Author: Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron
CALIFORNIAN IDEOLOGY: IL DOGMA LIBERISTA DELLA CLASSE VIRTUALE
“Non mentire sul futuro è impossibile e uno può mentire su esso a proprio piacimento”.
Naum Gabo [1]
COME IL CONTENUTO IDRICO DI UN SERBATOIO TRABOCCA …
Alla fine del ventesimo secolo, la convergenza a lungo predetta dei media, del computer e delle telecomunicazioni nell’hypermedia finalmente si sta verificando. Ancora una volta, il movimento inesorabile del capitalismo per […]
Author: Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron
THE CALIFORNIAN IDEOLOGY by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron
“Not to lie about the future is impossible and
one can lie about it at will” - Naum Gabo [1]
As the Dam Bursts…
At the end of the twentieth century, the long predicted convergence of the media, computing and telecommunications into hypermedia is finally happening.[2] Once again, capitalism’s relentless drive to diversify and intensify the creative powers […]
Author: Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron
BASIC BANALITIES by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron
Common sense for the digital age
Information technology has no destiny - it simply mediates social relations between people.
Cyberspace is not a consensual hallucination, it is a construction site created by human labour.
People create their own technology, but not in circumstances of their own choosing.
Cyberspace is where the imaginary can become real.
Artist-engineers must create virtual spaces […]
Within this MySpace version of the electronic agora, cybernetic communism was mainstream and unexceptional. What had once been a revolutionary dream was now an enjoyable part of everyday life.