{"id":81,"date":"2003-05-27T12:59:10","date_gmt":"2003-05-27T17:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2005-02-04T12:15:47","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T10:15:47","slug":"politics-of-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/27\/politics-of-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"politics of imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check out this
\nfantastic essay<\/a> about the politics of imagination, Mark Shuttleworth and the
\nAfrican diaspora.
\nserial faces<\/em> page, new statements (both written) and a re-organized gallery<\/a>
\nshould be up by week’s end. For real :)
\nIt was Memorial Day in my home country yesterday, so I had a beer in the early
\nafternoon to celebrate. Ah, the benefits of being a freelance lecturer\/artist\/designer.
\nMore Matrix:
\nIf Agent Smith can download his "essence" into a human mind and then
\nexist in the real world, can humans go the other way around? In Matrix 1, Morpheus
\nsays, "The body cannot exist without the mind." What about the opposite?
\nCan the mind exist without the body? (Editor’s note: for an interesting discourse
\non this question, see Lakoff’s Philosophy in the Flesh<\/em> and other published
\nworks. I ask it now merely in relation to the Matrix.)
\nCan not a human, before their body expires, download their mind as software and
\nexist as the Oracle does, just a posthuman processor, in The Matrix? At some
\npoint, the Merovingian’s ill-treated partner mutters, "He used to be like
\nyou," to Neo. Could the Architect have lied about all<\/i> former One’s making
\nthe choice they were supposed to? Could the Merovingian have been One of the
\n"more respectful predecessors," perhaps choosing to remain a powerful
\nentity inside The Matrix instead of restarting Zion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check out this fantastic essay about the politics of imagination, Mark Shuttleworth and the African diaspora. serial faces page, new statements (both written) and a re-organized gallery should be up by week’s end. For real :) It was Memorial Day in my home country yesterday, so I had a beer in the early afternoon to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,11,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me","category-poetry","category-pop-culture","category-south-african-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-1j","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":86,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/17\/vote-against-the-us-in-the-us\/","url_meta":{"origin":81,"position":0},"title":"vote against the US in the US","author":"nathaniel","date":"17 May 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Exciting (and scary) times for politics right now. 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