Shots of Awe

“Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented” - Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly
We Are The Creators and We Are The Created.
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"The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensiti...

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Jason Silva and the Executive Director of Flow Genome Project, Ja...

Join Jason Silva every week as he freestyles his way into the complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the truth and beauty of science in a form of existential jazz....

Jason Silva chats with author Erik Davis about the intersectionality of technology, the human imagination and the phenomenon Davis coined "TECHGNOSIS."

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"We are Ontological Engineers: hacking reality and constructing worlds" - Diana Slattery
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"Breakups are Death Practice"
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One Day in LA
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Jason Silva and media theorist Douglas Rushkoff MINDJAM at 92Y in New York City.
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"Artists are uniquely placed to ... creatively participate in the larger cultural process of re-engineering subjectivity, of pushing the envelope of experience." - Erik Davis
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"Just as the biosphere stands above the world of nonliving matter, so an 'abstract kingdom' rises above the biosphere. The denizens of this kingdom? Ideas"
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Immersion is the experience of losing oneself in a fictional world. It's what happens when people are not merely informed or entertained but actually slip into a manufactured reality. - Frank Rose...

“The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other…” - Roland Barthes


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“What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a ‘spark of lfe.’ It is information, words, instructions.” -Richard Dawkins

Diana Slattery - Xenolinguistics
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“The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.” -Alain de Botton

The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
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"Everything is a remix" - Kirby Ferguson

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"The program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot’s radio provides the basic orienting inform...

Cinema…“obeys the laws of the mind rather than those of the outer world.” - Hugo Munsterberg

Lev Manovich
“The Language of New Media”
https://manovich.net/

Richard Linklater interview on cinema a...

Anxiety is the “Dizziness of Freedom” - Kierkegaard

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Timothy Leary
“The Vertigo of Freedom”
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Mr Nobody
As long as you don't choose, everyt...

"...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution." - Al Gore

Kevin Kelly
"Humans are the r...

“This attractive alienation resembles the necessary strangeness of objects of beauty. It is kind of estrangement that idealizes the object, or archetypalizes it.” - David Lenson

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“I used to think of myself as simply a cunning linguist, but now I realize that I am actually a meme replicator. A meme, as I’m sure you all have been told many times, is the smallest unit of an id...

“Just as you grow into the world, the world grows into you. Not only do you occupy a certain place, but that place in turn occupies you. It’s culture shapes the way you see the world, its language ...

“Each little update - each individual bit of social information - is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingl...

“Gothic cathedrals (and IMAX theaters) provide instructive examples of the conscious use of artistic media - space, form, light, sounds - to produce religious-mystical, i.e. psychedelic, experience...

“Your trivial-seeming self tracking app is part of something much bigger. It’s part of a new stage in the scientific method, another tool in the kit. It’s not the only thing going on, but it’s part...

“We design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us.” - Anne-Marie Willis


Marshall McLuhan
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us”
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“Life is purposeful, death is optional, God is technological and love is essential” - Terasem philosophy

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Terence McKenna
“The cultural enterprise is an effort to turn ourselves inside...

"Here juxtaposition is revealed as the basic formal operation of synchronicity, as two apparently unrelated events or elements suddenly form a secret link that strikes, in the mind of the perceiver...

“We humans have indeed always been adept at dovetailing our minds and skills to the shape of our current tools and aids. But when those tools and aids start dovetailing back — when our technologies...

“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth” - Picasso

Werner Herzog on The Ecstatic Truth
“Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but...