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this blog is nina wenhart's collection of resources on the various histories of new media art. it consists mainly of non or very little edited material i found flaneuring on the net, sometimes with my own annotations and comments, sometimes it's also textparts i retyped from books that are out of print.

it is also meant to be an additional resource of information and recommended reading for my students of the prehystories of new media class that i teach at the school of the art institute of chicago in fall 2008.

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2008-06-25

>> Richard Barbrook, Imaginary Futures

Richard Barbrook,
Imaginary Futures
- From Thinking Machines to the Global Village

Pluto Press, 2007

ISBN: 9780745326603



Review from Pluto Press:

"Richard Barbrook argues that, at the height of the Cold War, the Americans invented a truly revolutionary tool: the Internet. Yet, for all of its libertarian potential, hi-tech science soon became a tool of geopolitical dominance. The rest of the world was expected to follow America's path into the networked future.

Today, we're still told that the Net is creating the information society. Barbrook shows how we can reclaim its revolutionary purpose: how the DIY ethic of the internet can help people shape information technologies in their own interest and reinvent their own, improved visions of the future."





audiofile of Richard Barbrook's presentation at the parliaments of art symposium in 2005, Vienna:
http://radio.sztaki.hu/node/listen.php/id__666pr592/fileid__666mf1356/audio.m3u

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