The 'New Working Class'

February 2, 2004 @ 17:41

I'm reading an ancient *cough* 1960 *cough* article, titled The 'New Working Class' (Lockwood, David (1960) "The 'New Working Class'," European Journal of Sociology, Vol....

Cayce

September 11, 2003 @ 16:54

Google sent someone this way, looking for: "pattern recognition" cayce pronounce This one's simple to answer actually: "Cayce" is pronounced as "Case." That's right, Case...

Holiday books

August 27, 2003 @ 13:18

A couple of quick lines about the books I've read during the holidays, in chronological order. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by...

Gibson writes

August 20, 2003 @ 15:14

  History erased via the substitution of an identical object   on page 194 of Pattern Recognition, and triggers every paradigmatically rigged neuron I possess....

I give up

August 18, 2003 @ 13:07

As I wrote a while ago, I've been meaning to buy Cory Doctorow's novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. I prefer a bound...

Down and out

June 30, 2003 @ 15:56

So I read a great quote from Cory Doctorow's novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, which has been on my wishlist for quite...

Danny reviews

March 18, 2003 @ 21:09

I remember I was quite impressed by the constant stream of reviews Danny Yee put out when I was on the Anthro-L mailinglist, long long...

Bookmark

November 21, 2002 @ 15:02

There's a one dollar bill in my copy of Cyberspace: First Steps as a bookmark....

1000 Game heroes

October 7, 2002 @ 21:56

As I'm researching the construction and representation of gender in computer-mediated environments, I bought the Digital Beauties book almost a year ago. For the best...

Done

September 5, 2002 @ 11:27

In the meanwhile I've finished Jon Courtenay Grimwood's Pashazade: The First Arabesque and Cory Doctorow's short story 0wnz0red. I'm rather impressed by Pashazade and I...