Scrap note (#14)
… Shenzhen fragments (from the world’s tech-comm paradise).
Sucking up to the specter of Sino-Capitalism:
Ironically, my connectivity here is so bad it’s driving me out of my mind, so this is arriving in pieces …
Our hotel is in Huaqiang Bei, the center of the Shenzhen electronic market zone. The area is packed with emporia, which are in turn packed with products — and more specifically commodities. Rather than masking the traits of commercial mass-production under a veneer of ’boutique’ rarity, the Shenzhen spirit is most gloriously manifested in the naked exhibition of hyper-alienated, techno-proliferated, trade-format volumes. Chips (of all kinds) come in sheets, which are then stacked into piles, and tessalated into display places designed to minutely explore minimal differences (product micro-specifications and volume-linked price slices). This is capitalism. It’s easy — in a decline-phase Westernized world — to forget what it looks like.
Cables:
Skynet embryo chips in the Huitong Professional Security Market:
The drone market is only just getting started (at least, we didn’t see any stacks):
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Posted on September 13th, 2014 at 9:43 am | QuoteIck. I do prefer my lively hipster ‘botique’ shops with worn wooden tables and vines growing up the sides of the building.
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admin Reply:
September 14th, 2014 at 10:08 am
Actually, there’s lots of that too — I’ll try to add some exemplary images when I get a chance.
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per speculum in enigmate
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Posted on September 13th, 2014 at 6:00 pm | QuoteI don’t know what it is, but I find Chinese culture tremendously alienating. Maybe “alienating” is the wrong word. Show me any Chinese artifact, ancient or contemporary, and my overwhelming reaction is indifference; if you get me past indifference, you’ll likely get revulsion. I have no explanation for why the entire sinosphere is so profoundly uninteresting to me, in contrast with practically every other culture, near to my own or not.
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Posted on September 14th, 2014 at 12:33 pm | QuoteVery cyberpunk.
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Posted on September 14th, 2014 at 1:58 pm | QuoteIf any single genre can be said to be NRx, it is definitely Cyberpunk. From Wikipedia (citations removed to make for easier reading):
“Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a near-future setting. Noted for its focus on “high tech and low life,”it features advanced science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coupled with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.
Cyberpunk plots often center on a conflict among hackers, artificial intelligences, and megacorporations, and tend to be set in a near-future Earth, rather than the far-future settings or galactic vistas found in novels such as Isaac Asimov’s Foundation or Frank Herbert’s Dune. The settings are usually post-industrial dystopias but tend to be marked by extraordinary cultural ferment and the use of technology in ways never anticipated by its creators (“the street finds its own uses for things”). Much of the genre’s atmosphere echoes film noir, and written works in the genre often use techniques from detective fiction.”
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Antisthenes Reply:
September 16th, 2014 at 3:30 am
Cyberpunk with an industrial metal soundtrack.
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September 16th, 2014 at 11:16 am
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http://postimg.org/image/j36hucem3/
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Posted on September 16th, 2014 at 9:45 am | QuoteYou’d appreciate this:
http://shanghaiist.com/2014/09/17/cloud-shaped-skyscraper-shenzhen.php
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admin Reply:
September 17th, 2014 at 1:51 pm
Oh yes.
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