foot 2010
Just in time for the World Cup, ↵Rémi Gaillard “défend une nouvelle fois les couleurs de Montpellier et tire n’importe où,” thereby appropriating urban landscapes ↵by mastership.
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pixels
The comment by haablaust is one of the finest specimen of multi-layered online-culture humour: ‘Clearly this is shopped! you can totally see the pixels!’
Continue reading →uncut escape
“I can only hope you and your ↑Convergence Culture are happy now, ↑Henry Jenkins!”—that’s ↑Bruce Sterling‘s comment on ↑Casey Pugh‘s meanwhile finished project ‘↑Star Wars Uncut‘ via entry at beyond the beyond
Continue reading →amateur anthropologist
… and he ↵said it again. Here’s an excerpt from a recent round of ↑Q&A with William Gibson: Question: On more philosophical and complicated themes. You are an artist, a creator, but more: you are through your writing an influencer, … Continue reading →
zero history
William Gibson’s latest novel “↑Zero History“ is slated for publication on 07 September 2010.
Continue reading →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
Continue reading →kaizo mario world
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 →