Sa isang tabing-daan ito sa Cebu: isa sa mga extreme na anyo ng kasalukuyang pag-iral ng tao, Siglo 21. Malamang hindi mo makikita ang ganitong anyo kahit noong panahong Paleolitiko, kaya pwedeng ituring ang penomenong ito biglang radikal na ironya ng panahong moderno, A. D. Two Thousand and Nine.
Read the rest of this entry »Nabigkas ni Dr. Lazslo Jamf, propesor ng kemistri sa mundo ng Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), ang isang sentral na kredo ng babansagan pagtagal na posthumanism. Sa lektura ni Jamf: You have two choices, stay behind with carbon and hydrogen, or move beyond. Silicon, boron, phosphorus—these can replace carbon, and can bond to nitrogen instead of hydrogen. [...]
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Despairing of the reality of things and totally certain of their nullity, they, without any further ado, simply help themselves to them and devour them. [Hegel]
We have come to see tomorrow
We have given up today
Down among the dancing quanta
Up above in Transverse City
Here's the witness and the victim
Here's the relatives' remains
Here's the well-known double helix
Here's the poisoned waves of grain
Here's the song of shear and torsion
Here's the bloodbath magazine
Here's the harvest of contusions
Here's the narcoleptic dream
[Warren Zevon]
