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Detail from a publicity poster for the cyberpunkish movie ‘Coma’ (Crichton 1978), based on the novel of the same name by Robin Cook (1977)
Continue reading →Detail from a publicity poster for the cyberpunkish movie ‘Coma’ (Crichton 1978), based on the novel of the same name by Robin Cook (1977)
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 →
↑Mike’s Amazing World of Comics features an amazing tool for historians of popular culture: ↑The Newsstand. It allows you to choose any month, beginning in 1934, and then the system will give you the covers of all comic books which … Continue reading →
by Timo Baur It is still difficult to delineate the medium Internet as an object of investigation for cyberanthropology. The same is true for precisely positioning the cultural spaces which are perceptible via the Internet within a broader anthropological perspective. … Continue reading →
Pitfalls of virtual property (↵Bartle 2004) The power of gifts: organizing social relationships in open source communities (↵Bergquist & Ljungberg 2001) Anthropological perspectives on technology (↵Schiffer 2001) Technology as the anthropology of cultural practice (↵Aunger 2003) Ethnologie des joueurs d’échecs … Continue reading →
Computer experts around the world, like Raymond Kurzweil and Hiroshi Ishiguro, strive towards the development of intelligent robots. Will man and machine merge as a single unity? Rejecting evolution’s biological shackles dangles the promise of eternal life for those bold … Continue reading →
zeph’s pop culture quiz #42 Who is riding his bike through the rain? Just leave a comment with your educated guess—you can ask for additional hints, too. [Leaving a comment is easy; just click the ‘Leave a comment’ … Continue reading →
Last night a great reunion of the old MPHQ-gang members took place. I talked to GutBomb via IM and he meant: “dude | for old times sake | come to irc”. So I went to our old IRC-channell which in … Continue reading →
A follow-up to ↵trail of sources, dealing with Henry Lowood’s ↑Wikipedia, sources, machinima: “But these questions do raise issues about research on “consumer-created content.” It seems we are dependent on consumer-created sources, as well.” In principle I wholeheartedly agree, but … Continue reading →
Not too long ago, when ↑KerLeone—who introduced me to “↑Quake III Arena“ (Q3A), but meanwhile shamefully has defected to “↑Battlefield 2“, the traitor—asked me what people actually are playing nowadays when they are out for the deathmatch experience, I … Continue reading →