aboutThis is the second instance of my blog ‘xirdalium.’ The first instance for years ran fine on a university server, but lately technical problems became overwhelming. Ye ole ‘xirdalium’ is still there, but hardly reachable these days. Hence I decided to give it a go, got a proper domain on the servers of a professional hoster, switched from Blosxom to WordPress, and here we are. ‘Xirdalium’ for years was on the university server, because it, and a static website, accompanied my research-project ‘maxmod—an ethnography of cyberculture’ which meanwhile is finished. Well, not exactly, I haven’t published the book yet, because I am reworking it on a grand scale, and re-insert everything I skipped. Things to come, and this is why I need ‘xirdalium’ reliably online. Everything which was on my old domain xirdal.lmu.de will be migrated here, as time permits. Ah, yes, by the way, I am Alexander Knorr, anthropologist—online better known as zephyrin_xirdal … just call me zeph. The header picture is a quick’n’dirty Photoshop-job of mine. It is based on photographies taken on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission in 1971—the first mission where the Lunar rover was in use. The picture shows the mission’s commander Dave…
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publicationsPublications, Contributions to Conferences, and Lectures Monographs 2011. Cyberanthropology. Wuppertal: Peter Hammer. [in preparation] 2009. Maxmod: An ethnography of cyberculture. [u0026#8216;Habilitationsschrift,u0026#8217; unpublished] 2004. Metatrickster: Burton, Taxil, Gurdjieff, Backhouse, Crowley, Castaneda. Zugl.: Phil. Diss. Univ. München 2002. Alteritas, Münchner ethnologische Impressionen, Band 3. Pondicherry, München: Vasa. Articles in Anthologies 2009. “Die kulturelle Aneignung des Spielraums: Vom virtuosen Spielen zum Modifizieren und zurück,” in Shooter: Eine multidisziplinäre Einführung edited by Matthias Bopp, Rolf F. Nohr und Serjoscha Wiemer, pp. 217-246. Münster et al.: LIT Verlag. 2008. Game modding. [Manuscript exists, not yet submitted] 2007. “Die Deutungsoffenheit der Quelle,” in Open Source Jahrbuch 2007 edited by Bernd Lutterbeck, Matthias Bärwolff and Robert A. Gehring, pp. 59-72. Berlin: Lehmanns. 2006. “The stability of cyberspace,” in Cyberspace 2005 Conference Proceedings edited by Radim Polcak, Martin Skop and David Smahel, pp. 189-196. Brno: Masaryk University. 2001. “Ich bin ein Mann der Täuschung, nichts weiter: Werry und der Faktor PSI,” in Werry: Ein Leben rund um die Magische Welt edited by Hans-Günter Witt, pp. 144-176. Krefeld: Verlag Magische Welt. 1998. “Geheime Reisen zu verbotenen Seen: Wanderungen auf dem westtibetischen Hochplateau,” in Neunzig Jahre edited by Gerhard Rattinger, pp. 158-168. Lichtenfels: DAV. Miscellaneous 2010. Review: Living on Cybermind:…
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Day: December 9, 2010

primer

A short notice on the most succesful movie of all time—Shane Carruth’s SciFi piece ‘Primer.’

Thursday, 9th December 2010

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