… and hollywood will listen
Actually I won’t talk—I already did so on 02 May 2006, high noon, right on Munich’s Marienplatz. Our students invited me to do so, thank you for the faith in me. But allow me to start at the beginning … Continue reading →
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free spirit
Still I am deep down into the consumption of cyberpunk—literature and movies. Yesterday I rewatched Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil” and this afternoon “Immortal” by Enki Bilal. At 8 P.M. I watched the news and afterwards zapped through the channels a bit. … Continue reading →
diamond culture
At first I didn’t like Neal Stephenson’s “Diamond Age” (1995)—mainly because of Bud. Mainly because of his straightforward dumbness and naïveté. My fear was that I had to follow this guy through 500 pages. Within “Cryptonomicon” (1999) Bobby Shaftoe … Continue reading →
same, same
It’s always the same. Or, “same, same”, as people belonging to certain Asian families of languages use to say. Once in the Transhimalayas we had a caravan’s man taking care of the horses, a fine guy indeed, but, no matter … Continue reading →
two johns
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 most: … Continue reading →
two johns
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 →
delayed access
Just another ‘little’ rant on economized politics reigning academia—skip it if you can’t stand it anymore. Last night I woke up around one o’clock in the morning and couldn’t find sleep again. So, in trying to catch up with … Continue reading →
severe announcement
Computergames can be spectacular, ↑first-person shooters (FPS) in particular. ↑Electronic sports (e-sports) almost always are spectacular. Marketing in turn definitely has to be spectacular. Marketing a computergame for e-sports for sure will be a spectacle. From the beginning on … Continue reading →
id animated
Meanwhile I have sung the song of high praise of ↑David Kushner‘s “Masters of Doom: How two guys created an empire and transformed pop culture” (↵Kushner 2004 [2003]) enough, I guess—and really urged everybody interested in the history of … Continue reading →
high end keyboard
“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 →