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Aaron Delwiche Reality Hackers The Next Wave of Media Revolutionaries Aaron Delwiche (Editor), Evan Barnett, Andrew Coe, Patrick Crim, Kendra Doshier, Christopher Dudley, Ender Ergun, Ashley Funkhouser, Cole Gray, Sarah Hellman, John Key, Christopher Kradle, Patrick Lynch, Shepherd McAllister, Mark McCullough, Justin Michaelson, Alyson Miller, Robin Murdoch, Aaron Passer, Maricela Rios, Laura Schluckebier, Raelle Smiley, and Andrew Truelove. Additional help and inspiration from: Richard Bartle, Annalee Newitz, Ekaterina Sedia, Steven Shaviro, and R. U. Sirius. Creative Commons Licensed, 2010. This work is shared with the global community under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license. You are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit) and remix the work for non-commercial purposes as long as you attribute the authors of this collection and of any work contained within. If you alter, transform or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. Please note that certain images in this volume are reproduced under the terms of more restrictive Creative Commons licenses (e.g. no remixing allowed). In all cases, the more restrictive license should apply. Deep gratitude to Delia Rios (Department of Communication) and Dr. Diane Smith (Office of Academic Affairs) for helping to make the Lennox seminar a reality. It could not have happened without their help. Special thanks also to JH and MH. 無論是在現實,在遊戲中的想像,你們兩個是最重要的事情在我的生活 Published by : Trinity University Department of Communication One Trinity Place San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 http://transmedia.trinity.edu/ ISBN 978-0-615-37671-4 (cloth: alk. paper) INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS “The Martha, David, and Bagby Lennox Foundation” ...................................................................8 AARON DELWICHE “The Lennox Seminar on Reality Hackers” ....................................................................................9 WIKIPEDIA “The hacker ethic”...............................................................................................................................14 DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER “Farewell address to the people of the United States” ..............................................................20 PART 1. CONNECTED southland tales COLE GRAY “Here We Go Round the Prickly Tree”...........................................................................................26 ANDREW COE “The Revelation of Pilot Abilene” ....................................................................................................28 CHRIS DUDLEY “Thumbs for votes? Easier than kissing babies.” ...........................................................................30 JOHN KEY “Digits for Democracy”......................................................................................................................31 KENDRA DOSHIER “USIdent in Southland Tales: TIA on Steroids.” ...............................................................................32 STEVEN SHAVIRO “I got soul but I’m not a soldier: Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales” ..............................................34 shaviro LAURA SCHLUCKEBIER “Froglets and robots on Jupiter” ......................................................................................................40 JOHN KEY “My computer is my master.” ............................................................................................................42 AARON PASSER “What is mind? No matter.” ..............................................................................................................43 MARK MCCULLOUGH “The rise of data and surveillance. Watch it now.” .......................................................................44 COLE GRAY “To roll it toward some overwhelming question.” .......................................................................45 JUSTIN MICHAELSON “In short, if you’re connected, you’re f—-d.” .................................................................................46 panopticon RAELLE SMILEY “Webcam watching” ............................................................................................................................48 ALY MILLER “Something even creepier than Facebook” ...................................................................................49 CHRIS KRADLE “Times Square on Monday afternoon” ...........................................................................................50 JUSTIN MICHAELSON “Do something crazy” ........................................................................................................................51 ANDREW TRUELOVE “¡Las Cámaras Fantasticas!” ..............................................................................................................52 KENDRA DOSHIER “Can’t take my eyes off you.” ...............................................................................................53 projects SHEP MCALLISTER “Sousveillance” ......................................................................................................................56 KENDRA DOSHIER “Deactivate: The wait” ...........................................................................................................60 CHRIS KRADLE “Life or living?” .......................................................................................................................66 PART 2. TRANSHUMAN context WIKIPEDIA “Transhumanism” ..................................................................................................................74 ANNALEE NEWITZ “What is the Singularity and will you live to see it?” ........................................................80 R. U. SIRIUS “The best-case scenario for posthumanity.” .....................................................................84 reflections CHRIS DUDLEY “To be or not to be... Superman?” .......................................................................................88 MARICELA RIOS “Thoughts on transcending the human race”....................................................................89 COLE GRAY “To be more than human is to be human.” ........................................................................90 ENDER ERGUN “To be or not to be... Superman?” .......................................................................................92 PATRICK CRIM “Solving the world’s problems? Or creating more conflict?”...........................................93 ROBIN MURDOCH “Aaaaaand it’s off to space we go to spawn and prosper.” .............................................94 ASHLEY FUNKHOUSER “A dangerous trap?” ..............................................................................................................95 JOHN KEY “Let’s just take this one step at a time” .............................................................................96 PATRICK LYNCH “The transhumanist goal of ending suffering” ..................................................................98 LAURA SCHLUCKEBIER “So freaking cool and/or scary.” ....................................................................................... 100 EKATERINA SEDIA “Mind of a pig” ..................................................................................................................... 102 where is my mind? SHEP MCALLISTER “Hey, have you seen my mind?” ........................................................................................ 110 ASHLEY FUNKHOUSER “Physical and spiritual selves” ........................................................................................... 111 KENDRA DOSHIER “Where Yo Mind Iz?!” ........................................................................................................... 112 PATRICK CRIM “Is your mind in the gutter?” .............................................................................................. 113 ROBIN MURDOCH “Brain in a vat” ..................................................................................................................... 114 RAELLE SMILEY “Where is my mind? Anywhere you want!” ...................................................................... 116 ALY MILLER “Where is my mind? Well, it’s right here... I think.” ........................................................ 117 CHRIS KRADLE “Where, oh where, has my brain gone?” .......................................................................... 118 SARAH HELLMAN “Just an organ with signals.” .............................................................................................. 119 ANDREW COE “I’ve lost my mind. Can you help me find it?” .................................................................. 120 AARON PASSER “The doors of perception” ................................................................................................... 121 projects ANDREW COE “Singularity survival” ........................................................................................................... 124 ANDREW TRUELOVE “Hacking humanity” ............................................................................................................ 127 COLE GRAY “Automata” ........................................................................................................................... 130 ASHLEY FUNKHOUSER “Unthinkable: The last will and testament of Aidan Warren Erickson” ....................... 142 RAELLE SMILEY “A better life” .......................................................................................................................
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