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Luca @ July 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
“‘I suffer from attention surplus disorder,’ jokes a character in Anathem. Attention surplus is exactly what Stephenson teaches his readers, in a book so tightly crafted it rewards instant rereading.” - Stewart Brand
“It is a great story, set in an alternative reality where people take long-term thinking seriously.” - Danny Hillis
“Long […]
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Luca @ July 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Eric Kluitenberg, Delusive Spaces: Essays on Culture, Media and Technology, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam and the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2007.
The formerly open terrain of the new media is closing fast: market concentration, legal consolidation and tightening governmental control have effectively ended the myth of the new media networks as the home of the […]
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Luca @ June 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Have you ever wondered what’s behind a perfect Tetris-wall?
Have you ever freed a 3D world from terrorists?
Have you ever made polygon friends in networked fantasy realms?
And do you know what happens when these games never end?
The richly illustrated texts in “Space Time Play” cover a wide range of gamespaces: from milestone video and computer games […]
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Luca @ January 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
An Atlas of Radical Cartography
Edited by Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat
Published by the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press
Purchase online at www.joaap.org
An Atlas of Radical Cartography is a collection of 10 maps and 10 essays about social issues from globalization to garbage; surveillance to extraordinary rendition; statelessness to visibility; deportation to migration. It pairs artists, […]
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Ilari Valbonesi @ January 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
French philosopher, novelist, and essayist, Simone de Beauvoir was born 100 years ago.
Her work “The Second Sex “was originally published as a two-volume book in France. “It was begun in October it 946 and finished in June 1949; but I spent four months of 1947 in America, and America Day by Day kept […]
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Ilari Valbonesi @ November 9, 2007 # No Comment Yet
“If you’re remixing popular music you change the rhythm or the sound-What I do is something entirely different. I have thought for a long time about what to call what I do. I liked the word ‘remix’ because it comes from youth culture.
What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.”
GEORG BASELITZ, […]
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Ilari Valbonesi @ November 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Video Debut of young torero Andrés Roca Rey, El Andi, at Segunda Corrida de la Feria del Señor de los Milagros 2007, filmed by Danny Alarcón - TorosTV
The sun rises and the sun sets, and to its place it yearns and rises there.
Kohelet - Chapter 1, 5
In 1925, Hemingway attended the festival of San […]
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Ilari Valbonesi @ October 5, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The Stanley Kubrick Exhibition will take place in Rome at Palazzo delle Esposizioni from October 6, 2007 to January 6, 2008. The exhibition in a co-operation between ¬ Deutsches Filmmuseum and the ¬ Deutsches Architektur Museum in Frankfurt am Main which, shows primary material - for the first time accessed - from the Kubrick […]
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