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From BRUCE STERLING, Wired,  21 Nov 2009

Henry Jenkins’ notes on interstitial arts

*Okay, first, just have a look at THIS: “Tears of the Black Tiger,” a modern Thai cinema effort: “Paradoxically, though, genres have had a tighter hold on our imagination in recent years as the range of cultural choice has broadened and audiences have ...

From BRUCE STERLING, Wired,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Henry Jenkins,  Bollywood

Avatar Machine

“Avatar Machine is a system which replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character in real space via a head mounted interface. “The system potentially allows for a diminished ...

From BRUCE STERLING, Wired,  21 Nov 2009

Kundalini Shock Attack

*American pop music used to be full of white middle-class Anglo kids who had taken some LSD and gotten all “weird.” Nowadays we’ve got pop music by extremely dissociative, utterly globalized networked kids who enjoy backpacking in the Hindu Kush while ...

From BRUCE STERLING, Wired,  21 Nov 2009

The joy of intimidating peacenik troublemakers through their license plates

*Can’t wait to see the law and order surge as girlfriends of prominent Tory politicians are marked “of interest.” That would sure make great fodder for another anti-Tory “desperate housewives” sex blog. *In fact, given the fact that “mission creep” in ...

From BRUCE STERLING, Wired,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: UK Conservative Party

Futurist Fantascienza: La fina del mondo, 1921

*I consider myself fairly hip about Italian futurismo, but I never before heard a whisper about a futurist space-travel novel in 1921 involving a genocide on Jupiter. “Vincenzo Fani Ciotti, known to history under his Futurist pseudonym ‘Volt’, strode ...

From BRUCE STERLING, Wired,  20 Nov 2009

Spime Watch: ProForma

If you're not yet registered with Wired.com, join now so you can share your thoughts and opinions. Password must be at least 6 characters. Please send me occasional e-mail updates about new features and special offers from Wired. Please send occasional ...

From BRUCE STERLING, Wired,  20 Nov 2009

Predictions 2010: The future of Twitter, Google, everything else

*Okay, these Seattle venture-capital guys are blowing smoke, but I like it that they’re blowing such specific smoke. It’s like they’re blowing smoke-rings. On the panel were Kelly Smith, founding partner, Curious Office; Greg Gottesman, managing ...

From BRUCE STERLING, Wired,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Google Inc.,  Facebook Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation,  Kelly Smith

The Coming Uranium Famine

*That ought to prove interesting, if there’s anything to it. *Inevitable peak-uranium pro-nuke / anti-nuke cranks are invited to go comment on the Technology Review blog, where you’ll find plenty of flame-flinging company to assure you that you have no ...

From BRUCE STERLING, Wired,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

Blogger Donkey Hooligans

*Y’know, it’s the donkey angle that really makes this all-too-common story. The “violence” angle is neither here nor there, as the secret police send plainclothes goons to publicly wallop people, and then accuse them of violent hooliganism when they ...

From BRUCE STERLING, Wired,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Reporters Without Borders,  Thomas Hammarberg

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