The TAZ carries an ↑article on anthropologist Anna Schöne, who does Ph.D.-level fieldwork on Berlin’s techno[music]-scene. This statement of hers caught my eye: “Das Spezifische an der Subkultur ist, dass sie das, was unsere Kultur ausmacht, bewusst macht, ausdrückt und … Continue reading →
After the somewhat cruel experience concerning my performance in ↵Q3A during ↵the last LAN-party I attended, I now have started to take measures—the ↑Fighternight 8 is approaching—again ↵at Wolfenstein! As I do not get to grips with DigitalHawk’s config … Continue reading →
“Boris F. was a german hacker under the pseudonym TRON, doing a lot of advanced chipcard hacking and crypto gear development. TRON died in 1998, he probably committed suicide, but there is a slight chance he was murdered. ↑[…]“—Now German … Continue reading →
For some early cyberculture items the franchise- and adaptation-roundabout seems to spin forever. The 1982 silverscreen-movie ↑Tron was followed by Bally Midway’s ↑identically named arcade game in the same year. 1983 saw the computergame ↑Discs of Tron, and, more … Continue reading →
“I’m not a cell phone guy. I resisted getting one at all for years, and even now I rarely carry it. &uarr,[…]“—well, ↑John, I guess we’re in the same league now ;-) With the exception that I am carrying … Continue reading →
Those are all from last year, but very worthwhile: LONG, DAVID. 2005. ↑LongShot #86: Graphics Don’t Matter. ↑GamerDad. PHELPS, ANDREW. 2005. ↑Graphics Don’t Matter (and other assertions). ↑Got Game?. WONG, DAVID AND HAIMOIMOI. 2005.↑A gamers manifesto. ↑pointless waste of time.
Continue reading →My job here at the university forces me to teach at least two courses every term. Here’s what I am going to publicly babble about during the upcoming summer-term (24 April to 29 July 2006): computergames With contemporary sociocultural anthropology’s … Continue reading →
Today a friend stopped by and gave me a late Christmas-present—a real surprise, see above. It is now hanging at a prominent place in my office. Thanks a lot ↑KerLeone! *wipes tear away*
Continue reading →↑2R‘s comment on the entry ↑!!!!11oneone at the ↑Encyclopedia of Stupid: “Now that’s what cyberanthropology is about. “!!!!11oneone” is new language, new humor, new sense, new social code.” Here’s a snippet from said entry: […] Somewhere, somebody accidentally let go … Continue reading →
I already mused about ↵Wikipedia as emic knowledge—now I have to contribute a tidbit myself: In ↑Pure Pwnage‘s ↑Episode 8 “Lanageddon” I just discovered an ↑easter egg which is not yet listed in the ↑easter-egg section of ↑Wikipedia’s entry Pure … Continue reading →