Akkurat nå (og i morgen) på Studentersamfundet. Skaperen av Cannibal Holocaust kommer. Kan du være dårligere?
Til inspirasjon
Eller: Noen burde gjøre noe slikt her på fjellet også.
The Games of Satan
It’s been a while since «we» were under attack, so maybe it’s time to revisit this thing. I mean, water under the bridge and all. It’s all settled down, now, so perhaps certain things can now be said without causing undue burning of books and howling and looting of the streets.
Because, well, yes, gamers really are satanic. Not all of them, of course, but a fair few. Not just to the kind of people who find a nice morning stroll to be satanic if it raises an amount of sweat that might be considered lascivious (though, like me, those people are usually rather uncertain what that word really means. No, I refuse to submit to the Gøøgle at this time). Not even «satanic» like the Harry Potter books. But satanic by the definition of the world’s majority religions; those of them which come with a satan included, that is. [Read more…]
Cyberpunk in the nineties
Cyberpunk was a voice of Bohemia – Bohemia in the 1980’s. The technosocial changes loose in contemporary society were bound to affect its counterculture. Cyberpunk was the literary incarnation of this phenomenon. And the phenomenon is still growing. Communication technologies in particular are becoming much less respectable, much more volatile, and increasingly in the hands of people you might not introduce to your grandma.
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Atlas Shrugged som nerdehevnporr
[John Scalzi’s kommentar] passer fint sammen med [Å gå galt].
Dette pratet om aspergers, forresten? Hvorfor det? Å sette diagnoser på folk man er uenige med er ikke en produktiv debattstrategi. Greit nok at den radikale individualismen i stoffet vi snakker om grenser mot en apologi for rein, kaklende «jeg vil ta over verden med mitt eget antarktiske fort og en privat hær» type ondskap. Men hold deg til ballen, Scalzi, ikke klipp ned naive bebrillede filosofispirer med et velrettet kneskålspark, selv om det er så mye lettere.