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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 →
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 →
“When I first saw a picture of the ↑Boomslang in an advertisement, I immediately fell for its aesthetics,” I wrote in 2004, when I first attempted a case study in cultural appropriation of peripheral computer hardware, called ↵the taming … Continue reading →
First it was a blog only, then ↑the virtual meatspace—forums, that is—was added, and now SFAM expanded ↑cyperpunkreview.com by the ↑cyberpunk wiki. As cyberpunkreview.com not only proved to be a tremendously growing site—both, in term of content and popularity—, … Continue reading →
Time and again The-Simpsons-Halloween-Specials are to be seen on television. In one particular episode, “↑Homer 3“ (1996) ↑by Pacific Data Images, Homer tries to hide behind a cupboard as his wife Marge’s sisters are about to pay a visit … Continue reading →
Die Bürokratie ist der nicht greifbare Feind des gesunden Menschenverstandes und der Gerechtigkeit, sie fördert Trägheit und Willkür, und oft haben wir das Gefühl, machtlos zu sein gegen kleinkarierte Beamte, die sich gegen alle Vernunft und manchmal mit tragischen … Continue reading →
It’s been some time since I regularly paid visits to ↑Second Life (SL). This is mainly because two of my best friends—master designers, creative geniusses, and overall great guys acid Zentih and ↑Detect Surface—seemed to have left SL for good. … Continue reading →
My friend ↑Vít Šisler just notified me via email that ↑CyberOrient 6(1) is out. Vít writes: [The new issue] aims for critical and evidence-based evaluation of the use of social media in the Arab Spring, the coverage of the Arab … Continue reading →
The day before yesterday ↑CBS Films ↑announced that ↑Scott Derrickson, who directed e.g. ‘↑The Day the Earth Stood Still‘ (2008) [the remake, obviously], will direct a movie based on the ↑‘Deus Ex’ series of computer games, the latest installment, ‘↑Deus … Continue reading →
Something seems to be in the air. Just recently we had Jiré Emine Gözen’s doctoral thesis ‘↵Cyberpunk Science Fiction‘ (2012), now Krzysztof K. Kietzman has published his M.A. thesis ‘↓Constructs of innocence in selected works of cyberpunk and postcyberpunk fiction‘ … Continue reading →
It is my conviction that all of us who ever saw the 1977 James Bond film “The spy who loved me” were fascinated by “Wet Nellie,” Bond’s (Roger Moore) Lotus Esprit S1 sportscar able to transform into a submarine. And … Continue reading →