Entries from mistersquid: a digital fiction tagged with 'posthuman'
In the Future Everyone Will Have Their 12 Seconds of Fame
Prelim Watching a video debate about whether President Obama should shame unprincipled detractors by identifying them, I came across a video that asks “Is Lady Gaga Sexy Or Just Crazy?” The moment I saw this picture Lady GaGa in...
A Tale of Two Beings
I know why Jill Bolte Taylor's presentation, her "stroke of insight," is "universally considered the best" presentation of the TED conference held annually in Monterey, California. Taylor's message, her testimony, has deep implications for our shared existence. When you watch...
Robot Vernacular
(source) Clicking downloads a 2.5 MB file. Please be patient while the file loads Ctrl/Right-click here to “Save File As . . .” I'm interested in the kinaesthetics of such dances, the way in which mechanism and organism are...
The Twilight of Capitalism
Introduction: Zombie NationIn the last decade, zombies have taken a place of cultural prominence that in some ways is incongruous with their low culture origins. Among other things, this essay accounts for this increase in scholarly interest by examining the...
Hat Trick
After images of fighters launching cruise missiles and ICBMs emerging from their silos, the onset of zombies is the Western world's prevailing vision of apocalypse....
Spider-Face
--> This morning between midnight and 02:00 Eastern, I saw Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3. 1 The film weaves together storylines from the Spider-Man comic book and graphic novel sagas (both largely unfamiliar to me).2 One story arc in the Spider-Man...
Bottoms Up
Recent evidence of convergent evolution in humans1 in the form of a gene which enables adult humans to digest lactose shows that the mutations conferred an enormous selective advantage on their owners, enabling them to leave almost 10 times as...
Patchwork Copyright
I am surprised by your unqualified use of the term “intelligent machines.” To apply the descriptor “intelligent” to machines assumes that intelligence can be measured across types (e.g. humans and computers) with no relationship to the specific embodiment of the...
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