Google Psychedelic? Doyle? Ecodelics lsd psybernetics? autopoiesis gettin' a Clue!

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from rose rose on realitysandwich
Google is the first psychedelically informed superpower to shape the noosphere and NASDAQ. I don't mean that Googlers (necessarily) are all seasoned psychonauts, or (necessarily) take 4:20 breaks on-campus, or are well represented (necessarily) at Burning Man. Nor am I saying that psychedelics “caused” Google, any more than a Stanford education did. I do mean that the core mission comes right out of the psychedelic atlas: a vision of super-connectivity and super-conductivity that is a hallmark of the psychedelic landscape. An exceptional treatment of this theme is Rich Doyle’s book Ecodelic!, forthcoming from the University of Washington Press in 2008. Every search returns a new (always new because always shifting and adding and growing) set of filaments connecting the searcher's quest to their potential grail. Every quest or re-quest weaves the mycelial mat of connections more densely: among people, data, images, jokes, video, ads, text messages, music, maps, and cultural artifacts of every communicable variety.





http://www.realitysandwich.com/google_and_myceliation_consciousness

Gilles Deleuze conf. today at UCBerkeley, thanks! UC French Dept.!

For Deleuze, the confrontation with chaos deploys the mediums of intelligence, the affect, the percept, function, and the concept. Three autonomous names for the multiple—art, science, philosophy. The ground of their contact and mutual exposure is the simulacrum of ideas, but no idea can appear in a Deleuzian ontology without a material operator by which it is actualized as a variation on the plane of material consistency. A Deleuzian theory of media would ask, “what kind of variation at the level of events is afforded by our material culture?” We must then determine what kind of event is a medium. In keeping with Deleuze’s ontology of immanence we do not align media practice with representation or simulation, only with more or less adequate models of repetition at the level of signals, in short, a propagation of syntax or structural invariants that co-ordinate a space where an event can occur. We must immediately reverse this schema which is necessary for representation but disingenuous to events, which are not predicated on this cultivation of space but erupt continuously as a disarticulating force, the multiple or variable index of forces and relations. A medium is a place of inscription, a possibility of life. The event is not merely a possibility but the actualization of a virtual, which is real but un-mediated. A Deleuzian theory of media must then meet two theoretical and political imperatives: it must enable itself as a structure of registration through which the event can begin to resonate along divergent series (aesthetic, practical, conceptual, technical etc.); it must also propose a kind of historiography of the event which is genealogical, a line of continuous variation that describes the methods of articulating the disorienting violence of the event as it resonates in the heterogenous series.







http://gavinwit.googlepages.com/deleuzeconference


November 3, 2006: UCB Deleuze Conference
This Conference is co-sponsored by the Townsend Center, Dean of Arts and Humanities, French Department, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Anthropology, Rhetoric Department, English Department, Philosophy Department, and Graduate Theological Union. For a conference schedule and description, please click on the link below.

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This event will take place at 9:00AM in Howard Room in the Faculty Club.