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the Secret Agent Issue
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Editorial
If a government no longer knows how to solve a problem within the borders of legislation and the tolerance of public opinion, then they call on the secret agent.
Secret Mission
On January 21st, 1913, Lieutenant Coulon, secret agent with French military intelligence, reported to his commander in Hanoi. His assignment was to investigate the political and military situation in the Southern Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi.
Family Files
Up until the 80s, home movies were made on celluloid. Vacations, weddings and birthdays were recorded with rattling cameras on expensive reels.
MEDIAMATIC WORKSHOPS
Authors in
New Media.
A series of workshops
about authorship in interactive media.
Writers, artists, theoretists and designers
cooperate to explore artistic, editorial and
content-related possibilities of the web.
GARBER & WALKOWITZ
Secret Agents is a book full of essays on, as the subtitle gives away: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism and Fifties America. It is one of those typical books you encounter more and more these days:
DE LANDA
This longawaited book by De Landa bears an imposing title for its three hundred pages plus notes. Is it meant as a joke?
Janna en Sterre
Superbug®
Biological agents save humanity from extinction!
HARAWAY
I want my readers to understand that this book is a family romance, or scholarly soap opera, set in a kind of critical General Hospital or theoretical Dallas.
Hello, I must be going
We live our human lives with now and then a few scattered moments which are significant and useful.
Metandmorefussed
Finnegans Wake is based on puns. The words from Finnegans Wake are not normal English, they are portmanteaus: imaginary words in which different words from various languages are present. The portmanteaus create the puns.
PRELINGER
Slowly but surely, everyone has become accustomed to the frequent use of 'found footage', often obscure film material being reapplied in the new context of a feature film, music video or tv ad. The origin of the footage usually remains unclear, while its original meaning is replaced by new content.
FORD, GLYMOUR& HAYES
Fortysix years ago, Alain Turing opened his article Computing machinery and intelligence by contemplating whether or not machines can think.
Untitled
Tom Ray's Family Files
Idoru
In 1996, William Gibson's fifth novel, Idoru, was published. As with his fourth novel, Virtual Light, this is not a sequel to his now classic trilogy, Neuromancer Ð Count Zero Ð Mona Lisa Overdrive.
Dinosaurs and Meteorites
Literature has always been a rich breeding ground for secret agents, but not so for dinosaurs, and you rarely see the two categories combined.
Tierra
In its search for key characteristics of life, and constants in the emergence and the development of life forms, the profession has reached a new high point with the computer program Tierra, developed by the American ecologist Tom Ray.
MULDER NL
MULDER GB
Arjen Mulder, a scientifically trained biologist, is also a proud essayist who frequently directs his attention towards the domain of the visual arts. His hangÐups, his repertory of biological concepts and his carefree style make him a difficult customer.
MITCHELL
In 1969 a Cambridge mathematician, John Conway, amused himself by constructing a computer game he called Life.
GIBSON
Idoru takes place in the Japan of the not too distant future, after a huge earthquake has occured. Set against a background of ruins and grim reconstruction, two story lines merge together, in accordance with a procedure with which Gibson's readers will be familiar.
Secret Agent
FRANKLYN
An adventurous journey through the cognitive sciences: coffee with cake, sandwiches, and a surprise gift included in the price. During the trip, our host will give a demonstration of some remarkable products.
FOX KELLER
In barely fifty years, biology has changed from a stuffy, slightly reactionary discipline into the avantgarde among the sciences. It is a total transformation, which makes it a metamorphosis.
KAUFFMAN
If you ask questions on the origin of species, ecosystems or other complex biological structures, the answers will undoubtedly include the term 'natural selection'.
JODI.ORG
Jodi.org positions itself as a thoroughgoing critique of Internet practice, deploying the familiar glyphs and signs of Internet protocol both as central components of its look and feel, and in order to test the conventions of coding, design and the organisation of 'content' on the Web.
DIY RECORDS
Coming to life in the highly-charged atmosphere of the UK's early '90s free party/club culture, with its attendant criminalisation by the notorious Criminal Justice Act, DIY made their mark on the scene via a number of events and festivals...
DESIGN FOR LIFE
Elizabeth Roxby's Design for Life website supplements the centennial exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, celebrating 100 years of collecting. It constitutes one of several sub-sites within the museum's general website.
LATERAL
In the dark days of the early to mid-nineties, before java scripts, dhtml and style sheets, Web design studio Obsolete was producing some of the first websites to combine cutting-edge interactive techniques with a street-smart visual graphic style.
24 HOUR CINEMA SERVER
Aside from music, one of the most popular topics of conversation is probably film and television. It usually provides enough common ground between people to keep a hearty discussion going for hours.