Anselmo Quemot
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Location | Australia |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | Just an exchange forum for a group of friends interested in a range of things, including, but not only, the relationships between capitalism, media/ICTs and biotechnology. In this vein, certain strands of avant garde cultural theory typify an ascendant Panglossian perspective that may be [inadvertently]helping to foster a dystopian future. Therefore will be posting some stuff about how to identify different forms of "critical" thinking, but intend mostly to use the blog as a kind of notebook/scrapbook/archive of assorted material to follow up on in different journals, other websites etc.Another topic of interest:the posthuman militarised "aesthetic" of our current situation and where it could be leading us. This extends to consideration of how our patterns of study, work, and general relationships are impacted. Of course, postings will be erratic depending on other commitments. Given this blog's obscure purpose, I must paraphrase the tagline from "Alien", "in cyberspace no one can hear you scream..." |
| Interests | urban exploration, neogeography, social theory, electronic music, cats, socialism, posthumanism, transhumanism, post secularism, democracy, science fiction, survivalism, biology, cosmology, technology, climate change, space travel, big dumb objects, xenoarchaeology |
| Favorite Movies | Forbidden Planet, Alien, Dawn of the Dead (Romero), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper), Wake in Fright, The Cars that Ate Paris, Blade Runner, Silmido, Ghost in the Shell, Deadline-U.S.A, Altered States, Deconstructing Harry, Newsfront, Spirited Away, Videodrome, Withnail & I, Colour Me Kubrick, Starship Troopers, Total Recall, A Clockwork Orange, Funny Games, The Wicker Man |
| Favorite Music | Brian Eno, Klaus Schulze, Dead Can Dance, Talk Talk, Drexciya, Kim Cascone, Streicher, Lustmord, Flint Glass, Laurie Anderson, Snog, SPK, Death In June, Whitehouse, Blood Axis, Les Joyaux de la Princesse, Joy Division, Fever Ray, Mike Ladd, Fad Gadget, Gary Numan, Brighter Death Now, The Boredoms, John Zorn, Isomorph, Laszlo Hortobagyi, Stephen Philips, Michael Stearns, Rudy Adrian, kraftwerk, Silent Watcher of Dark Matter |
| Favorite Books | The Naked Sun (Isaac Asimov), Mars Trilogy (Kim Stanley Robinson), Non-Stop (Brian Aldiss), Madness & Modernism (Louis Sass), Art into Pop (Simon Frith), Dancing in the Distraction Factory (Andrew Goodwin), Culture and the Public Sphere (Jim McGuigan), Theories of the Information Society (Frank Webster), Digital Play (Nick Dyer Witheford et al), The Long Revolution (Raymond Williams), The Intellectual (Steve Fuller), Minima Moralia (Theodor Adorno), The Social Shaping of Technology (Judy Wajcman & Donald Mackenzie), H.P. Lovecraft |