On the infrastructure that makes conscience legible I keep returning to Edgar Mitchell’s account of his return from the moon — looking back at Earth from beyond its sphere of influence, he found himself overwhelmed by an inner conviction as certain as any equation he’d ever solved: that this beautiful blue world is part of Read More
On the consensus machine, the inversion of protection, and the dissolution of democracy. Democratic societies are built, in theory, on a set of interlocking protections: a free press to hold power to account, independent scientific institutions to establish what is verifiably true, legal frameworks to protect individual rights and dissent, and — the keystone of Read More
Creating balance with the inner and outer spaces we inhabit. On his way back to earth, having just walked on the moon, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell experienced a radical transformation in consciousness. As he approached our planet from beyond its sphere of influence, taking in the exquisite poise of earth, moon and sun gyrating Read More
What scares me is not death. What scares me is having our freedom to live responsibly taken away. This, it appears, is more ominous and imminent a threat than death by any virus old or new.
The idea of arresting increasing climate related disaster was recently taken up by the Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement in the UK. XR represent a confrontational if disruptive demand to hold government accountable for the denial or dallying of their roles in practices shown to disrupt climate stability. Greenpeace, NRDC, and countless other environmental and humanitarian Read More
Everything you and your mum need to know about the new distributed currency and the decentralised information revolution – how and why to get onboard, in a nutshell. Bitcoin was born out of an extraordinary innovation to resolve the loss of faith in, and the failings of central banks, sovereign states and governments, after the economic collapse of 2008 in particular. It does Read More
After a meteorologically and sociologically intense week working at the airport, helping to build out the framework of the city before the event “begins,” the collective switch is thrown that last Sunday of August, and the living beauty emerges, fleshing out the body of Black Rock City like a complex luminescent bloom on some other worldly plane. The Read More
Namit Arora suggests that: Perceptions of culture, history, and identity are necessarily subjective and selective. There’s no impartial and omniscient chronicler of events, no ‘scientific’ history. Facts are one thing, their interpretation another.[1] Accepting this idea, really screws things up however, as it implies everything learned in school and early adulthood, about oneself and the world, Read More