a carefully curated treasure trove
of miscellaneous conscious
evolutionary utopian artworks,
auditory & visual,
curated by Neonn Felicity
The following is a randomized highlight reel of the most prodigiously felicitous pieces of my information diet, the media that I believe every conscious person ought to digest and share. This site will be a constant work-in-progress, as I continue in my quest to discover and curate the most enlightening art and literature I can find in cyberspace.
So really, thanks for being here! Cosmic Evolution appreciates your intentional attention! And it is my sincerest hope that you benefit from these exceptional philosophical artistic geniuses and their various epic masterpieces as much as I have. I owe the depth and breadth of my own consciousness to the profound truth and goodness in their vision, and to their powerful ability to express it so beautifully.
♥ Enjoy & Evolve ♥
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Marshall McLuhan
Understanding Media:
The Extensions of ManMedia Theory Book [1964]
❝ When first published, Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century. This edition of McLuhan’s best-known book both enhances its accessibility to a general audience and provides the full critical apparatus necessary for scholars. In Terrence Gordon’s own words, “McLuhan is in full flight already in the introduction, challenging us to plunge with him into what he calls ‘the creative process of knowing.’” Much to the chagrin of his contemporary critics McLuhan’s preference was for a prose style that explored rather than explained. Probes, or aphorisms, were an indispensable tool with which he sought to prompt and prod the reader into an “understanding of how media operates” and to provoke reflection.
In the 1960s McLuhan s theories aroused both wrath and admiration. It is intriguing to speculate what he might have to say 40 years later on subjects to which he devoted whole chapters such as Television, The Telephone, Weapons, Housing and Money. Today few would dispute that mass media have indeed decentralized modern living and turned the world into a global village. ❞
Categories: Books, Interviews, Literature, Symposia, Vlogs
Tags: Cyborgs, Democracy, Evolution, History, Humanity, Life, Marshall McLuhan, Media, Technology
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Von Poe VII
Diary of The Se7en
Gothic Existential Hip-Hop EP [2018]
Categories: Abstract Hip-Hop, Existential Hip-Hop, Gothic Hip-Hop, Hardcore Hip-Hop, Intellectual Hip-Hop, Music, Political Hip-Hop, Psychedelic Hip-Hop, Revolutionary Hip-Hop, Streetwise Hip-Hop, Transcendental Hip-Hop
Tags: Poetic Death, Von Poe VII
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Sayer
Gothic Experimental Bass Producer
“Bass music from Oakland, CA. BOOKING: tyler@madison-house.com; CONTACT: sayerbass@gmail.com“
“Heavily influenced by his punk and metal background, Sayer has spent his entire life creating and evolving from music. He’s carved out his own space between bass, beats and grime in the electronic landscape, making some of the most unique dance music to come out of the west coast. His productions seethe in analog textures, mangled audio, and aggressive riffs while also evoking a somber melancholy, a juxtaposition that is felt as much as it is heard. Currently residing in Oakland, California, in 2019 he has already unleashed a collaboration with REZZ as well as releases on Dim Mak Records and Noisia’s Division Recordings, with no signs of slowing down with his EP ‘Avarice’.”
Categories: Bass, EDM, Experimental Bass, Hardcore Bass, Music
Tags: Organic Fest 2016
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The Coup
Steal This Double Album
Revolutionary Dance Punk Hip-Hop Album [1997]
Categories: Dance Punk, Hardcore Hip-Hop, Intellectual Hip-Hop, Music, Political Hip-Hop, Punk, Revolutionary Hip-Hop, Streetwise Hip-Hop
Tags: Anti-Capitalism, Bay Area, Boots Riley, Communism, Funk, Liberation, Old-School Hip-Hop, Racism, The Coup
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Chris Conde
Engulfed in the Marvelous Decay
Experimental Existential Hip-Hop Album [2021]
“As an openly queer rapper, Texas’ Chris Conde combines the classically detached spheres of hip hop, indie rock and avant-garde experimental art punk of the drag variety. In their sometimes hysterical but always poignant bars, Conde strives to relate to their audience through an honest communication of their personal narrative of overcoming drug addiction, internalized homophobia and self-acceptance.”
Categories: Abstract Hip-Hop, Emo Hip-Hop, Existential Hip-Hop, Gothic Hip-Hop, Hardcore Hip-Hop, Intellectual Hip-Hop, Music
Tags: Chris Conde, Fake Four Inc., Festie Worthy, Hippie-Hop, Queer Anthems
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ATMA
Beyond the Speed of Mind
Hardcore Transcendental Hip-Hop Album [2006]
Categories: Abstract Hip-Hop, Gothic Hip-Hop, Hardcore Hip-Hop, Intellectual Hip-Hop, Music, Psychedelic Hip-Hop, Revolutionary Hip-Hop, Streetwise Hip-Hop, Transcendental Hip-Hop
Tags: Apocalypse, ATMA, Esoteric Hip-Hop, Esoterica, Lyricism, New Age, Revolt Motion Records
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Categories: Abstract Hip-Hop, Esoteric Hip-Hop, Gothic Hip-Hop, Intellectual Hip-Hop, Music, Psychedelic Hip-Hop, Transcendental Hip-Hop
Tags: 7 Stars, Bilingual Hip-Hop, Esoteric Hip-Hop, Eternal Turbulence, Festie Worthy, Hippie-Hop, Metaphysics, Moon Knight, Mutant Akademy, New Age, Warrior Type Wizards
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❝ The New York Times bestselling “manifesto for the future that is grounded in practical solutions addressing the world’s most pressing concerns: overpopulation, food, water, energy, education, health care and freedom” (The Wall Street Journal).
“Since the dawn of humanity, a privileged few have lived in stark contrast to the hardscrabble majority. Conventional wisdom says this gap cannot be closed. But it is closing—fast.
In Abundance, space entrepreneur turned innovation pioneer Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler document how progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, digital manufacturing synthetic biology, and other exponentially growing technologies will enable us to make greater gains in the next two decades than we have in the previous 200 years. We will soon have the ability to meet and exceed the basic needs of every person on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp.
Breaking down human needs by category—water, food, energy, healthcare, education, freedom—Diamandis and Kotler introduce us to innovators and industry captains making tremendous strides in each area. “Not only is Abundance a riveting page-turner…but it’s a book that gives us a future worth fighting for. And even more than that, it shows us our place in that fight” (The Christian Science Monitor). ❞
Categories: Books, Literature, Symposia, Talks, TED
Tags: A.I., Abundance, Evolution, Futurism, Nanotechnology, Optimism, Peter H. Diamandis, Post-Scarcity, Singularity, Technology, Utopia
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A Hundred Drums
Multi-Instrumentalist Dubstep Producer & DJ
“MGMT – Anand@pivotal-agency.com
Bookings – Lauren.Banks@subdotmission.comA Hundred Drums is a Denver based, California grown DJ/Producer focused on the interplay between the origin and evolution of her unique sound. Inspired by the roots of bass music, her live sets are deep, evocative, seductive, and moving. Each pulse holds the intention of the drum to align with the heart of the dancefloor.
A multi-instrumental bass music producer, weaving the captured sounds of nature with the essence of dubstep.
A Hundred Drums(DJ) is very special because it means collective heartbeats. Drums are known to be the source and balance of music. Our hearts drum. So I picked A Hundred Drums with intentions of aligning heartbeats.”
Categories: Bass, Deep Bass, Deep Dubstep, Dubstep, EDM, Heavy Dubstep, Music
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Juno Mac
The Laws that Sex Workers Really Want
TED Talk [2016]
“Everyone has an opinion about how to legislate sex work (whether to legalize it, ban it or even tax it) … but what do workers themselves think would work best? Activist Juno Mac explains four legal models that are being used around the world and shows us the model that she believes will work best to keep sex workers safe and offer greater self-determination. “If you care about gender equality or poverty or migration or public health, then sex worker rights matter to you,” she says. “Make space for us in your movements.” (Adult themes)”
Categories: Symposia, Talks, TED
Tags: Capitalism, Culture, Exploitation, Injustice, Juno Mac, Law, Progress, Prohibition, Sex, Sex Work
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Categories: Abstract Hip-Hop, Existential Hip-Hop, Gothic Hip-Hop, Hardcore Hip-Hop, Intellectual Hip-Hop, Music, Psychedelic Hip-Hop, Revolutionary Hip-Hop, Transcendental Hip-Hop
Tags: Bazerkowitz, Gothic, Hippie-Hop, Industrial Hip-Hop, Left Handed Scientists, Mythology, New Age, Orko Eloheim, Revolt Motion Records
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❝ In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the 1990s—and the dawn of the Internet—computers started to represent a very different kind of world: a collaborative and digital utopia modeled on the communal ideals of the hippies who so vehemently rebelled against the cold war establishment in the first place.
From Counterculture to Cyberculture is the first book to explore this extraordinary and ironic transformation. Fred Turner here traces the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco Bay–area entrepreneurs: Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. Between 1968 and 1998, via such familiar venues as the National Book Award–winning Whole Earth Catalog, the computer conferencing system known as WELL, and, ultimately, the launch of the wildly successful Wired magazine, Brand and his colleagues brokered a long-running collaboration between San Francisco flower power and the emerging technological hub of Silicon Valley. Thanks to their vision, counterculturalists and technologists alike joined together to reimagine computers as tools for personal liberation, the building of virtual and decidedly alternative communities, and the exploration of bold new social frontiers.
Shedding new light on how our networked culture came to be, this fascinating book reminds us that the distance between the Grateful Dead and Google, between Ken Kesey and the computer itself, is not as great as we might think. ❞Categories: Books, Lectures, Literature, Symposia, Talks
Tags: Awakening, Bay Area, Counterculture, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Cyberculture, Cybernetics, Evolution, Fred Turner, History, Humanism, Optimism, Progress, Silicon Valley, Stuart Brand, The 60s, Utopia, Utopianism, Whole Earth Network
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“Research into psychedelic drugs was interrupted in the 1960’s due to regulatory changes. Recently, these compounds are once again studied both as therapeutic agents in psychiatry and as experimental tools to further our understanding of the human brain. David Nutt stands at the forefront of these developments as principal investigator of a team including Robin Carhart-Harris and other researchers at Imperial College, London. Together, they are running clinical trials of psychedelic substances including psilocybin in the treatment of depression. They are also using brain imaging to investigate the effects of psychedelic drugs on activity and connectivity within the brain. At this lecture, he will cover the latest research findings and share his vision of the future of psychedelic science.”
Categories: Lectures, Seminars, Symposia, Talks
Tags: Dr. David Nutt, Drugs, Entheogenesis, Healthcare, Mental Health, Neuroscience, Progress, Psilocybin, Psychedelic Medicine, Psychedelic Science, Psychedelics, Psychiatry, Psychology, Science, Sweden, Transformation
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Ecstatic Music Of Gaia
Psychedelic Dub Producer
Categories: Bass, EDM, Music, Psychedelic Bass
Tags: BC, Chillstep, EMOG, Liquid Dubstep, Psy Dub, Vancouver