Again things are falling into place. Most of the day I spent with thinking about cultural appropriation, the literary genre cyberpunk, anthropology and the connections between all three ‘things’. Finally I wrote up ↵appropriating cyberpunk hinted to today’s achievements of mine and went out to haunt the bookstores for a new copy of Appadurai’s “Modernity at large” because my own copy somehow got lost—give it back, you bastard, whoever you are to whom I lent it. The first three stores didn’t have it in stock, the fourth’s clerk slammed the door right into my face at 18:01h and meticulously … Continue reading →

  In his article ↑“The economies of online cooperation: Gifts and public goods in cyberspace” (↵Kollock 1999) ↑Peter Kollock says about digital goods:  Online communities exist within a radically different environment. The setting is a (1) network of (2) digital (3) information, and each of these three features drives important changes. It is a world of information rather than physical objects. Further, it is digital information, meaning that it is possible to produce an infinite number of perfect copies of a piece of information, whether that be a computer program, a multimedia presentation, or the archives of a long e-mail … Continue reading →