Last term some students complained that Evans-Pritchard’s classic “Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande” (1937) was no more to be found in our library. All the copies we held on stock apparently have been stolen. Which is a … Continue reading →
Salvador Dalí—remember, the fellow who coined the term ‘liquid television’, for whatever that means—once put a lobster upon the lap of a naked beauty. Nice contrast, that was. Then he went on and replaced a vintage telephone’s receiver by … Continue reading →
Since the ↵new gods, and since ↵Luthor finally made it, I’ve waited for that. Neil Gaiman’s and Adam Rogers’ ↑The Myth of Superman at ↑Wired, and oneman’s ingenious discussion of it: ↑Wanna Fly Like Superman at ↑Savage Minds. And … Continue reading →
The day before yesterday an ↑entry called GABEK was posted to ↑ethno::log announcing a new qualitative research method, additionally a link was placed to ‘the method’s website’ gabek.com. It was stated that the method could well be of use … Continue reading →
One more time something on the workshop ↑Understanding media practices at the ↑9th EASA Biennial Conference. Very interesting to me is ↑Elisenda Ardevol‘s paper on “Game pleasures and media practices”, as it’s very close to my project: This paper will … Continue reading →
The workshop ↑Understanding media practices at the ↑9th EASA Biennial Conference is complete and all abstracts of the papers to be presented are online—very worthwhile for everyone interested in media anthropology or even cyberanthropology. Here is the workshop’s long abstract: … Continue reading →
For the very first time I was faster than boingboing, way faster. One year and one month faster, to be exact. On 20 April 2005 I posted a story called ↵unrealised moscow triggered by the entry ↑soviet metropolis at … Continue reading →
In 1976—when Elvis Presley was still alive—Claude Lelouch mounted a movie-camera to the grill of a 6.9 liter Mercedes and raced through Paris, reaching a top-speed of 200 km/h at approaching La place de la Concorde. Lelouch raced for … Continue reading →
Finally I found a perfect rendition of how ↵Tally Isham’s eyes are looking. The above screencap stems from the opening sequence of “Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence” (2004). I guess that’s exactly the way ↑William Gibson envisioned the … Continue reading →
Bruce Sterling’s compilation of ↑what should be in every cyberpunk library is all very well, but have a look at ↑The Cyberpunk Reading List! Now I know what I am going to do the next 1001 nights. Just some … Continue reading →