technocapitalism
Metadiversity: On the Unavailability of Alternatives to Information
August 30, 2003
David Golumbia
Tempering the myth of global variety, David Golumbia processes the dominance of English in digital environments - and a highly standardized English at that.
Prospects for a Materialist Informatics: An Interview with Donna Haraway
August 30, 2003
Lisa Nakamura
Lisa Nakamura questions Donna Haraway about race, speed, and the cyborg.
Social Worlds of the Information Society: Lessons from the Calumet Region
August 29, 2003
John Monberg
U.S. Steel chiefs and AOL-Time Warner executives span one hundred years of decimation wrapped in rhetoric. John Monberg annotates their enduring logics of expansion.
Sim Capital: General Intellect, World Market, Species Being, and the Video Game
August 29, 2003
Nick Dyer-Witheford
Nick Dyer-Witheford figures the place of video games in the global market, drawing on Marx's "species being" for scratch paper.
Virtuality and VRML: Software Studies After Manovich
August 29, 2003
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
A call for (and example of) material studies of software from Matt Kirschenbaum, spurred by the Digital Arts and Culture conference, 2000.