Dark fiber: tracking critical internet culture

Dark Fiber......Page 1
Contents\r......Page 7
Acknowledgments\r......Page 9
Introduction: Twilight of the Digirati\r......Page 15
Theory\r......Page 34
Essay on Speculative Media Theory\r......Page 35
Portrait of the Virtual Intellectual......Page 43
Case Studies......Page 54
The Digital City - Meaphor and Community\r......Page 55
The Moderation Question: Nettime and the Boundaries of Mailing List Culture......Page 81
Crystals of Net Criticism\r......Page 134
Language? No Problem\r......Page 135
A Push Media Critique\r......Page 143
Mass Psychology of the Net: A Propo\rsal......Page 149
Net. Times, Not Swatch Time: 21st-Century Global Time Wars\r......Page 155
Fragments of Network Criticism\r......Page 173
Sweet Erosion of Email\r......Page 189
Travelogues\r......Page 194
Culture after the Final Breakdown: Tirana, Albania, May 1998.\r......Page 195
The 9/21 Aftershocks: Taiwan, December 1999\r......Page 207
At the Opening of New Medai Center Sarai: Delhi, February 2001\r......Page 217
Dyanmics of Net Culture\r......Page 230
Redical Media Pragmatism\r......Page 231
Network Fears and Desires\r......Page 239
An Early History of 1990s Cyberculture\r......Page 247
The Importance of Meetspace: On Conferences and Temprary Media Labs\r......Page 253
An Insider\'s Guide to Tactical Media\r......Page 267
Reality Check\r......Page 288
Oraganized Innocence and War in the New Europe: Adilkno, Culture, and the INdependent Media\r......Page 289
Soros and the NGO Question, or the Art of Being Independent......Page 309
Information Warfare: From Propaganda Critique to Culture Jamming......Page 319
Kosovo: War in the Age of Internet\r......Page 331
Towards a Political Economy\r......Page 342
Cyberculture in the Dotcom Age\r......Page 343
The Rise and Fall of Dotcom Mania\r......Page 361
Hi-Low: The Bandwidth Dilemma, or Internet Stagnation after Dotcom Mania\r......Page 383
Bibliography\r......Page 393