The Politics of Information: the Electronic Mediation of Social Change
The Politics of Information: The Electronic Mediation of Social Change edited by Marc Bousquet and Katherine Wills Alt X Press electronic book review cc 2003 by the authors and Alt-X Press. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nd-nc/1.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA. This work may be freely distributed, in whole or in part, for non-commercial purposes, provided that names of author, editor, and publisher are included. Contents Introduction by Marc Bousquet v 1. Beyond the Voting Machine 1 Section Introduction, Marc Bousquet, 3 Charles Bernstein, “Electronic Pies in the Poetry Skies” 7 Bennett Voyles, “The Selling of E-thePeople” 12 DeeDee Halleck, “The Censoring of Burn!” 18 Fran Ilich, “Delete the Border!” 45 Bruce Simon, “Illegal Knowledge: Strategies for New-Media Activism” (dialogue with Ricardo Dominguez and Geert Lovink) 55 Mark Amerika and Katherine Wills, “Resisting the Interview: An Anti-Interview with Mark Amerika about Internet Art” 66 2. Technocapitalism and The Politics of Information 79 Section Introduction, Marc Bousquet, 81 David Golumbia, “Metadiversity: On the Unavailability of Alternatives to Information” 85 Tiziana Terranova, “Free Labor, Producing Culture for the DigitalEconomy” 99 Nick Dyer-Witheford, “Sim Capital: General Intellect, World Market, Species Being and the Video Game” 122 John Monberg, “Social Worlds of the Information Society: Lessons from the Calumet Region” 141 Matt Kirschenbaum, “Virtuality and VRML: Software Studies After Manovich” 149 Donna Haraway, “Prospects for a Materialist Informatics” (interview with Lisa Nakamura) 154 iv Contents 3.
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