If everything goes well, on 25 January 2007 I’ll give a presentation at the series of lectures called TechnoLogics: Media—Body—Knowledge within the scope of the international doctoral programme ↑Performance and Media Studies of the ↑Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Here are the …Continue reading →
reification There is much discussion about what anthropologists should do or should not do with their knowledge and skills. Indeed this is not an easy issue to deal with. When it comes to anthropologists working for the industry, or …Continue reading →
visions of dream machines This is the “Vector W2” prototype of my teenage days in full flight. From certain angles it looks way more interesting than its contemporary successor, the “WX8”—both cars were briefly mentioned in ↵reventón, there also …Continue reading →
↑Steven ↑Levy, author of ‘↑Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution‘ (1984), among others, has written a comprehensive article, published at Wired, on the complex of problems comprising patents, the patent wars, and patent trolls. Along a suspenseful storyline, and by …Continue reading →
zeph’s pop culture quiz #14 Who shot whom in the scene depicted above? If you recognize the movie from which the screenshot was taken, and if you have watched that movie carefully, you’ll have no problems in answering the question …Continue reading →
Vít Šisler is one of the interesting people I learned to know at the ↑Cyberspace 2005 conference and with whom I will stay in close contact on every account. Vít is a young Prague-based lawyer whose primary research interests are …Continue reading →
The day before yesterday I got Half Life 2 (HL2) and installed it in the afternoon. Although Steam is kind of embarassing it worked fine. Then, still being in the office, I started to play it. And I have to …Continue reading →