Podcast appearances and mentions of Mark Dery

Sometimes music can take you to places you've never imagined! That's what Afrofuturism does.… Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic that explores the intersection of African culture with science fiction, technology and the future - fusing magical realism with the beauty of Africa, beyond the clichés. The term was originally coined by Mark Dery (an American journalist working for The Washington Post & Rolling Stone). From the start, Afrofuturism was a child of music, born in the ‘60's in the boundless mind of Sun Ra, and it still shines in today's music of American artists such as Janelle Monae. Nowadays, Afrofuturism is flourishing in Europe and in Africa, constantly revitalized by artists who offer new perspectives to expand our idea of Africa. In this episode, we explore this boundless inner space and George Collinet is trans-connected to a futuristic nebula through a patchwork of stories, soundscapes, and various avant-garde music productions from the cosmos and elsewhere. The episode includes interviews with Ibaaku, Blick Bassy, Ikoqwe, Djely Tapa, Shabaka, Mélissa Laveaux, Afrotronix, plus Angélique Kidjo & Yemi Alade. Produced by Elodie Maillot. APWW #857

Rivers Solomon & Michael Roch reviennent sur le genre science-fictif de l'afro-futurisme !  Il était une fois l'afro-futurisme ! L'Afro Futurisme est un courant artistique et aussi littéraire qui a été remis en avant avec la franchise Black Panther au cinéma en 2018. Le terme a été inventé par l'auteur américain Mark Dery , dans son essai “Black to the Futur » pour designer un mouvement de contre culture noire qui existe depuis les années 60 ou la science-fiction n'est jamais bien loin.  Pour Marc Dery, l'afro futurisme est : l'appropriation de la technologie et de l'imagerie de la science-fiction par les Afro-Américains. On pense alors à l'apparition de personnages comme Black Panther ou encore du lieutenant Uhura dans Star Trek dans la pop culture. Mais le terme est aussi controversé. L'autrice américaine Nnedi Okorafor expliquait  dans une longue interview dans le journal Le Point  : "Je crois qu'il y a plusieurs définitions. Depuis la sortie du film Black Panther, c'est un mot à la mode. Pour moi, cela correspond à tout ce qui vient de l'Afrique et de la culture noire. Si on s'attache à l'essence de ce terme, je dirais que c'est la définition d'un homme blanc qui décrit les visions futuristes d'auteurs afro-américains. Je trouve assez réducteur de ne situer cette expression qu'aux États-Unis alors qu'elle concerne également l'Afrique. L'afro-futurisme est devenu un mot marketing grâce au succès de Black Panther. Je me fiche d'appartenir à ce genre littéraire car je me vois comme une Nigériane-Américaine. Je considère que mes origines ont été volées à l'Afrique". 

Sometimes music can take you to places you've never imagined! That's what Afrofuturism does.… Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic that explores the intersection of African culture with science fiction, technology and the future, fusing magical realism with the beauty of Africa, beyond the clichés. The term was originally coined by Mark Dery (an American journalist working for The Washington Post & Rolling Stone). From the start, Afrofuturism was a child of music, born in the ‘60's in the boundless mind of Sun Ra, and it still shines in today's music of American artists such as Janelle Monae. Nowadays, Afrofuturism is flourishing in Europe and in Africa, constantly revitalized by artists who offer new perspectives to expand our idea of Africa. In this episode, we explore this boundless inner space and George Collinet is trans-connected to a futuristic nebula through a patchwork of stories, soundscapes, and various avant-garde music productions from the cosmos and elsewhere. The episode includes interviews with Ibaaku, Blick Bassy, Ikoqwe, Djely Tapa, Shabaka, Mélissa Laveaux, Afrotronix, plus Angélique Kidjo & Yemi Alade. Produced by Elodie Maillot.

 In recognition of Juneteenth, now a federal holiday commemorating of the end of enslaved people in the United States, we present AF3 Digital Art Fest. The Afrofuturism Experience will hold its first annual event as part of an immersive experience through the arts, technology and science at WJCT Studios, 100 Festival Park Avenue, Jacksonville, FL. 32202 from 10 am – 6pm. Get your tickets: http://afrofuturismexperience.com/    Get your Digital Wallet : https://metamask.io/ The Afrofuturism Experience includes educational exhibits and workshop presentations, a multimedia projected art gallery, live performances, and an NFT art gallery featuring renowned and emerging artist. Live performances by Ebony Payne-English who is an author, poet, spoken word artist, author, performer playwright and educator in Jacksonville as well as Willie Evans, JR., a MC, producer, multimedia visual artist and ground breaking hip-hop musician. The live performances will feature a re-envisioning of the 1974 movie “Space is the Place,” and other Afrofuturistic themes. Jason is a multimedia digital artist, technologist, soccer enthusiast and visionary behind the AF3.world NFT Marketplace - a set of decentralized tools built on web3 technologies for artists, creators and collectors. Jason's professional life extends into multiple industries from over 20+ years of Financial Services, Entertainment, Technology, Small Business Consulting, and Entrepreneurship. As a graduate of University of Phoenix's Executive Education programs he holds an MBA in Technology Management, Bachelor of Sciences in Business Management and Certifications in Entertainment Production Management and Multimedia Design from Academy of Entertainment and Technology at Santa Monica College. Jason has incorporated his experience, knowledge and passions into a deeper calling through the creation of the new decentralized multimedia art platform, called “Afrofuturism Experience” presented on AF3.world. Building on top of the Afrofuturism construct coined in the early 90's by Mark Dery in his landmark essay “Black to the Future,” the convergence of African Culture with science and technology has resulted in Afrofuturism 3.0 (AF3) where we execute on the speculative visions of Afrofuturism 1.0 - 2.0 into the promised technological advances of Web3.0 - that is to say a decentralized environment that represents a digital extension of our physical selves into the future. Jason Marley and his wife live in Jacksonville, Florida where they are raising their 4 children (1 daughter and 3 sons) spanning different generational ages from 21 (college senior), to 16 (high school junior), to 11 (elementary school 5th grader), to 22 months (toddler). The challenges of raising children, managing a career, maintaining a cohesive marriage relationship and engagement with community via entrepreneurial passion is what keeps him going with purpose beyond my self-interest. Jason is a dedicated father who enjoys coaching soccer, traveling with his family and anything that includes being out on the water. He attributes his awareness and deep sense of community to his upbringing being raised by his mother who taught as a college professor of Psychology and African Diaspora history. Jason grew up in the Lutheran faith where his family has a long history of black Lutheran pastors and church family commitment towards living within God's grace.  

Long before the film Black Panther captured the public's imagination, the cultural critic Mark Dery had coined the term “Afrofuturism” to describe “speculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of twentieth-century technoculture.” Since then, the term has been applied to speculative creatives as diverse as the pop artist Janelle Monae, the science fiction writer Octavia Butler, and the visual artist Nick Cave. But only recently have thinkers turned to how Afrofuturism might guide, and shape, law. The participants in this workshop explore the many ways Afrofuturism can inform a range of legal issues, and even chart the way to a better future for us all. Introduction: Bennett Capers (Law, Fordham) Panel 1: Ngozi Okidegbe (Law, Cardozo), Of Afrofuturism, Of Algorithms Alex Zamalin (Political Science & African American Studies, Detroit Mercy), Afrofuturism as Reconstitution Panel 2: Rasheedah Phillips (PolicyLink), Race Against Time: Afrofuturism and Our Liberated Housing Futures Etienne C. Toussaint (Law, South Carolina), For Every Rat Killed

In GBN's "A Year of Good Black News" Page-A-Day Calendar" for 2022, we explore words and phrases in a category we call "Lemme Break It Down." Today's entry takes a look at "Afrofuturism" -- a term used to describe a movement within Black culture from the 1950s to present that uses science fiction and fantasy as frameworks to reimagine the African diaspora in music, art, literature, film, and fashion.To learn more, read Mark Dery's seminal 1994 "Black to the Future" essay, Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture by Ytasha L. Womack, Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise fo Astro-Blackness edited by Reynaldo Anderson and Charles E. Jones, watch Afrofuturism 101 at pbs.org, download the This American Life “We Are The Future” episode on Afrofuturism by Neil Drumming, check out other Afrofuturism-themed podcasts on player.fm, and listen to the awesome “Space is The Place” Afrofuturism playlist curated by Good Black News contributor Marlon West.Sources:https://www.wired.com/story/how-afrofuturism-can-help-the-world-mend/https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anxiety/episodes/black-people-are-outer-spacehttps://newsroom.ucla.edu/magazine/afrofuturismhttps://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/what-is-afrofuturismhttps://www.essence.com/entertainment/a-beginners-guide-afrofuturism/https://www.sfjazz.org/onthecorner/we-travel-space-ways-afrofuturism-musichttps://www.npr.org/transcripts/968498810https://youtu.be/154XnA1xcis (short video on Afrofuturism)https://youtu.be/ppNai6KOXyQ (Afrofuturism in film)https://youtu.be/IW1eUuZaF2o (Afrofuturism TedX Masi Mbewe)

Behind the News, 10/21/21 - guests: Mona Fawaz on Lebanon, Mark Dery on conspiracism (with special reference to Mark Crispin Miller) - Doug Henwood

En este episodio, Sandra Mathey García-Rada y Laura Beltrán-Rubio hablan con la antropóloga e historiadora Julimar Mora Silva sobre el Afrofuturismo. Julimar explica en qué consiste el afrofuturismo, cuáles son sus características básicas y nos da algunos ejemplos de expresiones del afrofuturismo en la moda, basados en su investigación.Referencias:Beyoncé, Emmanuel Adjei, Ibra Ake, Blitz Bazawule y Kwasi Fordjour, dirs., Black is King (2020). Camilo Retana, Luz Neira García y Julimar Mora Silva, “Diálogos de ida y vuelta – Mesa: Transformaciones y continuidades de la moda desde Latinoamérica”, https://youtu.be/0P8gNNs0u_c. Edward Zwick, dir., Blood Diamond [Diamantes de Sangre] (2006). Edwing d’Angelo, http://www.edwingdangelo.com/. Fernanda Gonçalves. James Cameron, dir., Avatar (2009). João Queiroz, “Amazofuturismo”, 2019, https://apoia.se/amazofuturismo. Kodwo Eshun, “Further considerations of Afrofuturism”, CR: The New Centennial Review 3, no. 2 (2003): 287–302. Loza Maleombho, https://www.lozamaleombho.com/. Mark Dery, Black to the Future (1993). @museodemoda “Historias Destacadas: Latinidad” en Instagram (enero de 2021). Octavia E. Butler, Kindred (1979). Renata Flores Rivera, “Chañan Cori Coca”, video de YouTube, 28 de noviembre de 2020, https://youtu.be/au81GcSOVOs. Rubem Valentim, https://www.instagram.com/rubemvalentiminstituto/. Ryan Coogler, dir., Black Panther [La Pantera Negra] (2018). Sindiso Khumalo, https://www.sindisokhumalo.com/. Skrillex, “Skrillex – Ragga Bomb Ft. Ragga Twins (Official Music Video)”, video de YouTube, abril 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eJDTcDUQxQ. Encuentra a Julimar Mora Silva en:Instagram:@julimarmsilva Correo electrónico: julimar.mora@gmail.com Blog: https://proyectoafromodas.wordpress.com/ . Encuéntranos en:http://culturasdemoda.com/ | http://www.modadospuntocero.com/Instagram: @moda2_0 @culturasdemoda @camila_abisambra @jenvrod @laurabelru @sandramgr @mezuba Twitter: @moda2_0 @CulturasDeModa @JenVRod @sandramgr90 @laurabelru @mezuba Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/culturasdemoda/ | https://www.facebook.com/BlogModa2.0/#SalonDeModa Agradecemos a Fair Cardinals (@faircardinals) por la música, a Jhon Jairo Varela Rodríguez por el diseño gráfico y a Maca Rubio por la edición del audio.

Episode 19 : Ecriture, architecture, féminisme : l'afrofuturisme dans Black Panther L'article original : Elisabeth Abena Osei, "Wakanda Africa do you see? Reading Black Panther as a decolonial film through the lens of the Sankofa theory", Critical Studies in Media Communication, 2020. --------- Les références citées dans l'article et mobilisées implicitement ou explicitement dans le podcast : Mark Dery, Black to the future: Interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate, and Tricia Rose, Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture, p. 179–222. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1220m2w.12 Saki Mafundikwa, Afrikan alphabets: The story of writing in Africa, Mark Batty Publisher, 2007. Erwin Panofsky, Studies in iconology. Humanistic themes in the art of the renaissance, Westview Press, 1972. Niara Sudarkasa, “The status of women” in indigenous African societies. Feminist Studies, 12 (1), 1986, p. 91–103. --------- Pour aller plus loin : Le super podcast de RFI en 5 volets "Qu'est-ce que l'afrofuturisme" : https://www.rfi.fr/fr/emission/20190602-afrofuturismes-podcast-episode-1-black-panther Mbembe Achille, « Afrofuturisme et devenir-nègre du monde », Politique africaine, 2014/4 (N° 136), p. 121-133 Cezara Nicola, "A question of the sonic: problematizing Afrofuturism and its relation to Black Sound, with a case study of DJ Steloolive's performance art", Critical Studies in Media Communication, 37(4), 2020, p. 337‑349. Eva Ulrike Pirker et Judith Rahn, "Afrofuturist trajectories across time, space and media", Critical Studies in Media Communication, 37(4), 2020, p. 283‑297.

Está no ar mais um episódio do Fajucast e dessa vez com novidades!!!! O Fajucast está crescendo e a partir de agora teremos colunistas no podcast, a primeira colunista é a Luciene (Lu Ain-Zaila) que já participou do Fajucast no episódio 12 da primeira temporada e agora está retornando para uma série de episódios mensais para falar sobre o movimento Afrofuturista. Nessa introdução a Luciene explicou o que é o movimento afrofuturista, como é esse movimento em África e como ele se manifesta na America Latina e no Brasil. Twitter @LuAinZaila @fajucast Instagram @brasil2408 @fajucast Links: Space is the place (filme s/ legenda) Documentário Sun Ra (s/ legenda) Revista Virgulina - Entrevista com Mark Dery e mais 15 artigos traduzidos Blake, or the Huts of America Omenana (revista gratuita de ficção especulativa) Twitter: @afrosf O Fajucast faz parte da rede LGBT Podcasters um coletivo com a intenção de colorir a podosfera e para ajudar a divulgar os podcasts feitos por pessoas LGBT e/ou que tratem dessa temática, para mais informações acesse lgbtpodcasters.com.br e para nos encontrar nas redes basta procurar por @lgbtpodcasters e não se esqueça de compartilhar esse e outros episódios LGBTIA+ utilizando a #lgbtpodcasters. Imagem editada por @4logicsolutions --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fajucast/support

In the current episode of the Telekom Electronic Beats Podcast Editor-in-Chief Whitney Wei talks to DJ, composer, producer and Assistant Professor King Britt from Philadelphia. The two started a conversation on Instagram, after the release of Whiteys article Electronic Music Is Black Protest Music. The Electronic Beats team has taken an educational stance on the Black Lives Matter movement, with the team educating themselves and others with links to pertinent Black literature and anti-racism articles. King Britt who has an esteemed, professional background in music, facilitates these conversations daily in an academic setting. In the interview, King Britt explains the contributions of Black people on club culture and electronic music. Starting with the explanation of Afrofuturism, a term coined by Mark Dery in 1993 to explain Black liberation within a mythic, utopian prophecy, they consider this theme throughout the emergence of Chicago house, Detroit techno, drum and bass, and the LA beat scene, which were created as reactions by socio-political events for underrepresented communities. Britt emphasizes the symbiotic exchange between Berlin and Detroit techno, but, also traces the eventual whitewashing of the genre over time. Within, he describes his route to becoming an assistant professor and points out how he has been able to react in real time on the Black Lives Matter movement through education.

Author, lecturer, critic, and culture jammer Mark Dery gave this talk, “Let’s Get Lost: an Experiment in Controlled Digression,” at the ACTLab 2019 conference in June. (For more information on… The post Mark Dery: Let’s Get Lost appeared first on Plutopia News Network.

Como parte de nuestro club de #Lectura2019, en este programa comentaremos la novela "Quién teme a la muerte" de Nnedi Okorafor, y hablaremos de algunos temas relacionados con ella, como el concepto del #afrofuturismo. El ensayo (en inglés) donde el crítico Mark Dery lo define: http://www.detritus.net/contact/rumori/200211/0319.html El ensayo de Alberto sobre el #Mexafuturismo: http://literalmagazine.com/mexafuturismo/ (Transmitido como video el 20 de febrero de 2019)

Ça nous intéresse avec Thomas Leblanc; La découverte du Libro de los Epitomes, du fils de Christophe Colomb. Entrevue avec Marie-France Hirigoyen, pour son essai Les Narcisse. Parlons sports avec Alexandre Gascon qui a lu The Circuit. A Tennis Odyssey, de Rowan Ricardo Phillips. Le livre à lire en ce moment selon Thomas Hellman; Notre-Dame de Paris, de Victor Hugo. Une entrevue avec David Homel pour Portrait d'un homme sur les décombres. Karoline Georges et François Lemay ont lu pour nous Born to be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey, de Mark Dery.

Dr. Mikita Brottman is a writer, mostly of non-fiction. Although her writing includes elements of memoir, psycho-analysis, history, and forensic psychology, her most consistent focus is the reconsideration and interrogation of the true crime genre. Dr. Brottman has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University, and Director of the Humanities Program at the Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art in downtown Baltimore, where she teaches courses in literature, critical studies, and myth. Dr. Brottman is also a psychoanalyst certified since 2012 through the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NCPsycA). She does volunteer work in the Maryland prison system and in forensic psychiatric facilities. Her articles and case studies have appeared in The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, New Literary History, American Imago, and other journals. She lives in the old Belvedere Hotel in beautiful Mount Vernon, Baltimore, with her partner, the movie critic David Sterritt, and our popular and charismatic French bulldog, Oliver. You can read a profile of her and her work published in the Baltimore Sun by Mary Carole McCauley; or check out at this article by Mark Dery at Boing Boing: https://boingboing.net/2014/10/16/the-bookshelf-of-a-homicide-en.html  Her most recent book is An Unexplained Death: the True Story of a Body at the Belvedere. Books also mentioned in this podcast episode are The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison and Thirteen Girls. Her podcast is Forensic Transmissions. All of which can be found at her website: www.mikitabrottman.com Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, work, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. If you enjoy what we’re doing, please support the podcast at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl For more info visit: www.mikitabrottman.com www.drvanessasinclair.net www.trapart.net www.dasunbehagen.org The music playing at the end of the episode is Thee Hierophant Ov Lead by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge & Carl Abrahamsson from their upcoming album Loyalty Does Not End With Death to be released this Friday April 19, 2019, from iDeal Recordings: http://idealrecordings.tumblr.com Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair www.chaosofthethirdmind.com Original artwork available at Trapart Books, Films, Editions: https://store.trapart.net/item/4

Culture critic Mark Dery talks about Surrealism, the gay voice, penny dreadfuls, and the occult and Taoist influences examined in his fascinating new biography of Edward Gorey, Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey (Little Brown).

Comics scholar Bill Kartalopoulos joins the show to talk about editing the annual Best American Comics series. But first, nearly three dozen of the year's Virtual Memories Show guests tell us about the favorite books they read in 2018 and the books they hope to get to in 2019! Guests include Jerry Beck, Christopher Brown, Dave Calver, Roz Chast, Mark Dery, Michael Gerber, Cathy B Graham, Dean Haspiel, Steven Heller, Richard Kadrey, Paul Karasik, Ken Krimstein, Nora Krug, John Leland, Alberto Manguel, Hal Mayforth, Dave McKean, Mark Newgarden, Audrey Niffenegger, Jim Ottaviani, Robert Andrew Parker, Shachar Pinsker, Nathaniel Popkin, Chris Reynolds, Lance Richardson, JJ Sedelmaier, David Small, Willard Spiegelman, Levi Stahl, Lavie Tidhar, Mark Ulriksen, Irvin Ungar, and Henry Wessells! Check out their selections at our site! Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

For his first biography, Mark Dery picked a doozy of a subject: the great, creepy, droll, mysterious artist and writer Edward Gorey. We talk about Mark's brand-new book, Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey (Little, Brown), his one in-person encounter with Gorey, how Gorey's sexuality did and didn't inform his work, and the challenge of writing the biography of an artist whose work always invited the reader to fill in the gaps. We get into how Gotham Book Mart made a cottage industry out of Gorey, the long-range impact of Gorey on America's pop culture, the queerness of children's literature beginning in the '50s, the influence of Asian art and philosophy on Gorey's work, his devotion to ballet and Balanchine, why the epic catalog makes for a great biographical tool, and a lot more, like Mark's lifelong one-sided relationship with Patti Smith! • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

In our special Halloween episode, we step into the macabre with acclaimed writer Mark Dery, author of the new biography, Born to be Posthumous: The Eccentric Genius and Mysterious Life of Edward Gorey. Often called the “Grandfather of Goth,” Gorey’s work influenced Tim Burton, Neil Gaiman, Lemony Snicket, and countless others.

This month, Nat, Cody, and Robert journey back to the 1970s to take in Sun Ra and his Arkestra in 1974's . SPACE IS THE PLACE is ground zero for Afrofuturism, as defined by Mark Dery in a terrific essay which you can read , and which we talk about at some length.

Louis Chude-Sokei is a Nigerian-Jamaican- American writer and scholar at the University of Seattle, Washington. In this episode, he discusses the music culture surrounding Nigeria's internet scammers (known as “Yahoozees”), his own experience as a black immigrant in Los Angeles' Inglewood neighborhood during the era of NWA, and the way blackface performance is perceived outside the U.S. He's the author of The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black-on- Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora (Duke University, 2006), which examines the life of Bert Williams, a top vaudeville performer-- a black blackface performer-- and one of the most famous entertainers of his era. His new book, The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics (Wesleyan, 2015), tackles the complex relationships between blackness, robotics, and technology. In this way, the book is in conversation with Afrofuturism. First coined by the cultural critic Mark Dery, Afrofuturism is a growing field of art, music, and academic scholarship which finds its roots in sci-fi imagery in black culture: Sun Ra, George Clinton, Octavia Butler, and Samuel R. Delaney. Afrofuturism seeks to find alternates to the current sometimes harrowing circumstances of contemporary black life through imagined futures and emergent possibilities. Its expression is visible in the work of Janelle Monae, producer Flying Lotus, and rap duo Shabazz Palaces. In his conversation with Ben Bush for the Organist, Chude-Sokei emphasizes the emerging field's pre-20th century roots as well as non-US aspects that have until now fallen outside the critical paradigm related to Afrofuturism—from PT Barnum's black cyborg to the metaphysical echo of instrumental dub reggae.   Links: A playlist based on songs discussed in this episode (and in The Sound of Culture)  Louis Chude-Sokei on Joice Heth, PT Barnum's black cyborg Bina48 on the Organist  Video trailer Credits: Interview by Ben Bush. Produced by Mickey Capper.

还能是什么？当然是微软的 HoloLens。究竟这一波虚拟现实 / 扩增现实热潮和 1990 年代的虚拟现实热有何不同？李如一分享了他使用三星 Gear VR 的感受，本期另有《硬影像》播客主持罗登出席，从电影创作者的角度谈虚拟现实 / 扩增现实的可能性。 每月三十元，支持李如一和 Rio 把《IT 公论》做成最好的科技播客。请访问 itgonglun.com/member。 本周主要的话题自然是微软新出的扩增现实（Augmented Reality）眼镜 HoloLens。不过鉴于经常有听众要求推荐播客节目，我们在开头先提了一下第 60 期 Debug 和第 108 期 The Talk Show。两集节目都就苹果软件质量下降的问题给出了相当多的乾货。 还记得 1990 年代的虚拟现实（Virtual Reality）热潮吗？那种把三分之二张脸都遮住的大护目镜自从我们很多听众还在上幼儿园的年代开始就已经是虚拟现实的象征。人们似乎认为单纯的二维屏幕过于「抽离」，无法提供「浸入式体验」，而虚拟现实眼镜就成了想象中的解药。世嘉游戏机在 1991 年推出了 Sega VR 眼镜，任天堂在 1995 年推出了 Virtual Boy，媒体在 1992 年预测两年后就会出现「普通消费者可以买得起的虚拟现实设备」。实际情况则不必多说。尚未成名的 Pierce Brosnan 在 1992 年演了一部以虚拟现实为题材的电影《The Lawnmower Man》，当年还算热卖，今天却早已成为烂俗早期科幻片的代表。在维基百科的虚拟现实词条时间线上，时间从 1995 一下跳到了 2007（谷歌推出街景功能）。中间 12 年都是空白。 自 2012 年 Oculus VR 在 Kickstarter 众筹成功以来，虚拟现实死灰复燃。去年三月 Facebook 对 Oculus 的收购更是将看客的热情煽到了顶点。而微软在上周的发布会上展示的 HoloLens，可谓是近五年来最成功地捕获了科技迷们想象力的产品。 需要厘清概念：HoloLens 属于扩增现实，Oculus 才是虚拟现实。两者的界限并不绝对清晰，但大体上，虚拟现实意在为你营造一个纯粹由比特构成的（所以说虚拟）环境，扩增现实则是要在由原子构成的世界上「叠加」比特，用二次元世界去「扩充」「增强」三次元世界。一个简易的判断方法是：假如戴上眼镜后还能看到真实世界（包括你的身体），那么多数是扩增现实，反之则是虚拟现实。 HoloLens 由之前 Xbox 游戏机体感控制器 Kinect 的负责人 Alex Kipman 主导，业内普遍认为它是 Kinect 在技术和产品层面的延伸。微软此次的发布会演示不可谓不炫，但了解这家公司的人难免会捏一把汗：真机究竟能够做到演示中的几成？某微软前高层一针见血：不能把做软件的责任全部推给第三方开发者。的确，几乎所有开启了新时代的设备——Mac (1984)、Wii (2006)、iPhone (2007)——都预装了一批「示范级」的软件。任何新媒介肇始之初，只有一手一脚将技术框架搭建起来的人才有可能了解该媒介的种种细节与潜力。从这个意义上说，Oculus VR 和微软均不如在佛罗里达州和新西兰两地分别组建了技术团队和内容团队的 Magic Leap 靠谱。（谷歌近日投资了 Magic Leap 之后，这三大虚拟现实 / 扩增现实公司已经分属 Facebook、微软和谷歌，鼎足之势已成。） 其实仔细想想，望远镜、显微镜、甚至你鼻梁上的近视眼镜难道不都是超级成熟的扩增现实技术？如果说这些设备属于非智能的（没有 CPU）专用 AR，个人电脑和移动设备属于智能的泛用 AR，那么下一步或许应该是智能的专用 AR。从这个意义上说，「眼镜」未必是 AR/VR 的唯一形态。 在微软发布 HoloLens 的同一天，李如一收到了他的三星 Gear VR Innovator Edition，这可以说是目前能买得到的最接近消费者产品的虚拟现实设备。不过显然它还有很大改进空间。本期我们请来了关心计算机图形学的导演罗登，从电影叙事艺术的角度谈谈虚拟现实 / 扩增现实的可能性。 最近我们读的一些文章 从小说两种以上的语言真的对智力有帮助吗？ 来看 YouTube 强塞给音乐家的霸王条款 如何做小 相关链接 Debug 60: Melton & Ganatra episode III: Shipping software The Talk Show ep108 Audio Hijack 3 Jason Snell 对 Audio Hijack 3 的评测 微软 HoloLens 三星 Gear VR Innovator Edition Oculus VR Magic Leap The Lawnmower Man Aerosmith 的《Amazing》MV Mark Dery: Escape Velocity 扩增现实游戏 Ingress 人物简介 李如一：字节社创始人。 Rio: Apple4us 程序员。 罗登：影视业者，播客《硬影像》创始人。

I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts (University of Minnesota Press) Essayist Mark Dery reads and signs his new collection, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts. "Mark Dery's cultural criticism is the stuff that nightmares are made of. He's a witty and brilliant tour guide on an intellectual journey through our darkest desires and strangest inclinations. You can't look away even if you want to." --Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz, Boing Boing Mark Dery is a cultural critic, whose books include The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink and Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century, which has been translated into eight languages, and was a New York Times “New & Noteworthy” book. He edited the scholarly anthology Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture. His most recent book is the essay collection I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts. He is writing a biography of the artist Edward Gorey for Little, Brown. Photo of the author by Jorge Madrigal. Copyright Mark Dery; all rights reserved

In the Age of Always Connect, are we witnessing a plague of oversharing? If so, are social networks its vectors of transmission? Does this much-discussed phenomenon mark the Death of Shame, perhaps even a return to pre-modern notions of public and private? What does it mean to live in a historical moment when the faces in our high-school yearbooks materialize, without warning, in our Facebook lives, Walking Dead eager to rekindle friendships we thought we’d buried long ago? In his illustrated lecture, “(Face)Book of the Dead,” cultural critic and media theorist Mark Dery, author of seminal essays on online subcultures, culture jamming, and Afrofuturism, will address these and other questions, from the posthuman psychology of disembodied friendship to our growing unwillingness to untether ourselves from our social networks or the media drip, even for an instant. What does it say about us, as a society, if we’re unable to be alone and unplugged without being bored or lonely? Is this, at root, a fear of the emptiness in our heads? Should we preserve some small space in our lives for solitude — a Walden of the mind, away from the Matrix? Mark Dery (www.markdery.com) is a cultural critic. He is best known for his writings on the politics of popular culture in publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Cabinet, Bookforum, Rolling Stone, Elle, and Wired; on websites such as True/Slant and Thought Catalog; and in books such as The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink and Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century. Dery’s latest book is an anthology of his recent writings, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Essays on American Empire, Digital Culture, Posthuman Porn, and Lady Gaga’s Lesbian Phallus, published in Brazil by Editora Sulina. Dery is widely associated with “culture jamming,” the guerrilla media criticism movement he popularized through his 1993 essay “Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing, and Sniping in the Empire of the Signs,” and “Afrofuturism,” a term he coined in his 1994 essay “Black to the Future” (included in the anthology Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture, which he edited). He has been a professor of journalism at New York University, a Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellow at UC Irvine, and a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome. He is at work on a biography of the artist Edward Gorey for Little, Brown.