Above image from Teemu Maki
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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.
Interesting. Marijuana research has lead scientists to create a drug that does the exact opposite of marijuana as a diet drug.
Called rimonabant, the drug in one study helped people who were overweight drop an average of 20 pounds and in another doubled the chances that smokers would quit. […]
The drugs inhibit the activity of a receptor called CB1 that is part of what’s known as the endocannabinoid system, the circuitry that marijuana stimulates to give users the munchies.
Mindwarp‘s first piece for Key 23 is up, a review of Psychic TV’s recent San Francisco gig.
GPO these days is quite a sight to see (here’s a recent pic), as he continues his experiment of alchemical/surgical/cosmetic fusion with his wife, Lady Jaye Breyer. The aim of this process (which the couple laid out in the 2003 essay “Breaking Sex!”) is for the two P-Orridges to achieve the creation of a third entity through a process of ?cut-up? of their own bodies, which is making them more and more similar to each other. The two recently got a matched pair of breast implants, and Genesis’ surgical alterations so far include a substitution of all his teeth with a set of gold replacements, and enhancements of his cheekbones (and, judging by their size, maybe his lips as well). Down to the smallest choice of gestures, schtick and vocal timbre, Genesis comes across more and more as the lascivious diva who, on some hidden level, he?s been all along.
Weird living for difficult times:
This page provides links to some of the major Dada-era publications in the International Dada Archive. These books, pamphlets, and periodicals are housed in the Special Collections Department of the University of Iowa Libraries. For reasons of copyright, no documents published after 1923 have been included.
R.U.’s former co-conspirator Mark interviews R.U. on the Boing Boing blog:
I think it does the job of establishing that there is this stream; a spirit really, that runs through history. Several spirits perhaps. This non-authoritarian, non-conformist, antic, changeable character, or community of characters, keeps coming up throughout human history. Sometimes they show up as artists or anti-artists, sometimes as religions or spiritual path; sometimes as a political revolution or change, sometimes as a scientific movement, sometimes as nihilism. Some seem to contradict others; representing opposite political sides. Or they represent opposite attitudes towards civilization and technological development ? that comes up quite a bit. And yet, I think the book shows various memetic lines of transmission that sometimes seem to run in parallel and sometimes seem to criss-cross.
Phenomena Magazine:
In January through March of 1918 Crowley began a series of magickal workings called the Amalantrah Workings in furnished rooms in Central Park West, New York City. These were a performed via Sexual & Ceremonial Magick (his spelling) with the intent to invoke certain “intelligences” to physical manifestation. In actuality, the workings typically manifested as a series of visions and communications received through the medium-ship of his partner, Roddie Minor.
Phenomena Magazine: Alien Abductions and Aleister Crowley: Magick or UFOs?
(via New World Disorder).
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