July 2008 Blog Posts (2)

just a few scattered thoughts related to the early days of the popular conception of the net cyberspace, the consensual hallucination, born out of w. gibson's real hallucinations early 90s "VR" geekery - informed by terence mckenna's wonderful mad ravings about networks of fungul cells under the soil jaron lanier's squid, and panpipes. a point, finally, or a direction rather, for the scattered wanderings and psychic waste of 'counter culture'. and the point of reference, toward the networked,… Continue

note -- Models are imperfect, but models are useful. In the short term or the near field, weather models are useful. are there any cultural models as software -- put a small mobile wind generator into a model of a refugee camp in Chad, run the model. see what happens. modeling cultural factors as code -- kinship, economics, sex & gender... how will factor x play in cultural situation Z... then the model, the outcomes, used as rough sketches which real world experience and data from life on… Continue