Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Eons… my AI fever dream from Ha®dCell (MOMA, ’95; Thread Waxing Space, ’94)
I wrote Eons… to accompany the video installation Ha®dCell that Judith Barry and I initially created for CRASH, Nostalgia for the Absence of Cyberspace at SOHO’s Thread Waxing Space (NYC, 1994). A year later, it was included in NY MOMA’s Video Spaces: 8 Installations, a major mid-decade retrospective. Eons… (in black text) runs across the…
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Unflatten Your Storytelling
You’re attempting to tell a story that’s important to you. But try (and try) as you might, words fail. Not that you don’t use good ones. Great ones, even. But words alone aren’t cutting it, aren’t fully capturing or communicating your vision, aren’t doing justice to the story’s breadth and complexity. In which case, maybe…
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Talk Like Terence
With the mainstreaming of mushroom culture and psychedelic therapies, ethnobotanist, mystic, philosopher and ardent psychedelic activist, Terence McKenna, appears to be getting his posthumous due. From his early writing about altered states of consciousness and the I Ching to his Stoned Ape theory (in which our more primitive ancestors got less primitive eating psilocybin mushrooms…
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So You Wanna Be Disruptive?
Dear wannabe disrupters: You don’t have to destroy entire ecosystems nor condemn 99% of your fellow citizens to government cheese lines in order to change what needs changing. You don’t have to throw the baby out with the business plan. Case in point: Choreographer William Forsythe‘s tour de force 1987 ballet, In The Middle Somewhat…
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Maybe Get Sketchier
An Illustrated Life, artist/author Danny Gregory’s collection of sketchbook-makers talking sketchbook-making, convinced me I could draw! Though the jury’s still out on whether that’s a good thing, the book serves up heaps of creative inspiration. Heaps! An Illustrated Life abounds in wondrous and wacky drawings, watercolors and collages, accompanied by disarming personal (and perfectly concise)…
Got any book recommendations?