Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 48

Other kinds of American Katrinas

*If you’ve ever been to Phoenix when it’s crazily hot, or California when it’s on fire, or seen incoming hurricane floods, these scenarios feel plausible....

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Spime Watch: Digital Twin machine tools

*There are a lot of subtle oddities in this rather dry promotional piece. Siemens and their giant machines to make giant machines (…) Siemens enthusiastically...

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Dead Media Beat: antique blogs

*Some people still listen to 8-track tapes, too. Blogs may be dead, but Google Plus is lots deader Any old-school bloggers still posting? August 27,...

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Operator Axe

*I’m in the market for an axe, but for my purposes the feature list here may be overkill.

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The Universal Exposition in Torino, 1911

*The height of Turin’s belle époque, and the beauty of these temporary fair structures is unearthly.

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“I Create Fake Videos,” and of course people believe her

*Interesting line of work. They eat the blue pill and they believe whatever they wanna believe BY CHRISTYE SISSON5 MINUTE READ Lots of people—including Congress—are...

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Marina Abramovic in Belgrade

*I plan to show up. September 15, 2019 Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Serbia Marina Abramovic, The Cleaner, 2017. B&W Photograph. Photo: Marco Anelli. Courtesy...

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Showtime: “The Art of Fugue,” Japanese computer graphics from 1968

*I would probably collect this if it was collectible.

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Collecting in the age of digital reproduction

*Always a tech-art topic of interest. There’s always a lot to say about it, especially if you are Casey Reas Collecting In The Age Of...

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The women of Lafcadio Hearn

A rather interesting topic, now that you bring that up *The women of Lafadio Hearn. Yeah, what about them, shacked up with such a bohemian...

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