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NOTES FROM THE VOMITORIUM: September 2013
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NOTES FROM THE VOMITORIUM. Analemmic V01CES (Distracted from the Darkness). The drive of Land’s “No Future” is the extinction of the human, it is a passage from flesh to metal couched in Sarah Connor paranoia and Blade Runner Replicant-cold ferocity: “Metal flexes beneath vatgrown skin”. (Land, 2011,p.399) The time-stretched vocal of Jungle was a replicant growl, a near future voice that snarled “wake up! Time to die.”. Barker, 1992. Plutonics, Vol. 10, No.12. Last accessed. 07/09/2013. Dave Quam, 2010&#...
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NOTES FROM THE VOMITORIUM: These Old Ears
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NOTES FROM THE VOMITORIUM. They winked and nudged like it wasn’t a joke fit for retirement before the last election five years previously. Many politicians were pestered by some careerist hack mistakenly caught up in the fervour of national interest. ‘No, but, would you, perhaps, if that was the case, consider getting into bed with X? 8217; ‘Neck and neck! Forget the tilling of yesteryear, now we shop till we drop. The coffee doesn’t have to be good, just consistent, recognisable, ubiquitous an...What ha...
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NOTES FROM THE VOMITORIUM: March 2015
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NOTES FROM THE VOMITORIUM. Zombies believe in Ghosts but not Toasters. Ever since I attended Haunters and theHaunted. I have been dwelling on the concept of ghost labor and ghost desires. This post will explore the concepts of ghost labor and ghost desires – or, to be more precise, according some thoughts I put HERE, phantom labor and phantom desires. Of course, any form of quantification is essentially work that can be done by computers. Today some aspects of it still require fleshy little things in...
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NOTES FROM THE VOMITORIUM: August 2013
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NOTES FROM THE VOMITORIUM. Soylent: Rob Rhinehart Interview. A dialogue with Rob Rhinehart, CEO of Soylent. TVA - I expect we hold similar positions on many questions. Questions concerning:. 1) The detriment of nostalgia and romanticism in governing food distribution and consumption. We may refer to these as Organicism, Localism. These will be touched on later perhaps. Should nutritional completeness usurp psychological and social requirements? Or Soylent Moloko Bars in urban areas? RR - Yes I want it ev...
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NOTES FROM THE VOMITORIUM: May 2013
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NOTES FROM THE VOMITORIUM. Accelerationism: Questions for the Accelerationism of today. Just thought I'd outline a few of my thoughts and questions around Accelerationism. The more vehemently materialist and pseudo Neil Cassidy/Neuropath. Strands of thought on the topic may feel that a question about aesthetics is unhelpful – but after hearing Peter Wolfendale. S presentation about Hegelian beauty as a somewhat inspirational and emancipatory force I feel my concerns are bolstered. Both Nick Srnicek.
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NOTES FROM THE VOMITORIUM: May 2014
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NOTES FROM THE VOMITORIUM. Anyone who knows me will know I am obsessed with the concept of voice. Her. Is a film where voice takes a central role. It is a film I was looking forward to seeing a great deal. Her is about a relationship between a man ( Theodore played by Joaquin Phoenix. And an AI computer operating system called Samantha (played by Scarlett Johansson. Samantha is only a voice. Much like HAL. 8217;s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Calls this an aching sincerity:. When Theodore and Samantha have sex ...
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NOTES FROM THE VOMITORIUM: September 2014
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NOTES FROM THE VOMITORIUM. Capitalism - Never Let Me Go. After reading Ishiguro’s fantastic Remains Of The Day. I immediately moved on to Never Let Me Go. The vague, Sebaldian. Meanderings of memory through time were, as I say, looking back now, and thinking about it after all this time, a touch too author’s handy and unconvincing – or so it seemed, back then. Water, tides, rivers, currents and flows are a subtle theme in the book. Ruth, Tommy and Kathy live through a social and political current, bu...
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NOTES FROM THE VOMITORIUM: August 2014
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NOTES FROM THE VOMITORIUM. The Residues of Libidinal Capitalism: The Significance of Banter. The Remains of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. And the Merchant Ivory Productions film adaptation. Er Getting back to Darlington Hall principally… and straightening out our staff problems. always was work, work, work and more work. and will continue to be so I have no doubt." QED I think. What has this got to do with modern work? Surely we are not like Stevens? The casual view of Mr Stevens is that he is hopeless at b...
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NOTES FROM THE VOMITORIUM: January 2015
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NOTES FROM THE VOMITORIUM. Terminator vs. Ghostbusters. On Wednesday I went to Tate Britain to hear Amy Ireland. Speak at Haunters and the Haunted. The last in the Speculative Tate series. I hadn’t been to any of the other talks but I must say this part did what panel talks should do: stimulate thought. It is this thought I would like to explore here. My thoughts are not fully formed yet, they are more questioning and exploratory. Hence, they are here on my blog! The collapse of human time is another obs...