two johns
What I finished reading last night is by far the best book on computergames I had my hands on so far. To be precise, it is the best book on those aspects of computergames I am interested in the … Continue reading →
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two johns
What I finished reading last night is by far the best book on computergames I had my hands on so far. To be precise, it is the best book on those aspects of computergames I am interested in the most: … Continue reading →
elements of style
Speaking about writing, let’s listen to Stephen King: This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why it works when … Continue reading →
digital arabs
↑ŠISLER, VÍT. 2006. “↑Representation and self-representation: Arabs and Muslims in digital games,” in Gaming realities: A challenge for digital culture edited by M. Santorineos and N. Dimitriadi, pp. 85-92. Athens: Fournos. Available online [.pdf | 480KB]: http://uisk.jinonice.cuni.cz/sisler/publications/SISLER_Representation_of_Muslims.pdf abstract: This … Continue reading →
spacewar
GRAETZ, J. MARTIN. 1981. ↑The origin of Spacewar. ↑Creative Computing 7(8): 56-67, ↑reprinted 1983 in ↑Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games ↑1(1): 78-??. The picture at the top is a snippet of an illustration that accompanied the 1983 … Continue reading →
the hybrid metaphor
from biology to culture ↑STROSS, BRIAN. 1999. The hybrid metaphor: From biology to culture. The Journal of American Folklore 112(445): 254-267. abstract: The article introduces and briefly discusses a few conceptual considerations common to biological and cultural hybridity and examines … Continue reading →
nomads now online
The paper I presented at the workshop ↑Understanding media practices at the ↑9th EASA Biennial Conference which took place from September 18th through September 21st 2006 in Bristol, UK, now is online at my own server: ↑“The online nomads … Continue reading →
barlowian insights
The notion of ‘Barlowian cyberspace’ is no news, I know, but nevertheless worthwhile to clarify. ↑Jakub Macek summed it up nicely: The term cyberspace was coined by the American writer ↑William Gibson at the beginning of the 1980s [mind … Continue reading →
neologic spasm
↑William Gibson‘s comment on academia’s appropriation of the word “cyberspace”: Just a chance operator in the gasoline crack of history … Assembled word cyberspace from small and readily available components of language. Neologic spasm: the primal act of … Continue reading →
accelerando
↑STROSS, CHARLES. 2005. ↑Accelerando. New York: Ace. Available online [multiple formats and sizes]: http://www.accelerando.org/book/ reminded of by entry at williamgibsonboard | see also charlie’s diary
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