I’ve been using my iPhone with the HDR setting – like the results! It will load slowly but show the max resolution.
(Posting it here partly to see how my feed to Psyberspace is working, though posting the odd snap here is not a bad idea.)
My other blog!
I have another blog: Psyberspace This is a test message to see if a post here alerts a reader on that blog.
Ill add an img for good measure.
Here is a recent doodle of mine:
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Tuesday, 31 August 2021 — Of course this post was an import when I disabled “In this moment….”
What Technology Wants. – Kevin Kelly
Amazon
I’ve quoted a few things from this book on the blog already, so click the tag, Kevin Kelly and you will see my notes as I read the book.
I think its profound.
Its not just about the evolution of technology. He revises biological evolution in a radical way. Its not just him though, he draws on many latest developments in the field. The main thrust is captured in this image from the book.
185 Chairs – Christchurch
185 Chairs – Christchurch a set on Flickr.
I found this a moving Exhibit. In remembrance of people who died in the Christchurch earthquake – on the site where the Oxford Street Baptist Church used to be. I recall campaigning for the church not to be demolished to widen the street in the 80s!
There was a note suggesting to sit in a chair. I could not make that step of role reversal.
This is certainly not like we thought it was! – Rumi
“Moses and the Shepherd”
by Rumi, tr. by Coleman Barks
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Pretty amazing little step in the evolution of cyberspace – the root of cyber is steering and that makes sense here. We steer this stuff with finer and finer tuning.
via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/bBN38a
Books
I have been making notes about books for about 20 years. They are not reviews, Amazon has enough. I usually have a link to Amazon. Here is a link to all the book posts:
Participating Consciousness
Found this one again. The Reenchantment of the World, by Morris Berman Cornell Univ Pr (1981)
AmazonThis is from a snippet I have in my essay Archetypes of Cyberspace by Dolores Brien, though I can’t find the link to the original:
We live, we are told, in a world that is “disenchanted” and that has been ever since the scientific revolution of the 16th century. The natural world of the ancient peoples, its trees, rocks, waters, the sky and earth, was alive and inhabited by spirits and gods. Humans were a part of this world too, at home in it. They did not perceive themselves as separate from nature. They belonged to the cosmos, just as did everything else in the natural world, both organic and inorganic. Their consciousness was, what Marshall Berman has called, a ” participating consciousness.” *
* The term “participating consciousness” actually originates with the philosopher, poet Owen Barfield, whom Berman cites.
Wikipedia on Barfield where it states:
His primary focus was on what he called the “evolution of consciousness,” which is an idea which occurs frequently in his writings.
That is an idea that has appealed for a long time and is comes up in Archetypes of Cyberspace where is suggest our consciousness transforms along with our ability to communicate – along with writing and the Internet. It may be different of course to what Barfield meant by it.
Cutting for Stone: Abraham Verghese
I don’t know who recommended this, but I downloaded the sample when someone told me about it. Its a great book. it’s a saga, maybe sentimental, interesting because of its depth about Ethiopia and medicine. One reviewer called it ‘ecstatic realism’. Anyway I loved it. I’d hate the movie, I imagine it would be a manipulative tear jerker. The book transcends that.
Watch this video of the author talking about the book.