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This morning I was asked about my creative online projects and what I have to say on Transhumanism. And I was asked to suggest a selection of my links that are perhaps the best introduction to my H+ criteria.

Reflecting upon my overall work to date I highlighted some of the recurring concepts that are of prime importance to me:

- A culture's power structure depends largely on how we look and how we are looked at.
- Transhuman Theonarcissism.
- Ontological Anarchy.
- Cognitive Liberty.
- Transhuman Automorphism - Living as Art.

(I later thought I should also have included, Equiveillance - Deep Transparency)

and I offered the following selection of links:

http://www.transhumanism.org/gallery/rh.htm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/75587844/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2001/jan/05/guardianletters1

http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/53700518/

http://russellhiggs.shutterchance.com/archive.php

 In addition I also wrote in my reply:

My creative work and life experience to date is also strongly flavoured by Financial Poverty (relative to western living), which I believe is a topic of considerable importance in the context of mainstream H+ fantasies and idealisation. In particular with regard to Self Direction and Self Ownership. My financial poverty is primarily a consequence of personal priorities and choices that I have made and those that I continue to make. My emphasis being that Self Direction and Self Ownership are not always going to take us down the most sensible routes. And it's important to underline that that's OK. Which also leads me to one more thing that comes to mind: the importance of imperfection.

And finally I was asked "Is life treating you well? Are you treating it well?" To which I replied:

Generally existence and the world intrigues me, I like being alive very much, and most of the time I am something like contented, and frequently happy even.

Published Thursday, September 11, 2008 6:37 PM by russell higgs

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I currently have the appearance of an adult male human.
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