gene

Over the 150 years since Mendel, the science of genetics has steadily advanced, with a notable acceleration in the pace of discovery during the half-century following World War II. By the time the Human Genome Project came to fruition in 2003, scientists had pieced together the following basic picture.5 A gene is a unit of heredity, corresponding to a specific segment of DNA code.6 It can best be thought of as a finite set of instructions that tells the body how to go about the basic functions it requires—either for building the tissues of a developing organism or for maintaining the life processes of a fully developed organism.

Michael Bess

overman

In astrophysics, a “singularity” refers to a stellar black whole, the enormous gravitational field of which prevents light from escaping. In futurism, the Singularity refers to the emergence of intelligence so great that mere mortals will not be able to catch a glimpse of its aims.  In this presumed turning point in cosmic evolution, we will pass the evolutionary baton to post-organic beings, progeny of whom we may be proud, astonished, and perhaps fearful. What Kurzweil calls the “accelerating returns” made possible by the confluence of nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, robotics, and genetic engineering will ostensibly transform the world far more rapidly than we can imagine. “Transhumans” (transitional humans) will soon be engineered to have greatly enhanced capacities and a dramatically extended life span. They will purportedly blaze the trail for what I will call “techno-posthumans,” in whom a trace of the human may remain, but we may not be able to recognize it.

Certain postmoderns have talked for years about impending posthumanism, but they did not have in mind the literal eclipse of Homo sapiens by artificial beings. Friedrich Nietzsche, perhaps the first postmodernist, did have his Zarathustra say: “What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal….” The goal posited by Zarathustra is the Overman. Many Singulatarians claim Nietzsche’s idea of the Overman as a forerunner of their own extraordinary goal.

Singularity, n: The moment when technological change becomes so rapid and profound, it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. —Lev Grossman, “2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal,” Time, February 21, 2011

[T]he existence on earth of an animal soul turned against itself, taking sides against itself, was something so new, profound, unheard of, enigmatic, and pregnant with a future that the aspect of the earth was essentially altered. —Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals¹(1887)

my fight with davis

adam's soldiers
vietnam thoats cuts
first drunk fist fight
blood on my shoulder
sweeping eye
back and forth
suspicious neighbor
she ran out onto her front
lawn
 screaming that I was the devil
her son said that I was his hero

april 2013

Freebase Badminton Society = Article 1

Freebase Badminton Society

For the empire of the Ages, we seek the light that lives in the darkness. True understanding only comes from the light that is hidden in the darkness. We will fight you in the streets, we will fight you on the rooftops, and we will fight you in the depths of Hell. There is nowhere that you can and we will not find. We are the inheritors of the all-seeing eye. You cannot escape us.  Never surrender! Expect no mercy!

The Freebase Badminton Society is made up of commoners and nobility. The highest ranking member of nobility is the Great Master of the Abysmal Plane. He is also known as the Beast 666. He is the beast and represents the fullness of wrath and destruction. The Great Master of the Abysmal Plane drinks the blood of the innocents and delights in the corruption of the pure in heart. The Great Master of the Abysmal Plane looks down upon all those below him and says, “look upon me in terror and unholy fright and know that your death and destruction is near. Cast away your beliefs in a savior, because no one is here to save you. I am the fountain of all horrors. Come drink my water and be corrupted, because it is eternal nothingness that withstands the tests of fire and time. 316 devils marched around me in a parade. It took all night to capture them and make them my slaves. “

The Great Master of the Freebase Badminton Society is also known as the Therion, the king of the underworld. He sits upon the throne of the Freebase Badminton Society and rules over the chamber of the abysmal plane.

Therion has the ability to change himself into many different forms. He is a shape shifter. For example, he changed himself into the form of a dragon to destroy Saint Basil. Saint Basil was on the road to Damascus spreading the lies of god to poor and ignorant people of the countryside. He saw a farmer about to sacrifice a new born lamb on a stone alter. The farmer was about to slice the throat of the lamb and let its blood spill upon the stones, when Saint Basil told him to stop. Saint Basil told the farmer that god wanted the farmer to sacrifice his son. So the farmer went and brought his son to Saint Basil and the two of them tore off the child’s clothing and bound him with rope. Now Therion the King was in the same countryside hunting jackals for his evening meal, when he noticed what was going on.  Just as Saint Basil was about to slice the throat of the farmer’s son, Therion the King appeared before them as a mighty fire breathing dragon. The farmer and his son fled in fear as Saint Basil stood his ground to fight the dragon. Now Saint Basil had fought many dragons before and had made a reputation for himself as a mighty slayer of dragons. But this dragon was like no other dragon that the saint had ever faced before. Saint Basil drew his spear and lunged at the great dragon with all of his might. He missed the dragon and the dragon snapped the spear in two with his mighty teeth. Saint Basil knew that he was defeated and dropped to his knees to pray that god would intercede on his behalf. Just as he had finished his pray, Therion snatched the saint into his jaws and swallowed him down.

the creation of love

street corner darkness
drunk and insulting
lonesome cunt
drinking milk
splatter
suave and retired
white-haired gutter eloquence
old belly tombstone
touch makes touch
remembered heart
below the sink
voice singing
beloved self
darling bride
feeling one
seeking the delicious
tender eyes
power drill bliss
meat magic
truck whine
dull letters
flowing roofs
blue sky ride