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What’s Hot Right Now (10-11-11)
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Arse Electronic Wrap-up, Occupy Everything, New National Campaigns, plus We’re back from 2 weeks on the road, participating in and filing blogs on Atlanta’s Southern Comfort Conference and then from San Francisco for Arse Elektronika. Arse Elektronika is a production by Monochrom, an Austrian collective of futurist artists describing themselves as “an art-technology-philosophy group” and “an unpeculiar mixture of…
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Arse Elektronika: Come for science!
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Jack Diehl, Alison Gardner, and Dan Massey contributed to this article. VenusPlusX attended the Arse Elektronika conference in San Francisco (September 29 – October 2), hosted by the Austrian “art-technology-philosophy group” Monochrom. This energetic collective has run the European AE for many years, and this is the fifth year in a row they have brought its parallel to…
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This Revolution Will Not Be Privatized
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One of the best signs at the Occupy Wall Street‘s ongoing protest that is spreading like wildfire across the country right now said, “This revolution will not be privatized.” Well, what do we actually mean by that? In the last 24 hours, Occupy Together has increased by almost 200 more cities, up from 749 to 928 cities, including…
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What is the Name of God?
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For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… También en español In his 1953 sci-fi story, The Nine Billion Names of God, Arthur C. Clarke imagined a Tibetan monastery where monks labored ceaselessly to list every permutation of letters in their alphabet and thus to list every possible name of god, fulfilling their destiny and bringing about the end…
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The Sexual Freedom Project: Room for Change
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[pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yvsXjo-P6Q” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] Do you agree that gender roles define or control our personal behavior? limit our freedoms, opportunities, and ability to be ourselves? Is location, where you are in the world, the greatest indicator? What will be the results of raising children today with more relaxed ideas about gender? Do you foresee a future…
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Southern Comfort—Historic Gathering
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What is “gender non-conforming?” “What does a transexual person have in common with a part-time cross-dresser? or with a transgender person who identifies as neither?” “Can transgender and gender non-conforming people, cross-dressers, transexual men and women who have undergone Sexual Reassignment Surgery (SRS), and other segments of this diverse cohort group ever speak as one?”…
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Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival. Dalai Lama The other evening I received an email inviting me to meet the man commonly refered to as the ‘Desmond Tutu’ of Uganda – Bishop…
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The Sexual Freedom Project: “I AM” Justice
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[pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVAgz6iyK6A” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] Thanks to theMassachusetts Transgender Political Coalition we are able to see powerful videos from its I AM: Trans People Speak project. Check the other ones out. Justice, a trans man learned a lot about life at college, and still ponders the racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and oppression all around him. His mother’s unconditional love…
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Why Trans Life is a Necessary Cosmic Reality
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For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… También en español At the end of the last post I admitted that I certainly cannot prove that this higher level of Transcendent Life (Trans Life) exists beyond Real Live (RL) as RL exists beyond Second Life (SL). If it exists, then there is surely a path of transition from…
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[pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVAgz6iyK6A” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell takes effect this week, so we are sharing this viral video that’s reached TV and over 3 million people on YouTube. An active service member calls his Dad in Alabama from where he’s stationed in Germany to tell him he’s gay, and his father responded in a way…
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