Sometimes my babbling indeed hits furtile ground, so I had to update my blogroll: ↑anthronaut [astronauts, argonauts—got it?] is a weblog by “an Anthropology undergraduate student at the LMU Munich. Starting from July 17th 2005, I´ll spend two months working … Continue reading →
out of the box—anthropology put to use Not just since the ↵gates for anthropology were unshuttered at Redmond, ↑corporate anthropology and applied anthropology is striving. And not since just yesterday parts of anthropology are appropriated by kin and not so … Continue reading →
Due to heavy comment spam I remove the comments function until I’ve fixed the matter. Nothing of the comments so far is lost—everything will be back online soon. UPDATE: Thanks to g33k of the w33k and general blogwizard ↑KerLeone, digital … Continue reading →
For everybody harbouring a piece of cyberculture inside the depths of the mind getting connected to the Internet is vital. Obviously. This banality starts to get interesting when one is obsessed with questions like that one: What machine shall I … Continue reading →
  Well, I dare say that I am doing multisited ethnography, on- and offline. Attending ↵LAN-parties is a perfect occasion to assimilate game- and modding-culture. In consequence I today registered for the ↑Fighternight 7 and restarted my ↵Q3A-training. I already … Continue reading →
It is my innermost conviction—at least for now—that the metaphorical and symbolical web which we call ‘culture’ is constituted, built and rebuilt by ever-changing, interlocking feedback loops of the associative kind. Never will we be able to draw a complete … Continue reading →
Since already several years the casemod-movement [that is the hardware-modification scene] has powerfully whiplashed back into the hardware-manufacturing industry. The feedback out of the rows of the ‘end-users’ stemming from their creativity in the appropriation of computer hardware gave birth … Continue reading →
↑Deutschlandradio aired a small ↑feature on cyberspace and computergames [.mp3 | 1.1MB | 4.42min | in German] which has Max Payne as a starting point for a short discussion of ↵FPS and violence. In the feature Matthias Mertens, post-doc at … Continue reading →
Sometimes when I walk home in the evening, crossing the river I stop midbridge and wonder at the moon. Then, for a few minutes, I try to really become conscious of the fact that exactly one dozen men already walked … Continue reading →
There is a new sport coming from France which perfectly illustrates what I meant by playful ↵appropriation by mastership. It’s called ↑le Parkour. From the ↑tutorial we learn: It’s a melting pot of gymnastic, rock climbing, trekking, martial arts for … Continue reading →