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Drone Strikes in the Uncanny Valley – Part 1
The debate about drone warfare is complex and beyond my capabilities or intentions here. For a far-ranging discussion I recommend the The Quarterly DAG-3QD Peace and Justice Symposium: Drones. The...
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Drone Strikes in the Uncanny Valley – Part 2
In Part 1, I wrote: The visceral revulsion of many seems to indicate a sense that these drones have, or will assume a life of their own, that despite their clearly mechanical appearance, they inhabit...
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Drone Strikes in the Uncanny Vallyey – Part 3
Part 2 asserts that from the Uncanny Valley’s forest floor, the drone seems both an uncanny robot and a living nonhuman species. Of course neither is true. The drone is a remote appendage of a...
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Digitism – Part 1 (?)
Over at Cyborgology there’s been a long running discussion about “digital dualism”. But summarizing the different perspectives on digital dualism is more than I can handle here.. So I write this post...
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Digitism – Part 2 (Mapping)
Over at Cybogology, Jenny Davis has put up a post Multidimensional Material Mapping. She argues and I quite agee: In particular, I think the pole of material dualism or separation can more accurately...
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Cyborg Writing: Unbecoming
Look: In my mind is a single flowing page, constant, unbroken; when I write it pours out of me. Not seamless but nearly so. It might be more seamless still, in time; there might be no more walls, just...
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Becoming/Unbecoming
In Digitism Part 1 (?), I quoted from Beyond Nature and Culture – Philippe Descola. In these quotes he described what he posited as the four possible ontologies. He defined ontologies as “...
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Digitism Part 3 (Composition: Analog and Digital)
Mapping an object with precision, requires eventually, an infinite modeling of the object that is indistinguishable from the basis of designation “object” or an abstraction traveling at the speed of...
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Digitism Part 4 (Awareness: Contingent and Ideal)
The next dimension of my map of Digitism I want to consider is Awareness. When I was in college I went with my roommate to his home in Queens, NYC. Growing up in the wilds of Upstate NY, I had not...
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Amphibian Digitism
Amphibian Digitism (Click pic to enlarge) the object has a similar interiority and a different physicality, and this I call animism…. the object is devoid of interiority but possesses a similar kind of...
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The Technological Horizon – The Cyborg Terrain System
An experiential horizon structures one’s gaze into the world. Jodi Dean expressed this well in a talk on the Communist Horizon, which she asserts is the political horizon of our age. The term...
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The Negated Cyborg
While emptiness’ object of negation is inherent existence, the mere idea of it does little to move one along the Buddhist path. Traditionally, the process to develop one’s experiential understanding...
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The Findable Cyborg
Heidegger’s terms Enframing and Standing Reserve, taken uncritically seem to imply a static state – a picture taken, or the stock in a warehouse. Certainly, this is part of Heidegger’s meaning, but it...
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The Unfindable Cyborg
Identifying an object, person or process requires some kind of framework, classification system, however intuitive or basic. In The Findable Cyborg , I suggested that this, in the context of a...
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The Findable Cyborg Part 3
It [Buddhist logic] admitted nothing but the transient flow of evanescent events and their final eternal quiescence in Nirvana. Reality according to Buddhists is kinetic, not static, but logic, on...
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Cyborg Sky Burial
Two years ago I wrote briefly about the Tibetan funerary custom of sky burial. Now, the vultures again circle my neighborhood, swooping within a few feet of my bedroom window before taking their...
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A Cyborg Garden
We’re hoping to put in a small garden this year, a couple of tomato plants, zucchini, basil, parley, some lettuce. It’s been I think 3 years since our last one. A lot has been going on and it’s been...
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The Findable Cyborg Part 4
The US military has an ongoing project in Afghanistan to collect comprehensive biometric data for the entire population. Derik Gregory’s post Biometric War, outlines the program and links to a number...
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The Forgotten Cyborg
I read with interest about the May 14 decision by the European Court of Justice to apply a Spanish “right to be forgotten” law to Google. A number of European countries have such laws. The test case...
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The Anxious Cyborg
Cyborg action is increasingly instrumental to machinic ends. Machine to machine (M2M) technology creates discourses and practices that both affect cyborgs and are apart from them. From a machinic...
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