A couple of people have asked me recently to describe the model of gender/sexuality/etc. which I was exposed to through my 1990s spiritual practice as a Hindu tantric. It is as follows. The human can be divided (for this purpose) into four layers: absolute consciousness, core spiritual identity, position within a lifetime, and physical body. [...]
Read more →It’s taken me two weeks to write this. This is the pitch for the third Big Picture Day, on Tuesday 20th of August, at Limewharf in London. We’re going to talk about the NSA, Snowden, and the changing relationship we need to have with the technology not to get generation-gapped. REGISTER NOW I knew, as [...]
Read more →Guns in the US are involved in 5000 to 10000 murders per year, plus a lot of suicides. However, the Second Amendment is staunchly defended by a wide range of Americans, and the gun murders stand. Car crashes kill about 30000 per year, and nobody’s pushing for a radical end-to-end rethink of transport to save [...]
Read more →Come to the Stacktivism conference in London, July 13, to discuss infrastructure and political control. The history We all knew this was happening. Anybody who worked in computer security looked at the NSA’s budget and the falling cost of hardware and simply said “they’re storing everything.” There had been evidence before. The secret rooms in [...]
Read more →#stacktivism is a term that attempts to give form to a critical conversation & line of enquiry around infrastructure & the relationship we have to it Sign up for #STACKTIVISM – Big Picture Days 2 – July 13th LondonRead more about #STACKTIVISM and the plan for the day! Your browser does not support the video [...]
Read more →If you’re new to the show: Evolution of Swarm Cooperatives on June 1st is the first Big Picture Day. Swarm Coops is intended to develop some new ideas about hackathons, unconferences, bar camps, hack days and similar, and the Big Picture Days will develop those ideas and take them forwards. Register here. Click here to [...]
Read more →Swarm Cooperatives is the first of six Big Picture Days at Limewharf Annex Culture Lab. As befits a swarm-themed event, we’re pulling things together very fast (you won’t believe when we actually get access to the space!) but that’s all part of the fun. We hope you’ll be able to come! Sign up for a free [...]
Read more →Swarm Cooperatives are temporary social structures we create to solve problems, explore new ideas, and make the most of opportunities. You can think of Swarm Coops as “constructive flash mobs.” Common examples include unconferences, bar camps, hackathons, crisis mapping, and free schools. The Evolution of Swarm Coops is a one day workshop at The Limewharf Annex [...]
Read more →I did a talk today on hexayurts and the wider sustainability picture at Electromagnetic Wave – a hacker conference in London. I was a bit off base (bronchitis? anyway, I felt pretty rough) but the talk turned out well. Your browser does not support the video tag. PDF of slides and .ogg video (100mb or [...]
Read more →So I had a good long think about it on twitter this morning, and I want to try and simplify the story into a few paragraphs. 1> Computer power is an ever-more-abundant resource. As a result, the data center is doomed for a variety of reasons. Yet even in such times, the temporary efficiency of [...]
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