Category Archives: cyberanthropology
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
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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 →
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 →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 →
two bits
KELTY, CHRISTOPHER M. 2008. ↑Two bits: The cultural significance of free software. Durham: Duke University Press. Mandatory.
Continue reading →anthropology coming of age
welcome to the 21st century Since quite a time ↵I was eagerly awaiting ‘↑Coming of age in Second Life: An anthropologist explores the virtually human‘ by ↑Tom Boellstorff—it just arrived with yesterday’s snail-mail, so I had not yet the … Continue reading →
raining games
manuscript-day four of 100 Yesterday night, while hunched over his C-64, absorbedly somersaulting over compact droids while running along platforms, hard banging against the door of his flat wrenched him out of immersion. ‘Open that door immediately,’ a … Continue reading →