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Alien Aesthetics
Michael Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author who is best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology. This work helped to define the cyberpunk genre.
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1: Artist safeguards one's own artisticness at all costs. 2: Artist propagates their art (non-conflicting (1) 3: Artist safeguards value in the Universe–non-conflicting (1) and (2).
One of the has a similar appearance with us. We already got the message. We just don't like it the way was delivered. A representative from the interplanetary federation came to earth, lived here, explained everything how things work out there and told about the future of our planet. People just don't want to receive it. The Bible talks about “clouds” going up and down with people going in and out. Clouds do not make those movements described in the Bible but spaceships do. Jesus ascended in a “cloud” (Acts 1:9). God rides in a “cloud” (Isaiah 19:1, Psalm 104:3). Jesus will come back “with” the “clouds” (Mat 26:64, Rev 1:7). Jesus will come back commanding a fleet of starships. The church will be raptured “in” the “clouds” (I Thess. @). Spaceships will be used to rapture the church. The ancient did not have vocabulary or knowledge to understand what they saw so they called the flying objects “clouds”, “chariots”, and “pillars”, because was the words they had to describe something flying in the sky. The Bible even tells in Psalm 68:17 how many spaceships are in the fleet “The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands” (about 20,000). There is a good research done by Patrick Cooke called “The Great Deception – The Bible UFO Connection” which has the original words describing spaceships. It is all over the Bible. Jesus is real. He is the savior of the world but He is not seating in a puffy cloud. He is commanding a powerful army, which will take control of our planet. Jesus has legal rights over our planet.
Man sounds like he's got a million of different thoughts and ideas running through his brain at every moment. Love his work)
You could experience 20 minutes like this, 20 times a day, with an identical looking guy, in any "Con Suite" at any science fiction convention anywhere.
I guess his point is that we are still pretty much struggling with the concept of beauty. He certainly is. I mean… look at his shirt… 🙂
his misoginy is just unacceptable
Maybe if somebody chose to show the presentation instead of the person talking, it would have been better.
The whole struggle of the critic is finding objective, identifiable qualities to the essence of beauty. And placing that outline over whatever it is they're critiquing… I say that objective facet of beauty is always changing from place to place and time to time…so who's to say what is beautiful?
This guy gets paid to babble. Wtf…..
He calls the HP Lovecraft inspired art hideous. I find it eerily beautiful. Beauty is entirely subjective. This guy spends a long time saying nothing. He really does not share anything here. It amounted to pointless rambling.
Beauty is subjective. He talks about it like it's a quantifiable thing. It is not. He speaks from arrogance it seems.
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I think this is one of the best Ted talks I've heard. Very intelligent and clear.
A real feast of visionary neurons!!!