# old about this site page welcome shiny traveller to amateur philosopher robert what's particular example playthrough of 'republic of bob' an informal pastime for netizens bypassing the sloppy undead ainternet /lllmao think of '#rob' in these ways: **+** a strange imaginary game one pretends to play (also termed "how to play big science") **+** a parallel fictional-aesthetic mirror of the regular internet, treated as an ice-cold alternative luxury lifestyle **+** an open source imagination engine & new media arcology those who take part in such activity call themselves researchers / big scientists / norwegian brain surgeons you're not arrived from afar but are already here; take a look around and check out the view - a shifting digital patina of art and literature the air is fresh with sweet mint and alive with rare paracosmic magic to the eastern border stands the desert mirage network-luxe orbital data center ideas through play; love over gold is always the message # site notes an overgrown digital garden / cluttered magpie's nest here ye shall find rest and varied artistic republic artefacts either found online or compiled by me these are organised by folders and are mostly self explanatory **+** site in lowercase to engage with notions of linearity authorship and professionalism **+** text without full stop paragraphs to suggest opening out into twilight desert silence **+** fomo free; casually skip around at will without feeling the need to read everything **+** with few hyperlinks to reduce cognitive load encourage free-form discovery & extrapolation from incomplete information **+** [[notes on licencing copyright & playstyle]] # old site-version reviews > fascinating rambling deranged > ~ classic single day reddit-effect review > (..) the images reveal the surrounding voidspace that always lingers just out-of-sight beyond the veil of vidyagarm worlds. the way he frames this emptiness is often striking > ~ chris priestman beyond the veil of counterstrike (kill screen) > a mix between performance and architectural critique this is in-game photography documentation at its best. it also indicates a possible way for critics artists and game developers to engage in a fruitful collaboration > ~ matteo bittanti via garmescenes > also this guy who hates andy (warhol) has a clever interesting website > the 20th century salutes him > ~ mondo 2000 (ru sirius) via twitter # my goals and motivation it's not what you can grab but what you can give; '#rob' is my contribution a small mass thought-experiment i also been dying from terminal existential boredom since the age of 15 and art-stuff helps. i need to find my tribe - hook up with fellow artistic oddballs and have fun. (dig my style? call me!) i must also however start rapidly earning the tiresome filthiness of money in order to finally stop renting awful uninsulated flats somehow buy a decent house save my beloved from the soul crushing drudgery of work - and myself from the pressure of art-work # about robert what & contact details a real person playing a character [[on hiring philosopher robert what|currently available for hire]] an old biopsychic energy photo: ![[researcher-robert-what.jpg|300]] for corrections improvements suggestions for more r&d andor to collaborate on projects (yours or mine) reach out today and say hi. politenes and intelligence reciprocated **+** email: robertwhat (at) proton (dot) me **+** bluesky social media (needs sign in): robertwhat.bsky.social **+** other obsidian vaults: vaults.obsidian-community.com > i am diogenes the dog > i nuzzle the kind bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels > ~ diogenes of sinope # shoutouts // abc: always and forever my darling // c0de blue: where art thou brother in-scene? what's the l8est? // pete from virgina: yo pete i been takin' care of my shoes // big hair: call me you weird smelly goth // that cool short-haired riot gurrl at college who changed their name half way through the course (everyone thought they were weird except me) and became a good friend: we'll meet again someday # statement of diversity and inclusion as a useless absurdist immaterial panpsychic nondual zen philosophy rnd project of and for marginalised voices and based in the collective imagination 'republic of bob' is always open to kind souls who support and champion equality racial justice and joyful spiritual anarchy; wilful ignorance and hatred cannot survive within it's bizarre possibility field of chaotic-good effect (bosses cops kings and the artificially intelligent exist without imagination are unable to understand and find their neurotic equilibrium endangered.) as a safe shared communal cognitive superspace of pre-occupied indigenous futurism (not-western non-whiteness non techno-utopian anti-capitalist and anti-colonial) 'republic of bob' is inclusive welcoming and representative of the beautiful organic spectrum of gender expression sexuality physical ability appearance neurological diversity and ethnicity. rather than exist '#rob' manifests wherever cool social creativity and a positive (defiant) attitude are active and championed - a living community of resilience resistance and empowerment rooted in representations of a slow diasporic sensuality that glows with a dimensional phase-shifting iridescent metachrosistic ambience of mystical biopsychedelic hyperalien strangeness. knowhatimsayin om mani padme hum ![[mahakala.png|280]] // republic of bob