It happened at the Fighternight #5. At some indefinite moment during nighttime I took my headphones off, leaned back in my chair, and allowed my gaze to wander around aimlessly. Suddenly my eyes locked on the screen of a …Continue reading →
Maddieman—one of the most respected modders in the whole community—has put up his new website called ↑Hell’s Kitchen: 9th March 2003 The site is up! \o/ A bit crappy at the moment, but this is my first attempt at my …Continue reading →
I couldn’t yet find the full ↑Gibson-interview or a copy of the October 1992 issue of “Details” magazine—where the quote I preyed on for ↵feedback stems from—but ↑The Blade Runner FAQ ↑helped out and furnished one more paragraph: Years later, …Continue reading →
Online games as an example by ↑Michel Nachez and ↑Patrick Schmoll The presentation aims at depicting a cybercommunity inside which we have done participant observation. The community’s members have organised themselves online and have created a shared description or account. …Continue reading →
zeph’s pop culture quiz #9 Who is watching TV in this screencap? Of course there are points awarded already for recognizing what he is watching. But a full solution requires the name of the actor watching, and the title of …Continue reading →
A matching sneaker, I even bought a matching sneaker—it’s that serious. But allow me to start at the beginning. The things I am dealing with more or less dictate that I am working on a PC and not on …Continue reading →
On Wikipedia I found the following quote from the ↑Philip K. Dick of our times, ↑Alan Moore, author of e.g. ‘↑Watchmen,’ ‘↑V for Vendetta,’ ‘↑From Hell,’ and ‘↑The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,’ illustrating his quite secular vision of magic—the vision …Continue reading →
1980s 1984 HOT B. 1984. Psychic city [computer game]. Tokyo: Hot B. 1985 STODART, ANDY AND IAN FOSTER. 1985. Blade runner [computer game]. London: CRL Group. 1986 ASCII CORPORATION. 1986. The screamer [computer game]. Tokyo: ASCII Corporation. 1987 HOT B. …Continue reading →
During this year’s summer term I am going to offer an advanced seminar I christened “Ethnologie enzyklopädisch”, roughly translated “Sociocultural Anthropology encyclopedia style”. The widely visible result of the seminar shall be a completely overworked entry ↑Ethnologie—and maybe changing of …Continue reading →