Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 64

New Rodney Brooks robot company

*He’s had his hits and he’s had his flops, but I’ll be watching. Industrial grade cognition (…) New Silicon Valley robotics startup Robust.AI aims, firstly,...

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Nicolas Nova on Speculative Design and Design Fiction

*I take this guy with such extreme seriousness that I even admire his photography. Prof Nova waxing eloquent Nicolas Nova is a multi-disciplinary researcher working...

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Science Fiction Belgrade

Hey thanks, search engine Science Fiction Belgrade Imagining different realities in the works of Enki Bilal and Aleksa Gajić by Srđan Tunić This essay is...

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The 13th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games: St Petersburg RU

*Sounds thrilling! Haven’t seen Petrograd in ages! The 13th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games: The Aesthetics of Computer Games Conference Committee: Program...

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Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto

*I dunno if you can watch five artists go on about their labors for an hour, but the first minutes of this are an actual...

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Bizarre chemosynthetic worm

*That is a strange organism, basically a bucket of bacteria. No mouth, no gut, scarcely a worminess, even (…) But electron microscopy revealed the secret:...

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The Software Arts by Warren Sack

*Book looks interesting. MIT Press, they can bring the weirdness Summary An alternative history of software that places the liberal arts at the very center...

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L’OSOSPHÈRE

*If they wanted you to read it in English they would have WRITTEN IT in English. L’OSOSPHÈRE L’Ososphère 2009, Quartier de La Laiterie © Groslier...

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The new Next Nature book is here

*I bet it’s pretty good even though it’s currently only in the Dutch language. https://www.nextnature.net/2019/05/ne... The new Next Nature book is here! NEXTNATURE.NET MAY 28TH...

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Meanwhile, at NOME Gallery in Berlin

POSTCENTRAL A group show curated by Navine G.Khan-Dossos With artists: Zach Blas, Jesse Darling, Marjolijn Dijkman, Antye Guenther, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Kirsten Stolle, Addie Wagenknecht,...

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