Well, so long, "California Ideology"

*It's a recent screed from the current editor of WIRED magazine. *If you're enough of a greybeard nettime OG to remember nettime's vague feud with WIRED and its techno-libertarian principles, this is likely to be one of the funniest things you've read in quite a while. *If you've never heard of

California Ideology mea culpa

"Our beloved 'California Ideology'! It's ended in tears! If only we'd been more Canadian all along!" *November 8, 2016, the day Silicon Valley turned wicked, evil, a curse to a disbelieving mankind... Well, it's nice to have a date set, at least. *They'll get over it, after some hand-wring

The Maker Movement is abandoned by its corporate sponsors; throws in the towel

*Well, so much for the O’Reilly Web 2.0 version of popular mechanics. Fifteen years is not too bad a run by the standards of an increasingly jittery California Ideology. Now what? — Bruce S Maker Media goes broke https://hackaday.com/2019/06/07/maker-media-ceases-operations/ Over the years

"California Feudalism"

*The upshot of the California Ideology, or, “Gold rushes finish ugly”. — bruces http://www.newgeography.com/files/Feudalism_Web.pdf (…) California’s Recent Evolution California’s economic diversity, which spans agriculture, home-building, aerospace, entertainment and tech, has long provided e

Cyberpunks who were right about everything, but so what

Keith Hart Re: Facebook’s “toxic” global lobbying (…) Since 1914-18, there has only been one political question. Which form will rule the world. By analogy, do you think the Roman empire would allow a civil war in Italy? Americans are so parochial. It suits their rulers for them to be so.

Share Festival 2019 "Ghosts"

*Meanwhile, in Turin, an excellent city for the event’s chosen theme: https://www.toshareproject.it/en/share-prize-ghosts/ Share Festival, the Italian exhibition of contemporary tech art and science, with the Artistic Direction of Bruce Sterling announces the opening of the call. The theme of

Share Festival in Torino needs Frankensteins

*Do you have a monstrous Frankenstein device in your closet? Look at the stellar caliber of that tech-art jury, ladies and gentlemen. It’s critical that we keep these people entertained. Bruce Sterling SHARE PRIZE XI EDITION - JURY Share Festival, the Italian art fair of electronic art

YOU SHOULD HAVE README

*Dear nettimers: I have the warmest and kindliest feelings about Geert’s remarks and about the list itself, which is lively lately. On mature consideration, I feel that I have to extensively annotate this Lovink post. *I'll try to be constructive. From: Geert Lovink Dear all, social media c

The Balkan soft robotics of the Venice Biennale 2017

*It violates my principles to annoy the Nettime list with science fiction, but this is a science-fictional intervention so 110% Nettime that there’s something hysterical about it. — bruces http://www.e-flux.com/architecture/artificial-labor/140675/the-beachcomber-of-novi-kotor/

"The Tools and the Tribute," an essay by Bruce Sterling

https://medium.com/@bruces/the-tools-and-the-tribute-c0ef12bf911b <https://medium.com/@bruces/the-tools-and-the-tribute-c0ef12bf911b> The Tools and the Tribute Bruce Sterling Share Festival is a Turinese cultural event where we solicit technology artworks worldwide. We award a pri

"The Tools and the Tribute," an essay by Bruce Sterling

https://medium.com/@bruces/the-tools-and-the-tribute-c0ef12bf911b <https://medium.com/@bruces/the-tools-and-the-tribute-c0ef12bf911b> The Tools and the Tribute Bruce Sterling Share Festival is a Turinese cultural event where we solicit technology artworks worldwide. We award a pri

Share Festival Torino and the forthcoming "Artmaker" tool set

*If you're in Turin at the end of the month, drop by and help us break our thumbs with specialized net.art hardware. *You've still got a week to enter the show, too. Bruce Sterling SHARE FESTIVAL 2017 ANNOUNCES ITS STAR JURY AND THE SHARE “ARTMAKER” Piemonte Share Festival, the I

Autumnal Net Critique under existent social conditions

*I'm as touched by nettime-list nostalgia as anybody else here -- (since I was the first guy of American nationality to sign up for the ordeal) -- but sometimes I think nettime ought to wise up and declare victory. It's nettime's world and we just live in it. *Check out this narrat

A new work of fiction by Bruce Sterling

*What audience could possibly comprehend all the blackly humorous in-jokes in a political satire written for Swedish PEN on the subject of Internet espionage? *Wait a minute -- nettime would get all that. Hey yeah. That's perfect for them. http://www.dissidentblog.org/en/articles/nexiste-pas

Has nettime's spam kritik has upgraded to phishing attacks?

t of my message and geolocate itself here in California? bruces From: nettim...@kein.org Subject:Re: Science Fiction Writer Becomes Augmented Reality Developer Date: 19 August 2011 01.46.47 GMT-07.00 To: Bruce Sterling I am out of office right now and will get back to you wh

Science Fiction Writer Becomes Augmented Reality Developer

enter "Visionary in Residence" Bruce Sterling has created his own augmented reality. "Sometimes it's easiest to teach by doing," said the novelist and design critic, speaking from Art Center's "Reality Augmented" Lab in Pasadena. "I used to write scienc

Literal Net Art

*I wonder why it took me so long to find this. This Japanese-Canadian personage is a self-described net artist who makes art with big fabric nets. http://iwan.com/photo_Hakone_Pavilion_Tezuka.php "Toshiko Horiuchi Macadam is one of Japan's leading fibre artists, and one of a very small