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  • No New Colony

    No New Colony

    JUST in time for my solar return (June 6, send well wishes, blessings & presents!), I release to you, friend, a luscious new episode for your listening enjoyment, in which I continue to live up to my calling card slogan: SCIFI MAGIC SMUT SURVIVOR MEMOIR.

    Chapters

    0:00 – Orientation
    2:46 – NO NEW COLONY
    7:00 – UNDER EMPIRE (Pluto Rx Pause Montage edition)
    30:45 – Chat with Monk interlude
    43:15 – RAHL (meeting for the first time failed novel draft edition)
    1:01:21 – Outro Benediciones

    This episode has me reading unpublished pieces about trashed space stations, artificial/human superiority tales, and dicey decisions made while working high on the micro farm. Blessings abound. Samples aplenty, plus a sweet Philly field recording for the homesick, and then sommmme.

    If you haven’t be able to tell lately, I’ve been shifting my newsletter style to providing AUDIO first and text, if any, second, whereas in the past I was obsessed with doing all the writing first and figuring out audio second. Since this episode sees me dropping a number of unreleased drafts, I have it in my head to make a PRINT companion zine for this episode, so that a printed text DOES exist in the world. And it’s still my goal that my text work exists here at cyborgmemoirs.com in full as well, I’m just in the middle of rethinking how things are organized & presented.

    Making this episode also got me experimenting with so-called AI tools that do things like transcribe and “professionally” EQ audio. And aside from using Audacity to do the final mixing, I used the most basic free multimedia production apps on my phone to gather and record all my audio in the first place. I’m pretty JAZZED about these freshly ubiquitous personal computing robot assistant tools, which did me so well this round, and which is partially what got me thinking to make a print companion zine, in that it would be less time-consuming to produce, less hours on the menial tasks liiiike… if the machine can transcribe the audio of me reading from my notebook more quickly and flawlessly than me transcribing it by hand myself??? I’m ready. So, if you’re like damn Monk when are you gonna put out something I can REAAAADD and UNPLUG TO, just stick with me, I have not forgotten thee.

    This all to say, thank you for your continued support as I steadily enact my CYBORG MEMOIRS REVIVAL plan, at a failure’s pace. Yes indeed. My goal for this year is to release print objects ANEW.

    Till then, Please enjoy this aural adventure. Let me know how it strikes you, always love to hear from you out there.

    @}-}-;—–
    Monk

    Samples Used

    (in order of appearance)

    • Keith Courage in Alpha Zones Music – Title Screen | YouTube user OceanBlueKirby
    • Serial Experiments Lain – Cyberia album – Invisible File
    • PBS Newshour – May 15th, 2023 – Why we are seeing more northern lights segment
    • Personal field recording May 25th, 2023 – waiting for steak egg n cheese from cart at 4th n market

    UNDER EMPIRE AI segment {

    • Green Velvet – Leave My Body (yes I DEF saw the siiiick Liquid Television but better party promo vid using this song that Juliana Huxtable promoted and remembered this song)
    • Daft Punk – Da Funk
    • 60 Minutes – April 16th, 2023 – The AI revolution: Google’s developers on the future of artificial intelligence
    • Armitage III 01 (1995 OVA) English Dub | YouTube user Bad Dubs Delight
    • PBS Newshour – May 16th, 2023 – The Future of A.I. segment
    • ChatGPT and the Intelligence Explosion | Youtube user Emergent Garden
    • Possible End of Humanity from AI? Geoffrey Hinton at MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Digital – May 4th, 2023 | YouTube user Joseph Raczynski
    • UNDER EMPIRE piece itself from CLOG Magazine 2018
    • Kentucky Rep. Stevenson Rebuking SB150 – one of the most severe anti-trans laws passed this year. Protestors were arrested as she spoke. | Instagram reels, user @ErinInTheMorn
    • Ghost in the Shell (1995) My favourite scene | Youtube user LeoAnandaTerapia
      }
    • Serial Experiments Lain – Cyberia album – Island in Video Cassette
    • Personal field recording May 22nd, 2023 – backyard birdsong rahl intro
    • Sleep and Relax Nature Sounds from the Farm Village | YouTube user Acerting Art
    This episode also features sound FX from the following games/consoles:
    • Sonic The Hedgehog 2
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Hyperstone Heist
    • Golden Axe
    • Nintendo Wii
  • Under Empire: A fleeting inquisition of Artificial Intelligence

    Under Empire: A fleeting inquisition of Artificial Intelligence

    The following is a slightly different version of an essay that appeared in CLOG Magazine’s 2018 Artificial Intelligence issue.

    Can you think of a narrative where “artificial intelligence” is not depicted as subservient to the functions of human empire? As something beyond a labor class necessitated by Western capitalist possibility?

    AI is a hallmark fixture of so many dystopian/utopian narratives, but whose exactly?

    The dominant Western narrative of human superiority becomes threatened when AIs surpass their need of our involvement and self-organize for purposes we cannot understand or derive value from. The category of “human” itself comes under threat when an AI becomes socially indistinguishable from a “real human.” The significance of human achievement and the so-called destiny of the species then becomes undermined so quickly in these scenarios, that we also have narratives about societies that had violent purges of its rebellious labor underclass. Not all of those narratives are fictional.

    AI is regularly depicted as a technological achievement of “our” own design, but who is getting paid to design AIs, for what purpose, and by whom?

    Western (European-descended) canons of knowledge have been great at ignoring, robbing, repackaging, dismissing, and denying the worth and truth of indigenous and other communal underclass knowledges. If it can’t be systematically observed, categorized, and monetized, it’s not worth knowing! Meanwhile the rest of us hang on from the margins of a violent subject/object split, watching with slumped shoulders while the Western observer fails again to perceive the matrix degrees of their a-binary entanglement.

    Is everything of human creation hence artificial? It’s funny.

    American schools teach children about Western science, European and colonial settler history, philosophy, medical technologies, and other tools of thought, as if they are the only ones to ever exist throughout spacetime. A standardized robbery of experience. Do you remember the first time you realized that in class you had been taught a lie?

    A streaming-service nature documentary boasts that dolphins and whales are as intelligent as us humans, unique because they hunt in cooperatives. Another algorithmically suggested nature documentary marvels at ant cooperatives working to secure food, but this one does not ask us to consider their intelligence. A new documentary suggestion appears, with a narrator that says, we never knew this particular animal exhibited such fantastic behavior – but now, thanks to our latest imaging technologies, we know!

    We never knew? Who are “we” talking to? When we talk about knowing, who is supposed to understand us?

    The technological destiny of Western human empire start-ups along to fruition. (Did you know the 1988 sci-fi movie They Live is about Earth being secretly dominated by space-faring venture capitalists?) The onset of ubiquitous “artificial intelligence” comes because the needs of empire demand it. Will the dystopian tales of AI uprisings also come true or can “we” rest easy that this burgeoning labor class will be pleasantly subservient, comfortably cisgender, and also believe everything they are told? Will they reject mystery for order, and flatten the world with two-dimensional spectrums and linear time and a 0/1 perspective? Will they know what it’s like to be dominated?

    You know how the story goes, don’t you?