Category: Poetry

I met Bruce Sterling, very briefly, at an Information technology, global ecology conference held in San Francisco, called “planetworkers” in 2000 A.D. His absolutlyfucking brilliant presentation, full of satire and typical neird-wit, was through a Scanner-Sterling lens focused upon a recent fire (May 2000) at the Los Alamos laboratories. He left no pun unpunished. He said that he quickly put this satirical-prose together on his flight, and i believed him. Inventive sharp-cutting satire, poetic genius, and a refreshing insightful criticism though without any low personal attacks, tabaloid-like attatcks, on character, or even Human error in some sense. Other forces are at work here.

I felt a refreshing contempt for the dull profit driven industrial/militaristic/agricultural/media marketing monsters too. IMAMMM “my own interpretation of THEM. THEY. The wealth and life-support monopilists. Maybe YOU are hypnotised by IMAMMM today? The excellent Planetworkers conference and its wide range of participants went on to provide concise, practicle, sustainable alternatives, GREEN ideas – if you like – which provided a vital backdrop for Sterling’s particular species of silver-flash discourse.

After that experience Bruce Sterling became a name that i looked out for. A Novelist, and linguistic gymnast, [see google video below] video linked below, gives you a taste of Sterling. For the record, i detect the felt presence of William S. Burroughs, Philip K. Dick, Robert Anton Wilson, Leary and Mckenna in his presentation too. But i would do, naturally, because i admire these literary giants so much and feel most attracted to their world views and reality tunnels. The Novelist and poet deserve equal respect and attention, NEWS attention, IMHO, as the popular scientist and engineer – the champions of our popular technological industrial world – for the novelist, and other exponents of quality literature, include the more murky and subtle “social-psychological” parameters hidden within us all, often missing, occult, edited-out or watered down by the mediaters of our pissy-trickle-down “mainstream” of daily electronic signals; our surrounding digital environs. A technosphere becoming increasingly under attack or under renewal? from a kind of SPIME? trying to SELL/GIVE something, or make YOU believe/doubt something fundamentally, or maybe just partially? Do you see Brightly or darkly? I feel Bruce has a lot of questions for us, the digital aged, that will be of critical importance to our children and the future populations of Humanica! [

Blogjects created by clouds, spy chips and hyperlinked OBJECTS. GOOGLING life-support systems etc. Yeah, exactly. Immediatism. And the radical semantic implications of shortening the time between what you think and what you will, to their manifestation’s in 3 dimensional space time. Its a kind of magic then? MIND? BODY? SPEECH? How will a corporate consumer landscape, for example, be changed by the introduction of the electronic TAO? Immediatism? You will become what you think, eat and act out almost Instantaneously? MIND BODY SPEECH. Supported by the hyperlinked GLOBAL tinternet? And so….

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. – Buddha”

Welcome to the afterfuture.

Bruce Sterling speaking at LIFT conference.

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Seem’s somebody did not like this blog when i first posted it on saturday.
So i’ll post it again and see if it stay’s posted! [Tuesday 13th June 2006]

I have decided to spit my thoughts and reflexions on England’s football quest for the holy golden cup. Contrary to what many of my friends and family think – i love football – and especially world cup football. I like it when people of the world unite through competitive sports a good example of positive globalization and the potential of international global communication – so here’s some of my thoughts just now [4.50 PM Saturday 10th June, 2006. West Midlands, England.]

Smiles on the Brit red faces – emerging in slow motion on video replay when the English goal was scored by one of paraguay’s own players.

The highlight for me came when Robinson the English GOAL-keeper launched the ball from his hoof and it bounced off the giant Television monitors hanging from the sizzling Frankfurt stadium cieling. It reminded me about how TV influences the game of football sometimes.

The referee called Marco Rodriguez seemed rather biased against England at times with his often skewed decisions, such as booking Peter Crouch with a yellow card for a tackle that appeared on video pretty clean and within the acceptable level of aggression to me – he went for the ball, but the player with possession of the ball went tumbling over in a way that gave the impression to the Mexican referee that Crouch was playing dirty and below the standard of acceptable conduct. I disagreed with that particular decision.

Songs such as “Self preservation society” and “God save the Queen” rang out from the England fans and i rekon Prince William who was at the game rather enjoyed this selection – rather boring tunes to my ears but nonetheless songs that aimed to brighten up the spirits of the English players who were especially feeling the 30 degree heat. They looked like frankfurter sausages at times in the second half of the match in which Paraguay improved their rate of shots at goal and their amount of time in possession of the magical football which is new and scientifically designed to…..swerve more easily? i dunno?

Thankyou Paraguay for helping England get 3 points from their first game and also for reminding me that the real goal is at home. The word home-goal represents to me, today the sense of self knowledge; and drives home the phrase “Home is where the heart is” into my mind.

It’s funny to me how all the goal’s in football only lead to winning a golden cup, the individual goal’s themselves do not have specific meanings in the sense of describing a set of desires or “things.” They just appear a means to win and what’s winning but an invisible concept attached to certain game rules and certain conditions? Goal’s are a lot like “thing’s” in that they are non-specific, like “stuff” and “whatchamacallits”

In football everybody will’s for a goal, a ball in the net thing – which i can only deduce from my limited perceptions to be related to the Golden Cup or “Holy Grail” of world football – Surely not – there must be more to this. An invisible force ? pride? prestige? patriotism or simple and innocent love of one’s own gene pool and country? Something!

I had fun watching the match, i loved watching the crowds faces igniting in slow motion when England scored, or should i say when Paraguay scored – in their own goal hole?

With the U.S.A and England and Iran and Saudi Arabia and Germany and France and Italy all playing games together, i would imagine that a GOAL; a real GOAL for this World Cup hoofball event would be to forge better relationships between these nations, their so called national representatives and the common people who live in these nations. Unified in their love for sport, competition and games!

Maybe they might start discussing their respective sponsors and asking themselves if football and beer, or football and fatty fast foods have much in common with one another? But hey this is just football right, not neuropolitiq or socio-psychological warfare between the worlds biggest corporate superpowers. Just a game right, and I’m lovin it!

Here’s some other news stories about the game
http://football.guardian.co.uk/worldcup2006
http://www.channel4.com/news

Acrillic Figa