Steve Shaviro reviews Tomorrow Now by Bruce Sterling, a book that (for an eminent cyberpunk novelist) is perhaps too sane and sensible.
(Source: EBR)
A discussion of net.activism, net.tactics, and strategy featuring Bruce Simon, Geert Lovink, Chris Carter, and Ricardo Dominguez.
(Source: EBR)
The story of an activist website’s shutdown, as told by DeeDee Halleck, with interstitial e-mails.
(Source: EBR)
Bennett Voyles’ retrospective on the apolitical Nineties, and the fate of democratic electronic activism without content.
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A first-person narrative of Hactivism, Performance, and growing up at the U.S./Mexico Border from Fran Ilich.
(Source: EBR)
Katherine Wills’ anti-interview with Mark Amerika about Internet art.
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Charles Bernstein’s reflections on populism, democracy, and authority in the turbulent waters of web discussion groups and other new Internet sites.
(Source: EBR)
Marc Bousquet introduces a forthcoming Altx critical e-book, hosted online by ebr, appearing in five sections through the Fall of 2003. A new ebr thread, Technocapitalism, is built around its concerns.
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On the imminent publication of the first alt-x critical e-book.
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A call for (and example of) material studies of software from Matt Kirschenbaum, spurred by the Digital Arts and Culture conference, 2000.
(Source: EBR)