Thus the autonomous production of media for grassroots campaigns has been widely established as a core concern for contemporary political movements, not least thanks to the Tactical Media pioneers of the 1990s. However, its increasing reliance on commercial infrastructure is introducing new points of failure are becoming apparent as the policing of the commercial platforms is getting more intense.

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DISCOURSE
A Virtual World is Possible: From Tactical Media to Digital Multitudes
Geert Lovink and Florian Schneider
Market-ideology, Semiocapitalism and the Digital Cognitariat, Franco Berardi Bifo
Byzantium 550 AD, Paulina Borsook
Seduction of the Cyber Zombies, Hakim Bey
Spiritual Telegraphs and the Technology of Communication:
Tuning into The Electromagnetic Imagination, Erik Davis
Which Democracy in a Post-political Age?, Chantal Mouffe
Free Software, Free Culture: After the dotCommunist Manifesto, Eben Moglen
The Information War, Peter Lamborn Wilson
Gray Markets and Information Warlords, Bruce Sterling
Economics, Computers and the War Machine, Manuel De Landa
Free Bitflows: Editorial, Konrad Becker, Felix Stalder
Torrents of Desire and the Shape of the Informational Landscape, Felix Stalder
A Topography of E-space - Electronic Networks and Public Space, Saskia Sassen
Free Software, Free Hardware, Free Bandwidth, Interview with Eben Moglen
Frequently Asked Questions about the Public Domain, Eric Kluitenberg
Myths about Copyright, Lawrence Liang
Bits of Freedom, Sjoera Nas

 

NEW ART PRACTICES
New Art Practices: Editorial, Branka Curéi¢
Becoming Nike? The Fake Behind the Swoosh, Vera Tollmann
On the S77CCR-Consortium, Marko Peljhan
Information War in the Age of Dangerous Substances, Sadie Plant
TextFM: Open Broadcasting System, An interview with Graham Harwood and Matt Fuller, Michelle Kasprzak
Posthuman Development in the Age of Pancapitalism, Critical Art Ensemble
Space Travel - By Any Means Necessary, Jason Skeet
An Interview with Stelarc, Miss M
Synworld, Konrad Becker
General Statement on Synworld, Faith Wilding
"Play with me!” or: Cyberspace as Toyspace, Oliver Marchart
Interface as the Key Category of Computer Culture, Lev Manovich

 

TACTICAL MEDIA
30 Years of Tactical Media, Felix Stalder
Various Documents, New Kunstsektion
The Nature of Art... Public Netbase’s Hidden Manoeuvres, Martin Wassermair
Inverted Towers. Strategies for a Reappropriation of Urban Space, Gerald Raunig
Blown Into Peaces. Virtual Cow Kidnapping - a Drama in Four Acts, Lisa Mayr
Swarmachine, Activist Media Tomorrow, Brian Holmes
Reboot Your Radio!, Pit Schultz

 

DIGITAL MEDIACULTURE,
NETWORKING AND PARTICIPATION
Introduction Meaning of Digital Networks, Saskia Sassen
Report of the Work Group on “Cultures of Electronic Networks", Cultural
Competence, Linz
Reclaiming Spaces and Symbolic Culture, Netbased Public Interventions in Vienna
Konrad Becker
The Free Media Camp - Picturing Protest, Patricia Késtring
Reflections on Building the European Cultural Backbone, Andreas Broeckmann
A Look at Vienna's Ruins of Future, Andreas Broeckmann
wahlkabine.at, An Online Orientation Too! Awakens a New Interest in Politics
Karin Liebhart, Martin Wassermair
The Past - A Servant Of The Future, Katharina Wegan
Period After - A Review, Branka Curti¢

 

PUBLIC NETBASE
Let it RIP! Obituary of an Endless Myth: Public Netbase, 1994-2006, Brian Holmes
Building a Netbase from Scratch, Francisco de Sousa Webber
Public Netbase. A Political Controversy, Konrad Becker, Martin Wassermair
Opposing Nest Culture: The Political Conflicts of Public Netbase, 1994-2006
Katharina Ludwig
Intermission at the Combat Zone, A Review of Public Netbase's Urban and Symbolic Lines of Conflict, Clemens Apprich
Open Letter to the Austrian Public
Notice Served to Public Netbase in the Museumsquartier
Public Netbase tO Moves Into Position
Open Letter to Michael Haupl, Mayor of Vienna, and the Vienna City Government
Discussion on Public Funding and Critique, Branka Curti¢

 

WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG
World-Information.Org, World-Information.Org
World-InfoCon Brussels (2000): An Annotated Report, Steve Kurtz
World-Information Forum Vienna (2000): Conference Report, World-Information.Org
The Vienna Document, Xnational Net Culture and "The Need to Know" of Information
Societies , Open Cultures Working Group
World-InfoCon 2002 Amsterdam, Eric Kluitenberg
World-Information.Org mission in Serbia, Dejan Sretenovic
When State of Emergency Becomes a Constant, Branka Curti¢
Cultural Intelligence and the Urban Multitudes, "World-Information City"
World-Information.Org
Bangalore and Back, Reflections on World-Information City, Bangalore, Felix Stalder

 

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