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    <title>cmdln.net_2008-08-06</title>
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    <outline text="Intro" Offset="00:17">
      <outline text="Idea for feed links"/>
      <outline text="Still need questions for the promo"/>
    </outline>
    <outline text="Word of the Week" Offset="04:20">
      <outline text="http://catb.org/jargon/html/D/demon.html"/>
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    <outline text="Rant: Steam Punk" Offset="05:43">
      <outline text="Very popular meme right now">
        <outline text="My interest goes back to The Difference Engine by Gibson, Sterling"/>
        <outline text="Some think it is played out"/>
        <outline text="I understand why they say that, with the popular interest"/>
        <outline text="My own fascination abides"/>
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      <outline text="Why am I talking about steam punk?">
        <outline text="Have discussed hacker as the trickster"/>
        <outline text="This mythic figure is about how technology changes us"/>
        <outline text="As a protagonist, is also about our relationship towards technology"/>
        <outline text="This podcast is all about our relationship with technology, individual and as a society"/>
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      <outline text="Steam punk is about technology">
        <outline text="Before the industrial revolution, technology was hand crafted"/>
        <outline text="Did not change over night"/>
        <outline text="But that's when industrial manufacturing started to change it"/>
        <outline text="Also when technologist as a specialist became more common"/>
        <outline text="And when we start to see negative reactions to technology">
          <outline text="Luddites, yearning for simpler, pre-industrial times"/>
          <outline text="Saboteurs taking advantage of complexity to foul the works"/>
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        <outline text="Don't have to be a luddite to feel frustrated"/>
        <outline text="These days, most technology is barely user fixable"/>
        <outline text="Often easier, cheaper to dispose and buy new or working"/>
        <outline text="Steam powered technology was recognizable hand maintainable"/>
        <outline text="With pistons, cogs, gears and wheels can see how it works as it works"/>
        <outline text="Can easily imagine grabbing a wrench or spanner and fixing an engine"/>
        <outline text="So what if technology had not been industrialized?"/>
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      <outline text="Steam punk is punk, anti-authoritarian">
        <outline text="Rejecting the cheapening of technology"/>
        <outline text="Remake technology as if history had gone differently"/>
        <outline text="Creatively combining new things"/>
        <outline text="Exploring in multiple, mixed media">
          <outline text="Modding"/>
          <outline text="Costuming"/>
          <outline text="Fiction, essays and articles"/>
          <outline text="I've seen some amazing photographic work"/>
          <outline text="Music - Abney Park!"/>
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      <outline text="Steam punk is retro futurism">
        <outline text="Part of a large set of ideas"/>
        <outline text="Some theme of technology as we thought it would be, as we want it to be"/>
        <outline text="Influences, Verne and Welles, predicted a future that didn't quite happen"/>
        <outline text="Similar predictions with each generation"/>
        <outline text="Think about the kitschy SF in the 50s and 60s"/>
        <outline text="Personal robots and flying cars"/>
        <outline text="Motivations may change by generation, in the 50s about convenience"/>
        <outline text="Core of our relationship to technology is the same"/>
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      <outline text="Clearly is also an aesthetic">
        <outline text="Informed by some deep ideas though"/>
        <outline text="Truly seems to be one embodied by makers, DIYers"/>
        <outline text="If it doesn't speak to these deeper tropes, is not steam punk"/>
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      <outline text="Object to shallow comparisons">
        <outline text="Something can have steam, cogs and not be steam punk"/>
        <outline text="Don't like the label being used lightly"/>
        <outline text="Have heard some people call movies steam punk just from appearance"/>
        <outline text="Hell Boy II, LoEG"/>
        <outline text="HB2 does indeed touch on steam punk">
          <outline text="Golden army is technology gone amok"/>
          <outline text="Even the creator couldn't control, regretted making"/>
          <outline text="Not retro futurism, though"/>
          <outline text="Not really about hacker or maker, entirely, just peripherally"/>
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        <outline text="LoEG also about technology gone awry">
          <outline text="Moriarty trying to remake the world through technology"/>
          <outline text="Stealing it from rightful owners, using to sow chaos"/>
          <outline text="Except for Nemo, no real focus on hackers"/>
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        <outline text="I'd welcome a deeper discussion of these elements"/>
        <outline text="Haven't heard any friends, acquaintances really do that, though"/>
        <outline text="Outside of a few sources, haven't seen much deeper discussion"/>
        <outline text="Steam Punk Magazine, Jake von Slatt"/>
        <outline text="May be a bias in my own sample"/>
        <outline text="Welcome more examples, also corrections"/>
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    <outline text="Outro" Offset="21:48">
      <outline text="Contact me">
        <outline text="Email to feedback@thecommandline.net"/>
        <outline text="Web site at http://thecommandline.net/"/>
        <outline text="IM to command.line@skype"/>
        <outline text="Listener comment line is 240-949-2638"/>
        <outline text="del.icio.us tag is &quot;for:cmdln&quot;"/>
        <outline text="http://twitter.com/cmdln"/>
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      <outline text="I'd like to thank libsyn.com for AAC hosting and Wouter de Bie for MP3 hosting"/>
      <outline text="These notes and the show audio and music are covered by a Creative Commons license">
        <outline text="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/"/>
        <outline text="Attribution, non-commercial, share alike"/>
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