The Hauntological Interface | A Scrapbook

14th November 2010

Photo reblogged from Schizopolis with 2 notes

harrisj:

You could indeed just kick a Velociraptor if it bothered you. Deinonychus on the other hand…


The Idea of kicking a Velociraptor - in self defence - warms my heart

harrisj:

You could indeed just kick a Velociraptor if it bothered you. Deinonychus on the other hand…

The Idea of kicking a Velociraptor - in self defence - warms my heart

Source: Wikipedia

14th November 2010

Quote reblogged from Schizopolis with 7 notes

She watched as he sank into whatever it was that he did on the Net, like a stone into water. He was elsewhere, the way people were before their screens, his expression that of someone piloting something, looking into a middle distance that had nothing to do with geography.
Zero History by William Gibson (pg. 179)

Source: Wikipedia

7th November 2010

Photo reblogged from x planes with 162 notes

xplanes:

“Rear gunner Sgt George Allen completing his artwork on Lancaster B Mk II LL725, “EQ-Z”, of 408 Squadron…’Zombie’ was lost without trace…on the Hamburg raid of 28 July 1944”

Certainly adds to the variety of Aircraft Pin-up Paintings we always see.

xplanes:

“Rear gunner Sgt George Allen completing his artwork on Lancaster B Mk II LL725, “EQ-Z”, of 408 Squadron…’Zombie’ was lost without trace…on the Hamburg raid of 28 July 1944”

Certainly adds to the variety of Aircraft Pin-up Paintings we always see.

Source: xplanes

15th January 2010

Quote with 2 notes

Nevertheless, psychiatrists and social scientists in the optimistic postwar mood, forgetting how little they knew but fortified by the notion of circular causality and the atomistic view of society, organized worldwide as a group of experts to make global mental health into a new technocratic ideology.
— FROM:  Constructing a Social Science for Postwar America by Steve J Heims pg 163

Tagged: cybernetics

9th January 2010

Quote

Warren McCulloch “believed in an unrestricted sex life. His was what a later generation titled an ‘open’ marriage. His life style was, in that day, an outrage to the morality espoused by the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.
— From Constructing a Social Science for Postwar America by Steve J Heims pg 132

Tagged: cyberneticswarrenmcculloch