Archives
Previously, on Quiet Babylon.
I should note that before June 2009, thing looks less and less like the Quiet Babylon that you are probably here to read. That’s because there was a period where this was a site about making video games (October 2007-October 2008) and then another period (November 2008-June 2009) of sort of adrift rambling. In July 2009 I figured out what this site was about and that’s when things really took off.
I leave those posts up as a nod to posterity.
March 2012
- He’s not Houseless. He’s Technomadic. | artifacts, cities, cyborgs, drones, gizmos
December 2011
- The Freelance Panoptiswarm | cameras, dissidents, drones, police, spies
- The Perils of Personality | robots, spirits
- The Complicated Ethics of the Unborn | animals, drones, robots, spirits
November 2011
- The State of the Occupied Panoptiswarm | archivists, dissidents, drones, soldiers
- Hacking with Pictures II | cameras, gizmos, thieves
August 2011
- The Care and Beating of Activists | dissidents, gizmos, spies
July 2011
- Our Once Familiar Future | architects, astronauts
- Be as Clumsy as a Puppy | robots
June 2011
- Computation, All the Way Down | gizmos
- Give my Robot a Losing Personality | robots
- The Descent of Cribs | architects, cyborgs, gizmos
- Swapping Magic | cameras, pirates, toys
- Forever, For Now | architects, artifacts, gizmos, robots
May 2011
- Border Town — Call for Applications | architects, borders, cyborgs
April 2011
- Ideas Firesale II | housekeeping, ideas firesale
- Living a Dream | ideas firesale
- Consenting to Hallucinate XI | drones, ideas firesale
- Consenting to Hallucinate X | drones, ideas firesale
- Consenting to Hallucinate IX | drones, ideas firesale
- It is late and I am very tired VI | ideas firesale
- Consenting to Hallucinate VIII | drones, ideas firesale
- Consenting to Hallucinate VII | drones, ideas firesale
- Consenting to Hallucinate VI | drones, ideas firesale
- Ruins of Imagination V | ideas firesale
- Consenting to Hallucinate V | ideas firesale
- Consenting to Hallucinate IV | ideas firesale
- It is late and I am very tired V | ideas firesale
- Consenting to Hallucinate III | ideas firesale
- Consenting to Hallucinate II | ideas firesale
- Consenting to Hallucinate | ideas firesale
- The Mark of Freedom | ideas firesale
- La Mancha Unlocked | ideas firesale
- It is late and I am very tired IV | architects, ideas firesale
- The Roommate & The Roommate | architects, ideas firesale
- Pyrrhic | ideas firesale
- Emotiongineering | cyborgs, ideas firesale
- No user serviceable parts inside | ideas firesale
- It is late and I am very tired III | ideas firesale
- Techlepathy | cyborgs, ideas firesale
- Ruins of Imagination VI | ideas firesale
- Ruins of Imagination V | ideas firesale
- It is late and I am very tired II | ideas firesale
- Ruins of Imagination IV | ideas firesale
- Ruins of Imagination III | ideas firesale
March 2011
- Ruins of Imagination II | ideas firesale
- Ruins of Imagination | ideas firesale, ruins
- Information Half-Life X | ideas firesale
- Information Half-Life IX | ideas firesale
- Information Half-Life VIII | ideas firesale
- Information Half-Life VII | ideas firesale
- Information Half-Life VI | ideas firesale
- Information Half-Life V | ideas firesale
- Information Half-Life IV | ideas firesale
- Information Half-Life III | ideas firesale
- Information Half-Life II | ideas firesale
- Information Half-Life | ideas firesale
- Averting Disaster | ideas firesale
- It is late and I am very tired | ideas firesale
- Tightening Up Building 3 | architects, game design, ideas firesale
- Saying Sooths | ideas firesale
- Building To The Sun | architects, ideas firesale
- Ice Palaces | architects, ideas firesale
- Flexible Ego Boundaries | ideas firesale
- Tablet Sightlines | ideas firesale
- Memo To All Agritech Staff RE: Impending Wikileaks Document “Dump” | ideas firesale
- Eco Stalking Trees | ideas firesale, plants
- Disintegrating Computers | ideas firesale
- Ideas Firesale | housekeeping, ideas firesale
February 2011
- Upper Toronto | architects, cities
- The Best Networked Plans | spies
January 2011
- The Cyborg Ethics of Eating | animals, architects, cyborgs, plants
- Shearing Layers of Stuff | dematerialization
November 2010
- 50 Cyborgs in 5 Minutes | cyborgs & architects
- Burning Home | cyborgs
October 2010
- On the Streets with a Glitchwired Brain | cyborgs, soldiers
- The Civic Pride of Special Economic Zone 2074931 | architects, borders, cities, dissidents
- Echoes of a Soul | robots, spirits
- Your Lying Cheating Robot Heart | robots
- Wearable Ethics | architects, cyborgs
- 17 Cyborg Upgrades: The Clynes and Kline Enhancement Package | cyborgs
September 2010
- Surviving in an Alien Environment: Human + Christ as Medieval Natural-Born Cyborg | cyborgs, spirits
- Cities for Cyborgs: 10 Rules | architects, cities, cyborgs
- Elsewhere | housekeeping
- Some Major Terminator Fan Is Totally Going to Nail My Ass to the Wall for This* | cyborgs, robots, soldiers
- Cognitive Load | cyborgs, roads
- Domesticated Cyborgs — Kevin Kelly | cyborgs
- What’s a Cyborg? | cyborgs
- September is Cyborg Month | cyborgs
July 2010
- With a Steely-Sweet Caress | robots
- The Panoptiswarm Swarms On | spies
- Cells in the Panoptiswarm | cameras, dissidents, soldiers, spies
- Alone in the Everycity | architects, cities
June 2010
- Total Information Unawareness | cameras, dissidents, spies
- Baudrillard’s Patio | architects, dissidents
- Cyborg Traffic Cops | architects, cities, cyborgs, roads
- Privacy Is Not the Opposite of Freedom | dissidents, spies
- After The Last Viridian Note | artifacts, gizmos
May 2010
- The Plants that Get Loved Get to Live | architects, cyborgs, plants
- Implants. Virii. Walking Botnets. | cyborgs
- National Geographic — End of Decade Microfiction | pirates, ruins
- Rag Picking | archivists
- Things a City Can Do to You | cities, cyborgs
- Disposable Ideas | archivists
- Trails of Light and Shadow | architects, cyborgs
- Wrecked & Wasted — Ballardian Microfiction | pirates
- But First We Must Send Robots | astronauts, drones, robots
- Cybermilitia | cyborgs, dissidents, soldiers
- Glitch Trading | robots
April 2010
- Points for Everything! | cyborgs, game design
March 2010
- B-List Holy Grail: Laundry Machines | b-list holy grails
- B-List Holy Grail: Push-button Jobs | b-list holy grails
- The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Pre-production | archivists, gizmos
- B-List Holy Grail: Lasers | b-list holy grails
- B-List Holy Grail: MiniDiscs | b-list holy grails
- Waiting to Shift Phases | architects, islands
February 2010
- B-List Holy Grail: Monorails | b-list holy grails
- Islands in the Net | architects
- B-List Holy Grail: Email | b-list holy grails
- Intelligence with a Data Plan | cyborgs, gizmos
- B-List Holy Grail: Wristphones | b-list holy grails
- B-List Holy Grail Contest Winners | b-list holy grails
January 2010
- Woven Spaces | architects, borders, cyborgs
- Killing with a personal touch | cyborgs, soldiers
- Units of Selection | cyborgs
- Re-skinning Reality | cameras, dissidents, gizmos
- A Life Needs Plans | thieves
- Gradual Calamity | architects, cities, ruins
- Domesticating the Enemy | cyborgs, dissidents, soldiers
December 2009
- AA Guns and the Birth of Cybernetics | cyborgs, soldiers
- A Year in Review | housekeeping
- Gadgets and God | gizmos, spirits
- My Mom Makes Great Cookies | housekeeping
- The Future is Near | gizmos
- Cultural Infection | dissidents, gazetteer, soldiers
- Time Stopped | gizmos
- B-List Holy Grails (and a Contest!) | b-list holy grails
- Conference Badges: Early Augmented Reality | gizmos
November 2009
- Lanyards & Pockets | cameras, cyborgs, gizmos, toys
- Writing. In Spaaace! | astronauts, gizmos
- Hacking With Pictures | cameras, cyborgs, thieves
- It was Always an Internet of Things | cyborgs
- Glimpses of a City | gazetteer
- The Objectless Office | dematerialization
- Glimpses of a City | gazetteer
- We can imagine it for you, wholesale. | gizmos
October 2009
- The Looming Collapse of FedEx | artifacts, couriers, factories, gizmos, toys
- Glimpses of a City | gazetteer
- The Unbearable Lightness of Things | dematerialization
- Glimpses of a City | gazetteer
- Follow-up Friday | architects, cyborgs, drones, islands
- Secure/Obscure | borders, cameras, dissidents, gizmos, thieves
- Glimpses of a City | gazetteer
- Broken Superpowers | buildings that protest
- Glimpses of a City | gazetteer
- When the Future Crossed into the Present | robots, soldiers
- There is no single-use Lego | toys
September 2009
- The Lost Drone Army | dissidents, drones
- Glimpses of a City | gazetteer
- Soundtrack for a City | cities, gizmos
- Iron Horsepower | architects, cities
- Glimpses of a City | gazetteer
- Databar | buildings that protest
- anARchy | dissidents, gizmos, thieves
- Glimpses of a City | gazetteer
- The Free Freeways | drones, roads
- We have a lot of serious-sounding concerns | housekeeping
- Glimpses of a City | gazetteer
- Glimpses of a City | gazetteer
August 2009
- James Watt, Cyberneticist | cyborgs
- Would We Make Them? | buildings that protest
- Glimpses of a City | gazetteer
- On a Grand Scale | buildings that protest
- Haunted by Design | buildings that protest
- Glimpses of a City | gazetteer
- Buildings That Protest | buildings that protest
- 6 Involuntary Parks | architects, plants, ruins
- I Want Architectural Counter-Contests | architects
- Glimpses of a City | gazetteer
- Floatopia | architects, dissidents, pirates
- Why Is There A Killer Robot Debate? | robots
- On Oak Beams & Contingency Plans | architects, plants
- Glimpses of a City | gazetteer
- Hello A Softer World Fans | housekeeping
- How Deep Do Cities Go? | architects, tunnels
July 2009
- 6 Homes of the Future | architects, gizmos
- Broken Windows: A Terrorist Plot | architects, dissidents
- 3 Stories About Regional Architecture | architects
- 6 Points On a Continuum | cyborgs & architects
- The Invisible Infrastructure of Cyborgs | cyborgs & architects
- Mobile Structures | cyborgs & architects
- Nomads & Homesteaders | cyborgs & architects
- Astronauts & Super Villains | cyborgs & architects
- Adaptation | cyborgs & architects
June 2009
- If Plants Had Culture | plants
- Meanwhile, Dubai’s Palm Islands Wait to Drown | architects, islands
- The Gyre | islands
- DRM: The Fight Against Posterity | archivists, gizmos
May 2009
- Books Learn About Pirates | pirates, thieves
- Living in the Future | astronauts, drones, gizmos, pirates, robots
- Threat Level Context | dissidents
March 2009
- Clinging to the Edge of History | dissidents, gizmos
- Pictures of Habitat 67 | architects
December 2008
- Sustainable AND Scaleable? | plants
- Over Optimized | plants, prophets
November 2008
- The nice thing about predictions is that people forget | gizmos, prophets
- The Evolution of Rice | plants
- Building a Better Rosetta Stone | artifacts
August 2008
- Scoring in Gymnastics | game design
July 2008
- Playing by All the Rules | game design
May 2008
- Who Stole All the Colours? | game design
- Ideas are Cheap — Implementation is Costly | game design
- Killing Hookers — GTA:IV | game design
November 2007
- How Valve Made Half Life 1 Levels | game design




