“Traditional” is one of the more interesting words to keep track of in contemporary discourse, particularly when it comes up in discussions of technology. For the most part, it is used as a slur. It is a word used to disparage an object or practice, to compare it to whatever one wants to posit as […]
Production constraints and editorial guidelines required The Politics of Bitcoin, in both its print and electronic versions, to include only the base URLs of online materials referenced in the book, and even in the electronic version these aren’t live links. In addition, space constraints meant that some work valuable to me in composing the book […]
A colleague asked if I had any links to writings about Google Glass, so I dug around in my files and found quite a few things. I thought they might come in handy for others doing research on the topic. I have even more, but this is overwhelming enough as it is. The final pair […]
From “The ‘Sharing’ Hype,” an interview published today at In These Times conducted by Rebecca Burns with me, Neal Gorenflo, co-founder and publisher of Shareable Magazine, and the SolidarityNYC collective, which supports the growth of cooperatives in New York City. “Sharing” can be seen as a form of resistance to the capitalist economy. But the “sharing […]
A few excerpts from an interview at Dichtung Digital: Journal für Kunst und Kultur digitaler Medien, with questions asked by Roberto Simanowski. My least favorite digital neologism is “hacker.” The word has so many meanings, and yet it is routinely used as if its meaning was unambiguous. Wikipedia has dozens of pages devoted to the […]
Preserved for its richness of examples of computational rhetoric and its imbrication with capital. Published in Wired 15:08 (Jul 24, 2007)http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-08/ff_sheep?currentPage=all How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life Frank Rose 07.24.07 | 2:00 AM Illustrations by Eddie Guy Embedding Ads Into Games Seemed Like a Good Idea For months, Michael Donnelly […]