I’ll be reading from my article “Godspeed You Black Emperor! and the Politics of Chaos” at the Neo Industrial Opera launch as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival next week (the reading will be accompanied by Godspeed! discs droning along in the background, of course). Copies of the magazine will be available on the night for [...]
Recently I saw a yawn transmit itself from mouth to mouth through sleepy drivers across a traffic intersection, while dark clouds hung pregnant over the fluorescent ticking city, until everything collapsed into green signals for motion.
“The crucial problem for an autonomous robot, however, seems to be that of motivation.”
(Zlatev, Jordan. 2001. “The Epigenesis of Meaning in Human Beings, and Possibly in Robots”, in Minds and Machines, Num. 11, pp. 155-195, 2001).
“Men, O my king, should pledge themselves to naught;
For cool reflection makes their purpose void”
(Sophocles. Antigone, translated by E. H. [...]
Things to do.
Clean.
Organise furniture.
Shopping.
Pin no.
Lights.
Eyebrows.
Plastic cups.
Alcohol – Champ.
Streamers.
Party Poppers.
Nibblies.
Music – CD?
Ring Elin.
Swimmers.