Academics Cartesian Minefield Memory Politics/Economics Speculations
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Dunagan on Neuropolitics
As a precis, the final chunk his concluding paragaph is incredibly apposite, but go – read the complete article. It’s solid stuff, with a brace of excellent case studies; well worth checking out.
‘There are certainly new and opposite cognitive, social, and political forms taking shape before us: artificial intelligences, cyborgs, posthuman subjectivity, a breakdown of mind along with the destruction of the planet, a technoprogressive democracy, a society of control networked from synapse to street, and on and on. This paper was an attempt to look out the window at our minds as they reach the “sound barrier,” and what possibilities, if any, might lie just beyond the sonic boom. We’re almost there; meet you on the other side.’
– Jake Dunagan, 2010, ‘Politics for the Neurocentric Age’, Journal of Futures Studies 15 (2), p. 67.
Built Environment Cartesian Minefield Politics/Economics Science! Speculations Technology [future shock]
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[future shock] ‘a new body-mind relationship’
From anthropologist Michael Taussig, the following paragraph has been lingering; floating on the surface on my consciousness as cognitive duckweed. Once tangled up in the pond pump, it has proved all-but-impossible to remove.
‘For the question arises as to whether a new body will be formed as that other body we call planet earth heats up? Certainly changes are already happening down to the genetic level with insects and plants. As regards us humans equipped with a body whose thermostat will be reset together with other basic adjustments, might we not come to possess a new body-mind relationship such that our body’s understanding of itself shall change? Even more important in changing the old-fashioned mind-body setup will be the cultural changes — that foreboding sense of cliff-hanging insecurity in a world ever more engaged with security in a climate gone terrorist.’
– Michael Taussig, 2009, What Color is the Sacred?, p. 14
