technocapitalism
Michael Milken and the Corporate Raid on Education
Junk bond swami Michael Milken jumped out of prison a few years ago and into for-profit education. Ken Saltman submits Milken's latest venture to the light of day.
Textual Events (3 of 5)
How to commodify "intellectual property" when the object, a text, is made of other texts, and each reading is a re-writing? The Politics of Information, Part 3, considers the identity of event and machine.
What’s Left: Materialist Responses to the Internet
Urging adaptibility and breadth, Mark Poster takes issue with the niches bored by early Internet critiques.
Before and After the Web: George P. Landow (interviewed by Harvey L. Molloy)
George Landow talks with Harvey Molloy about personal projects and future Web speculations.
On ®TMark, or, The Limits of Intellectual Property Hacktivism
Caren Irr on ®TMark.com.
Intellectual Property Law, Freedom of Expression, and the Web
Kembrew McLeod, fresh from having trademarked the phrase freedom of expression®, speeds through the domain name scandals of the information superhighway.
What’s Mine is Mine, and What’s Yours Is Mine: Ownership in Online Universities
Paul Collins on collegiate content: syllabus, discussions, lectures, and all.
Patched In: A Conversation with Anne-Marie Schleiner about Computer Gaming Culture
An essay by Tara McPherson (and a conversation with Anne-Marie Schleiner) concerning patch mutations, opensorcery, and other explainable gaming offshoots.
The Politics of Information (Part 2 of 5)
Part 2 of The Politics of Information, a collection that reintroduces class and materiality to the study of technocultures.
Metadiversity: On the Unavailability of Alternatives to Information
Tempering the myth of global variety, David Golumbia processes the dominance of English in digital environments - and a highly standardized English at that.