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.
So, if first-person confessional style podcasts are your jam, subscribe to mine wherever you get your podcasts. I’m on all of the major platforms.
Q: what is it about me that i can’t keep my virtual hands off of creativity, love, mysticism, and misfit ontology?
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...
Intentional silence is not simply the absence of sound or action but an active state of presence. It’s a way of reclaiming time, thought, and identity. It’s a pause pregnant with potential—a breath held in anticipation of transformation. What would happen if you invited silence into your creative practice, not...
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....
Tim reminds us of how important HTML is to the web. If you don’t have a subscription to Wired, you can listen to the audio of the article from this link. HTML is the quiet architect of the web, an invisible backbone shaping the way we experience the digital world....
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...
A cyberflâneur, by definition, strolls through the Internet. Little purpose guides his journey, and hours slip by as the individual explores the many different crevices of the ever-growing web, from Wikipedia to Tumblr, from popular news sites to Twitter, from obscure journals to social media. He crawls through them all...
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...
this post is a mix of humour, philosophy, and speculation (my cup of tea). Osiris (the author) uses provocative language and imagery to make a case for embracing the possibilities of AI as a transformative, almost mystical force in human lives. something i’ve been banging on about for a while...
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.
The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system...
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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Blogs are, from the reader perspective, a window into the personality of the blogger. The window can have varying levels of opacity and the light coming through can be polarised. The best blogs are a window of transparency free of polarisation in that way the mind-light, transmits across the entire...
