Gods and Beasts

A NANCY : we are the weaver, we are the web,

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:56:38 GMT

A NANCY : we are the weaver, we are the web,

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A NANCY : we are the flow and we are the ebb,

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:56:44 GMT

A NANCY : we are the flow and we are the ebb,

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FRANKENSHELF May 2011 ... more than once upon a time ...

Tue, 24 May 2011 23:19:38 GMT

FRANKENSHELF May 2011

... more than once upon a time ...

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the commons ... http://flourish.org/upsidedownmap/ ...

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:55:44 GMT

the commons

... http://flourish.org/upsidedownmap/ ...

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BLOW JOB: La petite mort .. a Fumetti : a little puff of smoke ...

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:24:28 GMT

BLOW JOB: La petite mort

.. a Fumetti : a little puff of smoke ...

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LOVE ... previously ... @ Buckingham Palace 25th April 2010 ......

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:32:00 GMT

LOVE

... previously ... @ Buckingham Palace 25th April 2010 ... http://youtu.be/tgvvSPhdS3E ...

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Life Extension Being and Time is a mental and emotional endurance test. I am...

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:35:21 GMT

Life Extension

Being and Time is a mental and emotional endurance test. I am entirely comfortable with existence having no purpose or point other than to explore the experience. But sometimes I ask myself, have I had enough now? (Russell Higgs August 2011)

...PREVIOUSLY... http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/4721197190/ ...

... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus

... Immortality Institute ... http://www.imminst.org/

... SENS Foundation | Advancing Rejuvenation Biotechnologies ... http://www.sens.org/

and ... http://flourish.org/upsidedownmap/ ...

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MY INNER JADE GOODY ... I have an inner Jordan too. But I most certainly do...

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:55:43 GMT

MY INNER JADE GOODY

... I have an inner Jordan too. But I most certainly do not have an inner Kerry Katona.

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CLASS

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:31:59 GMT

CLASS

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MONOGAMY ... and the idea that we should devote the majority of our lives to...

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:32:02 GMT

MONOGAMY

... and the idea that we should devote the majority of our lives to timetabled wage slavery probably comes second.

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My kind of Humanity-plus ...

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:54:28 GMT

My kind of Humanity-plus ...

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HUMAN KIND

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:49:15 GMT

HUMAN KIND

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MIND KIND (... while here's someone elses long form version ... MANIFESTO...

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:13:07 GMT

MIND KIND

(... while here's someone elses long form version ... MANIFESTO TOWARD PERFORMANCE(S) OF INDEFINITE DURATION ... http://www.asa.de/magazine/iss3/9roddy.htm ...)

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"He spoke of human beings, of their freedom to grow into godhood, or to...

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:24:11 GMT

"He spoke of human beings, of their freedom to grow into godhood, or to remain gloriously human, to become human for the first time."

(... original image source: Ben Hoskin introducing Martin Dresler's talk on The Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming, organised by the Oxford Transhumanists @ Exeter college, Oxford ... 17 Nov 2011)

(title: David Zindell)

(speech bubble text: The Ethics of Ambiguity. Simone de Beauvoir 1947)

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"Once out of nature I shall never take my bodily form from any natural thing,...

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:32:19 GMT

"Once out of nature I shall never take my bodily form from any natural thing, but such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make of hammered gold and gold enamelling."

(... original image source: David Wood, Steve Fuller, Stefano Vaj, David Pearce, Luke Robert Mason @ "Beyond Human" organised by UKH+ @ Birkbeck, University of London ... 8 Oct 2011)

(title: William Butler Yeats "Sailing to Byzantium")

(speech bubble text: Greg Bear "Queen of Angels")

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... complex

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:16:58 GMT

... complex

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ABOVE and BENEATH ... there's more to living life than control ... and the...

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:27:22 GMT

ABOVE and BENEATH

... there's more to living life than control ...

and the Buddhist tradition, East and West, is very conservative in its approach to authentic emancipation.

(... PREVIOUSLY ... http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/403526418/ ...)

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PLAYLETARIAT : HOMO LUDENS images: Amon Kalkin talking "Future of Politics"...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:46:49 GMT

PLAYLETARIAT : HOMO LUDENS

images: Amon Kalkin talking "Future of Politics" hosted by Oxford Transhumanists @ Exeter College Oxford ... Thurs 9th Feb 2012 ...

(speech bubble text : Confucius traditionally 28 September 551 BC – 479 BC)

"Play Or Be Played" (Existenz 1999)

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“Don't play what's there, play what's not there.” (... Miles Davis 1926 -...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:29:13 GMT

“Don't play what's there, play what's not there.” (... Miles Davis 1926 - 1991)

PREVIOUSLY...

“I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.” (... Leo Buscaglia 1924 - 1998, who gained fame via his non-credit course titled "Love 1A")

IMAGINE QIYAAS : how like a leaf (13 Sept 2011)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/6152644543/

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” (... George Bernard Shaw 1856 - 1950)
Video HOMO LUDENS (7 Feb 2011)
http://youtu.be/Xh9oVS_k6V0

A POSE A DAY HELPS YOU WORK REST AND PLAY
video: 999 Days in 3 minutes
http://youtu.be/1e0O6OWUL3k
shortlisted for Guggenheim/Youtube PLAY, a Biennial of Creative Video (20th Sept 2010)
http://youtu.be/eWVCdIweVOo

Original Daily Self Portrait
(18 Sept 2008)
http://russellhiggs.shutterchance.com/image/2008/09/18/thursday-18092008/

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IDEAS ARE ALSO WEAPONS (... PREVIOUSLY ......

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:52:24 GMT

IDEAS ARE ALSO WEAPONS

(... PREVIOUSLY ... http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/5999921848/ ...)

( and "Transhuman Theonarcissism part 1" ... http://www.transhumanism.org/gallery/artist_files/higgs_2.jpg ...

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TIMELINE : what is anarcho-transhumanism

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:50:48 GMT

TIMELINE : what is anarcho-transhumanism

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Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday Luke Robert Mason and Dr...

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:56:04 GMT

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

Luke Robert Mason and Dr Seuss @ VIRTUAL FUTURES SALON @ TROVE, Birmingham on Wednesday 24th October 2012

.. Previously ... http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/6359773487/ ...

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a space odyssey text via The Medium is the Massage; with Marshall McLuhan....

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:59:44 GMT

a space odyssey

text via The Medium is the Massage; with Marshall McLuhan. Long-Playing Record 1968. Side A + B available as free mp3 download via http://www.ubu.com/sound/mcluhan.html

img via Virtual Futures Salon @ Trove Birmingham Wed 24 Oct 2012

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