Textual Events (3 of 5)
Marc BousquetHow 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
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 McPhersonAn 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.