Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 63

The routine of the Workshop for Potential Literature

Harry Mathews, the American member of the Oulipo Group INTERVIEWER  What exactly happens at an Oulipo meeting?  MATHEWS  We have a very strict agenda. First...

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Musica Globalista: DJ from Outer Space

*He’s not playing the entire Earth — he’s playing a cruise ship, just like a real DJ. Which, I suppose, he properly is, or will...

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Dead Media Beat: “The Thing” Lives Again

*Wow, the legendary “Thing.” Most of it, anyhow. “Although much of the material from the original BBS has not survived in intact or public form,...

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Spam, Anti-Spam, Data, and Drugs

*I truly feel sorry for this guy, but I should probably feel even sorrier for the rest of us, who “lost the Internet’s first culture...

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Automata Farm “Believe It Yourself”

*I kind of believe I can post this through a smartphone on an Adriatic island. This might work, who knows (…) We worked with experts...

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Eyebeam 20th anniversary, featuring Paola Antonelli

We’re major fans here on the blog

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Augmented reality glasses that pretty much look like glasses

*Been expecting the likes of these for quite a while; it’s nice when the arrival of something that was very glamorous and sci-fi is rather...

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Gene Kogan: “The Neural Aesthetic”

*Be there or be square, technology art fans.

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The Maker scene has hit the financial wall

*Oh lordy. Well, fifteen years, that’s half a generation. Welcome to the post-Internet. https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/07/mak... Financial troubles have forced Maker Media, the company behind crafting publication...

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Theresa May leaves office

*A farewell present from the people who were her allies.

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