Is this an age where life on Earth is further knit together by an emerging “technology,” that looks more squishy and organic than sharp and metallic? Fewer screens and more precision probiotics? Less 5g and more tuned light? Mechanical data centers swapped for bioengineered creatures and microbial colonies? A world where computation is managed in vivo, and wastewater scans optimize our potential as contributing nodes in a vast biological network. Sort of adds a whole new level of meaning to the culture war use of “colonizer,” when what is being colonized is perhaps your colon, and you get rewarded for productive excretion. Gross, yes I know, but as we seem venture capital (Bobby’s Vantage Partners included frame out the Cleantech space adjacent to AI and machine learning) we should know what game we’re playing or as my friend Sean says what song we’re singing, eh?
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about water as a programmable medium (by changing the position of the hydrogen atoms in relation to the oxygen) and information theory. I followed closely the efforts to protect the Mni Sose by water protectors at Standing Rock. “Water is life” and perhaps water is information from the sacred source of creation that connects us all. I spent six weeks along the banks of the Moreau River in the summer of 2020, a sojourn that culminated on the banks of that nourishing river, subjected to the exploits of the Army Corps’ Pick Sloan dam projects. What does it mean that their logo is a castle? Something about French-inspired fortification taught at West Point, but I’m not sure that’s all there is to that story.
As I noted in my previous post, it could be that the next “sustainable” quantum computer is a damp moss and lichen covered boulder glazed in engineered rain coating microscopic tardigrades that have been transformed to hold our digitally twinned minds as a unified energetic field. Here is a two-part discussion my friend Sean and I had unpacking an ongoing text thread we’ve been cultivating with Stephers. Also, some pictures for you to enjoy of the diverse fungi, elemental denizens the forests around Lake Ouachita.
They are spectacularly networked!
GORGEOUS PHOTOS!
I’m just beginning to dive into the first video. There is so much I want to say but I’ll start with thank you for the beautiful photos.
They (the monism-ists)are talking ‘horizontal’ and ‘quantum’ systems and soft and fuzzy organic terms, but it all reeks of colonization. There’s a bunch I think about permaculture, which, as a lifelong gardener and observer of nature, feels like another form of colonization. The people into it are fervent, almost rabid, about it. I came to my own conclusions by witnessing permaculture farms and gardens and the people pushing it – but how I see it is it’s colonization of nature and genocide of weaker plants and systems which can’t compete with the colonizers (invader plants). The proponents don’t seem to see or understand this.
Then the Indigenous piece… and the worship of people like Eisenstein is also troubling. The things in common I see about all these trendy things is that people are literally drooling over giving away critical thinking and doing their own research and worshipping these people, idolizing and enriching them into great financial wealth and fame, not even knowing what or who they are worshiping. That is all judgmental and ‘gut’ feelings but it all feels like bullshit and snake oil sales.
I wonder what philosophers like Deleuze and Guatteri, have to do with this all – did they inspire some of the wordage? – since Deleuze was into rhizomic horizontal networks of connection and information sharing.
I can’t articulate any of this or even know how connected, Allison, nor put it all together. My mind is simple and I just see snippets and am far too judgmental based on my gut reflexes and not enough research and thinking. Your mind is so brilliant – I would not know how to connect all the dots or even speak as you do. I want to try to follow along, even though I don’t understand most of it. My body responds to what you say on a cellular level, even though it is far beyond what my limited thinking and knowledge can comprehend. It’s more ‘grok’ than understand. One wonders how far back this whole tangled web goes. Sorry so long. Been offline more and am way behind, but much of what you say here is chilling – if true – and it’s so hard to know what’s true and how far along all of this is.
Arkansas sounds beautiful. I’m originally from near Phila and miss that land back east every single day. So grateful for your consistent persistent work deciphering the matrices. May you find the perfect dwelling that feels like home. Sorry this is so long. You, your work, your questions, are important to so many of us. You have allies.
Exactly! Thank you Sadie for beautifully describing how many of us are grasping and following along with Alison’s amazing mind to unravel this thing we are in, which our children are being groomed for. Also, how the natural world is being manipulated, particularly at this time the intense interest the tech industry’s have in experimenting with the fungal world. For what end I have know idea, but seems like an intriguing place to shift focus on.
Blessings to you and your father(‘s spirit). Early in this post you said one part of you wondered whether the connections you are making are valid, while another part told you to keep going. I vote for the “keep going” part. Please be careful not to drive yourself “crazy” while doing so; not in the eyes/minds of others (I know you’ve been rejected by many there), but within yourself. Near the end you mentioned that you were planning to post a working hypothesis regarding “the system”. I look forward to it. Thank you, teacher, and be well.