zero history
William Gibson’s latest novel “↑Zero History“ is slated for publication on 07 September 2010.
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Monthly Archives: March 2010
cybermind
↑MARSHALL, JONATHAN PAUL. 2007. Living on cybermind: Categories, communication, and control. New York: Peter Lang. Cybermind is an Internet mailing list, originally founded in 1994 to discuss the issues and problems of living online. It proved exceptionally fertile and is … Continue reading →
technium
kevin kelly on technology Kelly’s speech at the TEDxAmsterdam in November 2009 finely illustrates how much one of the most prominent contemporary technology-intellectuals is influenced by two academic endeavours: anthropology and cybernetics. from 2R via email—tnx
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impossibly hard variant of super mario world This is to humble every single speedrunner, trickjumper, DeFRaGger, or first-person-shooter virtuoso/elitist who ever dared to badmouth about 2D jump’n’run sidescrollers and the supposed lack of skill involved in playing them. The … Continue reading →
interview with a doomed marine
Again those little mosaic-tiles keep falling in place—and the timing is perfect. Just some days ago ↑John Postill confirmed via email that a paper I proposed for the ↑11th biennial conference of the ↑European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) has … Continue reading →
the chess master and the computer
Not just in terms of ↵machine chess, but in general: ↑Garry Kasparov‘s article “↑The Chess Master and the Computer“ in The New York Review of Books is the best text I’ve read so far this year. initially via BK @ … Continue reading →
keep on tracking
Walking the street, earbuds in, and listening to the music from the iPod is not an instance of escapism. Rather it means an augmentation. Mundane life now has a soundtrack.
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