Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 682
February 25, 2010
AliCe' the Italian street-art paste-up artiste
*I am shocked, shocked to learn that art is occurring on the streets of Europe without permission.
Dead Media Beat: Web Heritage
*It's pleasant to have lived long enough to see the emergence of the concept of "web heritage." Eventually one foresees the emergence of a British "web heritage economy" where historically-dressed characters with cathode-ray desktops are cruising through text-files.
*Nice to see that the BBC is so blandly accepting of this idea, too. In the meantime, the US-based International Intellectual Property Alliance is keen to have open-source people expunged from the planet for thoughtcrime. "And n...
February 24, 2010
Big day for the altermodern, the off-modern and postmodern 2.0
http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article02181002.aspx
Idle Chatter
Postmodern Man
The second generation is here, and boy does it feel right.
By Morgan Meis
It's been more than 30 years since Jean-François Lyotard closed the historical door on Modernism.
It was 1979, to be exact, when Lyotard published The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Rumors of the death of Modernism had been swirling for years. But death comes in stages, especially when the mortally wounded is a "movement" or ...
Design for Deep Time
*Deep geologic repositories. Mostly design-fiction. Except in, uh, Finland.
http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/containing-uncertainity-design-for-infinite-quarantine/
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Through our research, we discovered that the deep geologic repository is a bit of a fiction, at least in 2010. Our recent image search for "deep geologic repository" in Google returned numerous plans for repositories around the world, including Germany, Sweden, Japan, United Kingdom, China and of course the United...
Creative Destruction as destructive destruction
*Lotta authors eloquently moaning about Google this season. Don't wanna do that myself, just don't have the time for it, but here is British author Nick Harkaway engaging in an actual critique of some no-kidding existent capitalism, ie Google. Thesis: Google's not an evil capitalist ultramastermind because Google is so obviously making it up as they go along.
*Without even bothering to imagine an endgame that somehow resolves into anything that can be melted down in a Marxist analysis.
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I'm with Žižek
*Never thought I'd say that one. There must be something goin' on, if me and ol' Slavoj are seeing eye to eye.
https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/88/birth-of-altermodern.html
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"And now, entering a new era of humanity where postmodernity is slipping into altermodernity, we find that the binaries we rejected are not only blurring but finally collapsing. Unable to say with any certainty what is real or virtual, human or animal, organic or genetically modified, some wish to resuscitate again...
February 23, 2010
The USA and Canada no longer exist
*Way to go Raul! Hasta la victoria siempre!
http://www.ain.cubaweb.cu/idioma/ingl...
Community of Latin American and Caribbean States is Born
HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 23 (acn) Felipe Calderon, President of Mexico, announced the creation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States at the Summit of the Latin America and Caribbean Unity, underway in Cancun. (((Henceforth to be known as 'CLACS')))
Cuban News Agency (((soon to be the Western Hemisphere's only surviving ...
Jesse Schell: future of games from DICE 2010
*Another precious half hour out of your life. However: if you're into interaction design, ubiquity, social networking, and trendspotting, in the gaming biz or out of it, you're gonna wanna do yourself a favor and listen to this.
*All that leapy bleepy stuff that was stuck in game consoles till now? This Schell guy thinks it's gonna get up and walk. Games, getting all augmenty and embedded in physicality. It's like a Gibsonian "cyberspace eversion" for Super Mario.
* I wouldn't have put ...
How Google's Algorithm Rules the Web
*Steven Levy in Mountain View. That's some no-kidding heavy-duty tech journalism going on over there. I'd suggest bracketing out twenty minutes to relieve your naivete.
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_google_algorithm/all/1
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