What’s Left: Materialist Responses to the Internet
Mark PosterUrging 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 LandowGeorge Landow talks with Harvey Molloy about personal projects and future Web speculations.
On ®TMark, or, The Limits of Intellectual Property Hacktivism
Caren IrrCaren Irr on ®TMark.com.
Intellectual Property Law, Freedom of Expression, and the Web
Kembrew McLeodKembrew McLeod, fresh from having trademarked the phrase freedom of expression®, speeds through the domain name scandals of the information superhighway.
A Better Mao’s Trap
Lisette GonzalesInfiltrate, animate, dominate. Lisette Gonzales reviews Derek Pell's Little Red Book of Adobe LiveMotion.
What’s Mine is Mine, and What’s Yours Is Mine: Ownership in Online Universities
Paul CollinsPaul Collins on collegiate content: syllabus, discussions, lectures, and all.
Patched In: A Conversation with Anne-Marie Schleiner about Computer Gaming Culture
Tara McPherson
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)
Marc BousquetPart 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
David GolumbiaTempering 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
Lisa NakamuraLisa Nakamura questions Donna Haraway about race, speed, and the cyborg.
Social Worlds of the Information Society: Lessons from the Calumet Region
John MonbergU.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
Nick Dyer-WithefordNick 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
Matthew G. KirschenbaumA call for (and example of) material studies of software from Matt Kirschenbaum, spurred by the Digital Arts and Culture conference, 2000.
Beyond the Voting Machine
Marc BousquetMarc Bousquet introduces a forthcoming Altx critical e-book, hosted online by ebr, appearing in five sections through the Fall of 2003. A new ebr thread, Technocapitalism, is built around its concerns.