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Difference Engine 20th anniversary edition
mostlysignssomeportents: Hard to believe it’s been 20 years since the original publication of The Difference Engine, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s seminal cyberpunk alternate history about a Victorian England dominated by mechanical computers. I was privileged to write the introduction to this 20th Anniversary special edition, which also includes new material from Bill and Bruce…
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Ellsworth Kelly, Untitled – Green with Red, 1964-1965
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thedavidoreilly: ICYMI: these rigs are free to use. And a bunch are now compatible with Unity. 💙 http://davidoreilly.com/downloads (Source: http://blog.davidoreilly.com/)
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Cuteness is a way of aestheticizing powerlessness. It hinges on a sentimental attitude toward the diminutive and/or weak, which is why cute objects—formally simple or noncomplex, and deeply associated with the infantile, the feminine, and the unthreatening—get even cuter when perceived as injured or disabled. So there’s a sadistic side to this tender emotion, as…
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sagansense: theverge: SpaceX’s emergency escape plan for astronauts was just tested successfully. Boom. History in the making, space cadets…
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Feliz cinco de mayo. Asi celebran los expertos.
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andreblyth: A misty shore; watching others drift. http://andreblyth.itch.io/boat André’s show of his games and prints is opening soon in Denver, Colorado, USA.
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Jonne Arjoranta defended his PhD thesis at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) with Espen Aarseth as opponent/discussant. His work is titled ‘Real-time hermeneutics: meaning-making in ludonarrative digital games’ and is a study of how ludonarrative videogames, videogames that combine game elements with narrative elements, express and convey meaning. The thesis “uses philosophical tools to analyze meaning in games. The philosophical hermeneutics of…
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warrenellis: In video games, there is the concept of a dungeon that generates itself: an endlessly mutating death labyrinth. Cave Exits sets this living structure inside a 4-channel video cube. Recalling the way we interact with online media – clicking, zooming, scrolling – it turns the visual archetype of the labyrinth into a circuit board…
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West’s politics are performative, and are not tied to the printed word. Is he at times a bit theatrical, sometimes appearing self-indulgent? That seems a minor, if not irrelevant, criticism compared to his ongoing attempts to fuse theory with action, and reach into history in order to reclaim those elements of public memory long forgotten.…