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First in-person office hours since the plague began!
Hybrid: 2021-04-13 Tu 14:00-16:00 PDT: Caffè Strada, 2300 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA; & <berkeley.zoom.us/j/7744601602>
And here we go! Back to the university!
Will there be permanent changes to... 1/
First in-person office hours since the plague began!
Hybrid: 2021-04-13 Tu 14:00-16:00 PDT: Caffè Strada, 2300 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA; & <berkeley.zoom.us/j/7744601602>
And here we go! Back to the university!
Will there be permanent changes to... 1/
...a "hybrid” world as a result of the plague? Discuss, with this—from the days when, as Dan Hon remarks, people still thought cyberspace would be a space—providing some food-for-thought: Walter Jon Williams (1993): Aristoi: ‘Persepolis, the place… reconstructed… sat… 2/
... at the… reconstructed Pulvar and Kor… the (largely symbolic) capital of a reconstructed Earth2…. Behind the City of a Hundred Columns loomed Kuh-e-Rahmat, the Mount of Mercy… grey… a contrast to the bright gold, vermilion, ivory, and turquoise that accentuated... 3/
... the city… tombs of Achaemenid kings… of many Aristoi…. Atop… surrounded by a grove of cypress, was the gold monument to the lost Captain Yuan, a place of homage and worship. “Persepolis,” the dream, was a far more interesting place… through the oneirochronon... 4/
...and the two cities superimposed…. Earth2’s archons and senators strolled along the corridors, holding conversations with people others could not see. Corridors that dead-ended in reality possessed doors and branches in the oneirochronic world… led to palaces... 5/
...dominions, grottos, and fantasies that did not exist on Earth2, or indeed anywhere…. In these palaces the inhabitants danced and discussed and feasted and loved… LINK: <books.google.com/books?id=YA7sC…> 6/END
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