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the vampire penis puppet torture is not here.

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a thesis on gibson and cyberpunk, part 3

We are getting to the interesting part now - chapter three, the body. Kroker's postmodern panic theory, how Wired's ex-chief ed Kevin Kelly thinks about how our body is basically a giant chemical ramen and something I called the bureaucratization of the body into organs, all of which are theoretized around the body without the mind. You'll get even more interesting things when we get to idorus and robot sluts. Check out part one and part two - they're fun to read. I know, I wrote them.

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the future belongs to me

(via warrenellis via wurzeltod)

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death beat club 008, the noble eightfold bandwidth

Hat éve írtam egy könyvet (”könyvet”), elmentettem és úgyhagytam, néha kipostoltam belőle részeket, aztán kitöröltem őket, hadd maradjon exkluzív az élmény. Most elővettem, kiporolom és felrakom ide anélkül, hogy kiadnám, ha nem tudok jobbat írni ennél, meg is érdemlem. A nyolcadik részben: miért jók az alpha blending szentjei, hogyan karoljuk fel az amnéziásokat és hogyan itassunk három hétig állni hagyott tejet a céges megrendelőkkel. Ez egy ilyen nap ma, enjoy. (On the pic: Porphyria, photo by Reagan Lam.)

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a thesis on gibson and cyberpunk, part 2

We need space but we're no longer bound by static, locally defined place. Spooky, is it not, like the way Desolation Jones talks about how cities are nowadays made to traverse them, not living in them, luxury flats the colour of airports. This is the second part of the thesis I wrote on the role of bodies in the works of William Gibson and here's the second part about cyberspace, something I called The approximation of location. Click here for the first part, click more for more. (woot.)

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death beat club 007, keep fucking it up

Hat éve írtam egy könyvet (”könyvet”), elmentettem és úgyhagytam, néha kipostoltam belőle részeket, aztán kitöröltem őket, hadd maradjon exkluzív az élmény. Most elővettem, kiporolom és felrakom ide anélkül, hogy kiadnám, ha nem tudok jobbat írni ennél, meg is érdemlem. A hetedik rész véletlenszerű válogatás, több korábbi fejezetből, amiben nincsen sisakrostély, nem recézünk falat tányérokkal és a birtoklás nem büntetés, pedig így indult egy hosszú bekezdés. Ez az öncenzúra napja ma, enjoy.

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a thesis on gibson and cyberpunk, part 1

The mind is a glorious thing to waste and I had five years to shred my gorgeous headmeat into mindflakes being an English major. English majors don't exactly do anything worth their while and their diploma is a strong proof that they speak English more or less, which is, by the way, a strong prerequisite. (So I really, really had to start doing radio shows and copywriting instead of becoming a.... yes, anyways.) And there's also a question of the thesis you have to write and everyone expects you either to write on Shakespearean tragedies, lesbian rapist literary theory (you wish) or postmodernism, this latter being something very trendy at the time. So me, wanting to be trendy and very unique all at once, stuck with cyberpunk, calling it postmodernist science fiction. And trust me, they were hooked. So much that my advisor thought that using a literary theory book on the homosexual white male body from the ancient Greek times to the 20th century could immensely fortify this thing I would write on, you know, hackers in hoodies, energy drinks and metal spikes that you jack into your slut body and you suddenly become an internet with eel porn and Cherenkov squirting videos.

So I actually decided to post this thesis in a few parts, firstly because I will seriously need to post some original stuff here and if it's not, nothing is. (Half of it is stolen, by the way, as it is with all literature theses, you just don't have the balls to admit that.) Secondly, the last part will contain two short parts that the advisor threw back as being pieces of journalism, not academic pieces of writing. I actually took them as compliments. Oh yes. When all that crap is posted, you'll get the scribd link.
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gibson's bridge city could become real

In a detailed proposal for what they call The Bay Line, the architects suggest the bridge could be a series of public parks with neighborhoods hanging beneath the bridge. This is a more suburban version of what happens in William Gibson's novel Virtual Light, where squatters take up residence on the bridge after it is partly destroyed. (via io9)

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