big-a-dog, big-a-bite
John Ferdinand Woodstock & The Rebirth Experience Once upon a foggy night, I put on my hunting shoes. Told my Lady not to wait— said, I go hunting for a goose. Rays of moonlight on my way, make me … Continue reading →
Monthly Archives: March 2008
the unholy trinity—compulsory reading
↑DAWKINS, RICHARD. 2006. The god delusion. New York City: Bantam Books. ↑HARRIS, SAM. 2004. The end of faith: Religion, terror, and the future of reason. New York City: W. W. Norton. ↑HITCHENS, CHRISTOPHER. 2007. God is not great: How religion … Continue reading →
arthur c. clarke—rip
but then I saw her case …
… and now I’m a believer It may have started a lot earlier, but the immediately preceding events, which led up to the present condition, started with ↵that keyboard. My enthusiasm never broke, and then TK reminded me, that, … Continue reading →
21st century man
‘It is like you to be more concerned for a machine than for a man.” He [eminent professor of sociology Simon Ninheimer] looked at her with savage contempt. It left her [US Robots’ Chief Robopsychologist Dr. ↑Susan … Continue reading →
robots and suicide bombing
a bizarre relationship in a decidedly cyberpunked world On Monday, 4 February 2008 in a shopping mall in Dimona, southern Israel, a “woman has been killed in a suicide bombing […], the first such attack by Palestinian militants in over … Continue reading →
the cyberpunk educator
Andrew J. Holden’s “↑The Cyberpunk Educator“ is “a documentary study of mainstream ‘cyberpunk’ films of the 1980’s- with a heavy focus on their literary, political, and cultural content. The film uses the structure of literary theorist Northrop Frye, and … Continue reading →
sterling before and after westphalia
↑Bruce Sterling currently is jotting down ↑notes for a projected science fiction novel—maybe we again can, ↵like ↵before, witness a novel by a cyberpunk legend grow online. As a first Sterling published a list of political entities, plus according … Continue reading →
nine per cent
Dear ↑Mr. President, Come take a walk with me … ;-) ‘Tis a strange realm, cyberspace. Since a couple of years here at ↑Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), the institution where I am working—or am pretending to do so, there is a … Continue reading →
bounded vision
WENDLANDT, SEBASTIAN. 2007. “The bounded vision,” in ↓Proceedings of Scandinavian Student Interaction Design Research Conference 2007 [.pdf | 7.21MB] edited by Sara Eriksén, Bo Westerlund, and Johan Beronius, pp. 103-108. Karlskrona: Akademi sydost. abstract: A vision is an indispensable precondition … Continue reading →