BrainsturbatorBrainsturbator:FOR THE MUTANTS OF TOMORROW --- today's news yesterday, math, sex, physics, drugs, media studies and future tech, biology and martial arts, let's get it on.2012-12-27T21:43:36ZCopyright (c) 2012, thirtysevenExpressionEnginetag:brainsturbation.com,2012:12:26brainsturbatorhttp://feedburner.google.com2012 Reading List: Year of the Jellyfishtag:brainsturbation.com,2012:brainsturbation.com/2.3432012-12-26T02:33:00Z2012-12-27T21:43:36Zthirtysevenwombaticusrex@gmail.comhttp://twitter.com/brainsturbator
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The jellyfish is a remarkable organism because for the most part, it’s not there. They consist of an invisibly thin web of digestive tissue and an “acellular” matrix known as <a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3243/2744719735_e8f7e55fe8.jpg">mesoglea</a> to capture and manipulate the water which makes up 98% of their bodies, if bodies they be.
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Reading lists are always a reductive process. Most reviews only serve to make me realize how little I liked the book I was about to recommend. This collection is basically the half-way point of <em>Battle Royale</em>, a mix of killer instinct and dumb luck.
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</div>The Brainsturbator 2011 Reading Listtag:brainsturbation.com,2012:brainsturbation.com/2.3412012-07-01T22:08:00Z2012-12-18T18:53:56Zthirtysevenwombaticusrex@gmail.comhttp://twitter.com/brainsturbator
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<strong>“We find our friends in dead libraries.”</strong> - <a href="http://fadereu.posterous.com/">Rohit Gupta</a>
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<strong>2011 was actually a rough year for me and the printed word.</strong> Most of the books I picked up were hardcover editions that made loud, satisfying sounds when I pitched them against the fucking wall. Needless to say, I had a lot of other stuff going on at the time and none of it matters today.
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I did, however, manage to recover something absurdly appropriate as an opening ritual for Brainsturbator’s 2012 season. I found a real deal <em>lost reading list</em> that I laid out on January 17th, 2011 and immediately forgot about. I found it an a notebook I brought back to Vermont this summer and I have been ordering books from it ever since. It turned out to be an excellent roadmap and it feels like I’m catching up on a year that never was.
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</div>The 2010 Brainsturbator Reading Listtag:brainsturbation.com,2010:brainsturbation.com/2.3392010-12-07T20:47:00Z2010-12-12T16:42:29Zthirtysevenwombaticusrex@gmail.comhttp://twitter.com/brainsturbator
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I have dozens of projects and I neglect them all. This year, my biggest victim has been Brainsturbator, once the focus of my daily life, now mostly a museum to who I was four years ago. I am many things to many people, but there’s one constant: <strong>I read a couple hundred pages a day, minimum.</strong> So as we approach to end of 2010, I wanted to share some of my very <em>highest</em> reading recommendations with you fine folks…
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</div>The Greatest Achievement of Organized Sciencetag:brainsturbation.com,2010:brainsturbation.com/2.3372010-10-03T22:41:00Z2010-10-04T16:44:16Zthirtysevenwombaticusrex@gmail.comhttp://twitter.com/brainsturbator
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<strong>“What has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science in history.” </strong>
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--<em>Harry S. Truman, 1945 statement on the bombing of Hiroshima</em>
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</div>Tracing Our Own Constellationstag:brainsturbation.com,2010:brainsturbation.com/2.3362010-10-01T00:29:01Z2010-12-11T18:18:17Zthirtysevenwombaticusrex@gmail.comhttp://twitter.com/brainsturbator
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The Age of Horus offers ample employment opportunities in the field of demolition. The entire Enlightenment and the great edifice of Science Herself are more of an obstacle than a foundation for us now. Allowing our outdated paradigms, social systems and vested interests to crumble into decay is dangerous to pedestrians. We need to take them out in a systematic way, <strong>pretty much ASAP.</strong>
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</div>Psychic Warfare from 1981-2008tag:brainsturbation.com,2009:brainsturbation.com/2.3322009-01-09T00:09:00Z2010-09-30T16:24:00Zthirtysevenwombaticusrex@gmail.comhttp://twitter.com/brainsturbator
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<strong>I’m publishing this to clear out 2008.</strong> Like my <a href="http://www.brainsturbator.com/articles/10_ways_you_can_fight_fascism_around_the_world/" title="10 Way You Can Fight Fascism">10 Ways</a> article, this was written for Key 64 although it never got published. With the <a href="http://espbootcamp.blogspot.com/">ESP Bootcamp</a> coming up, and ambient synchronicity going off the charts, I figured right now is a great time to re-examine the psychic potential of human beings. This material is also relevant to the work/play I’m doing with <a href="http://www.timboucher.com/journal" title="Tim Obama Boucher Omnivate">Tim Boucher</a> to develop MandalaOS and several other biocomputing systems for Omnivate LLC. I’ve quietly started up a Brainsturbator Tumblr account—<a href="http://brainsturbator.tumblr.com/">BRNSTRBTR</a>—and my notes on <a href="http://brainsturbator.tumblr.com/post/69056817/symbiotica-existenz-living-computer-interface" title="living interface systems">Living Interfaces</a> might be of interest to the curious future mutants among you.
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</div>Bucky Fuller & his World Game: Intro to Saving Planetstag:brainsturbation.com,2008:brainsturbation.com/2.782008-12-16T16:54:00Z2008-12-21T18:22:32Zthirtysevenwombaticusrex@gmail.comhttp://twitter.com/brainsturbator
<p><img src="http://www.brainsturbator.com/images/uploads/neverforget.jpg" class="left" alt="World Game Never Forget" title="World Game Never Forget" width="180" height="180" /><strong>Rebooted for 2008.</strong> A curated collection of documents, open questions, and new material for R. Buckminster Fuller’s original “World Game.”
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This was one of the very first Brainsturbator articles I wrote: I’ve totalled it today and built something better. I think now is a good time to be talking about Bucky’s vision of a World Game. We have the technology to do this and a new administration could easily provide the funding. I don’t think any of this material is Utopian or far out, but if you do, let me know why.
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</div>Saving the World Starts in Africatag:brainsturbation.com,2008:brainsturbation.com/2.3272008-10-28T00:52:00Z2008-11-20T15:19:32Zthirtysevenwombaticusrex@gmail.comhttp://twitter.com/brainsturbator
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In the face of a global economic catastrophe, I’m not paying much attention to the news. “Our leaders” are lying like always. Sure, there’s Big Changes ahead—but scaremongering and cynicism are a waste of precious life. I’m actually more optimistic these days than I’ve ever been, and it’s all because of Africa. The most innovative solutions and inspirational success stories I’ve found are coming from the Mother Continent, and I can’t imagine a better remedy for American Fear than this. No matter what kind of nightmare collapse scenario you can imagine for the United States, Africa has already been there and back.
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</div>The 2008 Brainsturbator Update: Back to Schooltag:brainsturbation.com,2008:brainsturbation.com/2.3262008-10-11T22:38:00Z2008-11-20T02:31:07Zthirtysevenwombaticusrex@gmail.comhttp://twitter.com/brainsturbator
<p><img src="http://www.brainsturbator.com/images/uploads/bookpile.jpg" class="left" alt="BIPT Curriculum" title="Brainsturbator Reading 2008" width="222" height="234" />Probably the biggest lesson I learned in 2008 is this: <strong>don’t make announcements about a project until that project is done.</strong> I apologize for the false alarms and empty hype, but finally, Brainsturbator is back. This year I’ve moved across the country, started a business and lost my mind at least three times. I’ve also been busy over-extending myself on dozens of projects, but I think that was a nescessary mistake.
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Now I’m back and more focused than ever. Brainsturbator is The One Project that’s worth sticking with, so this article is a summary of everything else I’ve been up to.
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</div>The Mind of Tony Smith: A Guided Tourtag:brainsturbation.com,2008:brainsturbation.com/2.312008-07-29T16:28:00Z2008-07-29T20:22:24Zthirtysevenwombaticusrex@gmail.comhttp://twitter.com/brainsturbator
<p><img src="http://www.brainsturbator.com/images/uploads/tony_smith_3.jpg" class="left" alt="image" title="image" width="202" height="243" />The first website I ever got lost in belonged to a rambling genius named Tony Smith, a cowboy from Georgia who’s physics theories were too radical for Cornell. That kind of resume will definitely get a high school kid’s attention, and years later, one of the first Brainsturbator articles was a bunch of links to Tony’s site. This is an expanded version, which quotes a lot of the material since the site has disappeared completely several times now.
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Brainsturbator is here for the long haul, so I’m doing this for the good of humanity...kind of like our backup Paul Laffoley Gallery,</a> which is also under re-construction. (Meanwhile, check out <a href="http://www.laffoleyarchive.com" title="Laffoley Archive">Laffoley Archive.</a> Like Laffoley, I honestly cannot understand a great deal of what Tony Smith is trying to tell me. Like everyone else I consider a teacher, though, he provides so much to think about that even Not Getting It becomes an educational experience. <em>I hope you dig it.</em>
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</div>Welcome to Brainsturbator 2.0tag:brainsturbation.com,2008:brainsturbation.com/2.3232008-07-28T22:19:00Z2008-07-29T01:51:03Zthirtysevenwombaticusrex@gmail.comhttp://twitter.com/brainsturbator
<p><img src="http://www.brainsturbator.com/images/uploads/logo_av.jpg" class="left" alt="image" title="image" width="170" height="188" />You’ve already noticed things look different. Charles Blingus, the mastermind behind Back Brain Media, has been itching to re-design Brainsturbator for over a year now. With some help from our friend <a href="http://gomar2.com/">Gomar</a>, we’ve finally got a fully operational Brainsturbator 2.0 up and running.
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I’m also working on a ton of new articles, and if you’re curious where things are headed, I did a <a href="http://www.brainsturbator.com/forums/viewthread/988/">rambling forum post</a> outlining some of it. Meanwhile, the most logical way to kick off the new design is a quick explanation of our new features. It’s also an open call for user feedback, so if you’ve got some, please drop a comment <a href="http://www.brainsturbator.com/forums/viewthread/897/">here</a>.
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</div>10 Ways YOU Can Fight Fascism Around the Worldtag:brainsturbation.com,2008:brainsturbation.com/2.2872008-01-25T22:52:00Z2011-09-13T16:53:29Zthirtysevenwombaticusrex@gmail.comhttp://twitter.com/brainsturbator
<p><a href="http://twitter.com/skilluminati"><img class="left" src="http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/269373906/avatar-horus.jpg" alt="10 Ways to Fight Fascism" title="10 Step Solution from Space"></a><em>I wrote this for <a href="http://www.key64.net/pages/editor">Nick Pell</a> at <a href="http://www.key64.net">Key 64</a>. I’m very glad he asked me to write it, because it did me a lot of good to get my thoughts organized, and the response to this piece has been huge. I’m backing it up here because I like my formatting more, plus I fixed a number of typos.</em>
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</div>Networks, Bacteria, and the Illusion of Controltag:brainsturbation.com,2008:brainsturbation.com/2.2782008-01-23T12:31:00Z2009-10-18T22:07:10Zthirtysevenwombaticusrex@gmail.comhttp://twitter.com/brainsturbator
<p><img src="http://www.brainsturbator.com/img/cell_neurons.jpg" class="left" alt="human neurons magnification" title="brain cells neurons human being"><blockquote><p><em>“The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.”</em>
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I’ve been working on an article encompassing these themes, <em>but I had a revelation</em>. If all I’m doing is re-organizing and synthesizing the work of other humans, why do I write so much? Rather than burden you with my own meditations on “The Illusion of Control,” I’ve decided to abandon that illusion altogether for this piece. I’m going to keep going for three more sentences and then I will step out of the way completely.
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Everything assembled here is brainfood with a purpose: triggering shifts in perspective. When you get used to the same perspective—or “stuck”—it can be alarming to feel yourself shifting, but that’s a good thing—that’s neurons waking up, that’s muscle tissue saying THANK YOU, that’s new hormone combinations in your bloodstream. After all, even if your conscious “self” actually was in control, <strong>you’re only <em>driving</em> the car</strong>—you’re only manipulating <em>something else</em>.
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</div>The Quest for the Elusive Chronontag:brainsturbation.com,2008:brainsturbation.com/2.2632008-01-02T07:03:00Z2009-10-18T22:09:28Zthirtysevenwombaticusrex@gmail.comhttp://twitter.com/brainsturbator
<p><img src="http://www.brainsturbator.com/img/time_itself.jpg" class="left" alt="Time Itself Used as a Weapon The Filth Grant Morrison" title="Time Itself Used as a Weapon The Filth Grant Morrison">In the past century, human science has advanced beyond anyone’s wildest dreams: we’ve put humans into space, eliminated entire cities with a single bomb, industrialized the genocide process, poisoned our entire planet, and figured out how to stick over 5000 albums into a small plastic box. We have peered billions of light years into the cosmos, we have unraveled the atom and discovered quantum weirdness, and even transcribed the human genome. As a direct consequence of all this glittering achievement, scientists are understandably <em>pretty cocky these days.</em> However, I would like to pass anyone reading this the Silver Bullet to instantly deflate the ego of anyone who’s exponentially more intelligent than you are: <strong>just ask them to explain what time is.</strong>
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Time is the single most universally <em>constant</em> of physical constants, and yet we barely know anything at all about it. Here in 2007, <strong>we still don’t even have a working definition of what it is.</strong>
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</div>Our Interview with Godforbid, Lead Singer of That Handsome Deviltag:brainsturbation.com,2007:brainsturbation.com/2.2672007-10-06T03:22:00Z2008-06-30T14:41:56Zthirtysevenwombaticusrex@gmail.comhttp://twitter.com/brainsturbator
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I was going to do a “We Salute You” tribute, but I realized an interview would be better. Besides, I’m honestly unsure about how to approach even an introduction to Godforbid. Do I say he’s one of my favorite rappers? After all, the dude has moved on from mere hip hop—he’s currently working with <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thathandsomedevil">That Handsome Devil</a>, making some of the most creative shit I’ve heard since Zappa was wearing tight pants and frowning at the audience.
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Shit...<em>there I go, making music critic comparisons.</em> Here’s the bottom line: this interview is some of the best stuff Brainsturbator has done in 2007. That Handsome Devil is an amazing band, and I feel confident saying that checking out <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thathandsomedevil">their music</a> will radically improve your day. Godforbid is a singular human being, <strong>and you’re about to find out why directly from him.</strong>
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