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Just a li’l rant in-between, because this is hilarious and I have to let off a bit of steam. I played through ‘↑Far Cry 2‘ (FC2) till 73% of the story mode, and now I am stuck. I … Continue reading →
Just a li’l rant in-between, because this is hilarious and I have to let off a bit of steam. I played through ‘↑Far Cry 2‘ (FC2) till 73% of the story mode, and now I am stuck. I … Continue reading →
… get to the poetry faster This is way overdue. It must have been in the late 1980s or early ’90s that for the first time I saw ↑Marco Tempest perform live. It was at one of those bigger magicians’ … Continue reading →
Somehow this one has escaped my attention till today—unfortunately some paywall, moving wall, system bug, or whatyouhave bars my access to it, although my university has subscribed to that publication and pays for the access. Anyhow, it goes together well … Continue reading →
One of the arguments I try to make in epic breadth in ‘↑Cyberanthropology‘ is that the cyberpunk discourse gathers ever more momentum. In the book my exemplary strategy for a proof is looking at the movie production. The point is … Continue reading →
During a radio interview on ↑The Marc Bernier Show on 10 October 2011 Rick Scott, the governor of Florida (his ↑daughter has a degree in anthropology—and ↑doesn’t like her father’s stance), voiced the following: We don’t need a lot more … Continue reading →
With ↑this year’s EthnoFilmFest in Munich close (16 through 20 November 2011) I remembered some old associations. The above screenshot is taken from the 46 seconds short film “↑Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory,” the first of a series … Continue reading →
YANAGIMACHI, MITSUO. 1976. ↑God speed you! Black emperor [documentary film]. Tokyo: The Japan Foundation, Toei Company.
Continue reading →↑David Graeber‘s book ‘↑Debt: The First 5,000 years‘ (2011) just arrived on my desk. Unfortunately at the moment I don’t have the time to sit down and read it in peace. Nevertheless I skimmed through it, read a bit here … Continue reading →
‘↓The Machine Stops‘ is a science fiction short story or novella by ↑E. M. Forster, first published in 1909. Here is the story’s setting as ↑Wikipedia’s plot summary has it: The story describes a world in which most of … Continue reading →
In a small township on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa, paraffin has become the currency for trade. However, a rising paraffin shortage is threatening to plummet the township into complete darkness. Walter Hlase, a shy and introverted inventor decides … Continue reading →