http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/ennoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:47:27 PSTBloggertag:blogger.com,1999:blog-158487824264876073641125spacetimespyhttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with The Free DictionarySubscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with NewsAlloySubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with Excite MIXSubscribe with Attensa for OutlookSubscribe with WebwagSubscribe with Podcast ReadySubscribe with FlurrySubscribe with WikioSubscribe with Daily Rotationhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/8PfncdJkSJE/screens-in-my-life-are-relatively-small.htmlnew medianoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:24:00 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-25907053041268873772012-02-02T11:17:27.808+05:30The screens in my life are relatively small. I used to have a 17”-screened laptop. When it died while travelling in London I replaced it with a ‘netbook’, 10” screen. My so-called feature phone (i.e., 2G) is old and has a small scratched colour display – if my adolescent desire wins out, then I will soon be augmented by a smarter phone.The one I want is billed as the world’s smallest Android 0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=8PfncdJkSJE:xGcLsjgXr6I:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/8PfncdJkSJE" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2012/01/screens-in-my-life-are-relatively-small.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/jyygDUhT_Rg/blog-post.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:25:00 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-4616789569550471382012-01-28T08:57:43.748+05:30 0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=jyygDUhT_Rg:8oUM36EuuTg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/jyygDUhT_Rg" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2012/01/blog-post.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/9ez-J3POmBQ/when-one-has-little-or-nothing-to-say.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:44:00 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-79702011136929044022012-01-28T09:06:08.803+05:30 When one has little or nothing to say particularly, there is the temptation to go ‘meta’, to talk about talking, write about writing. This is when one feels very attracted to the grammar of the gerund, the ‘-ing’ form of verbs. (Incidentally, present tense is the main mode of English that Indians learn; everything is an ‘-ing’ process when they speak to you. That keeps everything pretty 0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=9ez-J3POmBQ:PJdAmfFoGn0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/9ez-J3POmBQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2011/12/when-one-has-little-or-nothing-to-say.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/Uuugf5wzkGU/so-what-is-essence-of-cinema-insofar-as.htmlExistential Cinemanoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:30:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-66529878915765968292012-01-23T13:02:23.286+05:30 So, what is the essence of cinema insofar as it is existentially fascinating? How do existential films work as such? What is the value of watching existential films? What the hell does ‘existential’ mean when it comes to movies?Well.I find there is a relation between sleep and film. Existential films wake up the Viewer. By having us confront existential themes, namely identity and death, these0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=Uuugf5wzkGU:9os5UbyanJM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/Uuugf5wzkGU" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2011/10/so-what-is-essence-of-cinema-insofar-as.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/ypLyQeh_XT8/tiruvannamalai-yesterday-tamil-man.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:40:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-10033182017283534602012-01-23T07:31:50.939+05:30 TIRUVANNAMALAI  - Yesterday, a Tamil man behind me at a village market pointed at my lungi (the South Indian sarong cloth worn by men). Eventually, by pointing at his own, he taught me how the cloth should fall lower, to my ankles rather than at my shins. It was one of a few times when a native took a moment to show me a correct cultural point of reference. Surely, there have been countless 1<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=ypLyQeh_XT8:1jbvvV8H7lo:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/ypLyQeh_XT8" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2011/04/tiruvannamalai-yesterday-tamil-man.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/IhLDiSJESts/going-to-heart-of-amsterdam.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Tue, 05 Oct 2010 05:46:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-62736973770564235182010-10-05T18:16:00.666+05:30 Click '[#] COMMENTS' below if there is no comment box. 1<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=IhLDiSJESts:SwCSZrs7TxE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=IhLDiSJESts:SwCSZrs7TxE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=IhLDiSJESts:SwCSZrs7TxE:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?i=IhLDiSJESts:SwCSZrs7TxE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/IhLDiSJESts" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2010/10/going-to-heart-of-amsterdam.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/14SefRM_dJ0/unplugging.htmlunpluggednoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Sun, 30 May 2010 01:36:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-22806010996732048972010-05-30T14:08:17.946+05:30As a way to cope with hyper-culture shock (you know, being a globalized person), I have begun to make a habit of working offline whenever possible — actually looking for opportunities to practice Web abstinence. Why? Conservation, I would say (both electric and cognitive), but also as a personal discipline. The Web is full of temptations. More often than not, there is no actual need to be online2<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=14SefRM_dJ0:MTTIjmB2jYg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=14SefRM_dJ0:MTTIjmB2jYg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=14SefRM_dJ0:MTTIjmB2jYg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?i=14SefRM_dJ0:MTTIjmB2jYg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/14SefRM_dJ0" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2010/05/unplugging.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/lOYvAYAZ1i8/dream-like-time-dream-like-world.htmlIndia Timemystic Indianoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:59:00 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-67443503196533561322010-02-17T00:30:38.489+05:30 The rapidity of the last five weeks’ passage (seemingly, of course) testifies to how India warps the perception of Time. The period was gruelingly slow, and yet, paradoxically instantaneous. The timelessness of this country influences clock-sensitive Westerners with peculiar force. It exposes the grotesqueness of our temporally-conditioned consciousness (gradually eroding this), defeating the2<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=lOYvAYAZ1i8:t3CraEYmUXA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=lOYvAYAZ1i8:t3CraEYmUXA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=lOYvAYAZ1i8:t3CraEYmUXA:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?i=lOYvAYAZ1i8:t3CraEYmUXA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/lOYvAYAZ1i8" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2010/02/dream-like-time-dream-like-world.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/v1_QxgSfgU0/metablogging-or-post-about-posts.htmlIndia Timenoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:29:00 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-70667098085504209092010-02-06T13:27:35.962+05:30This being New Year’s Eve, it’s a perfect moment to think about Time.Now, sitting in our house in Tiru, it is evening, and I can picture the pilgrims a kilometer away who presently are walking around Arunachala (the timeless presence of Lord Shiva), because it is the full moon.  This pious circumambulation ritual goes on during every full moon.Tiru is otherwise a rather timeless community 0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=v1_QxgSfgU0:dg7HH1Glk9Q:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=v1_QxgSfgU0:dg7HH1Glk9Q:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=v1_QxgSfgU0:dg7HH1Glk9Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?i=v1_QxgSfgU0:dg7HH1Glk9Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/v1_QxgSfgU0" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2009/12/metablogging-or-post-about-posts.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/CAcRqmzr38o/global-warming-vs-nonduality.htmlworld news storiesNonduality/Advaitatechnology shockglobalizationnoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:11:00 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-19105840804187446012009-12-25T23:24:37.781+05:30 Part I: What is Global Warming to an existentialist? It must have been late 2007 or early 2008 when I happened to view the film What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire, which was the hardcore environmentalists’ version of Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.  At the time I saw it, What a Way had been released recently by its makers, who were disseminating it to a network of people holding 0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=CAcRqmzr38o:FbxLdo4Yqxg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=CAcRqmzr38o:FbxLdo4Yqxg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=CAcRqmzr38o:FbxLdo4Yqxg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?i=CAcRqmzr38o:FbxLdo4Yqxg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/CAcRqmzr38o" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2009/12/global-warming-vs-nonduality.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/rimveKyebbg/tiru-deepam-pradakshina-indias-faith.htmlTiruvannamalainoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:30:00 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-73525491039322928482009-12-10T23:02:54.438+05:30 Mother and me went to the Girivalem Road in the afternoon, with muscles still feeling the previous night’s four-hour Pradakshina walk around Mount Arunachala. Where our dirt road joins Girivalem, it was necessary to park the TVS scooter because it was useless at that point. A human river of hundreds of thousands of walking pilgrims had inundated the two-lane paved road encircling Arunachala.1<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=rimveKyebbg:nFurmtBAJ14:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=rimveKyebbg:nFurmtBAJ14:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=rimveKyebbg:nFurmtBAJ14:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?i=rimveKyebbg:nFurmtBAJ14:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/rimveKyebbg" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2009/12/tiru-deepam-pradakshina-indias-faith.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/0ISiBtKWf4c/arunachala-freedom-from-spirituality.htmlTiruvannamalaimystic Indianoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:25:00 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-33816765546627261772009-12-04T13:40:24.518+05:30TIRUVANNAMALAI — The word spiritual appears eleven times in the last STS report (the first one posted from Tiru). I used that word in reference to what postmodern pilgrims are seeking, and, in describing the palpable power of Mount Arunachala. But suddenly the concept of spirituality has come to demand a bit of clarification: precisely because I caught myself bandying this term, ‘spiritual’.There0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=0ISiBtKWf4c:6sV_C8NJN2U:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=0ISiBtKWf4c:6sV_C8NJN2U:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=0ISiBtKWf4c:6sV_C8NJN2U:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?i=0ISiBtKWf4c:6sV_C8NJN2U:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/0ISiBtKWf4c" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2009/11/arunachala-freedom-from-spirituality.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/__CYIbVJAbo/waiting-for-my-blood-to-thin.htmlTiruvannamalaimystic Indiaglobalizationnoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:48:00 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-61998960481053639872009-12-05T11:32:07.430+05:30TIRUVANNAMALAI — ‘How did you ever find this place!’ remarked K, qualifying that ‘– no one except a local really knows about it. It’s a secret.’ She liked that about the joint. Both of us had washed our metal plates, and we were reacquainting in front of the entrance before slipping on our sandals. Indeed, only three others had come for a late lunch. I felt good possessing the insider information1<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=__CYIbVJAbo:lEgbQNMyM7Y:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=__CYIbVJAbo:lEgbQNMyM7Y:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=__CYIbVJAbo:lEgbQNMyM7Y:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?i=__CYIbVJAbo:lEgbQNMyM7Y:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/__CYIbVJAbo" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2009/11/waiting-for-my-blood-to-thin.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/nIck0JsQBEU/notes-on-surviving-pamuks-new-life.htmlnovel reviewsnoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:09:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-75882078274504958712009-10-04T17:57:25.860+05:30I bought and read Orhan Pamuk’s The New Life (London: Faber and Faber, 1998) without any experience of his oeuvre or even familiarity with his name, although he is considered Turkey’s most famous living novelist. On the front of this latest edition’s handsome paperback design, a Guardian reviewer compares it with Borges, and I did not fail to notice that the book won a Nobel Prize in 2006; on the0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=nIck0JsQBEU:-ZuJbVw6BeQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=nIck0JsQBEU:-ZuJbVw6BeQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=nIck0JsQBEU:-ZuJbVw6BeQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?i=nIck0JsQBEU:-ZuJbVw6BeQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/nIck0JsQBEU" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2009/10/notes-on-surviving-pamuks-new-life.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/uyWvh3yGcIo/community-over-content.htmlsocial networkingnew medianoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:56:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-71745897806283244122009-09-02T18:38:44.375+05:30Rather than push forward into other big social-networking sites (for example Digg, Delicious, Technorati and Mixx), I have found myself more interested in the community-oriented end of the SN continuum: not the hip sites that catalog content, but those that provide communication tools between human beings. Of the latter type, there are popular places such as Facebook that augment social life by 0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=uyWvh3yGcIo:VI5LWvs9WDM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=uyWvh3yGcIo:VI5LWvs9WDM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=uyWvh3yGcIo:VI5LWvs9WDM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?i=uyWvh3yGcIo:VI5LWvs9WDM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/uyWvh3yGcIo" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2009/09/community-over-content.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/LZ9Mueur4Fo/007-mythic-hero-or-sadist-killer.htmlcinemanoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:01:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-91932580088988946722009-08-29T11:18:25.456+05:30The ultraviolence in the latest James Bond franchisee, Casino Royale (2006, Dir Martin Campbell), really shocked me. I viewed it for the first time a few weeks ago, after downloading a torrent to my laptop. The little boy inside, a long-time Bond fan, was actually terrified by the agent’s current incarnation.It seems that Martin’s interpretation has steered this saga away from glorifying a Cold 0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=LZ9Mueur4Fo:nZ5HdL2ui7k:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=LZ9Mueur4Fo:nZ5HdL2ui7k:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=LZ9Mueur4Fo:nZ5HdL2ui7k:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?i=LZ9Mueur4Fo:nZ5HdL2ui7k:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/LZ9Mueur4Fo" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2009/08/007-mythic-hero-or-sadist-killer.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/00Tb1wD9KwU/community-over-content.htmlsocial networkingnoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:03:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-56934153132202678652009-08-29T00:47:03.267+05:30Rather than push forward into other big social-networking sites (for example Digg, Delicious, Technorati and Mixx), I have found myself more interested in the community-oriented end of the SN continuum: not the hip sites that catalog content, but those that provide communication tools between human beings. Of the latter type, there are popular places such as Facebook that augment social life by 0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=00Tb1wD9KwU:dLxTwfOIyYQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=00Tb1wD9KwU:dLxTwfOIyYQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=00Tb1wD9KwU:dLxTwfOIyYQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?i=00Tb1wD9KwU:dLxTwfOIyYQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/00Tb1wD9KwU" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2009/08/community-over-content.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/VwCKzlQ_7T8/colanialism-junk-food-individuality.htmlIndia Timeglobalizationnoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:22:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-57954266407615490572009-11-26T20:35:27.554+05:30Earlier this year, reading Rohinton Mistry’s novel A Fine Balance, I encountered his account of how one micro-brewed soda made by shop keepers in an Indian village (father-to-son style) was forced out of creation by big soft-drink companies that trucked in their mass-produced brands.Yesterday morning, I listened to commentary by my expat compatriot about the novel The New Life by Orphan Pamuk, 0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=VwCKzlQ_7T8:eeANMN6fVZ8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=VwCKzlQ_7T8:eeANMN6fVZ8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=VwCKzlQ_7T8:eeANMN6fVZ8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?i=VwCKzlQ_7T8:eeANMN6fVZ8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/VwCKzlQ_7T8" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2009/07/colanialism-junk-food-individuality.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/pE2kfu9tV8U/wedding-music-is-pumped-out-of.htmlthought streamIndia Timenoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:23:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-12831685362906059172009-07-16T18:08:49.982+05:30Wedding music is pumped out of amplified speakers for days, and nights, when there is an Indian wedding.There was a mariachi-like band out on the street today.Then back at the house, they were playing the same classic chant over and over for hours. It switches to Hindi disco tracks, with vocals that have been tweaked like they're underwater. And back to the chant . . . yeah, it sounds somewhat 0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=pE2kfu9tV8U:dAZO-lPi4Z8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=pE2kfu9tV8U:dAZO-lPi4Z8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=pE2kfu9tV8U:dAZO-lPi4Z8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?i=pE2kfu9tV8U:dAZO-lPi4Z8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/pE2kfu9tV8U" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2009/07/wedding-music-is-pumped-out-of.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/LZ2B8zYFux0/autism-crisis-nervous-systems-revolting.htmlthought streamnoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:05:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-27062112201010357422009-07-13T11:05:23.102+05:30Today I remembered the quick mention of the ‘autism crisis’ in Charles Eisenstein’s article, ‘The Ubiquitous Matrix of Lies’ (on Reality Sandwich) . I did not know there was a crisis of autism - which I assume is happening in American children.Attention structures are overtaxed, hence, the nervous systems of children are shutting down in the face of too many artificial (commercialized) 0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=LZ2B8zYFux0:aKzjKiXSXVw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=LZ2B8zYFux0:aKzjKiXSXVw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=LZ2B8zYFux0:aKzjKiXSXVw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?i=LZ2B8zYFux0:aKzjKiXSXVw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/LZ2B8zYFux0" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2009/07/autism-crisis-nervous-systems-revolting.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/qrEw3_z0zwg/ontological-deficit-part-three.htmlAmerican Dream™world news storiesnoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:04:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-20577225519903702172009-07-11T13:08:26.440+05:30More Thoughts on Chomsky’s Use of the Terms ‘Performance’ and ‘Spectators’Listen to 'Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours' by Noam Chomsky(59 min, June 12, 2009, at Riverside Church, Harlem NYC)The spectator-ization of people is their self-alienation from work and from self-governance: the enframement (imprisonment) of human consciousness itself and the enslavement of imagination. The Matrix provides0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=qrEw3_z0zwg:kG5gqxDezDY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=qrEw3_z0zwg:kG5gqxDezDY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=qrEw3_z0zwg:kG5gqxDezDY:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?i=qrEw3_z0zwg:kG5gqxDezDY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/qrEw3_z0zwg" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2009/07/ontological-deficit-part-three.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/spGVy6jxMpI/ontological-deficit-part-two.htmlAmerican Dream™world news storiesnoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:47:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-30734220479407758282009-07-11T13:22:08.258+05:30InterpretationListen to 'Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours' by Noam Chomsky(59 min, June 12, 2009, at Riverside Church, Harlem NYC)The main dynamic of my own interpretation of Chomsky’s lecture involves considering the dialectic between his icy factuality and a more transcendental reading into the subject of his and others’ oracular research on the ‘everlasting battle for the minds of men’ (by the0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=spGVy6jxMpI:hI0BdQf1e-s:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=spGVy6jxMpI:hI0BdQf1e-s:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=spGVy6jxMpI:hI0BdQf1e-s:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?i=spGVy6jxMpI:hI0BdQf1e-s:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/spGVy6jxMpI" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2009/07/ontological-deficit-part-two.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/7WYj6VWaepI/chomskys-democratic-deficit-and.htmlAmerican Dream™world news storiesnoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:24:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-78767135147634592192009-07-10T22:06:37.569+05:30ReceptionListen to 'Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours' by Noam Chomsky(59 min, June 12, 2009, at Riverside Church, Harlem NYC)I tune into Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! podcast every few days. Being isolated as an expat in rural India – a hot-wired expat (i.e., @250Kpbs) – leads me to value gathering news on the web in a way I never did when treading water in America™. Back home I got my news from a0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=7WYj6VWaepI:tZcOcl0fAlw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=7WYj6VWaepI:tZcOcl0fAlw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=7WYj6VWaepI:tZcOcl0fAlw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?i=7WYj6VWaepI:tZcOcl0fAlw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/7WYj6VWaepI" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2009/07/chomskys-democratic-deficit-and.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/hS0i5Y0birE/free-music-dj-spookys-ghostworld-mix_05.htmlnew mediamusicnoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:55:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-11777376203476244712009-07-06T21:48:13.301+05:30Listen to DJ Spooky's Ghostworld: A Story in Sound (2007)Recently, almost eighty minutes of great music came my way, gratis, courtesy of Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, on whose website I downloaded the 2007 mix ‘Ghostworld’. It made me realize that there was probably plenty of music out there being shared directly by producers as a form of promotion, especially DJs and internet 0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=hS0i5Y0birE:1mhCYxqXmks:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=hS0i5Y0birE:1mhCYxqXmks:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=hS0i5Y0birE:1mhCYxqXmks:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?i=hS0i5Y0birE:1mhCYxqXmks:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/hS0i5Y0birE" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2009/07/free-music-dj-spookys-ghostworld-mix_05.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/spacetimespy/~3/XJY4D5BeaQI/awaiting-monsoon-with-spayed-slum-dog.htmlIndia Timeanimalsnoreply@blogger.com (Dæmian Garett)Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:41:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584878242648760736.post-86605948754260166552009-07-02T22:54:24.265+05:30Three or four weeks ago Almora was lashed by torrents of wind and rain for a few days. We thought it was ‘pre-monsoon’ weather. And we rejoiced this respite from rising heat and dryness.Then the skies cleared, however, and the sun’s rays began searing again, like laser beams, as the temperature rose. The water tables and rivers are all mere trickles now (in some places these flows are only 10-20%1<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=XJY4D5BeaQI:Nz6rc0nAsxw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=XJY4D5BeaQI:Nz6rc0nAsxw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?a=XJY4D5BeaQI:Nz6rc0nAsxw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/spacetimespy?i=XJY4D5BeaQI:Nz6rc0nAsxw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spacetimespy/~4/XJY4D5BeaQI" height="1" width="1"/>http://spacetimespy.blogspot.com/2009/07/awaiting-monsoon-with-spayed-slum-dog.html