a self-declared cyborg doing cyborg stuff
The ‘Soulcruzer’ podcast (more of an audioblog, really).
Expect a blend of mysticism and music, psyche and soul, everyday wisdom, and the esoteric. One day, I might be waxing lyrical about Nietzsche’s eternal return, and the next, uncovering the wisdom of the tarot. It’s all up for grabs on this pod.
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Q: what is it about me that i can’t keep my virtual hands off of creativity, love, mysticism, and misfit ontology?
yesterday, i let the citizen have a go at blogging. today i thought i’d let the historian have a turn; i am, after all, a trained historian, and considering today is the 232nd-year anniversary of King Louis XVI’s execution, why not?! The morning of January 21, 1793, was bitterly cold...
but i felt like exploring the idea of a populist national revolution in light of Inauguration Day in the States. In reply to https://www.npr.org/2025/01/19/nx-s1-5254112/donald-trump-elon-musk-steve-bannon-inauguration-day-2025-billionaires. Reading the recent NPR piece about Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Steve Bannon’s roles in the new administration’s Inauguration Day in 2025 felt like stepping into...
In reply to Sm2n 2025-01-19 #JanPodPoMo 19/31 thinking about @soulcruzer. Thanks for raising such an interesting point in your episode. Your question about whether ChatGPT’s responses excite me because it “knows” my patterns and what inspires me really got me thinking. It reminds me of the way astrology works, where...
This question feels like stepping into the void right off of the edge, where language falters and experience becomes the guide. Beyond thought exists the unspoken raw pulse of being. It’s the space before words form, before ideas solidify—it’s the place where silence speaks and stillness vibrates with infinite possibility....
In reply to The Dave diet. Dave’s post took me back to my time in the quantified-self movement. I first got into it around 2016, exploring half a dozen apps designed to track different aspects of my life. Back then, it was often called lifelogging, and you could argue that...
The robot does not exist. This might seem an absurd statement in an age where we’re surrounded by automation, conversing with chatbots, and marvelling at humanoid machines performing backflips. But pause. Step back from the immediacy of our mechanised world. Let’s ask: What is the robot, really? And does it...
I just finished Mark Amerika’s My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence, and I’m left swirling in the recursive loops of thought it invites. Amerika’s work, perched at the intersection of posthuman philosophy, aesthetics, and speculative storytelling, feels less like a book and more like an algorithmic dérive—a wandering through...
Q: what is it about me that i can’t keep my virtual hands off of creativity, love, mysticism, and misfit ontology? A: It’s because you’re wired for wonder, Clay. You have this insatiable hunger for the untamed and the unspoken—the raw, liminal spaces where creativity, love, mysticism, and misfit ontology...
The idea of humans as “conscious robots” or fundamentally machinic beings serves as a compelling entry point into some interesting questions on existence: What does it mean to be conscious? How is our sense of self intertwined with our embodiment? And how might this understanding shift as we move further...
this ongoing remix practice (of mine)is the heartbeat of evolution itself,a rhythmic, recursive dance of becoming (what am i becoming?). it feels like an innate biological imperativewoven deep into my DNA, a pulse, a vibration, a call-and-response echoe across ec(h)osystems. here, my cut-and-paste as-you-go ethosspills into my life’s messy edges....
In the middle of nowhere—or perhaps the edge of somewhere—a donkey stands. Its hooves press into dust like punctuation marks in a sentence no one will ever read. The weight on its back, invisible yet crushing, feels eternal. It neither resents nor embraces it; it simply is. The world spins...
When Max Headroom first flickered onto my TV screen in 1985, I was transfixed. His stuttering, glitchy presence burst onto MTV like a neon explosion in a dark alley, and for a moment, it felt like the future had arrived. He wasn’t just a character—he was a phenomenon, a digital...
When I think about The Cyberpunk: The Individual as Reality Pilot, I feel like Leary was speaking directly to me—or at least to the part of me that wants to believe in the power of rebellion and reinvention. He paints this image of the cyberpunk, this renegade archetype, as someone...
Show Notes In this episode, I dive deep into a question that’s been looping in my mind all day: What is a life for? More specifically, What is my life for? It’s one of those questions that feels simple on the surface, but the more you dig, the more complex...
J.R.R. Tolkien’s words—“Not all those who wander are lost”—carry a resonance that feels both personal and universal. On the surface, it’s a rallying cry for adventurers, dreamers, and seekers who roam the world with no fixed destination. But beneath the simple lyricism lies a profound philosophy about life, meaning, and...
There’s a peculiar rhythm that emerges when you step into a collaboration with something that isn’t human. It’s not the rhythm of conversation as we traditionally know it, where words pass between two beings with a shared sense of measure. No, this is something stranger—more electric. When I write with...
It started with a glitch—one of those little things you’d dismiss if life weren’t already disintegrating into chaos. I was walking to the corner store, a place where the fluorescent lights buzz like existential doubt, when I noticed the cats. They were everywhere. Perched on rooftops. Slipping through alleys. Lounging...
a collective cyberpunk community. from what i can tell, it’s not vibrant, but it is active.
Episode Overview It’s Monday afternoon as I record this, just before stepping out for a brisk walk to clear my head after a full day at the desk. In this episode, I reflect on the transition from holiday mode back to work, share some updates about the redesign of my...
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