Vital statistics
Year of birth: 1992.
Upbringing: born in Saskatchewan, raised in Yukon, learned to eat sushi in Vancouver, BC.
Languages: English, some German (Meine Mutter ist aus Staufen).
Favourite programming language: Typescript, the worst one apart from the rest that have been tried.
Interests: somatic therapy, parts therapy, fractal microcosm theories of the universe (“as above, so below”), handicap principle, Goodhart’s Law, processual philosophy, metamodernism.
Contact
Correspond with me at mattias@mattiasinspace.com. I love getting to know new people and I am available for podcast appearances too!
My sigil
The icon for this website is my personal sigil, designed by Meg Daniels based on an original design by Kitty Martens.
The branching trees of the sigil represent the ever-splitting descendants of the initial birth of the cosmos: first clouds of gas, dust, galaxies, stars; then life and the evolutionary tree; then the lineage of humanity; then myself, represented in the image as the lens at the end of one of the branches.
The elliptical iris or lens is situated at the farthest extent of a growing tree of existence. The arc that traces through and beyond it represents my own perception and self-understanding. By experiencing myself I change myself. By experiencing the vast emergent complexity in the world I enrich my own experience and my own past.
Taken together, the eye, the arc, and the tree represent the process of evergence: a continual turning inside-out as the self looks inward and sees the cosmos, or beholds the cosmos and sees itself.
Appearances
- Embodying Emotion: my appearance on The Deep Dive Podcast with Eyal Shay where I talk about how I, with the help of Danielle Benzon, reconnected with my body through my voice.