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Postmodern concepts in contemporary life

“The theory of rejecting theories.” – Tony Cliff From Wikipedia: “postmodernism tends to refer to a cultural, intellectual, or artistic state lacking a clear central hierarchy or organizing principle and embodying extreme complexity, contradiction, ambiguity, diversity, and interconnectedness or interreferentiality.” Here is my list of how postmodern concepts may be tied in with contemporary life: […]

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Al Gore on Current.com

Quoting Al Gore from a blog post on the Identity unknown blog: “Current, the media company I co-founded six years ago with my partner Joel Hyatt, just last week launched a new web site that integrates television and the Web in an unprecedented way. It provides, as never before, a platform for citizens to make […]

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The age of machine-mediated empiricism

Traditional human-based empiricism as we knew it through many years ended with the advent of technology. It shifted and became a hybrid of linear mechanics and phenomenology. Today it is another type of hybrid it, is a hybrid of human phenomenology and digital phenomenology. Since science leads our concept of reality and science uses quite […]

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The narcissistic universe and the universal mirror

Our universe and all natural living things came to have life over time. They came to have life thanks to the availability of energy, fuels, electricity, radiation, heat, sunlight etc. Living things shifted form over time. We became organisms. We became animals. We became humans. But in some way, we are all created from the […]

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