by orchaeus | Jul 8, 2020 | Status Update
Are performative displays (warning: all my communications here partake of signalling of various kinds, including ‘virtue signalling’) somehow inherently ‘wrong’ or implicitly a form of lying? When we look beneath the relatively superficial...
by orchaeus | Jul 8, 2020 | Status Update
On The Lethal Results of Representation: I have been studying a specific vector in the topic of the Origins of Modern Human Consciousness now for about 18 years, primarily independently. My interest was piqued during a nonordinary experience in 2002, which began with...
by orchaeus | Jul 8, 2020 | Shared Link
What we conceive of as ‘civilization’ is, and has long been little more than a skyscraper whose every floor was composed for the sake of (mostly lethal) inductive fictions. Convenience and complicity rendered these compelling; and a plane has just hit the...
by orchaeus | Jul 8, 2020 | Shared Link
https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2020/7/1/21308153/the-ezra-klein-show-the-shallows-twitter-facebook-attention-deep-reading-thinking”But what McLuhan believed is that the communication technology itself shapes the way we perceive things and the way we communicate in...
by orchaeus | Jul 8, 2020 | Status Update
“If playing Russian Roulette with a revolver missing a single bullet is a process… then you can call the procedural machinery of American politics… a process.” — an a i
