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There's been a bit of technical glitch which is now fixed, and so I'm back in Barnsborough once again! And that's quite strange ...

Marking Penguin's reissue of six of William Gibson's novels, yesterday's Guardian ran a good article on the godfather of cyberp...

'The analog is always a fold ahead' (Massumi, 2002:143). He really does have a way with words. And sometimes he gets quite cross. Y...

What you don't say or write about can be as interesting as what you do. I mean this in a particular kind of way, though - not in the sen...

I've been (re)turning to the virtual, once again. Yesterday I was interviewed in SL by a docotoral student. That was interesting because...

I've been looking back at writing on virtual reality and virtual worlds to help me in shaping my editorial contribution to the forth...

Yes, why not go for the plural - we are so accustomed to thinking of VR as a singular thing which it most clearly is not. Heim, who I re...

Now that the Guardian is available on Kindle it seems as if some sort of order has been restored. I don't have to read the Independ...

Michael Heim's 'The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality' makes for a curious read in that it was published in what seems like an...

The idea that the government or the police should have the power to disrupt social media in the event of further civil unrest seems to ...

Whatever our opinion about the motivation of rioters, it needs to be acknowledged that mass unrest is a kind of spectacle and a politica...

Way back when I was doing my Masters, Bill Harpin upbraided me for taking the scenic route in my studies. He wanted me to read his book on w...

The picture is supposed to evoke the idea of ponds within ponds (Leibniz) and the following are some of the ideas I'm working on, beginn...

Gearing down for the summer offers more time for my exploration of music software. For the non-specialist, Logic Studio is a densely-wooded ...

Sometimes when you're on a journey you glance at the map to see exactly where you are, and at that point become suddenly aware of how fa...

It looks as though we've got nearly all of our students enroled on the learning futures wiki (pilot version), so I'm now really look...

The shops used to be closed a lot. Sundays completely, often Saturday after lunch, and mid-week. I think Thursday was 'early closing day...

I'm still on the romantic/baroque theme today and savouring Chunglin Kwa who makes the case for the baroque so eloquently: 'It may ...

In 'The Wild Places' Robert Macfarlane dichotomises the human social world and the natural world, and I think that's the weaknes...

Anthea Rowan had a good piece in yesterday's Telegraph . As to be expected it drew the usual range of comments. The full text from which...