The “urban design” of a temporary autonomous zone.
MonthNovember 2004
Extensive Hermetic Kabbalah resource.
I especially like the above diagram of the traditions and sources that combine to form Hermetic Kabbalah.
I think this is nicely written.
In Hermetic, magickal, Qabalah in contrast, the ten sefirot (“sephiroth”) pertain to ten aspects of what could be called the astral or magical world. In contrast with dualistic theism, but in keeping with a neoplatonic and emanationist understanding, they are the ten intermediate stages between the indescribable infinite or Absolute (En Sof, or “Ain Soph”) and the mundane reality. They are identified with ten grades of magical initiation, the seven planets of traditional astrology (with the lowest sefirah, Malkhut, representing the Earth, and the two highest the fixed stars and the sphere of God) and with a numerological analysis of the numbers one to ten. The twenty-two paths which link the ten sefirot are identified with one of the twenty-two Hebrew letters and twenty-two Major Arcana tarot trumps). Thus, not only each sefirah has a particular archetypal meaning, but each path as well, making thirty-two archetypes altogether. By the proper means therefore it is possible to invoke any of these fundamental essences. To this end, the Golden Dawn occultists from Mathers on drew up long and elaborate tables of correspondences, listing the precise colour, animal, perfume, precious stone, mythological beings, and so on. Crowley’s book “777” (which appears to be a plagiarisation of a manuscript circulated by Mathers, with Crowley’s additional notes) give a comprehensive list of these tables of attributes.
(via Digital Raven).
Splotches is a really cool online art magazine.
Above piece is from the “color-in book” feature.
(via Wooster Collective)
Space may be the next frontier for the district, under a plan that would use a satellite system to track some Parks employees.
Recent Arthur Magazine article republished on FutureHi:
One of the most beautiful aspects of Burning Man is the wide-open expanse of the desert itself, which seems to represent the infinite potential available to the liberated human imagination. While I was bicycling across the playa one night, enjoying the laser lights and carnival displays of the festival from a distance, I thought that the shift to a new planetary culture, and a new form of nonhierarchical social organization matching our new level of mind, does not have to be a cataclysmic or destructive one. The transition could occur in a manner similar to the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Empire ? a sudden piffle, and a shocking surrender. However, for this to happen, the new paradigm must already be in place, at least as an undercurrent. Lacking a model or an imprint, the collapse of the current system will result in a world resembling that of the Road Warrior films, without the occasional flickers of irony.
Awesome! *I’m* not grossed out by this.
A “living” jacket grown from mouse and human bone cells. The cells used, which are applied to a biodegradeable polymer base, come from “immortalized” cell lines–i.e., cells that divide and multiply forever once they are removed from an animal or human host (without harm or hurt); they are a renewable resource, if you will. The goal of the “semi-living” jacket is to create “victimless” leather. Currently, the jacket is still so tiny (it’s about 2 inches high and 1-and-a-half inches wide) it could only fit a mouse.
PBS has a web supplement to Douglas Rushkoff‘s new Frontline segment, The Persuaders. Rushkoff’s one of my heroes and I’m really looking forward to watching this when I get the chance.
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