Technocalyps
A three-part documentary by Frank Theys

Are we prepared for dealing with the prospect that humanity is not the end of evolution? Technocalyps is an intriguing three-part documentary on the notion of transhumanism by Belgian visual artist and filmmaker Frank Theys. The latest findings in genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, bionics and nanotechnology appear in the media every day, but with no analysis of their common aim: that of exceeding human limitations. The director conducts his enquiry into the scientific, ethical and metaphysical dimensions of technological development. The film includes interviews by top experts and thinkers on the subject worldwide, including Marvin Minsky, Terence McKenna, Hans Moravec, Bruce Sterling, Robert Anton Wilson, Richard Seed, Margareth Wertheim, Kirkpatrick Sale, Ralph C. Merkle, Mark Pesce, Ray Kurzweil, Rabbi Youssouf Kazen, Rael and many others.

Part 1: Transhuman
Part 1 gives an overview of recent technological developments (biogenetics, artificial intelligence, robotics, implants, nanotechnology,…) and prognoses made by leading scientists about the impact of these developments in the near future.

Part 2: Preparing for the Singularity
In this part advocates and opponents of a transhuman future are weighed against each other; prognoses are done when we can expect the transhuman revolution and how people are preparing for it already now.

Part 3: The Metaphysics of Technology
This part covers the metaphysical consequences of the new technological revolution. On the one hand scientist start to use metaphysical concepts to describe the impact of their research, on the other hand, a surprisingly large number of scientific projects is inspired by religious aspirations and more and more theologians from any religious or spiritual belief are getting interested in these aspirations of new technology, making the discussion inextricable complex.

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 Happy belated Mother’s Day! 50-meg zip of over 250 pix from “the InterNest”, for those of you who want a snip into the “Submission and Coffee” 24/7 BDSM world. Some of it is quite erotic and artistic. Most are computer-wallpaper size. MUST BE OF LEGAL AGE
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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Twilight’s Last Gleamings
2. 103rd Street Boys - (from “Junkie”)
3. Benway - (from “Naked Lunch”)
4. I Can Feel The Heat Closing In - (from “Naked Lunch”)
5. Meeting Of International Conference Of Technological Psychiatry - (from “Naked Lunch”)
6. In Mexico The Gimmick Is To Find A Local Junkie With A Government Script - (from “Naked Lunch”)
7. Laboratory Has Been Locked For Three Hours Solid, The - (from “Naked Lunch”)
8. Dr. Benway Is Operating In An Auditorium Filled With Students - (from “Naked Lunch”)
9. Fats Terminal Has Organized A Purple Ass Stick For Motocyclists - (from “Naked Lunch”)
10. Hassan Is A Notorious Liquifactionist - (from “Naked Lunch”)
11. Where You Belong - (from “The Soft Machine”)
12. What Washington, What Orders - (from “Exterminator”)
13. From Here To Eternity - (from “Exterminator”)
14. Evening News, The - (from “Exterminator”)
15. I Was Travelling With The Intolerable Kid On The Nova Lark - (from “Nova Express”)
16. Unworthy Vessel, The - (from “Nova Express”)
17. Do-Rights, The - (from “Nova Express”)

DISC 2:
1. Ah Pook Is The Mayan God Of Death - (from “Ah Pook Is Here”)
2. Introducing John Stanley Hart. He Entered The Bar With The Best Intentions - (from “Ah Pook Is Here”)
3. When Did I Stop Wanting To Be President - (from “Ah Pook Is Here”)
4. What The Nova Convention Is All About - (from “Ah Pook Is Here”)
5. Keynote Commentary, Roosevelt After The Inauguration - (from “Ah Pook Is Here”)
6. Chief Smiles, The - (from “The Wild Boys”)
7. Green Nun, The - (from “The Wild Boys”)
8. Tio Mate Smiles - (from “The Wild Boys”)
9. Tio Pepe - (from “The Wild Boys”)
10. As Esperanza Turns To Go Inside; Tia Maria, Tio Gordo - (from “The Wild Boys”)
11. Top Level Conference Is In Progress, A - (from “The Wild Boys”)
12. Firecracker - (excerpts, from “Port Of Saints”)

DISC 3:
1. Virus B-23 - (from “Cities Of The Red Night”)
2. Doctor Pierson - (from “Cities Of The Red Night”)
3. Name Is Clem Snide. Mr Hart Couldn’t Hear The Word Death, The - (from “Cities Of The Red Night”)
4. This Is Kim Carson - (from “Place Of Dead Roads”)
5. Just Like The Collapse Of Any Currency - (from “Place Of Dead Roads”)
6. Purple Better One, The - (from “Place Of Dead Roads”)
7. M.O.B. - (from “Place Of Dead Roads”)
8. Whole Tamale, The - (from “Place Of Dead Roads”)
9. My Protagonist Kim Carson - (from “Place Of Dead Roads”)
10. Salt Chunk Mary - (from “Place Of Dead Roads”)
11. Like Mr. Hart, Kim Has A Dark Side To His Character - (from “Place Of Dead Roads”)
12. Progressive Education - (from “Place Of Dead Roads”)
13. Wild Fruits, The - (from “Place Of Dead Roads”)
14. Old Man Bickford - (from “Place Of Dead Roads”)
15. Mummy Piece, The - (from “The Western Land”)
16. President, The - (from “The Western Land”)
17. Colonel Bradford - (from “The Western Land”)
18. Every Man A God - (from “The Western Land”)
19. Kim Like The Great Gatsby - (from “The Western Land”)
20. Just Say No To Drug Hysteria
21. Words Of Advice - (from “The Western Land”)

DISC 4:
1. Dinosaurs
2. Sexual Conditioning
3. Dead Souls
4. Cat Inside, The (Excerpts)
5. Captain Clark Welcomes You Aboard - (early 1960’s)
6. Saints Go Marching Through All The Popular Tunes, The - (early 1960’s)
7. Summer Will - (early 1960’s)
8. Outside The Pier Prowled Like Electric Turtles - (early 1960’s)
9. Total Taste Is Here, The - (news cut-ups, early 1965)
10. We See The Future Through The Binoculars Of The People - (circa 1973)
11. Just Checking Your Summer Recordings - (early 1960’s)
12. Creepy Letter, Cut-Up At The Beat Hotel In Paris - (circa 1959)
13. Is This Machine Recording? - (circa 1965)
14. Handkerchief Masks - (news cut-up, early 1960’s)
15. Word Falling, Photo Falling - (early 1960’s)
16. Throat Microphone Experiment - (circa 1965)
17. It’s About Time To Identify Oven Area - (early 1960’s)
18. Last Words Of Hassan Sabbah, 1950-61
19. I Was Fooling Around With These Tapes In Hotels

Details
Producer:	John Giorno
Distributor:	Universal Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Includes recordings made between 1971 and 1987. Books excerpted on the box set include JUNKY, THE SOFT MACHINE, THE WILD BOYS, NOVA EXPRESS, CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT and NAKED LUNCH.
THE BEST OF WILLIAM BURROUGHS was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Boxed Recording Package.Download Torrents:

• Disc 1
• Disc 1 - Missing Tracks (12-17)
• Disc 2
• Disc 3
• Disc 4

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Heroic or Horrific? “The Real Superhumans and the Quest for the Future Fantastic” Forecasts the Next Stage of Human Evolution, Nov. 4 on Discovery Channel and Discovery HD

Since the beginning of life on Earth, evolution has been dictated by Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection. And now, humanity is on the brink of a change so radical, so rapid and unlike any other stage in human history. And while most of us are waiting at the precipice, have some already taken the leap?

In this special two-hour presentation, “The Real Superhumans and the Quest for the Future Fantastic,” witness the amazing stories of real people with extraordinary super powers. But just who are these “super humans?” In Switzerland, meet a woman who combines senses so that she can “taste” music; in Turkey, a painter compared with Renaissance master Brunelleschi, who has been blind since birth; in Germany, a man discovered one day that he can perform complex calculations in his mind; and in the Netherlands, a man who possesses the inexplicable power to withstand extreme cold - but how? These super powers seemingly transcend what it means to be human, how we use our natural senses and our physical limitations. Meet these remarkable individuals, consult with the world’s leading geneticists, biologists and futurists and discover their startling perspectives on these super powers and the implications of these gifts on future generations when “The Real Superhumans and the Quest for the Future Fantastic” premieres on Discovery Channel - and simulcast on Discovery HD - on Sun., Nov. 4 at 8 p.m. ET/9 p.m. PT.

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He’s creepy and he’s kooky,

Mysterious and spooky,

He’s all together ooky,
It’s Milford Connolly!

His Garden’s a museum
Where people come to see ‘im
He really is a scream
He’s Milford Connolly!

(Neat)
(Sweet)
(Petite)

So get a witches shawl on
A broomstick you can crawl on
We’re gonna pay a call on
Milford Connolly!

That’s right kiddies; Uncle Milford from the Garden of Truth has taken out his Indiana Jones hat and excavated one of the most blood curdling tales, ever. The infamous, evil, notorious blook, once thought long lost and forgotten, El Centro! (cue spooky music). Wiggle and squeal as Uncle Milford leads us out of the Garden of Forking Paths into the Garden of Truth, Justice and the American Way! Wallow in this special Samhain (Halloween to you lay people) edition of The G-Spot, Number 16, The Garden of Truth digs up the rotting corpse of El Centro and reanimates it!

Bwaaaaahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a 2 part audiobook special. Part 2 will run next week.

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Lots of video/audio/print goodies at Bruce Eisner’s Vision Thing.

Note: Several of us are currently dealing with some family issues, so torrent postings will be sparse for another week or so and then we’ll get back to our regular frequency of content postings. In the meantime, enjoy some other sites we’ll be recommending. 

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Audio for all talks and panel discussions at the recent Singularity Summit 2007 is now available free online and via iTunes podcast.

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“Platoons of the latest replicas of Banksy roam the landscape, led by General Clone Banksy, a talentless nobody who once found a sample of Banksy DNA on an empty spray can. A rowdy gang of Tracey Ermin’s wrestle half a dozen dazed Andy Warhol’s to the ground. It is the future and all forms of art are free, perfect replicas exist of every masterpiece ever created, copyright and ownership are meaningless, ideas are cheap and replicated ad infinitum. Artists have realised that their own identity is the only thing they can own or control, so fans become clones of artists in order to spread their art/identity. One final piece of uncorrupted art remains, yet to be copied: a living story told by Neonate Muses.” - Institute of Contemporary Arts.

“When you learn how to write an article™, you are generally taught that you’re supposed to frame things for your audience with your lead. But in this case I would only be giving you a copy of a copy of a copy. When you’re posed with a performance like Dead Language, it doesn’t so much matter what your critique is. I don’t come away from this with any need to make sense of a plot or analyze the performance based on traditional criteria. I’m not thinking anything at all. Everything that happened was visceral, emotional, possibly subconscious. So what can I tell you? If you went to see a play, and it terrified you so much you pissed all over yourself and broke your leg trying to flee the building, would that be a “good” play?Not saying that my experience of Dead Language was one of terror, but I think you can see my point: this is not like watching Les Miserables.Short of being at ground zero, the video above gives you a vicarious, even voyeristic glimpse into… What? Call it weaponized art. Call it ritual. Simply call it the experience of what happens when language dies. Just don’t call it a play or one of this group might just show up in your nightmares and kill you.After watching - or perhaps participating - in this performance, I had a chance to talk about some of the concepts that played into this work of interactive theatre with John Harrigan, the writer and director of the Foolish People.”Read ART ON THE INSIDE, BLOOD ON THE OUTSIDE on Alterati.com. Part One of Dead Language, on Altertube. (Stay tuned for part 2.)
(Stay with it, things really start several minutes in.)

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About this Audiobook:

With the 20 year anniversary of the Incunabula Project coming up, we decided to make available a rare, never before heard broadcast of the Garden of Truth, broadcast from deep within the heart of the Pine Barrens, with your host, Milford Connolly. The host reads all 4 sections of the original documents, followed by an odd interview.

The opinions expressed in this audio might or might not be those of Incunabula.org, Greylodge.org, Joseph Matheny, Garden of Truth, NAFTA, the Devil or anyone else for that matter.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

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Wikipedia:Cyberpunk Educator is a 2003 documentary study of mainstream Cyberpunk films of the 1980’s. It was created by independent director Andrew J. Holden

The film uses the structure of literary theorist Northrop Frye to describe the common, repeating stories in Western culture, and how Cyberpunk can be defined and understood according to that analysis.

It is also a political documentary with a focus toward American film industry portrayal of race, gender, and government.

Creation

Director Andrew J. Holden created most of the film on a desktop built from dumpster-dove computer parts. The 40

Mhz system was held together by duct tape. In addition, the footage is entirely composed of material from the Internet - all the video footage, software programs, and even the narrative voice itself were ripped from the net.Clips from many popular Hollywood movies such as Blade Runner, Mad Max, Labyrinth were used without permission from the corporations that control those media.

As such, the film is surrounded by the politically controversial issue of online File-sharing and is largely ignored by mainstream media. However, independent publications such as Toronto’s Exclaim! newspaper have given it positive reviews.[1]

Distribution“The Cyberpunk Educator” has English narration and has been subtitled in seven languages. Outside of Canada and the US, it is most popular in Turkey, Argentina, and Russia.

The film has been used as a teaching tool at universities in Argentina, Canada, and the US due to its explicit use of Northrop Frye’s theories on literary structure.

The film has a sequel titled “Amerika” - the Cyberpunkfilm webpage indicates it will be released sometime in 2007.

• cyberpunkfilm.com - Official website

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