next nature visual power show - november2011

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In the slipstream of the release of the first comprehensive Next Nature publication (www.nextnature.net), the 2011 Visual Power Show took place in the Stadsschouwburg (Municipal Theatre) in Amsterdam. My five-minute presentation focused on the advent of Techno-Animism: Once upon a time animism ruled people’s beliefs: both organisms and objects were imbued with a conscience. The conception that there is no distinct division between objects and organisms gains ground again, as today’s technology increasingly creates organisms that used to be called objects. As a consequence the disctincion between myth and science will gradually disappear.

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T h e h a l l u c i n a t o r y e f f e c t d e r i v e sf r o m t h e e x t r a o r d i n a r y c l a r i t ya n d n o t f r o m m y s t e r y o r m i s t .

N o t h i n g i s m o r e f a n t a s t i c u l t i m a t e l y t h a n p r e c i s i o n .

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