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isPermaLink="false">http://gridinoc.name/blog/?p=285</guid> <description><![CDATA[I’m running the next P2PU ‘Introduction in Cyberpunk’ course. One of the aspects I’ll be focusing on is the blending between near-future and present, and between fiction and reality. I found this endorsement on twitter by Lt. Worf to be in this spirit.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gridinoc.name/blog/2010/03/cyberpunk-now/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Haute Couture</title><link>http://gridinoc.name/blog/2009/11/haute-couture/</link> <comments>http://gridinoc.name/blog/2009/11/haute-couture/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:43:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Laurian</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Courses, etc.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cyberpunk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Peer 2 Peer University]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gridinoc.name/blog/?p=251</guid> <description><![CDATA[The alarm clock projected its cardioid waking field over the bed. The substance of his dream started to fade away and crisp reality was pouring in… “Damn it, not again, not when I’m dreaming of her” he shouted, kicking away the clock’s antenna towards the wall. He closed his eyes, she was still there: soft [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gridinoc.name/blog/2009/11/haute-couture/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>“I, Robot.”</title><link>http://gridinoc.name/blog/2009/10/i-robot/</link> <comments>http://gridinoc.name/blog/2009/10/i-robot/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:49:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Laurian</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Courses, etc.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cyberpunk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Peer 2 Peer University]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Postmodernism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Transhumanism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cory Doctorow]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iron Curtain]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://namebound.com/blog/?p=153</guid> <description><![CDATA[I’ve just read Cory Doctorow’s “I, Robot.” I’m stunned. There is no way I can analyse it objectively; as it renders back to life vivid bits of memories from my childhood. Let me explain. I was born behind the so-called “Iron Curtain,” been raised in a communist society where we were taught that we were [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gridinoc.name/blog/2009/10/i-robot/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cyberpunk is dead.</title><link>http://gridinoc.name/blog/2009/10/cyberpunk-is-dead/</link> <comments>http://gridinoc.name/blog/2009/10/cyberpunk-is-dead/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:47:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Laurian</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Courses, etc.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cyberpunk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Peer 2 Peer University]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Postmodernism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Transhumanism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cyberterrorism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philip K. Dick]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ubik]]></category> <category><![CDATA[William Gibson]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://namebound.com/blog/?p=151</guid> <description><![CDATA[“Ubik helps you connect and share with the people in your life. Your friends will say, Christ, I used to think that you weren’t fun. But now, wow!—Safe when your privacy settings match your level of comfort, do not forget to review them often. Avoid prolonged use.” The above paraphrase is a crossbreed between Philip [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gridinoc.name/blog/2009/10/cyberpunk-is-dead/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Here be dragons</title><link>http://gridinoc.name/blog/2009/09/here-be-dragons/</link> <comments>http://gridinoc.name/blog/2009/09/here-be-dragons/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:42:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Laurian</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Courses, etc.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cyberpunk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Peer 2 Peer University]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Postmodernism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Transhumanism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blade Runner]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jean Baudrillard]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nihilism]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://namebound.com/blog/?p=148</guid> <description><![CDATA[“Here be dragons” is a phrase used to denote dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of the medieval practice of putting sea serpents and other mythological creatures in blank areas of maps. (Wikipedia, Here be dragons) As a reaction to the Utopian science fiction (frequently set into a distant glorious future), cyberpunk projected all our [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gridinoc.name/blog/2009/09/here-be-dragons/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Anti-heroes in Cyberpunk</title><link>http://gridinoc.name/blog/2009/09/anti-heroes-cyberpunk/</link> <comments>http://gridinoc.name/blog/2009/09/anti-heroes-cyberpunk/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:37:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Laurian</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Courses, etc.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cyberpunk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Peer 2 Peer University]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Postmodernism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Transhumanism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Matrix]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://namebound.com/blog/?p=145</guid> <description><![CDATA[Technically an anti-hero lacks the attributes of the hero, of the “knight in the shining armour” type. I believe that one particular aspect of not being a (classical) hero is the use deception, living double lives, etc. In The Matrix, Neo lives a double life: he works a dull cubicle job by day, helps his [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gridinoc.name/blog/2009/09/anti-heroes-cyberpunk/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cyberpunk</title><link>http://gridinoc.name/blog/2009/09/cyberpunk/</link> <comments>http://gridinoc.name/blog/2009/09/cyberpunk/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:33:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Laurian</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Courses, etc.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cyberpunk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Peer 2 Peer University]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Postmodernism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Transhumanism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blade Runner]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ghost in the Shell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Neuromancer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[P2PU]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Matrix]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://namebound.com/blog/?p=142</guid> <description><![CDATA[Science fiction—before the cyberpunk split—was more or less different retellings of the same archetypes where aliens replaced ghosts and monsters, space replaced the oceans and technology replaced magic. This provided the grounds for scientific speculations,—and for a long time that was the main theme—and that was the fuel of the (technical) imagination of the mankind. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gridinoc.name/blog/2009/09/cyberpunk/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bruce Sterling’s reboot 11 closing talk, via speech recognition</title><link>http://gridinoc.name/blog/2009/07/bruce-sterling-reboot11/</link> <comments>http://gridinoc.name/blog/2009/07/bruce-sterling-reboot11/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:33:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Laurian</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Cyberpunk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Postmodernism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Transhumanism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bruce Sterling]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Favela Chic]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gothic high tech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[speech recognition]]></category><guid
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isPermaLink="false">http://localhost:8888/blog/?p=39</guid> <description><![CDATA[I just saw an article about how a brain pacemaker revived a man who was a ‘vegetable’ for 6 years. Previously deep brain stimulation (DBS) was used to treat Parkinson disease, clinical depression, etc. While brain stimulation as concept is around since 1940s, until now there was not enough knowledge and techniques to identify where in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gridinoc.name/blog/2007/08/deep-brain-stimulation/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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