Author: Mark Stahlman

THE ENGLISH IDEOLOGY AND WIRED MAGAZINE by Mark Stahlman

Last year, a critical essay entitled The Californian Ideology by Richard Barbrook and Andrew Cameron (University of Westminster) appeared on the Internet and quickly became a focal point for growing criticism of the glossy and widely influential Wired magazine. However, the author’s difficulty in sorting out the origins of the ideas behind Wired and it’s […]

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