zeph in limbo
The AK-1RA Sports by Detect Surface in outer space … this is what may happen if you are too daring in “↑Second Life“ (SL) … you will be catapulted into limbo, then into oblivion. I am proud to be … Continue reading →
Monthly Archives: August 2007
warmy blankies, anthropology, and rain-soaked neon
william gibson meets bat segundo In last year’s ↵writing culture and cyberpunk I tried to show the close kinship of anthropology and cyberpunk—and I never cease to voice my opinion that the cyberpunk writers are huge fans of sociocultural … Continue reading →
massively sculpted
Those are the moments I enjoy fieldwork online to the max. To the left is ↑Detect Surface, creator-god of (SLurl:) ↑Abaddon. He wears something peculiar—Detect: “very first sculptie armour in SL baby :P” Acid and me independently voiced that … Continue reading →
visual phenomena
Is it a eurocentric bias on the visual that the majority of constructivist works start out with optical illusions? I am not sure. But be it as diverse personæ as von Foerster, Watzlawick, Maturana & Varela, or even Francis … Continue reading →
he was there
… and I missed it. On 02 August 2007 the godfather of cyberpunk, ↑William Gibson, publicly read from his freshly published, latest novel “Spook Country”—read live in “↑Second Life“ (SL). The event was ↑staged by Penguin, and on YouTube … Continue reading →
visual modernity
Chris Kelty posted this movie at ↑Savage Minds under the header “↑Understanding Modernity Hiply,“ and commented: “There are some great subtle moments in it. Whoever made it has read far too much ↑Edward Tufte [… of “↑The cognitive style of … Continue reading →
guys in london
imagine
Imagine there’s no Heaven It’s easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for … Continue reading →
appropriating paris
Remember the ↵bombenkrater fusion plus ↵discussion, and my babbling about appropriating urban landscapes ↵by mastership? Well, in Paris ↑they ↑do it, too—of[f] course. via entry at mosaikum
Continue reading →second first life
Everybody who ever “set a foot” into “↑Second Life“ (SL), ↑just watch, please. via entry at william gibson
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