Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 150

Dead Media Beat: erasing history, online

*Journalism, history’s first draft, as they used to say when newspapers existed. A special report The Honolulu Advertiser doesn’t exist anymore, but it used to...

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Musica Globalista: The Fall, “A Day in the Life” (1988)

*The Fall covering the Beatles. Who knew?

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Facebook Liberation Army Link List (April 12, 2018)

Facebook Liberation Army Link List (April 12, 2018) Compiled and edited by Geert Lovink & Patricia de Vries (Institute of Network Cultures) Facebook Delete Manuals...

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Social media guy apologizes to the authorities

Technician shamed for lack of core political consciousness Apology and reflection 今日头条的朋友们： Dear friends of Jinri Toutiao: 我真诚地向监管部门致歉，向用户及同事们道歉。 从昨天下午接到监管部门的通知到现在，我一直处在自责和内疚之中，一夜未眠。 I earnestly apologise to regulatory authorities,...

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Le città intelligenti non esistono

Meanwhile, in Italy *Take it away, Google Translator: Le città intelligenti non esistono Bruce Sterling, The Atlantic, Stati Uniti 10 aprile 2018 13.07 The expression...

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Leap Motion Augmented Reality Headset

*What took them so long? They’ve been leaping quite a while now Leap Motion just dropped what may be the biggest tease in Augmented and...

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Dystopia as a luxury genre

*Hey look, it’s an actual “solarpunk” manifesto, sort of. There’s still a lot of hyphen-punk activity around, but it’s rare for one to get up...

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Nicolas Nova speech on French icons of media design

*Mostly DEAD media, which is of course a topic of keen and long-lasting interest here on the blog. Includes the cinematograph and the Jacquard loom!

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The world’s first documented paranoid schizophrenic

*The poor guy’s mind cracked in a French prison while he was awaiting the guillotine during the Terror, an experience that might well have unhinged...

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Olia Lialina “Lossless” show in Zurich

*Tremendous Olia pic should be chiseled in analog granite and hidden for the ages in some Paleolithic art-cave. OLIA LIALINA – LOSSLESS 26.4. – 23.6.2018...

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