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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Hakim Bey 1 Jan 1996
The Information War
Humanity has always invested heavily in any scheme that offers escape from the body. And why not? Material reality is such a mess.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Paul Groot 1 Jan 1996
Teilhard and the Technognosis
the avenging JHWH in Silicon Hollywood
With the advent of Dreamworks, the entertainment company founded by Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Bill Gates, Hollywood and Silicon Valley have merged conclusively.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Dirk Van Weelden 1 Jan 1996
Street Religion and Matrix Magic
Religions not only express desires for origins or a higher reality. According to Dirk van Weelden, they are also procedures that create order and constructively channel fear. What kind of fear?
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Jules Marshall 1 Jan 1996
Return to the Source or the politics of Plur
first Born, the Grandfathers told, had emerged from quivering mud to the rythmn of his own heart and so man had known the true rythmn from the beginning.(1) Soon afterwards man had learned to use...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Erik Davis 1 Jan 1996
Meditations on the Indranet
Standing at the door of his crumbling shack, Lance Daybreak looked kind of like I'd expected him to look, which was something of a disappointment. Long blondish-brown hair, bushy beard, drawstring...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Arjen Mulder 1 Jan 1996
Don't answer too quickly
With reference to John Lilly's Simulations of God
Theory only flourishes when a central concept is found into which everything ultimately seems to fit. To cite just a few examples: structure, sign, discourse, media, production, desire, seduction. If...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Adilkno, Bilwet 1 Jan 1996
Concept for a post-human nature
What happens to plants and animals when everyone has gone to Heaven or Hell, I have not been able to find it in the Bible.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Jules Marshall 1 Jan 1996
Baseline
Music is the basis of all life. Without music, we have no meaning, no joy and no soul. It comes from the innermost thoughts and emotions. Music is a celebration of life. Celebrate life....
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Michael Heim 1 Jan 1996
Alternate World Disorder
In Michael Heim's view both cyberspace and VR extend and enhance our powers of evolution. He even compares them to the invention of fire. But immersion in the virtual world has also its dark side. It...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Michael Sikillian 1 Jan 1996
Abbreviated Hours
Multimedia in the Middle Ages
To read electronic texts is to experience chaos. Electronic mail boxes and Internet newsgroups contain messages received randomly over time. Some have more structure, forming threads, but often the...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1996
vol. 8#4 The Religion Issue
Editorial: Are People the Gods of the Algorithms?
The word avatar does not occur in this issue of Mediamatic.
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Marres
Thuis
7Jul 20015Aug 2001aankomende kunstenaars onderzoeken met een scala aan media de ingewikkelde kwesties die het begrip 'Thuis' oproept deelnemers: Danny Meus, Timo Ekhart, Helene Hoogland, Gijs Albregts, Sandor Sinko
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Arjen Mulder 1 Jan 1998
The landscape's thought
When twilight falls, a thought takes shape in the landscape. A flurry of wind swirls through a lonely tree on the moors, a cloud of birds whirls down over a sandy path to the hedge near a brook...
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Book: Maurice Nio 1 Jan 1998
You have the right to remain silent
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Nio
You have the right to remain silent
In retrospect, postmodernism was first and foremost a regressive movement. The discovery that modernism, with its voracious ambition, had literally usurped all the open space available, and had...
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Davis
Techgnosis
False gods born from oceans of silicon, whispering cabalistic secrets while battling ancient and not-so-ancient philosophers bleeding demented words of light... Satanic machines faxing amongst...
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Book: Erik Davis 1 Jan 1998
Techgnosis
Myth, Magic & Mysticism in the Age of Information
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#1 Lex Wouterloot 1 Jan 1992
Foley
John Patrick Foley, Pastoral Instruction 'Aetatis Novae' on Social Communications, Vatican City 1992
There can be no doubt that the Roman Catholic Church is going through a crisis. The energy Pope John Paul II displayed in visiting the most remote archdioceses contrasts sharply with the Church of...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 R.K. Joshi 1 Jan 1996
The Religious World of Letterforms
Various writing systems either pictographic, alphabetic or syllabic in nature, developed in different parts of the world over different time-frames, have been associated with the spoken or written...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Peter Fend 1 Jan 1996
Newsroom
The chosen few, enjoying access to the power of God attempt to decide for us all: or how geopolitical power is ordered today.
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Mediamatic Supermarkt 1 Jan 2002
You won't Believe it
8Dec 2002- Mediamatic SuperSalon8Dec 2002Met Erwin Driessens en Maria Verstappens Tickle Salon, de resultaten van de Mediamatic/IDFA workshop. Non-lineair Vertellen en Sushi voor beginners.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#1 Arjen Mulder 1 Jan 1992
Ronell
Avital Ronell, Crack Wars: Literature Addiction Mania, University of Illinois Press 2004
There is no theory of drugs concludes Ronell in her new book. Jumping on the bandwagon of the current war on drugs, she focuses attention on the 19th-century, the period when heavy use became...