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primer
A short notice on the most succesful movie of all time—Shane Carruth’s SciFi piece ‘Primer.’
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cabinet
Detail of an old-fashioned wooden filing cabinet as used in libraries to store the catalogue on endless stacks of cards
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by Alexander Knorr [downloadable material is marked with a ↓ and printed in bold typeface] books 2011. ↑Cyberanthropology. Wuppertal: Peter Hammer. 2009. Maxmod: An ethnography of cyberculture. [‘Habilitationsschrift,’ unpublished] 2004. ↓Metatrickster: Burton, Taxil, Gurdjieff, Backhouse, Crowley, Castaneda [.pdf | 7.3 … Continue reading →
lint
Black and white still from Terry Gilliam’s ‘Brazil’ (1985), showing Jack Lint (Michael Palin) and Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) at Lint’s office at the Ministry of Information
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Andrew Carol’s hobby is building complex machines using LEGO [note the design of the site, and where it’s hosted]. After recreating Charles Babbage‘s difference engine, he now did the Antikythera mechanism. Have a look behind the scenes and watch the … Continue reading →
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african roads
Motor roads, together with their rules and conventions for using them, are quite literally cultural constructions. In this sense, the road regime in large parts of the African continent is still under construction. Road-making and road use draw from North … Continue reading →