“Together, we can rewrite the rules of what it means to belong.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“Представи си, че решаваш с генетичен алгоритъм задачата за търговския пътник. Натъпкваш индивидите със случайни правила и ги пускаш да еволюират. А те как преживяват това? Те си мислят с кого да се кръстосат, ядосват се, когато съседът им изяде ресурсите, някои загиват, други оцеляват. Цяла трагедия древногръцка. А не разбират, че смисълът на техния така наречен живот е да решат — при това не поотделно, а колективно, цялата популация — задачата за търговския пътник. И нищо друго. Но в мисленето си те са ограничени в ядене, размножаване и толкова. Това е за тях смисълът. А ти ги гледаш отгоре като дядо господ как се суетят…
— Май нещо като системна теология се получава — чеше се по главата Сидорчук. — Някой ни е програмирал, на седмия ден е задал гранични условия и ни е пуснал да му решаваме задачата. За търговски пътник или за обхождане на N-мерна шахматна дъска с ход на коня, слона и верблюда. И сега ние смятаме нещо, а Програмистът ни зяпа отгоре и се чуди кога ще свършваме. А ние преживяваме, конкурираме се за пари и жени, водим войни — обикновени, валутни и хуманитарни…”
“After thousands of years of coevolution, humans are now inextricable from technology.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Your economic life expectancy is shrinking.
Not your job. Not your career.
Your relevance as a human being.”
Source: The Last Economy: A Guide to the Age of Intelligent Economics
“For the first time in economic history, we face an inversion with no obvious landing place. We are the generation that will live through the discontinuity. The last humans to remember when human thought had economic value. The first to discover what comes after.”
Source: The Last Economy: A Guide to the Age of Intelligent Economics
“We fill our homes with furniture and our minds with facs, but poetry is how we fill our souls. It's the poor man's medicine...the deepest expression of mankind. If you can read poetry, then you have already felt the shadows of humanity's most potent emotions.”
Source: The Book of Lost Hours
“Man as scientist has come to know a great deal, but as human being knows and feel intuitively love and ambition, poetry and music. The heart-and-mind reaches deeper than the power of reason alone.”
Source: From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
“One day. One day someone, and I don’t know who, but someone will say enough. A line will be drawn, and there will come an hour that we will rise and say we’ve had enough. That we won’t take the darkness any longer. That we will say no. That we will fight against those who would break us. We will fight back, and in this hour, we will have succeeded in what we have set out to do.”
Source: Withered + Sere
“. Keiller finds extinction looming everywhere – species dying off at a far faster rate than scientists had thought possible only a few years ago. The emphasis on extinction means that the concerns of Robinson in Ruins rhyme with the preoccupations that have emerged in speculative realist philosophy, which has focused on the spaces prior to, beyond and after human life. In some respects, the work of philosophers such as Ray Brassier and Tim Morton re-stages the old confrontation between human finitude and the sublime which was the former subject of a certain kind of landscape art. But where the older sublime concentrated on local natural phenomenon such as the ocean or volcanic eruptions which could overwhelm and destroy the individual organism or whole cities, speculative realism contemplates the extinction, not only of the human world, but of life and indeed matter itself. The prospect of ecological catastrophe means that disjunction between the lived time of human experience and longer durations is now not just a question of metaphysical contemplation, but a matter of urgent political concern, as one of Robinson’s touchstones, Fredric Jameson, noted. ‘[A]s organisms of a particular life span,’ Jameson writes in his essay ‘Actually Existing Marxism’,
we are poorly placed as biological individuals to witness the more fundamental dynamics of history, glimpsing this or that incomplete moment, which we hasten to translate into the alltoo-human terms of success or failure. But neither stoic wisdom nor the reminder of a longer-term view are really satisfactory responses to this peculiar existential and epistemological dilemma, comparable to the science-fictional one of beings inhabiting a cosmos they do not have organs to perceive or identify. Perhaps only the acknowledgement of this radical incommensurability between human existence and the dynamic of collective history and production is capable of generating new kinds of political attitudes; new kinds of political perception, as well as of political patience; and new methods for decoding the age as well, and reading the imperceptible tremors within it of an inconceivable future. (Valences of the Dialectic, Verso, 2010, pp369-70)
Amongst its requiem for neoliberal England, Robinson in Ruins gives us some intimations of those imperceptible tremors and inconceivable futures.”
Source: Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
“I lose myself every minute spent here
Deciding to move away is far better than hanging around
Just like a flower that wont bloom without sunlight
So is the career which I have chosen”
Source: A Broken Woman: From a child that was loved dearly into a teen that has lost her strength