Bruce Sterling defines Atemporality at Transmediale

Posted by on February 13th, 2010 in decay, friends of the future, Futurism, history

Previously on Grinding I posted a video of Bruce talking about Gothic High-Tech and Favella Chic in his Reboot 11 closing speech. In it, he mentions he was trying to make concrete his notion of what this next decade might be, something he was calling Atemporality (“it’s steampunk with metaphysics”, he said).

At the recent Transmediale Festival, he’s back to report that all the historical narratives are broken, multi-temporality is the new multi-culturalism and network culture is the new dominant force.

Strap your brains in, take your smart drugs and drink deeply from the fount of knowledge that is Sterling’s mind:

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4 Responses to “Bruce Sterling defines Atemporality at Transmediale”

  1. uberVU - social comments - February 14th, 2010 at 5:01 pm

    Social comments and analytics for this post…

    This post was mentioned on Twitter by pfayn: Bruce Sterling defines Atemporality at Transmediale [video]. I love the way this man thinks. http://bit.ly/d5nDA3...

  2. sh0nuff - February 15th, 2010 at 11:34 am

    Full screen doesnt work either… :(

  3. m1k3y - February 15th, 2010 at 4:06 pm

    sn0nuff – wordpress is doing something after I post it, sorry. Just click through to the source – http://www.transmediale.de/en/keynote-bruce-sterling-us-atemporality.

    FWIW – I managed to disable the autostart while I was looking into it.

  4. simon - February 17th, 2010 at 3:21 am

    search engines as main political actors… i have chills running up my spine.

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