tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35977232009-03-25T15:39:02.234-07:00Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrowDiscussions about the dark side of modern man.
Acerca del lado oscuro del hombre moderno.
(Not completely bilingual blog. Texts in English and Spanish are sometimes translations of each other, sometimes free versions, sometimes they just share the main idea.
Los textos en inglés y español son a veces traducciones uno del otro, a veces versiones libres, a veces simplemente comparten una idea central. No del todo bilingüe!)
Institutonoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3597723.post-91641880077829761902007-11-12T18:13:00.001-08:002007-11-12T18:13:27.103-08:00Technorati ProfileInstitutonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3597723.post-1137709853379287682006-01-19T14:30:00.000-08:002006-01-19T14:30:53.380-08:00Hoy estoy dando clases en el CEATE maracay.Institutonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3597723.post-793201862002-07-23T15:21:00.000-07:002002-07-23T15:21:37.223-07:00
What is life without imperfection, pain, tragedy, and death? Or, expressed in a different way, human life (that is, social life, life surrounded by socialized nature, immersed in culture and language, books, theater, film, music, war and peace, love and suffering) is possible, as we know it, only because of imperfection. In a perfect world there would be no Plato, Rilke, Beethoven, Baudelaire. Institutonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3597723.post-791145732002-07-18T11:08:00.000-07:002002-07-18T13:49:42.000-07:00To live forever. What a strange hope inhabits the hearts of so many human beings. It has been the origin of unthinkable wrongdoings, the illusory search that feeds from the most ignoble actions. Something that we call science, something that looks like what science used to be, collaborates without scruples with the spread of this fantasy.
Vivir para siempre. Extraña esperanza que albergan los Institutonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3597723.post-790845552002-07-17T16:51:00.000-07:002002-07-18T13:13:21.000-07:00I think about my own thoughts, and remember our greatest poet:
“I reestablished peace decapitating the men and selling their skulls as amulets. My soldiers cut the hands of the women after that”
José Antonio Ramos Sucre
Pienso en mis propios pensamientos, y recuerdo a nuestro máximo poeta:
“Yo restablecí la paz descabezando a los hombres y vendiendo sus cráneos para amuletos. Mis soldados Institutonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3597723.post-787876752002-07-10T12:10:00.000-07:002002-07-10T18:49:45.000-07:00When people like Alvin Tofller and his many clones are considered “thinkers”, we have to conclude that words, as old Marcuse once declared, have lost all relationship with their traditional meaning. The ideas of “clear war”, “smart weapons” and similar concoctions, that insinuate a future where war will not be different from a video game, with no deaths or suffering, are completely devoid of Institutonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3597723.post-786028192002-07-05T19:20:00.000-07:002002-07-06T07:24:11.000-07:00
The idea that men can be "engineered" through the manipulation of the genetic code is not only "scary, disturbing", as Kevin Kelly, from Wired, says naïvely but after you read the arguments of the "thinkers" (like Gregory Stock, Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future) one is left with the strange sensation of having to decide what is more "scary": their propositions or the flat Institutonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3597723.post-783650892002-06-29T17:19:00.000-07:002002-06-29T17:28:15.000-07:00
http://www.machinepresence.com/
A very fine comment about the possibility of remotely controlling rats, with very typical characterizations of those who think different:
"At the State University of New York in Brooklyn, a team of scientists has successfully implanted electrodes into the brains of rats, allowing them to "control" the behavior of said rats remotely -- at distances of almost 550 Institutonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3597723.post-783526182002-06-29T09:01:00.000-07:002002-07-05T19:28:48.000-07:00www.cyberlewis.com/graphic/posthuman/arttalka.htm
In Extropy & Transhumanist Art, James Wm. Lewis writes:
"A Transhumanist Artist realizes that Extropy will enhance human abilities to sense, perceive and manipulate the cosmos. We know that in a gigahertz world, our sluggish, 100 cycle/second brains are too slow, are virtually blind, are unable to directly transmit their contents to other meat Institutonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3597723.post-783334292002-06-28T17:18:00.000-07:002002-06-29T09:18:28.000-07:00
Excelente recuento del tratamiento que la cultura de masas da al tema del Fin del mundo.
Excellent account of pop culture´s treatement of the subject of The End of the World.
www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/9941/madmax.html
"The mad, bad desire people have to believe that they are the ones living in the truly fin Fin de Siècle spans the centuries. Yet, at no other time in history has the pop Institutonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3597723.post-782430602002-06-26T15:45:00.000-07:002002-06-29T09:18:46.000-07:00
A wonderful view from Elpidio Earp (Spring - Year 2000)
www.datelineterra.com/talktous
www.datelineterra.com/apoc2010/apoc2010.htm
"There will be a time, however, at the End of this Phenomenal Drama ... some 5 billion years away, in distant future ..., when an astonished Red Giant Romeo will finally look to his beloved Juliet, just a few instants before swallowing her small body, all taken by Institutonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3597723.post-781984832002-06-25T16:35:00.000-07:002002-06-25T21:05:14.000-07:00It may very well end up being true the most incredible of all nightmares of religion: The end of the world. Even if its arrival makes no sense, because it would steal the sense of all other possibilities, even if its acomplishment would prevent the fervorous believers from enjoying it, today, more than ever, that nigthmare of an allucinated monk can become a reality. Mad scientists playing with Institutonoreply@blogger.com