Originally published at: https://readyaiminquire.com/post/677969372806004736/technological-inevitability One of the great platitudes which are very popular today, when we are confronted with acts of violence [is …]: “If there is no God, then everything is permitted”. [… T]his statement is simply wrong. Even a brief look at our predicament today clearly tells us…

Originally published on: https://readyaiminquire.com/post/671362472328986624/christmas-2021 “A fine Māori proverb runs: ‘Ko maru kai atu Ko maru kai mai, Ka ngohe ngohe.’ Give as much as you receive and all is for the best.” Marcel Mauss, The Gift, 1966 [1925] I have spent the last couple of days running around like a…

Originally published on: https://readyaiminquire.com/post/669415070559764480/dreamers-at-fault ‘The basic lesson of psychoanalysis [ … is] that we are responsible for our dreams. Our dreams stage our desires, and our desires are not objective facts. We created them. We sustain them. We are responsible for them.’ Slavoj Žižek, A Pervert’s Guide to Ideology. What…

Originally published on: https://readyaiminquire.com/post/666832028297216000/together-in-cyberspace ‘Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts… A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of…

Personal health tracking, wearable technologies, and future potential. So, the plague finally got to me. Three vaccine doses in and the new variant somehow broke through my defences. I guess, if one were to look for a silver lining, that it’s better to have it out of the way now…

Originally published on: https://readyaiminquire.com/post/659719782209290240/a-paragon-of-their-kind “In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl. A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. …

Originally published on: https://readyaiminquire.com/post/640335856586080257/the-future-as-vapor ‘Semiotic phantoms, bits of deep cultural imagery that have split off and taken on a life of their own.’ William Gibson, The Gernsback Continuum. I ’ve been thinking a lot about time lately. Not wholly sure as to why, perhaps it’s because we’ve just moved from…

Originally published on: https://readyaiminquire.com/post/631171909973934080/blood-for-the-blood-god The year of our Lord two-thousand and twenty, or 20–20 in common vernacular, has been a wild ride. It’s been the kind of year when time compresses and six months simultaneously feels like six weeks and six years. The year started with an almost-war, a continent…