media consciousness 3.0

by Christina Rosalie Sbarro

Media Consciousness 3.0

An exploration of media historyand human consciousness.

Combining free verse prose poetrywith highly visual graphics, this project

examines the potential of evolving human consciousness and emerging

media.

We begin with breath.

skin.

milk.

touch.

We begin with wonder.

smelling.

tasting.

feeling.

seeing.

hearing.

WE BEGIN.

1.

We discover

words.

And our tongues learn to shape them

syllable by syllable.

We learn the names for everything...

and in the names, the secrets:

One thing can be round and also red...

and another thing also round and red, but floating..

We touch words with our tongues

share them, one by one with fingers pointed

toes curled, arms extended

our entire bodies thrown into the act of creating

(a ball)

(a balloon)

language.

We learn sentences

and suddenly we find

ourselves among the words,

as separate

from the mountains or the air,

or the apricot colored cat curled like a parenthesis

I and I

and also me

on the windowsill in the afternoon sun.

I can tell you

who I am now. I am not you. I

am I. I am me. You are

you. We are

not each other. I know, be-cause

words tell me so.

4.

Soon we learn the secret of symbols

and our hands learn to make the world

until we are there on the page faces round as the moon, as a dinner plate, as a nickel

(that in a child’s drawing is always the grass)

below the thin blue line (that is always the sky)

and somewhere

|in this narrower space|

that now only holds

what we think we know

we learn our letters and forget our birth.

5.

5.

a e

ea

And with forgetting

begin the quest of always looking

for ways to not forget again

one thing after the next

held by time

and the container of space

matter

data

pixel

bit.

This is

the periphery of our collective inteligence as defined by the information available to us through our sensory perceptions and abstractio

ns. Th

is is the

outer limit of our knowing as defined by time and space

.

6.

Eventually we learn

to zero in

on particulars.

We learn to squint our eyes;

to specialize

our focus.

quantify

analyze

Compute contain collect

aggregate disseminate

quantify

analyze



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analyze



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This is

the periphery of our collective inteligence as defined by the information available to us through our sensory perceptions and abstra

ctions.

This

is the

outer limit of our knowing as defined by time and space

. 7.

And maybe some of us (many of us?)

of the collective of information and intelligence.

will make a very small markat the perimeter

.

8.

This is the periphery of our collective inteligence as defined by the information available to us through our sensory perce

ptions

and abstractions.

This is the outer limit of our knowing as defined

by time an

d spac

e.

of all we do not know...

we lose all sight

towards this narrowing point

...but aiming always

....of breath

...of death

....of secrets

...wonder

...chaos

....chance.

But what if we were to begin againinstead like this:

of anything not boundby time and space?

....knowing how little we know

the metaphors we know the best...

Maybe, as some say,

this is the beginning of

a pollutinga darkening

of one way of seeing and believing

all of us amateurs

accessing and sharing thought

in ways that undermine how things have always goneone thing

some kind of rarity to be bought or sold

authorship and ownership

after the nexteach object or idea

quantify

analyze

aggregate

quantify

analyze

quantify

quantify

analyze

This is the periphery of our collective inteligence as defined by the information available to us through our sensory perc

eption

s and abstractions

.

This is the outer limit of our knowing as defi

ned by time a

nd spa

ce.

12.

But maybe...

it is also a beginning

in the dark

and beyond it

at once.

(Rapid fire consciousness evolution.)

What if we could in this way see

the new media emerging now

beyond what is perceptible now?

as a harbingeror blueprintfor what is possible

of another way of being

This is the periphery of our collective inteligence as defined by the information available to us through our sensory p

ercept

ions a

nd abstractions. T

hi

s is the outer limit of our knowing as defined

by time an

d spac

e. 13.

thought

as we know it.

Maybe emerging media reveals this:

consciousness can exist beyond thought

as we know it.

BEGIN HERE.

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