Patriarchal reductionism > 11/02/09

Social and neural nodes
evolutionary memes

traversed by noise
humdrum of internet
media technologies
neighbours chatting across the fence
workplace platitudes
rip-offs and the scientific thruth of the day
in an unordered list mashed up in art

hyperrealities & social narcissism & CBT

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Subjective experience > 11/02/09

circles loop
around being

traversed by noise
humdrum of internet
media technologies
neighbours chatting across the fence
workplace platitudes
rip-offs and the scientific thruth of the day
in an unordered list mashed up in art

voice(s) of the other

response (0) tagged: the spectacle filed under: the Other :: in the absence of the Other

reshuffling the tiles > 04/12/06

Have been playing a bit of Mah Jong today and the program I used was slightly different from what I’m used to. Whenever you get stuck - and if you know Mah Jong that’s easy - there is the option to reshuffle the tiles! Thus the morale of the game is that whenever you get stuck, reshuffle the tiles, break out of locked positions! The name of the game will change.

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human poverty > 22/04/05

Everywhere I look I come across, on the one, social narcissism, behaviourism, cognitive therapy, infomania and, on the other, anorexia, bulimia, people being burnt out and other bodies in disorder. That is, I come across both the symptoms and the effects of a society that has rid itself of its humanity. Instead of investing in human potential we rely on quick solutions and material welfare to cover up for the lack of faith in human resources. The result is meagre, poor in spirit, rich in bodily disorders.

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