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Twitter Links The Pirate Bay - Physibles
Today most data is born digitally. It's not about the transition from analog to digital anymore. We don't talk about how to rip anything…

January 24 2012, 3:11pm | Comments
Twitter Links Two decades of the web: a utopia no longer
A short #history of the #Internet (and how the #utopian dream is over) #technology #community #politics

July 11 2011, 11:47am | Comments
Link The Temporary Autonomous Zone
I believe that by extrapolating from past and future stories about "islands in the net" we may collect evidence to suggest that a certain kind of "free enclave" is not…

January 22 2011, 6:43am | Comments
Link Of Other Spaces: Heterotopias
(Michel Foucault, 1967) The great obsession of the nineteenth century was, as we know, history: with its themes of development and of suspension, of crisis, and cycle, themes of the…

January 19 2011, 5:32am | Comments
Link John Gray on humanity's quest for immortality
How do we deal with a purposeless universe and the finality of death? From Victorian séances to the embalming of Lenin's corpse to schemes for uploading our minds into cyberspace,…

January 9 2011, 4:38pm | Comments
Link Everything you need to know about the internet
The internet: Everything you ever need to know In spite of all the answers the internet has given us, its full potential to transform our lives remains the great unknown.…

June 21 2010, 3:38am | Comments
Link The Code is not the Text (unless it…
by John Cayley Digital utopianism is still with us. It is with us despite having been tempered by network logistics and an all-too-reasonable demand for 'content.' Admittedly, New Media has…

June 21 2010, 3:33am | Comments

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