Superincision
July 5th, 2006 | researchmaterial
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Coilhouse - 08 Feb 10
Back around the time of Issue 03, we launched the Small Business Advertising Program to create affordable ad space for indie companies in the print version of Coilhouse. By the time Issue 04 rolled around, the number of advertisers had grown significantly – by this time, we had record labels, jewelry and clothing designers, sculptors, other magazines, web hosts, toy makers and graphic designers advertising in our pages. Click here to see them all. With editorial duties taking up more and more of our time as the weeks go by, the moment has come for us to seek help with the advertising side of running the magazine. We’re looking to hire an Ad Manager for our Small Business Advertising Program, starting with Coilhouse Magazine #05… and possibly subsequent issues.
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State of South Carolina Secretary of State Subversive Agent Form
jwz - 08 Feb 10
Check the appropriate box. Do you or your organization directly or indirectly advocate, advise, teach or practice the duty or necessity of controlling, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States, the state of South Carolina or any political division thereof?
[ ] YES [ ] NOIf yes, please outline the fundamental beliefs. If applicable, attach a copy of the bylaws or minutes of meetings from the last year.
"Inflection Points" Presentation
Open The Future - 08 Feb 10
For those folks who are interested, here's the Slideshare version of the presentation I gave last week at the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute annual meeting. I was asked to talk about foresight thinking, as the event theme was "The Big One of 2056: What Went Right?" a look at a fictional 7.8 quake in the SF region that was handled as well as they could imagine possible.
My goal was to offer a bit of reassurance to the audience that there is some real utility to thinking about the future, and to spell out (in a cursory way) the kinds of big picture issues they should keep in mind while looking ahead forty-six years.
Inflection Points
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By and large, it was a successful talk. The post-talk questions were engaged, with little push-back, and I'm told that the overall response from the audience was quite positive.
The talk was video recorded, and I'm told will eventually be available to the public. I'll link when that happens.
CAN GIFTING ECONOMIES SCALE?
John Robb - 08 Feb 10
A gifting economy is different from a barter or market economy in that valuable items are given away to those that need them, without any quid pro quo, exchange, or payment. Gifting economics (lots of great papers on this topic) were/are the economic heartbeat of hunter-gatherer tribal cultures, the social organization where we spent 99% of our time as homo sapiens sapiens. Barter was, in contrast, a mechanism for economic interactions between tribes.
This gifting economic system wasn't based on pure altruism. It did have an enforcement mechanism to ensure compliance with the system over the longer term. On the positive side, there was an intangible increase in the social status (using personal or societal metrics) of a tribal member that gifted an item. On the negative, a failure to offer hospitality or gifts to those in need was considered a mortal slight that could incite violence or expulsion from the tribe.
There were also a considerable number of drivers for gifting at the tribal level. Here are some:
- The survival of the tribe, as a group, was more important than the survival of any individual. However, the loss of any individual could put the tribe at risk.
- The generation of surplus and innovation was highly uncertain. Sharing reduced that uncertainty to manageable levels.
- Sharing reduced internal friction that could put the tribe at risk.
Scalability
It's pretty clear that the societal drivers of tribal gifting economics and the mechanisms of enforcement didn't survive the transition to a global social system composed of billions of members. Simply, the connections between any two individuals (outside of immediate familial relationships) are too abstract for these drivers and enforcement mechanisms to be relevant. As a result, market based mechanisms for economic interaction have gained dominance.
However, the ongoing shift of the global market-based economy from a trade in rival goods (tangible items that invoke zero sum economics) to digital non-rival goods (items that can be copied at no expense or diminishment, endlessly) provides a window of opportunity. It may be possible to revive gifting economics for non-rival goods to amazing beneficial effect. Some ideas on how this could scale:
- Automated reputation metrics that enhance social status based on contributions.
- Mechanisms built using MMO gaming as a way to tie successful gifting to status improvement (leveling) or an ability to attract investment.
- The creation of an inside/outside barrier that separates a gifting economy from the global economic mainstream. Automated mutual interdependence (see my friend Bruce Sterling's absolutely brilliant story on this: "Maneki Neko").
Latest on SNOW
Jean Snow - 08 Feb 10
So what’s the latest on SNOW? I guess two new developments art that I added a dedicated Twitter feed, and also created a Facebook fan page. The Twitter feed is mostly just automated with new articles from the site — because some people actually prefer that over RSS feeds these days — but I do keep an eye on it, and will reply to questions and comments. The Facebook page is just another way of putting the site out there, and should be a good way of informing members of SNOW-related events as they happen.
Regular content updates have also continued over the past week, with a few new guest columns and my regular news items. Here’s a list of what you may have missed over the past few days.
- One Coin Comics
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- Hair Club for Men: Style #326
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I hate you. I hate the internet. I hate the whole bloody thing. Damn you Ellis, damn you to hell.
I bet he’s as happy as a dog with 2 dicks.
Mek is next.
Dang, how am I supposed to enjoy my grilled split Bratwurst this 4th of July after looking at that?
I guess with extra mustard and onions.
…ponders…
I pray to the Great Old Ones that I don’t live long enough to see DNA-hackers’ creations out of their garage labs. While real-life, blood & guts re-enactments of hentai and Metal Hurlant fantasies wil be quite thrilling to see, I doubt to have the mind fortitude to take it.
Why, oh why, was that not filed under “don’t look”?
You see I always look under these comments just to see if it is a picture worth avoiding. This, definitely sounds like a picture worth avoiding.
I looks like Micky Mouse.
Yeah, actually, it’s somewhat cute-looking.
And I bet the girls love it…
Just when I think I’ve got issues, I got to Warren’s site to follow links that allow me to rediscover how I am virtually free of defects.
It’s therapy by internet.
Wow – they get all sorts at Heroes Con, eh?
yeah I’ve had me cock cut in half and the birds love it,
Anything with “BME” in it automatically goes in the “don’t look” pile. Luckily, the mental image I draw from the comments is nowhere near as bad as the real thing. Still, you are a bastard, Mr. Ellis.
How interesting.
It’s really not that bad, if you haven’t looked. Strange. Wonder how that feels.
no, no i said i wanted my pork chops butterflied and my penis intact. sonofabitch.
i heard about this a few years ago, apparently some tattoo/peircing place in the city will split your wood for you. doesnt make it right.
Well, I haven’t looked, but I think I get the idea!
Reminds me of the comments before about anything on the internet being mainstream due to availability. Weird thing is I first heard of this stuff years ago reading Nicholas Royle’s “Counterparts”, which has parasomniac bifurcation in it, so does that count as mainstream?
“a superincision is a rare choice in penis slicing.”
I like that. As if penis-slicing weren’t a rare enough choice.
“Yeah, so I chose the superincision, cause I didn’t wanna be like everyone else…”
White devil speak with forked penis.
Damn men, always thinking with the wrong heads.
This is what all people who play double-necked guitars look like.
“Does yours hang to the left or to the right?” “Yes.”
An even worse mental image for you: I bet a wiener would fit perfectly there.
He’s not hardcore until he pierces the two heads together, anyway.
There, I’m done.
Well, another fine mess… of course this has nothing to do with bodymods or people’s personal choices… but only reason someone would do that to their genitalia would be because they really are so bored and indifferent as to how it works or what purpose it serves that they just decide to mutilate themselves and cause irreperable damage to it. So they don’t have to worry about using it any other way…
It’s obvious this man has lerned to live his sexuality in a radically different way, probably a way that doesn’t involve a fanny or an arsehole, or even use of his genitals.
So my question is: when does this kind of thing stop being a healthy way to sublimate a fetish or a need to feel and experience certain feelings in reversable extreme conditions, and when does it develop into a serious, unhealthy pathological behaviour?
I think we have a winner.
Not to mention that Shannon Larratt is displaying the most extreme presumptious and ignorant behaviour when saying that 30 000 years ago men have discovered they could increase stimulation in their genitals by exposing nerve endings… somehow I think it’s a bit far-fetched to imagine a Nehandertal man performing extreme bodymods to his genitals with a few stone axes…
… unless what’s being referring to is something as simple as pulling back the foreskin, though I doubt it. And I’ll bet that goes way back the 30 000 years.
And her reply to one of the comments stating that ‘people do this because they’re eccentric and sexually advanced, and can handle sex feeling better. you are not, and you can not. get over it and grow up’
…has me puzzled as to what it means exactly. ‘Can handle sex feeling better’? How can that bodymod make anyone feel physically better? And how does it even remotely enable sex, once the sponge-like irrigated cavernous bodies of the penis have been sliced, preventing any possibility of a future erection?
I can only understand this reply as stating that the people who do that bodymod, do it to feel better about themselves. Which brings us back to my earlier question about pathological, self-mutilating and destructive behaviours.
Don’t think less of me for this pair of comments, I’m not against bodymods at all, I just don’t see how this kind of radical and extreme study-cases can be admired or acceptable as ‘alternative’ but admissible behaviour (like sawing of nipples, gouging of testicles, removal of the labia majora, etc)
as a friend put it to me the other day, “wouldn’t you love for me to put my fingers through your half inch labia tunnels, and then fuck you with my split cock?”
frankly, yeah, i’d love it. of course it’s not for everybody. but yes, it is for some.
I miss the days when Star Trek aliens had nothing but funny foreheads and weird ears. Damn these paranoid times we live on! They have to make their distinguishing features unconspicuous so they can push more “alien infiltration” stories on us!
Some actors do get well paid for make-up hazards, though, I’m told.
Jose, we wouldn’t think less of you if you didn’t trot this shit out every single time I post a ModBlog link lately.
Shut the fuck up.