From - Wed Jan 14 11:37:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: from relay1.UU.NET by mrco.carleton.ca (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA05772; Sun, 27 Dec 92 01:36:32 EST Received: from nyx.cs.du.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA10115; Sun, 27 Dec 92 01:35:45 -0500 Received: by nyx.cs.du.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA26479; Sat, 26 Dec 92 23:30:10 MST From: ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu (andy) Message-Id: <9212270630.AA26479@nyx.cs.du.edu> X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University of Denver. The University has neither control over nor responsibility for the opinions or correct identity of users. Subject: FutureCulture Digest #163 To: future-digest@nyx.cs.du.edu Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 23:30:09 MST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: R ______________________________________________________________________ |______________ / | | / | | u t u r e <___________ u l t u r e | _______________________________________________________________________| Issue #163 Saturday, December 26th 1992 Today's Topics: --------------- agr1ppa and agrippa re: local feeling thermometer __________________________________________________________________________ From: wixer!pacoid@cs.utexas.edu (Paco Xander Nathan) Subject: re: local feeling thermometer Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 15:57:51 CST > So, hmm, other than a converted boat-turned-commune, what's going to > be the geographical locale of the future? > > I would've voted for Seattle, but the whole grunge-scene has changed > my opinion....Maybe Osaka, Japan will suffice....Maybe Manchester, if > it can recover from the rave-cyclone.... Austin. Culture: yep. Future & retro. Hey, Sterling lives here. Also, UT/Austin is enormous - about 50K students and all the politicos at the capital of the largest state in the US keep this place intellectually lively. Major center for cyberculture. On biz side: taxes are low, jobs are available. Mucho high tech. TX dominates the PC industry with Dell & CompuAdd in Austin, Compaq in Houston, Tandy (now a mucho-media contender) in Dallas, and Apple and IBM moving into Austin.. Most $$ biz w/ Japan of any US city. On envo side, AusTex tis a compact, sustainable city; you can ride a bike from East edge to West edge in about an hour and probably not get run over or die from asphixiation :-) Air's clean, water's not bad, lots-o trees. There's 800 acres of wilderness preserve running thru the center of town.. but it's hot in the summer...... ______________________________ Subject: agr1ppa and agrippa From: georget@mindvox.phantom.com (George Thompson) Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 21:38:05 EST After reading both of them I am confused as to what either Kroupa or Gibson is saying about anything. Agrippa is flat emotionless and a lousy poem, the greater work might have had something to it, it sounded experimental. Agr1ppa is labeled as "funnier than the original" its not funny at all, its jarring, disturbing and plain weird. Any time some trace of humor or lightness enters, it detours into some strange angle and all in all after reading it makes me feel unhinged in some way. I can't figure out how I feel exactly, which might be what makes me back away from it completely. I honestly can't picture what Gibson had to say with Agrippa or where Agr1ppa comes from or what its supposed to mean its not a parody as digital said, what is it? _________________________________________________________________________ | | | That's all for today! | | To send a message to the list: future@nyx.cs.du.edu | | To subscribe/unsubscribe/change format: future-request@nyx.cs.du.edu | | All other requests: future-request@nyx.cs.du.edu | | List Maintainer is: (andy [aka hawkeye]) ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu | |_________________________________________________________________________| | | | The opinions expressed in FutureCulture are those of the individual | | author only. | |_________________________________________________________________________|