Transgressive Love: Cyborg Tenderness – Part 2
PART ONE: Techno Desire and Cyber Sex It is now easy to love our selves as cyborgs, cyborg love is here, embrace it. The essential notion of Cyborg love is constructive transgression, a spreading out of our sense perception, into new domains of feeling. More than stimulating, less than exciting, slightly uncomfortable, the cyborg symbiosis...
Is There Anybody Out There?
Is there life elsewhere in the universe? The answer to this most fundamental question is either yes, meaning we are part of a cosmos dotted with other lifeforms and perhaps even other civilisations, or no, in which case we are unique, special and alone. What would it mean to us as species to answer that...
Global Energy Projections for 2040
According to the world’ largest publicly traded company, ExxonMobil, meeting energy demands in 2040 won’t be all that different from today. Well that’s not entirely true, because as you will read below, we’re going to be getting a whole lot more efficient at managing the energy we use. The full report, which you can find...
Now and When: Harnessing Rising Sea Levels
Now and When, an exhibition curated by John Gollings, Ivan Rijavec and Craig Bremner, was Australia’s response to the 2010 Venice Biennale theme ‘people meet in architecture’. The exhibition was composed in two parts. The first was a photographic essay ‘NOW’ by esteemed Australian photographer John Gollings documenting the catastrophic, yet strangely beautiful reality of ‘digging up the west to build...
Natural Disasters in 2050 – Episode 1: Floods
With city-wide flood disasters predicted by 2070, it has become ever more paramount that humans hone their abilities to accurately predict and counter-act the dangerous forces of nature. Most of us are beginning to realize that if we treat the world as well as we possibly can, as a collective unit, the devastation will be...
The Virtues of Vertical Farming
“Vertical farming is a proposed agricultural technique involving large-scale agriculture in urban high-rises or “farmscrapers”. Using recycled resources and greenhouse methods such as hydroponics, these buildings would produce fruit, vegetables, edible mushrooms and algae year-round…” [Source] A few weeks ago at a local supermarket I picked up a beautifully bright red-orange tomato and marveled at...
