DGV05: internet and anthropology

The Internet and sociocultural anthropology—continuities and breaches A review of approaches to cyberanthropology by ↑Nils Zurawski It took nearly ten years from the ↵Welcome to Cyberia to the ↵Cyberidentities at War. During those ten years the Internet changed from hackers’ and specialists’ playground to common medium. Ten years during which the amount of research on (culturally informed) identities on the net increased steadily. Coexisting, independent from each other, and sometimes as continuations there were smaller and larger projects now and again—dealing with the phenomenon of identity on the net / in cyberspace. As the whole field of activity still being … Continue reading

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liquid ragdoll

  I am not sure what it is, ↑fquadr.at has put online [↑mirror 1 | ↑mirror 2 | ↑mirror 3], or what to make of it—but it is ingenious, surreal, and a great demonstration of ↑ragdoll physics—see the paper ↑Advanced Character Physics by Thomas Jakobsen, onto which the endlessly falling mannequin is based. And it is nicely complemented by the ↑liquid man by ↑Aaron Clinger. ragdoll via fquadr.at | liquid man via entry at boingboing … Continue reading

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