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Parallel Kitcheners
A list of suggested names for Berlin, Ontario, during the period before it changed its name to Kitchener, including Mechano, Hydropolis and Industria.
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Imaginary Media: TEDx Waterloo 2010 (video)
My TEDx Waterloo 2010 talk on imaginary media, featuring Spock’s Science Station, the Difference Engine, Reed Richards, several pneumatic tubes and a cat who may or may not be in the box.
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Goodbye To All That: The Death of Bookstores
The last year of the first decade of the 21st century will be remembered as the year the bookstores died in Canada.
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theanyspacewhatever: Field Notes
Notes and pictures from theanyspacewhatever, the Guggenheim Relational Aesthetics show.
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Our Own Devices: Art Through Camera Screens
In order to experience a work of art (especially when it’s right in front of us), perhaps we have to see it through our camera screens.
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Say What Again: Avant-Garde As Software (video)
The forms of the 20th-century avant-gardes, which were once so far outside of the mainstream of culture, have become smoothly functioning components of the vast digital machines that we use to sell things to each other.
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Zero Punctuation: The Lester Bangs of Video Gaming
Contra Chuck Klosterman, is there a Lester Bangs of video game writing? Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw’s Zero Punctuation suggests that the answer is “fuck yes.”
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Status Update: “Literature for the Focus-Challenged”
Update lessens the bite of social networking economics by taking the names of the dead in vain.
