'But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.' - Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
Male
32 years old
Los Angeles, California
United States
Systems, semiotics, ecology, book collecting, meditation, music, hacker culture, sex.
These are all the same thing.
Music
Steve Tibbetts, John Adams, Dream Theater (and sound-alikes), Depeche Mode (and sound-alikes), Cheb Mami, Rufus Wainright, Khaled, Cheikha Remitti, David Bowie, Dawn Upshaw, Kent Nagano, BT (except for that last album), ATB, Arvo Part, Gorecki, Michael Nyman, Bhangara, Brazilian Jazz, IAMX, Orchestre de l'Opra de Lyon, Renee Flemming, Faudel, Beck, Utada, MIA, Radiohead (and sound-alikes), plus some other cool folks who are in my friends space.
Movies
Napolean Dynamite, Star Trek 1-4 & 6-7, Tank Girl, Lost in Translation, Moulin Rouge, Mondo Elvis, Dead Man, Memento, Titan AE, The Straight Story, Lost Highway, O Brother Where Art Thou, Sneakers, Princess Mononoke, Tron, Dark City, Dances W/ Wolves, Gattaca, Nightmare Before Christmas, Rat Race, Waking Life, Holy Grail, Morvern Callar, Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow, I Heart Huckabees, Bringing Down the House, Donnie Darko, Pirates of the Carribean, The 12 Kingdoms, A Scanner Darkly, Latter Days, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Team America, The Departed, Remains of the Day, The Illusionist, Bubba Ho-Tep, The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Bill & Ted's, Buffy, The New World, Dr. Strangelove, The Pillow Book, Metropolis, Noises Off, The Fountain, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, A Scanner Darkly, Sunshine.
Television
Rome, Quantum Leap, Star Trek (DS9=best), Dr. Who, Torchwood, Babylon 5, NOW, Carnivale, Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, Sportsnight, South Park, Daily Show/Colbert Report, Wild Palms, Perfect Strangers, The Vicar of Dibley, Red Dwarf, Cowboy Bebop, Invader Zim, Danger Mouse, Buffy, Angel, Robot Chicken, Greg the Bunny (The Original), Stargate (& Atlantis), South Park, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Queer as Folk, Dr. Who, Torchwood, Heroes, Mindfreak, Monty Python, The A-Team, Airwolfe.
Books
The Three Ecologies, Greg Egan's Diaspora, The Vintner's Luck, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, Hamlet, Death in Venice, Matrix of Mystery, Lankavatara Sutra, Quran, Gospel of Thomas, Vimilakirti Sutra, Hegel: The Restlessness of the Negative, Laws of Form, Breathturn, A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm A Tiny Book, Ecstatic Naturalism, Architectonics of Semiosis, Steps to an Ecology of Mind, The Crystal Text, Tender Buttons, The Open: Man and Animal, Hacker Manifesto, Never Let Me Go, Snowcrash, Finnegans Wake.
Any text which demonstrates what it is: ontological choreography.
University Of California-Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Graduated: N/A
Degree: Ph.D.
Major: Information Studies
Minor: Complex Semioethics, Knowledge Management & Organizational Change
Naropa University
Boulder, CO
Graduated: 2005
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Semiotic Ecology
2001 to 2005
Pomona College
Claremont, CA
Graduated: 2000
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Religious Studies
1995 to 2000
Worcester Academy
Worcester, MA
Graduated: 1995
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
1989 to 1995
Jason Moving through a scattered day. Should settle down in a couple of hours. About to have a series of awesome, important conversations. Posted at 7:52 PM Sep 23 view more
"The politics of information, the history of knowledge, advance not through a critical negation of false representations but a positive hacking of the virtuality of expression."
- McKenzie Wark
I'm a nice guy. Really. Or so I've been told. Although the people who say that are often absolutely insane, so that's what hearsay gets you.
I'm kinda' solitary. People think of me as social, but that's because of the moments when I've become so anti-social that I can't even stand being with myself, and so I have to run away into the solitude of group time.
"Love is the danger of the loneliest; love of everything if only it is alive. Laughable, verily, are my folly and my modesty in love."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps I am a complex (of) transformation(s)? No metaphor(?/.)
"The ghostly voices, speaking as if in a chora, a chorale, one voice after the other, blend into what might be called a tone, but not one of harmony, not quite one: a tone indicating a next step in a danse macabre, the sound of static that moves in place and in turmoil, suspended, that acts something like a handshake-"
Stephen salutes everyone who made John McCain exciting.
Who I'd like to meet:
I've met him.
But, never satisfied, I would also like to meet: Mohammed. Gautama. Jesus. Moses. Hosea.
Nathaniel. Swedenborg. Einstein. Lenin. Lennon.
Madonna. Guattari. Shatner. Derrida. Celan. Clinton.
Agamben. Kucinich. Gravel. Gore (Al and/or Martin). Nader. Propp. Popper. Marie-Louise von Franz. Vaclav Havel. Arafat. Kant (I've got a few questions). Heidegger (I've got a few more questions). Bowie. The Metatron.
So.... Where are you? I ended up not going to IAMX cuz I never heard back from you. I heard it was amazing... suppose I should have gone without you >=P What are you up to?
