technocapitalism

Bennett Voyles' retrospective on the apolitical Nineties, and the fate of democratic electronic activism without content.

The story of an activist website's shutdown, as told by DeeDee Halleck, with interstitial e-mails.

A discussion of net.activism, net.tactics, and strategy featuring Bruce Simon, Geert Lovink, Chris Carter, and Ricardo Dominguez.

Steve Shaviro reviews Tomorrow Now by Bruce Sterling, a book that (for an eminent cyberpunk novelist) is perhaps too sane and sensible.

In between bubble and burst, e-commerce drew much of its content from donated labor. Tiziana Terranova questions just how "free" such labor has proved in practice.