#superhumanity

#Outofcontext ○

"Yes, All are equal. Yet the Self willed always prove that that isn't always the case." #TheBloodyTopOfTheFoodsChain #TheBorgerKing #SuperHumanity https://www.instagram.com/p/B29bPYknqpe/?igshid=5u374rrsul32

"When you find out you are the Monster in a Fairy Tale." #ONI #Ogre #Giants #jotenheim #SuperHumanity #Pho #katiew https://www.instagram.com/p/BtJXCEIlOOC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=gznc1ou5vl3a

"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash."-Li Sui Long #unbreakable #split #glass #water #SuperHumanity https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs95kNWH8u8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1mo304tn6qui5

"we are the dark in which your terrors Dwell." #SuperHumanity

.... Life is not what it used to be. Living things bearing genomes pared down, streamlined, or cobbled together from bits of synthesized DNA now scurry, swim, and flourish in test tubes and glass bioreactors: viruses named for computer software, bacteria encoding passages of James Joyce, chimeric yeast buckling under the metabolic strain of genes harvested from sweet wormwood, petunias, and microbes from Icelandic thermal pools. In the final years of the twentieth century, émigrés from mechanical and electrical engineering and computer science resolved that if the aim of biology was to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than would experimentation. Many of these researchers clustered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) beginning in 2003. Naming themselves synthetic biologists, they advocate not experiment but manufacture, not reduction but construction, not analysis but synthesis. As a cultural anthropologist, I spent eight years talking to and working with them. ... Read more. http://www.e-flux.com/architecture/superhumanity/68707/analysis-synthesis/

Such a good read albeit long read. Please do. It'll put things in perspective. As the song says, I get all the news I need from the weather report.

Buy Superhumanity on Kindle now