I wrote a mini-update on Arse Elektronika over on Words Words Words. It even includes links to an mp3 of our presentation.
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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Made it to SF (barely!)
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Reesa and I are in San Francisco, safe and sound. How close we came to being otherwise is anyone’s guess.
The first leg of our flight was on a US Airways flight. Not only was it the single most cramped and uncomfortable plane I’ve ever been on, but the flight was altogether too eventful. First we [...]
A quote
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
“But there’s another reason that these new media tell stories in different ways from their old media predecessors: They’re telling different stories. TV sitcoms, novels, feature films, and other traditional forms are cages as well as frames. The reason that every sitcom lasts 22 minutes is that no one tries to make sitcoms about stories [...]
Arse Elektronika 2008
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
This week Reesa Brown and I will be attending Arse Elektronika 2008. This year’s theme is “Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?” and we’ll be presenting our paper “What is the 21st-Century Novel?” on Friday. For more details, see our post on Words Words Words.
We’re currently looking for a place to stay in San Francisco. [...]
A quote
Monday, September 8th, 2008
“Which was more likely to happen first: the spontaneously generated idea of an afterlife in which the disembodied soul, liberated from the restrictions of time and space, experiences eternal bliss, or the accidental discovery of hallucinogenic plants that give a sense of euphoria, dislocate the center of consciousness, and distort time and space, making them [...]