaps as their remarkable content. We then carefully boxed and mailed this "Nag Hammadi Fortune Cookie" off to our fearless editors, presenting them with a text which, in order to be read, must be broken. We hope you feel the joy, hear the call, and jump right in. Wyrd!
The Great Transduction
Our next step was to transduce our printed screen shots with a video camera. In this process, we also navigated wyrd and took more "cuts"--this time, with a video camera--from the wiki. Then, we embedded this moving cut-up on the wiki.

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Title: Wyrd2daWiki
not ~~ask,~~ ask who is giving; like lightning a thought flashes up, with necessity, without hesitation with regard to its form--I never had a choice" - Friedrich Nietzsche

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Title: Wyrd2daWiki
Description: "With the smallest residue of superstition within oneself, one would indeed hardly escape the idea of being merely the incarnation, the mouth-piece, the medium of super-human powers. The idea of revelation, in the sense that suddenly with incredible certainty and subtlety, something becomes visible and audible, shaking us and overpowering us in our deepest being: all this is merely a description of facts. One listens, one does not search; one accepts, one does not ask, who is giving; like lightning a thought flashes up, with necessity, without hesitation with regard to its form--I never had a choice" - Friedrich Nietzsche

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Let's pipe the whole wiki into a speech to text generator and see if the Tonal aspect of language comes through! This would make for an interesting comparison to actual speech. Perhaps it would be better, though, to have people read it aloud?

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Local Spas

State College Spa and Fitness Center

127 Sowers Street, State College, PA 16804

814 571 4400

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Central PA School of Massage

336 S Fraser Street, State College, PA 16801

888 649 3337

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Dragonfly Day Spa

1212 N Atherton St, State College PA 16803

814.237.5220

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St Joseph's Institute

Port Matilda

814 692 4954

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Kinda Christian, but seems to have a large enough facility (unlike some spas around here)

Other Possible Tank Adoption Centers

BBH Stress and Health Lab

Dr Jennifer Graham (Director)

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Psych Dept??? Couldn't find many direct matches

Dept of Kinesiology

Research labs

Could be some serious interest, especially due to the tank's use in physical therapy

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The "Tasks" I recorded above (without having to edit page) were lost after I edited page and tried to expand the size of the google gadget. Blast! Here they are, more or less:
Task 1. Catalog local spa facilities within a 15 mile radius
2. Contact appropriate facilities to float the idea of installing the tank there.
3. Discuss company/funding models: lease the tank, or establish a separate proprietorship module functioning within their spa facility (like doctors in a hospital)
4. Pursue way to display certification or authorization (ironically) for our operation of this therapeutic process.
A. Would a letter of good faith from the pioneers of R.E.S.T. with whom we've already spoken, suffice?
B. Do we need to offer such signals of authority? It is somewhat inappropriate to be an authority on the absence of incoming stimuli, or conversely on the value or experience of said absence...But if it's not inappropriate to make claims of authority, in the eyes of potential clients?

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BlogoSphere Core Sample: James D Rounds
5/5/2008, Monday, 5am
My wife and son are away for the weekend, visiting a relative in Florida...First time we've been apart for so long! My schedule is so affected now - I fall asleep without making dinner (I almost always make dinner!), and wake up before dawn the next morning.
Nietzsche was anti-DOCTRine; which foreshadows his antagonism towards the medical establishment.
Just a strange thought such as those you might get when you fall asleep at 7pm on a weekend night! (And wake up before 5am on a Monday).

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OriginalIdeasprouts... Leavesandshoots...
BlogoSphere Core Sample: James D Rounds
5/5/2008, Monday, 5am
Nietzsche was anti-DOCTRine; which foreshadows his antagonism towards the medical establishment.
Just a strange thought such as those you might get when you fall asleep at 7pm on a weekend night! (And wake up before 5am on a Monday).
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That we are endowed with such intuitive and intellectual capabilities as that of discovering the genes and the R.N.A. and D.N.A. and other fundamental principles governing the fundamental design controls of life systems as well as of nuclear energy and chemical structuring is part of the extraordinary design of the Spaceship Earth, its equipment, passengers, and internal support systems. It is therefore paradoxical but strategically explicable, as we shall see, that up to now we have been mis-using, abusing, and polluting this extraordinary chemical energy-interchanging system for successfully regenerating all life aboard our planetary spaceship. Buckminster Fuller, OperatingManualforSpaceshipEarth
of Sustainability** Sustainability
What is sustainability? As practices devoted to the mindful tuning of human habitats to the freedoms and constraints of ecosystems, sustainability begins with the deployment of rhetorical practices for visualizing, mapping, narrating and arguing for visions of any given ecosystem. This course will review global definitions, concepts and discourses of sustainability, remixing them toward practices inhabitable by 21stcenturyeconauts. Students will work with the CenterforSustainability composing multimedia rhetorical tools - such as user friendly technical writing, video, sound and seo web design - to help remix and propagate practices of sustainability in Central Pennsylvania and across the increasingly informatic biosphere.
Click here to get started - Student Blogs and Projects Grow here

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That we are endowed with such intuitive and intellectual capabilities as that of discovering the genes and the R.N.A. and D.N.A. and other fundamental principles governing the fundamental design controls of life systems as well as of nuclear energy and chemical structuring is part of the extraordinary design of the Spaceship Earth, its equipment, passengers, and internal support systems. It is therefore paradoxical but strategically explicable, as we shall see, that up to now we have been mis-using, abusing, and polluting this extraordinary chemical energy-interchanging system for successfully regenerating all life aboard our planetary spaceship. Buckminster Fuller, OperatingManualforSpaceshipEarth
of ~~Sustainability~~ Sustainability**
What is sustainability? As practices devoted to the mindful tuning of human habitats to the freedoms and constraints of ecosystems, sustainability begins with the deployment of rhetorical practices for visualizing, mapping, narrating and arguing for visions of any given ecosystem. This course will review global definitions, concepts and discourses of sustainability, remixing them toward practices inhabitable by 21stcenturyeconauts. Students will work with the CenterforSustainability composing multimedia rhetorical tools - such as user friendly technical writing, video, sound and seo web design - to help remix and propagate practices of sustainability in Central Pennsylvania and across the increasingly informatic biosphere.
Click here to get started - Student Blogs and Projects Grow here

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April 14th, 2008
After nearly 1 year of work on the green podcasts for health care, SustainableCompositions has accomplished a great deal, including state-wide and nation-wide exposure to health care organizations, an advertising/sponsorship donation, and the distribution of a half-dozen podcasts!
Current efforts include posting another half-dozen podcasts over the next several months, getting paid subscriptions from health care organizations in Pennsylvania, and launching a companion podcast service that goes beyond Pennsylvania and addresses the nation and the world. - UrthBound
UrthBound is having his minidisc recordings converted to .wav format right now, at which point there should be the content online ready to be mixed and remixed into a pilot ecopodcast! An ex-roommate is responsible for the conversion, and ex-roommates are notoriously slow at doing what there asked to do. Yet, they are notoriously reliable at eventually completing such tasks...
this ~~awesome,humorousenvironmentale-mag~~ excellent,humorousenvironmentale-mag called The Grist: they just released a Podcast! Let us listen to it and evaluate the cross-over value to our podcast efforts (which shall continue unto the future)!
We were denied the grant, and these were the issues raised by the review committee. We are encouraged to resubmit the grant!
James, The committee found your proposal innovative regarding the use of technology. The following items were mentioned by the review committee: Would like more info about the demographics of the target audience who would use the podcasts? Would these busy people really take the time to listen/view the podcasts if they are already pressed for time as you state in the proposal? How would the podcasts be marketed to assure they would accessed/used? How many potential users do you anticipate for the two pilot episodes? Should it be connected someway into the University effort on itunes U www.itunes.psu.edu The committee suggests that you address these items and consider resubmitting a proposal for the 2nd round RFP which we expect to issue around Feb 1 2007. I hope this feedback is helpful. If you have any questions, give me a call. Regards, Jack

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Government in future treats calories like a Controlled Substance.%5D
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eat ~~or sleep~~ that night.
God that seems so long ago. I wonder what Amy is doing now? What was it, fifteen years ago? No, it was fifty years ago. God, fifty years. Amy could be dead by now.
Probably not. Who knows, maybe she Waited, too.
Soon, he reached what seemed to be an exit. Were he not so transformed or maddened by hunger, he might have lingered longer or even pondered turning around. But he could not wait any longer.
Thrusting open the door, Gene walked out into a muggy, cloudy day in the future.
gut's ~~screams but~~ screams, not to mention his lingering distrust of public spaces.
Pacing down the sidewalk, he finally noticed a little empty room that could've been a laundromat. Only this little shop contained nothing but vending machines, filled with a cornucopia of strange treats and foods. Gene recognized a few shapes and without another thought, threw the door open and ran inside. Through the ~~midst~~ mist of euphoria his brain kicked in, and realized he would need some cash.
Looking around frantically, he saw a gleam in the corner, and rejoiced when he realized it was probably a coin. It was large and surprisingly light, featuring the Newmerica logo, which brought him some strange comfort. When he put the coin into a vending machine's coin slot, the box of delights sprung to life, with rotating lights and rapid-fire rearrangement of the items inside. The new arrangement seemed to display only those snacks that his coin could afford, and Gene appreciated this celebration of his limited funds.
Looking through his options more closely, and more frenetically, Gene was confused and angry.

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2050:
Due to recent improvements in scaling-up cryogenic preservation methods, cryo-service providers (CSPs) have succeeded in nearly satisfying popular demand. Accordingly, the price of Waiting has dropped significantly. Waiting has now become an extremely popular alternative to suicide among the young and old alike.
services had indicated that the longer a client wished to Wait, the more expensive the service must be. In fact, choosing to Wait for more than fifty, or even one hundred years, was prohibitively expensive to most individuals who showed interest.
As it turned out, Gene Rush was only able to afford to Wait for 35 years. To be honest, he did not really want to Wait for hundreds of ~~years,~~ years like everyone else seemed to. His fantasy did not involve waking up in some unfathomable society, driven by invisible technology explained with incomprehensible languages.
After spending much of his savings on a new wardrobe, Gene did not ~~even~~ have the luxury of Waiting that ~~long.~~ long anyway.
I'm sorry sir, we just don't carry your size anymore, the salesman apologized. You'll have to try Mr. Plus in Bandhal. I think they have 127s there.
Gene cursed the fact that Newmerica had converted to the metric system. Actually, he thought, he was cursed to be born in 2013, so that his waist size seemingly ballooned from 42 inches to 107 centimeters on his 15th birthday. When did his Waiting begin? He couldn't remember. Not soon enough. He could hardly wait to Wait, he thought sarcastically. He just hoped 35 years would be enough. Something was wrong

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Cal-trollThe CaloTrollsThe Calor-TrollsCalontrolCaloTron2050:Due to recent improvements in scaling-up cryogenic preservation methods, cryo-service providers (CSPs) have succeeded in nearly satisfying popular demand. Accordingly, the price of Waiting has dropped significantly. Waiting has now become an extremely popular alternative to suicide among the young and old alike. Early economic analyses of the costs of offering such services indicated that the longer a client wished to Wait, the more expensive the service must be. In fact, choosing to Wait for more than fifty, or even one hundred years, was prohibitively expensive to most individuals who showed interest. As it turned out, Gene Rush was only able to afford to Wait for 35 years. To be honest, he did not really want to Wait for hundreds of years, like everyone else seemed to. His fantasy did not involve waking up in some unfathomable society, driven by invisible technology explained with incomprehensible languages.After spending much of his savings on a new wardrobe, Gene did not even have the luxury of Waiting that long.I\'m sorry sir, we just don\'t carry your size anymore, the salesman apologized. You\'ll have to try Mr. Plus in Bandhal. I think they have 127s there. Gene cursed the fact that Newmerica had converted to the metric system. Actually, he thought, he was cursed to be born in 2013, so that his waist size seemingly ballooned from 42 inches to 107 centimeters on his 15th birthday. When did his Waiting begin? He couldn\'t remember. Not soon enough. He could hardly wait to Wait, he thought sarcastically. He just hoped 35 years would be enough. Something was wrong%5B\'\'Notes: Cryogenic companies and government in cahoots, reduce population. They promise that cryogenics reduces weight, and so hundreds of thousands of people opt to Wait, instead of enduring this life of overweightness on an overpopulated planet. Propaganda promote Waiting, and chastise the overweight.Special chemicals or minerals required for cryogenics..thus some raw materials companies in on the scheme?Government in future treats calories like a Controlled Substance.%5D\'\'2085:Gene was famished. Or at least, that\'s how he felt. He had never actually been famished. He\'d never gone more than a few waking hours without eating. Well, there was that one night when Amy led him away from the camp cabins into the woods after all their counselors had fallen asleep. He didn\'t eat or sleep that night. God that seems so long ago. I wonder what Amy is doing now? What was it, fifteen years ago? No, it was fifty years ago. God, fifty years. Amy could be dead by now.Probably not. Who knows, maybe she Waited, too.Gene climbed out of his ship. It was hard to leave. Not because he was sore or uncomfortable, he realized, but because it was safe. Safe in his little pod. There was no one watching him, no one asking if he needed any help. No one to think about. He felt surprisingly limbre, however. Climbing out of the small compartment was not physically difficult. It did amplify the chorus of hunger pangs from his gut into his brain. He would have to go exploring.He looked out into the dim hallway that his room opened into, and did not see a whisper of life. Many doors, but no movement. Wasn\'t there supposed to be an attendant? A team of doctors? Somebody to greet him? No, that\'s right, he didn\'t need anyone. He remembered, this is one of the many reasons he chose to Wait. The process was so streamlined, no one needed to tend to the ships. Fully automated cocoons, they kept their cargo safe, asleep, and alive, slowly conditioning them into fit, wakeful states by the end of the alotted time. He could wake up and move about as he pleased in the new world he\'d awoken into. His new future. Of course, some people paid good money for a guarantee that attendants would be present at their awakening. Servants explaining the world to them once they awoke. How their favorite football team was doing, who was president, a brief history of the world while they had been Waiting.But Gene wanted to cherish his anonymity, his ignorance. He Waited to escape, and god damnit that\'s what he aimed to do. But now as the hunger clawed at the scratching post of his stomach, he knew he was doomed to engage his new world...if for nothing else than to mine for raw materials.Gene passed a glass window in a door that must have lead down another hallway of Waiting Rooms. Shocked, he looked behind him to see who was following him. No one there. Gene stared at his reflection in the glass. It really worked. By god, it worked!Gene was elated to see his deflated body. A body he could stand to stare at. This feeling didn\'t last long, as the hunger cat shred it to pieces. Gene began to long for disembowelment.Soon, he reached what seemed to be an exit. Were he not so transformed or maddened by hunger, he might have lingered longer or even pondered turning around. But he could not wait any longer.Thrusting open the door, Gene walked out into a muggy, cloudy day in the future.Gene immediately noticed the people. There were none! This part of Newladelphia had been a bustling metropolis in the days before he began to Wait. Gene noticed a few distant individuals walking down a few distant streets. There were no vehicles parked in the streets, but dozens of Parking signs littered the tall, monolithic buildings that Gene noticed next. Besides these skyscrapers, the only other buildings that Gene saw were restaurants. Dozens and dozens of restaurants. They all advertised themselves as Tasty!, Flavorful!, which megaphoned his gut\'s screams but not his lingering distrust of public spaces. Pacing down the sidewalk, he finally noticed a little empty room that could\'ve been a laundromat. Only this little shop contained nothing but vending machines, filled with a cornucopia of strange treats and foods. Gene recognized a few shapes and without another thought, threw the door open and ran inside. Through the midst of euphoria his brain kicked in, and realized he would need some cash. Looking around frantically, he saw a gleam in the corner, and rejoiced when he realized it was probably a coin. It was large and surprisingly light, featuring the Newmerica logo, which brought him some strange comfort. When he put the coin into a vending machine\'s coin slot, the box of delights sprung to life, with rotating lights and rapid-fire rearrangement of the items inside. The new arrangement seemed to display only those snacks that his coin could afford, and Gene appreciated this celebration of his limited funds.Looking through his options more closely, and more frenetically, Gene was confused and angry. What the hell is a Diet Hot Dog? he muttered to himself. Or so he thought. A diet hot dog is a delicious lattice of flavor molecules and odor materials, the machine replied in a pleasant female voice, scientifically designed to immerse you in the experience of a delicious, beefy, hot dog.\'\'%5BSelf-sustenance outlawed...Lactation outlawed...Any un-monitored, un-supervised generation or consumption of calories Outlawed...%5D\'\'

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Blogosphere Core Sample: James D Rounds :: UrthBoundHome
3-18-08, Tuesday
Wow, 18 months, since the last blog-post. 18 months post-post. I am one year married as of yesterday. And my son is 6 months into this world on Friday! Here, as promised, is a Story about a future in which the gradient of control has grown so steep, the government may even control the very way you feed... Calontrol
9-28-06
It's late, and yet I wonder: What are the noosphere's feelings about "zego"? As a typo, I recommend that "zego" be upgraded to transcendental portmanteau of 'zed' & 'ego', more like a new-age energy drink with alcohol than its synonym "nego" (of 'neg' and 'ego', or a contraction of neg-ego).Mix zego with this joke, for a good time: How do magicians punctuate their hockey games?

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BlogoSphere Core Sample: James D Rounds
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02/12/2007
I am somewhat saddened to report that I am leaving the residency at the Center for Sustainability. Due to a variety of factors, including the continued lack of financial support from the Center itself or outside avenues, as well as the impending transformation of the Center's grounds, it has become an impossible situation for me to manage the entire farm alone.
Instead, I will return to my previous role of primary gardening volunteer. I will keep up the gardens of the farm, and manage the rented garden plots. Thank you to everyone who visited, volunteered, chatted, or otherwise contributed to the Center for Sustainability. I have learned a great deal from everyone and am very grateful for the experience.

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What Is Flotation-REST?
- Logistics
preference. ~~Anyone~~ Anyone interested in floating should email psu.tank.lab@gmail.com with your request. ~~You~~ You will be asked to attend an introductory meeting, give a blood sample, and fill out a few surveys prior to floating.
Penn State Students: If you don't recieve a reply within a few days, check your junk mail folder as occasionally messages from Gmail are diverted there.
MedicalExclusions - for your protection and ours
Consent Form (#3).doc - A copy of the current informed consent form for our ongoing study. Participants, save a copy for your records.
Information Sheet - a list of instructions on what to expect when you come to the REST Lab
WritingQuestions - - a brief writing prompt to help participants organize their thoughts on their flotation experience
- Extras
~~Collegian~~ ~~Article~~CollegianArticle - a short report on PSU's REST Lab in The Daily Collegian
Note: the article misquoted our study coordinator in regards to the flotation tank in the REST Lab as being "the only of its kind in North America." What was meant is that we are the only operating research lab studying flotation-REST in North America (according to a personal communication from ~~Dr.~~ ~~Peter~~ ~~Suedfeld,~~ Dr.PeterSuedfeld, a prolific figure in REST and extreme environments research). There are actually hundreds of flotation tanks scattered across the country in homes and commerical float centers. A listing of commerical float centers can be found here.
FloatGlossary - Receive, Decode, Deconstruct, Create, Transmit
Lab Staff Reports and Materials - Reports from explorers and associates, research materials, a space to learn and play

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email@hidden () — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:57:33 -0500

Hail the Floaters
Penn ~~State's~~ State University's
Restricted Environmental Stimuli Technique (R.E.S.T.) Flotation Laboratory
A center for the study of the genetics of stress, stimuli response, altered states of consciousness, and health.
What Is Flotation-REST?
- Logistics
~~*UPDATE*~~
~~Our~~Our current protocol ~~has~~ ~~begun.~~ It allows participants to float from 1 to 10 times during the semester, depending on their preference. ~~Please~~ ~~check~~ ~~the~~ ~~Google~~ ~~Calender~~ ~~below~~ to ~~sign~~ up ~~for~~ ~~floating.~~ ~~Please~~ ~~note~~ ~~that~~ ~~male~~ ~~hours~~ ~~will~~ be ~~more~~ ~~abundant~~ ~~than~~ ~~female~~ ~~hours.~~
~~FloatPlans~~ - ~~Click~~ ~~here~~ to ~~view~~ ~~available~~ ~~appointments~~ on ~~our~~ ~~Google~~ ~~calendar.~~ ~~Email~~ Anyone interested in floating should email psu.tank.lab@gmail.com with your request. ~~Penn~~ You will be asked to attend an introductory meeting, give a blood sample, and fill out a few surveys prior to floating.
Penn State Students: If you don't recieve a reply within a few days, check your junk mail folder as occasionally messages from Gmail are diverted there.
MedicalExclusions - for your protection and ours
- Documents

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~~The~~Float Pictures
The (R.E.S.T.) Restricted Environmental Stimuli Therapy tank. Shown here is the entrance to the tank, the front of the ~~tank.~~ ~~For~~ ~~reference,~~ ~~the~~ ~~door~~ ~~opens~~ ~~via~~ ~~hinges~~ ~~mounted~~ on ~~the~~ ~~opposite~~ ~~side~~ of ~~the~~ ~~door~~ ~~from~~ ~~that~~ ~~which~~ ~~this~~ ~~photo~~ ~~was~~ ~~taken.~~ tank.
Trey Connor and Dr. Richard Doyle standing by the rear end of the R.E.S.T. tank. This end is where the tank's specialized water filtration system is located.
This is the back of the tank. The top two PVC pipes are for ventilation; the bottom pipes are part of the filtration system.
The lab. A curtain ensures privacy for floaters as they enter and exit the tank.

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MedicalExclusions - for your protection and ours
- Documents
Form (#3).doc - A copy of the current informed consent form for our ongoing study. Participants, save a copy for your records.
Information Sheet - a list of instructions on what to expect when you come to the REST Lab
WritingQuestions - a brief writing prompt to help participants organize their thoughts on their flotation experience

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What Is Flotation-REST?
- Logistics
*PLEASE NOTE**UPDATE*
Our ~~study~~ is ~~currently~~ ~~awaiting~~ ~~IRB~~ ~~approval~~ ~~for~~ ~~our~~ ~~new~~ ~~protocol.~~ ~~Persons~~ ~~interested~~ in ~~floating~~ ~~may~~ ~~still~~ ~~email~~ us current protocol has begun. It allows participants to be ~~put~~ float from 1 to 10 times during the semester, depending on a ~~list;~~ ~~however,~~ their preference. Please check the ~~tank~~ is ~~not~~ ~~currently~~ ~~available~~ Google Calender below to sign up for floating. ~~Once~~ ~~the~~ ~~tank~~ is ~~ready~~ ~~for~~ ~~new~~ ~~participants,~~ ~~this~~ ~~site~~ Please note that male hours will be ~~updated~~ ~~and~~ ~~the~~ ~~Google~~ ~~calender~~ ~~below~~ as ~~well.~~ ~~Sorry!~~ more abundant than female hours.
FloatPlans - Click here to view available appointments on our Google calendar. Email psu.tank.lab@gmail.com with your request. Penn State Students: If you don't recieve a reply within a few days, check your junk mail folder as occasionally messages from Gmail are diverted there.
MedicalExclusions - for your protection and ours

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What Is Flotation-REST?
- Logistics
*PLEASE NOTE*
Our study is currently awaiting IRB approval for our new protocol. Persons interested in floating may still email us to be put on a list; however, the tank is not currently available for floating. Once the tank is ready for new participants, this site will be updated and the Google calender below as well. Sorry!
FloatPlans - Click here to view available appointments on our Google calendar. Email psu.tank.lab@gmail.com with your request. Penn State Students: If you don't recieve a reply within a few days, check your junk mail folder as occasionally messages from Gmail are diverted there.
MedicalExclusions - for your protection and ours

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Flotation-R.E.S.T. is one, and often described as the most potent method, for achieving this zero-point of sensory stimulation. As a technology of studying the mind in isolation it was first explored by Dr.JohnLilly. Lilly, a famous and pioneering neuropsychologist, cyberneticist, interspecies communicator, and researcher into the nature of conciousness, invented several versions of flotation-R.E.S.T. before settling on what has become the standard version. In our laboratory, Flotation-R.E.S.T. consists of a darkened, sound-attentuated chamber - an enclosed fiberglass tub measuring 99" long, 56" wide and 45" high on the outside. The inside dimensions are 90" by 48" by 41". This chamber is filled with 10 inches of a dense epsom salt solution with a specific gravity of 1.30 and maintained at 94 Farhenheit. The specific gravity of 1.30 means that the solution is 30% denser than water which enables even the skinniest of people to float comfortably on the surface lending a unique sense of weightlessness almost unheard of in any other context. The temperature is kept as close to average skin temperature as possible which further reduces tactile stimulation. Subjects wear aquatic ear plugs to further reduce sound and to keep the salt water out of the ear canal. Typical sessions last anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour.
Why is it called R.E.S.T.?
isolation. ~~The~~
The term R.E.S.T. was coined in the late 1970's to make a clear seperation between sensationalized negative reports of forced isolation and the R.E.S.T. condition, which does not "deprive" the subject of his senses or alternatively overload the subject with one particular sensory input. Rather, R.E.S.T. is a study of normal human subjects in an altered environmental condition which approximates as closely as possible a sort of zero point of sensory input. The key factor in REST research, as opposed to classic "sensory deprivation" studies, is that it is the environment which is modulated and restricted; the subject is left as unfettered as possible by experimental conditions. The goal then is to explore the make up of mind-body interactions when seperated from usual visual, audio, and tactile frames of reference. (For more on the history of "Sensory Deprivation" as opposed to REST, please refer to RestrictedEnvironmentalStimulation:ResearchandClinicalApplications, Suedfeld, P. 1980)
What does it do?
Strictly speaking, Flotation-R.E.S.T. does nothing except allow the subject an ideal place to do absolutely nothing. However, several beneficial effects have been described in research literature as a result of all this "nothing-doing." A recent meta-analysis focused on many of the physiological benefits attributed to flotation-R.E.S.T. including lowered blood-pressure, lowered cortisol measures, and lowered adrenal levels; reported psychological effects include reports of positive mood change, reports of altered states of conciousness, and subjective feelings of relaxation; additionally R.E.S.T. has been implicated as performance enhancing on such wide ranging measure as archery, basketball, and performance on a signal detection task. For a more complete listing of prior research, please refer to our bibliography.
Is it safe?
In more than forty years of flotation-R.E.S.T. research there has never been a recorded incidence of physical harm. However, to completely insure the safety of all participants and lab staff we do have a few medical exclusions. Additionally, if you are claustrophobic or are normally apprhensive when spending time in isolation, then flotation-R.E.S.T. may not be for you. Occasionally, the high salt content of the water may cause irritation in sensitive body areas, especially if it happens to get in the eye. This irritation is perfectly normal and often subsides in a few minutes. Aquatic earplugs are provided to prevent any rare but possible complications from water entering the ear canal.
to ~~exit.Flotation-REST~~ exit.
Flotation-REST is a remarkably clean environment. Due to the high salt content of the water virtually no microorganisms can survive in it. The water is filtered after every session and daily additions of Hydrogen Peroxide and natural enzymes help to breakdown body oils which may accumulate over time. Even so, we ask that any participants shower soon before floating to keep body oils in the tank to a minimum.
By following all prescribed guidelines we can insure that flotation-R.E.S.T. continues to be a safe and suitable environment for the study of mind/body interactions.
Why are we studying Flotation-R.E.S.T.?

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Hail the Floaters
State's ~~Restricted~~
Restricted Environmental Stimuli Technique (R.E.S.T.) Flotation Laboratory - a
A center for the study of the genetics of stress, stimuli response, altered states of consciousness, and health.
~
- Basics
What Is Flotation-REST?
~~Collegian~~ ~~Article~~ - a ~~short~~ ~~report~~ on ~~PSU's~~ ~~REST~~ ~~Lab~~ in ~~The~~ ~~Daily~~ ~~Collegian~~
~~Note:~~ ~~the~~ ~~article~~ ~~misquoted~~ ~~our~~ ~~study~~ ~~coordinator~~ in ~~regards~~ to ~~the~~ ~~flotation~~ ~~tank~~ in ~~the~~ ~~REST~~ ~~Lab~~ as ~~being~~ ~~"the~~ ~~only~~ of ~~its~~ ~~kind~~ in ~~North~~ ~~America."~~ ~~What~~ ~~was~~ ~~meant~~ is ~~that~~ we ~~are~~ ~~the~~ ~~only~~ ~~operating~~ ~~research~~ ~~lab~~ ~~studying~~ ~~flotation-REST~~ in ~~North~~ ~~America~~ ~~(according~~ to a ~~personal~~ ~~communication~~ ~~from~~ ~~Dr.~~ ~~Peter~~ ~~Suedfeld,~~ a ~~prolific~~ ~~figure~~ in ~~REST~~ ~~and~~ ~~extreme~~ ~~environments~~ ~~research).~~ ~~There~~ ~~are~~ ~~actually~~ ~~hundreds~~ of ~~flotation~~ ~~tanks~~ ~~scattered~~ ~~across~~ ~~the~~ ~~country~~ in ~~homes~~ ~~and~~ ~~commerical~~ ~~float~~ ~~centers.~~ A ~~listing~~ of ~~commerical~~ ~~float~~ ~~centers~~ ~~can~~ be ~~found~~ ~~here.~~- Logistics
FloatPlans - Click here to view available appointments on our Google calendar. Email psu.tank.lab@gmail.com with your request. Penn State Students: If you don't recieve a reply within a few days, check your junk mail folder as occasionally messages from Gmail are diverted there.
MedicalExclusions - for your protection and ours
- Documents
Consent Form - A copy of the current informed consent form for our ongoing study. Participants, save a copy for your records.
Information Sheet - a list of instructions on what to expect when you come to the REST Lab
WritingQuestions - a brief writing prompt to help participants organize their thoughts on their flotation experience
~~MedicalExclusions~~- Extras
Collegian Article - ~~for~~ ~~your~~ ~~protection~~ a short report on PSU's REST Lab in The Daily Collegian
Note: the article misquoted our study coordinator in regards to the flotation tank in the REST Lab as being "the only of its kind in North America." What was meant is that we are the only operating research lab studying flotation-REST in North America (according to a personal communication from Dr. Peter Suedfeld, a prolific figure in REST and ~~ours~~ extreme environments research). There are actually hundreds of flotation tanks scattered across the country in homes and commerical float centers. A listing of commerical float centers can be found here.
FloatGlossary - Receive, Decode, Deconstruct, Create, Transmit
Lab Staff Reports and Materials - Reports from explorers and associates, research materials, a space to learn and play

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In terms of clock-time and in relation to the clock-time I dedicate to sitting meditation daily (30 minutes) the 45 minute float seemed a little bit shorter than 30 minutes. After emerging from the tank on Monday, I could feel that the float had effected a calm detachment on identity and a connection to All that is, and was accompanied by a paradoxically languid vitality and slow alertness of Mind, Body, and Spirit.
Much gratitude!
December 18 2007
Recently, 2 colleagues asked me if I'd like to join them on a panel they were assembling for a conference called Pop Culture, which will take place in San Francisco this year. Jill McCracken saw interesting connections between her research on sex work and Morgan Gresham's research on anorexia. When Morgan asked me if I had any projects that might fit into this mix, a metonymy came to mind between the REST research and the sexuality study. Here's a our proposal:
Sex, Anorexia, and Sensory Deprivation: Subverting Embodied Rhetorics
Examining the rhetoric of the quotidian, or the public and personal meanings that affect everyday, even minute-to-minute decisions (Brummett 41) provides crucial insights into representations of marginalized populations and issues. The irreducibly participatory nature of research involving the sexualized body offers ways to articulate an embodied rhetoric of sexuality. Offering a participatory and performative presentation that combines analyses of sex work, anorexia, and research in sensory deprivation, this panel asks the audience to help them answer the questions they are considering related to how sexualized bodies embody rhetorics, and how centering marginalized populations can subvert and resist dominant constructions of identity. Those questions include:
* How are sexual identity and bodies related? * How do we negotiate the mind/body split in relation to sexuality? * How can technology be used to subvert and resist dominant inscriptions of identity, and sexual identity in particular?
The panel will address each of these questions, and others, through the lenses of identity, choice, and participation.
Speaker 1: Trey Conner "Wiki-ing Transpersonal Experience"
This report explores the intermezzo made available by an autoethnographic experience in REST (Restricted Environmental Stimuli Therapy) research and a follow-up sexuality survey. Qualitative response to the REST experience, on wiki, renders introspective and even "disembodied" experience in language, and this information can be correlated with genetic information provided by participants. By soliciting voluntary participation in sexuality surveys from the pool of participants who donated DNA in the REST research, REST researchers enlist genetics to inquire into the sexualized body. Understood as an Althusserian interpellation, voluntary participation in genetics research can itself be understood as a site for research, and transformation.
Speaker 2: Morgan Gresham "Preferring Not To: Choosing Identities and Body Boundaries"
Popular understandings of anorexia often focus on power and control--that is, anorexia is seen as a disease of young women who don't want to grow up and thereby attempt to wrest control of the chaos of maturity by starving. At its most basic interpretation, anorexia is a separation of mind and meat. I examine these constructs in light of issues of choice, subversion, and resistance. Positing that anorexia is a construct, created in language, we can deconstruct the popular notions of anorexia by focusing on the language anoretics use to describe themselves on pro-anorexia websites.
Speaker 3: Jill McCracken "Street Sex Work: Centering a Marginalized Population"
Based on an ethnographic study, Speaker 3 presents analyses of street sex worker representations (people who provide commercial sexual services on or near the street). Examining this language reveals a powerful rhetorical situation. Street sex workers live out a range of contradictory experiences about the nature and implications of these activities. Examining these rhetorical constructions and their related effects on policy elucidates the discursive complexity that exists in meaning-making systems and illustrates why sex work is so difficult to address locally, nationally, and globally. My analysis also offers alternative constructions that are generated by the marginalized populations themselves.

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Flotation-R.E.S.T. is one, and often described as the most potent method, for achieving this zero-point of sensory stimulation. As a technology of studying the mind in isolation it was first explored by Dr.JohnLilly. Lilly, a famous and pioneering neuropsychologist, cyberneticist, interspecies communicator, and researcher into the nature of conciousness, invented several versions of flotation-R.E.S.T. before settling on what has become the standard version. In our laboratory, Flotation-R.E.S.T. consists of a darkened, sound-attentuated chamber - an enclosed fiberglass tub measuring 99" long, 56" wide and 45" high on the outside. The inside dimensions are 90" by 48" by 41". This chamber is filled with 10 inches of a dense epsom salt solution with a specific gravity of 1.30 and maintained at 94 Farhenheit. The specific gravity of 1.30 means that the solution is 30% denser than water which enables even the skinniest of people to float comfortably on the surface lending a unique sense of weightlessness almost unheard of in any other context. The temperature is kept as close to average skin temperature as possible which further reduces tactile stimulation. Subjects wear aquatic ear plugs to further reduce sound and to keep the salt water out of the ear canal. Typical sessions last anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour.
Why is it called R.E.S.T.?
to ~~Restricted~~ ~~Environmental~~ ~~Stimulation:~~ ~~Research~~ ~~and~~ ~~Clinical~~ ~~Applications,~~ RestrictedEnvironmentalStimulation:ResearchandClinicalApplications, Suedfeld, P. 1980)
What does it do?
Strictly speaking, Flotation-R.E.S.T. does nothing except allow the subject an ideal place to do absolutely nothing. However, several beneficial effects have been described in research literature as a result of all this "nothing-doing." A recent meta-analysis focused on many of the physiological benefits attributed to flotation-R.E.S.T. including lowered blood-pressure, lowered cortisol measures, and lowered adrenal levels; reported psychological effects include reports of positive mood change, reports of altered states of conciousness, and subjective feelings of relaxation; additionally R.E.S.T. has been implicated as performance enhancing on such wide ranging measure as archery, basketball, and performance on a signal detection task. For a more complete listing of prior research, please refer to our bibliography.
Is it safe?
In more than forty years of flotation-R.E.S.T. research there has never been a recorded incidence of physical harm. However, to completely insure the safety of all participants and lab staff we do have a few medical exclusions. Additionally, if you are claustrophobic or are normally apprhensive when spending time in isolation, then flotation-R.E.S.T. may not be for you. Occasionally, the high salt content of the water may cause irritation in sensitive body areas, especially if it happens to get in the eye. This irritation is perfectly normal and often subsides in a few minutes. Aquatic earplugs are provided to prevent any rare but possible complications from water entering the ear canal.
to ~~exit.~~
~~Flotation-REST~~ exit.Flotation-REST is a remarkably clean environment. Due to the high salt content of the water virtually no microorganisms can survive in it. The water is filtered after every session and daily additions of Hydrogen Peroxide and natural enzymes help to breakdown body oils which may accumulate over time. Even so, we ask that any participants shower soon before floating to keep body oils in the tank to a minimum.
By following all prescribed guidelines we can insure that flotation-R.E.S.T. continues to be a safe and suitable environment for the study of mind/body interactions.
Why are we studying Flotation-R.E.S.T.?
As a unique collaboration between faculty in Anthropology, English, Education, and the Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State's Flotation-R.E.S.T. Laboratory is a part of an emerging discourse on the use and efficacy of mind/body technologies. Flotation-R.E.S.T. has been indicated in the treatment of stress and muscletensionpain as well as rheumatoidarthritis,chronicpain,PMSandahostofotherailments. There is also research detailing flotation-R.E.S.T. as a means of enhancing performance in athletics and concentration and as a means of inducing an introspective and relaxing altered state of conciousness.
individuals ~~described~~ experience and describe visual and auditory anomalies and strong altered states of consciousness, whereas other may not? Are there perhaps genetic influences which translate into different ways of beholding the world - inhibiting or expanding access to different modes of mind/body interaction? Additionally, recentresearch into the science of the self has once more engaged the popular imagination into the question that originally motivated John Lilly: How much of "us," or our sense of selfhood, is a product of stimuli and how much is a product of internal processes?
Flotation-R.E.S.T. presents a particular kind of control case of the individual isolated from external stimuli. What can this particular environment reveal to us about cognitive differences among human beings?
There is much left to be explored in the realm of R.E.S.T. research. Questions such as: What are the mechanisms of the relaxation response induced by flotation-R.E.S.T.? Does flotation-R.E.S.T. offer lasting benefits? Is there a training effect, an expectancy effect, a setting effect?

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My work with with clay begins from the experience that emptiness and space are not voids, but entities unto themselves. Vessels of "non-being" such as pinch pots, in both their fabrication and their observation, suggest that far from enslaved to an all-knowing mind, our sensory organs are themselves autonomously conscious entities capable of apprehending and manipulating aspects of reality that, strictly speaking, aren't there. My fingertips, contacting clay, become charged with the "non-being" we can host, together. "Non-being", then, is simply a label for an aspect of "mute", "empty" space that is in fact vital and uncannily absent from much of contemporary life. Working with clay, my hands/eyes/muscles/bones/chin/skin divine a sacred feature of reality, a material spirit of sanctuary.
wow! i have run off in a completely different direction.. more to come, someday, on the lovely Clay.
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