mememachine

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"regardless of how secular this ultramodern condition appears. the velocity and mutability of the times invokes a certain supernatural quality that must be seen, at least in part, through the lenses of religious thought and the fantastic storehouse of the imagination"

Erik Davis "techgnosis".

"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding..."

William Gibson, "Neuromancer".


"recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word spiritual; mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied.. is that not a definition of the electronic-digital?"

Timothy Leary "chaos and cyberculture".

"I leave my home seduced by the horizon of the distant, but my body accelerates into obsolescence. I have no place - or - that place is everywhere. This absence of place has created binary encoded spaces of death. Not frozen, but seamlessly enfolded. An erosion of trajectories, like an ancient wound. Yet I feel no pain. I draw a thousand lines across the void."

John Beckman "merge invisible layers" http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=112


"When the simulation wins a new kind of autonomy, the territory disappears behind the map: "The territory no longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory,precession of simulacra,it is the map that engenders the territory and if we were to revive the fable today, it would be the territory whose shreds are slowly rotting across the map. it is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire, but our own. The desert of the real itself."

Jean Baudrillard "Simulacra and Simulations".