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Felix Meritis Paul Groot
Reality Engineering and the Computer (en)
31Aug 20012Sep 2001At the end of August 2001, Mediamatic organised in cooperation with The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University a symposium
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1996
vol. 8#4 The Religion Issue
Editorial: Are People the Gods of the Algorithms?
The word avatar does not occur in this issue of Mediamatic.
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Amsterdam
Theater Adhoc #1
16Sep 200518Dec 2005Theater Adhoc is on tour: theather for the beta oriented, philosophers, poets and the rest of the curious world. A combination of interviews with academici and performances by artists and musicians.
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Watson
Art, Class & Cleavage
Is it an act of foolishness to call for a resurrection of radical Marxist thought in the face of the overwhelming rise of liberalism under the sign of postmodernism? Judging by Art, Class & Cleavage
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Book: Ben Watson
Art, Class & Cleavage
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Information Macht Krieg
The emergence of electronic information war as a chance to marginalise the armed forces: this thought stands central in the review below. Reasoning from the idea that in order to carry out InfoWar
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Davis
Techgnosis
False gods born from oceans of silicon, whispering cabalistic secrets while battling ancient and not-so-ancient philosophers bleeding demented words of light... Satanic machines faxing amongst...
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Book: Erik Davis 1 Jan 1998
Techgnosis
Myth, Magic & Mysticism in the Age of Information
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Book: Keith Ansell Pearson 1 Jan 1999
Germinal Life
The Difference and Repetition of Deleuze
A sequel to the highly successful Viroid Life. Where Viroid Life provided a compelling reading of Nietzsche's philosophy of the human, Germinal Life is an original and groundbreaking analysis of...
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Book: Ray Edgar, Ashley Crawford 1 Jan 1997
Transit Lounge, Wake-Up Calls & Travellers
Tales from the Future
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Maurice Specht 1 Jan 2002
What Happened in Reality
As with all programmes, they never function the way they are written, and the programme of this symposium was no exception. Unfortunately some of the speakers were unable to attend. However enough...
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Salon Mediamatic Supermarkt 1 Jan 2003
Mediamatic SuperSalon
1Jan 2003Featuring Berliner Gazette, Florian Kosak, Suat Özkan, Nezaket Ekici, Paola and Meshmet
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#1 Ger Peeters 1 Jan 1992
Mulder
Arjen Mulder, Het buitenmediale, Perdu Amsterdam 1991
Al lezend in het Buitenmediale van Arjen Mulder moet ik aan een ooit op een andere plek gelezen anekdote denken. Daarin wordt het verhaal verteld van een toerist die de toppen van de bergen wil...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1993
Müller-Pohle
Andreas Müller-Pohle, European Photography Vilém Flusser Issue, European Photography, Göttingen 1992
The fiftieth issue of this West German periodical is devoted to the philosopher Vilém Flusser, who died in an automobile accident in November 1991. Until now, Flusser's writings have been known only...
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Maurice Specht 1 Jan 2002
Better Than Fantasy
A Three-day Trip
Looking back on the three days of intensive talking, listening, looking and experiencing, I can't feel but having been on a journey, a trip.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1993
Bolz
Norbert Bolz, Chaos und Simulation, W. Fink Verlag 1992
Die Welt als Chaos und als Simulation is the third book in a series by German media philosopher Norbert Bolz.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1993
Rötzer, Weibel
Florian Rötzer & Peter Weibel, Strategien de Scheins Kunst Computer Medien, Klaus Boer Verlag, München 1991
This collection might be called a good sequel to Rötzer's Digitaler Schein (see Mediamatic 6#4). Strategien des Scheins contains edited lectures from the congress held on the occasion of the opening...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#1 Bert Mulder 1 Jan 1992
Alexander
Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language, Oxford University Press 1977
We build information systems: hundreds of people sitting in front of screens that glow and that, interconnected, create an environment supporting their works and desires.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1993
Woolley
Benjamin Woolley, Virtual Worlds: A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality, Oxford UK & Cambridge USA 1992
Those who are made physically ill by hippies like Leary, Lanier and Barlow, who are interested in virtual reality but want to keep a cool head, can now turn to the civilized Benjamin Woolley.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#1 Arjen Mulder 1 Jan 1992
Ronell
Avital Ronell, Crack Wars: Literature Addiction Mania, University of Illinois Press 2004
There is no theory of drugs concludes Ronell in her new book. Jumping on the bandwagon of the current war on drugs, she focuses attention on the 19th-century, the period when heavy use became...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1993
Wetzel
Michael Wetzel, Die Enden des Buches oder die Wiederkehr der Schrift, Acta Humaniora Weinheim 1991
For a number of years, Michael Wetzel was coordinator of the (now closed) Kassel research project Metadisciplinary Literature Analysis. In this capacity, he is well-informed on the state of affairs...
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Matthijs Wolzak
Studeert Toegepaste Cognitieve Psychologie aan de Universiteit Utrecht