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Visceral Technologies

While writing about Psyborgs I wanted to show how connected we are – our individual psyche and the collective – or that the ideas we have are integral to us and connected to their source – hence the desire to grab the Net to look-up – to be curious… I had the idea that ideas were close to the physical and that thought them we are tied to the cyberworlds. I looked up “visceral idea” in Google and found some interesting sites, notably this article from Marc Demarest. Lovely:

“Information wants out. And the computer wants in.”

What a nice idea!

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The C.G. Jung Page: Cyberwork: The archetypal imagination in new realms of ensoulment. An article by Cliff Bostock. Towards a Jungian Psychology of Technology

from the jung pages

“Do the gods occupy cyberspace? Can soul be constructed in virtual reality?”

This is an excellent paper – one that defends the sort of position that Psybernet has had since its inception.

“Cliff Bostock is a doctoral candidate at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, CA. This essay is a re-working of some of the ideas presented in an earlier paper “Cyberspace: Shadow of the Cultural Imagination?”which was inspired by a meeting between James Hillman and his class at Pacfifica.”

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Loom2 Work in Progress

“Loom2 is a continuation of the work that began in Loom.
Our process involves both design sketching and computational sketching which work off of each other in a simultaneous process”

The people:

professor judith donath . danah boyd . hyun-yeul lee . dan ramage with additional support from ming-en cho and jonathan goler

The Rise and Fall of Wired.

The Rise and Fall of Wired. 6. The Sell-Out. By Stephen Downes [2010 That link is dead but here is a new one.]

” What we were dreaming about was profound global transformation. We wanted to tell the story of the companies, the ideas, and especially the people making the Digital Revolution. Our heroes weren’t politicians and generals or priests and pundits, but those creating and using technology and networks in their professional and private lives – you.”

Also has a list of links to what he calls the GOOD articles in WiReD