It happened at the Fighternight #5. At some indefinite moment during nighttime I took my headphones off, leaned back in my chair, and allowed my gaze to wander around aimlessly. Suddenly my eyes locked on the screen of a … Continue reading →
Within every human individual there is a personal eclectic conglomeration of ambiences and narrative content built from a lifetime of experience, assimilating information, and digesting popular culture. When this conglomerations are shared by a group of people, we deal … Continue reading →
The picture above is a “photo montage featuring a dancer with body mounted sensors controlling real-time animation on the ANIMAC, 1962, Denver.”—another pre-cyberpunk cyberpunk-image. Weird coincidence—provoked by my entries on Tron and the interaction with SFAM, I remembered that … Continue reading →
SFAM ↵reacted at the speed of light, and moved his ↑review of the 1982 movie Tron up at ↑cyberpunkreview. And as I already mused on the ↵recycling of cybercultural topoi … if you are more deeply interested in the … Continue reading →
… today is ↵machinima! Be sure to get ↑the other movies by ↑Snoken Productions, like Battlefield Double Dash, The Biggest and the Best, and Ya Rayah. They simply are hilarious. I hereby award the ↑Tex-Avery medal for outstanding accomplishments in … Continue reading →
This piece of ↵machinima features insane surreal humour inspired by Monty Python, Finding Nemo, Madagascar … creatively and congenially staged in ↑BF2: Snoken Productions’ (↑Official Forums) ↑Mine [12:05min | .wmv | 68MB—many other sizes and formats scattered all around … Continue reading →
No, that’s neither ↵Teh_Masterer, nor ↵him—it’s a character out of ↑Mamoru Oshii’s 2001 movie Avalon. I took the screencap from ↑cyberpunkreview.com, a blog and “The most complete cyberpunk movie site on the net”. It’s nicely organised, decently looking, and … Continue reading →
↑The Information Society ↑21(↑4) is a special issue guest-edited by ↑Nancy K. Baym and dedicated to: “ICT research and disciplinary boundaries—is ‘Internet research’ a virtual field, a proto-discipline, or something else?” via entry at digital genres
Continue reading →Yesterday the students of ‘my’ institute, the ↑Institute for Sociocultural Anthropology at the ↑Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München launched a weblog called ↑protest. The blog is meant to be a platform for the organisation of measures against the current state of teaching at … Continue reading →
Well, ↑Jan Chipchase‘s twin weblogs ↑future perfect (work) and ↑present imperfect (play) aren’t a chaotic information’n’media dumpster like cyberpunk-luminary ↑Bruce Sterling’s weblog is, but I didn’t really get their gist yet, though. Nevertheless the blogs mediate the ambience and feeling … Continue reading →