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Alan Sondheim: Philosophy and Psychology of the Internet INTERNET TEXT is a meditation on the philosophy, psychology, political economy, and psychoanalytics of Internet (computer) communication. It focuses on virtual subjectivity, sexuality, community, and all aspects of computer interfacing. Please consult the Index for the list of topics.

Ken Knabb's new translation of Guy Debord's "The Society of the Spectacle" The entire text is online. Debord's book -- easily the most important radical book of the twentieth century -- has been translated into over a dozen languages. This new translation incorporates the best renderings from previous English versions, but is clearer and more accurate than any of them.

Lev Manovich Is an Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego where he teaches courses in new media art and theory. He is the author of The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001), Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture (Chicago University Press, 1993) as well as 50+ articles which have been published in 20+ countries. Currently he is working on a new book Info-aesthetics and a digital film project Soft Cinema.

The Experimental Interaction Unit (EIU) is actively engaged in ongoing research into the physical, aural, visual, and gestural interactions between humans and machines and the various permutations of those interactions. Previously we have conducted investigations into distribution systems for lethal biological pathogens, technology disruption instruments, Weapons of Mass Disorientation (WMD), and various personal tele-activity enabling devices that facilitate tele-embodiment, tele-crime, and tele-obliteration. We are currently updating our agenda in light of current social-technological situations and pursuing the urgent deployment of the next generation of essential technical tools.

TRANS > arts.cultures.media A multilingual magazine with on-line and printed versions published three times per year by PASSIM, inc., a not-for-profit organization.

The Bureau of Public Secrets Web site features numerous texts by and about Guy Debord and other members of the Situationist International, the notorious avant-garde group that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France.

Coretext Is a place where you can come to read about things and people - artists, thinkers, technologists - who aren't satisfied with the preached western utopian visions of our contemporary age, and might have something else to say through their work and their words. We invite you to participate.

Adbusters Media Foundation We are a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs...

ALT-X PRESS Web-readers a must-have library of artist ebooks, post-pomo novels, collections of new media (h)activist writings, and digital picture books. These full-length works of art are now available in ebook and Palm Pilot formats. The best part about it all? These ebooks are available to you for free. Or, if you prefer the Print On Demand paperback version, you can BUY our books right now. That's right, Alt-X, online since 1993, is expanding and has just started publishing books by, for and through the computer.

Bitch Feminist Response to Pop Culture is a print magazine devoted to incisive commentary on our media-driven world. We feature critiques of TV, movies, magazines, advertising, and more—plus interviews with and profiles of cool, smart women in all areas of pop culture.

Broken Pencil One of the few magazines in the world devoted exclusively to underground culture and the independent arts. We are a great resource and a lively read! A cross between the Utne Reader, an underground Reader’s Digest, and the now defunct Factsheet5, Broken Pencil reviews the best zines, books, websites, videos, and artworks from the underground and reprints the best articles from the alternative press. Also, ground breaking interviews, original fiction, and commentary on all aspects of the independent arts.

Information Arts By Stephen Wilson. Comprehensive international surveys of artists working at the frontiers of scientific inquiry and emerging technologies. Its goal is to describe this art, explore its theoretical rationales, and alert readers to possible future directions. It is also one of the only sources available that reviews cutting edge techno-scientific research in a way accessible to those without extensive technical backgrounds. It will be of interest to artists, art historians, electronic media designers, technologists, scientists, researchers, and more general audiences interested in the future of research that will have significant impact on the culture.

Postmodern Culture P M C Founded in 1990 as an experiment in scholarly publishing on the Internet, Postmodern Culture has become the leading electronic journal of interdisciplinary thought on contemporary cultures, publishing the work of such noted authors and critics as Kathy Acker, Charles Bernstein, Bruce Robbins, bell hooks, and Susan Howe. PMC combines high scholarly standards with broad appeal for non-academic readers. As an entirely web-based journal, PMC can publish still images, sound, animation, and full-motion video as well as text.

Situationist International An ongoing project of uploading pieces of the wealth of Situationist-related literature. Entire books, lengthy articles, excerpts from the journals Potlatch and Internationale Situationniste, and newspaper articles are just a few of the files to be found here. Join the Situationist mailing list for a discussion of theory and contemporary activity in the prositu vein.Join the Situationist mailing list for a discussion of theory and contemporary activity in the prositu vein.

Media Online Is a journal concerned with media situation in the region of South East Europe. We endeavour to facilitiate the process of media transformation and professionalisation in the region and provide the forum for media experts and journalists to advance their own media practice through the exchange of experiences with their colleagues from other countries in transition. Hence we have established a network of correspondents from the countries of South East Europe who follow developments in the media arenas of their respective countries for the purposes of Media Online. The journal is thus able to provide the most interesting information on the media situation as well as comprehensive short and long term analyses and reports.

1000 Ridiculous Tragedies An Eryk Salvaggios site, founded in 1997. Internet based journal, a platform for creative thought and new explorative writers.

Drunken Boat A non-profit, semiannual, exclusively online publication dedicated to cross-pollination and interactivity, showcasing the best practitioners of prose, poetry, criticism, translation, photography, hypertext, sound, video and digital art.

Parole Platform for information, discussion, archive, gathering of data, it is a place where much of the material included is directly provided by its users. As in a type of "Borgesian" dream it establishes a permanently fluid and unstable mapping of the actual urban condition throughout the world, looking at the variations and alterations in language and in the discourse of several different disciplines. Neologisms, slang terms, theories, utopic projects, nicknames attributed to specific sites, urbanism, architecture, anthropology, contemporary art are some of the multiple material included in parole.

Creative Disturbance Is an Internet based network for incubating innovation and expression. It was founded to dramatically improve the artist and innovator’s ability to execute his or her visionary project, and to directly connect investors, patrons and other resource providers to new opportunities.

Culture Machine A series of new experiments in culture and theory. Culture Machine is currently taking the form of an international electronic journal. Acting as additions or supplements to the e-journal are the Culture Machine Reviews section and the Culture Machine InterZone.

The Electronic Literature Organization - facilitate and promote the writing, publishing, and reading of literature in electronic media. "What approaches are writers and authors taking to the creation of electronic literature?" and "What new genres and forms are beginning to evolve?"

Cristine Wang - An independent new media curator, critic, and journalist.

CTHEORY Digital Ideology: E-Theory, Arthur & Marilouise Kroker. Articles, interviews, and key book reviews in contemporary discourse are published weekly. Society, Philosophy, Current Movements, Postmodernism.

The Etext Archives Home to electronic texts of all kinds, from the sacred to the profane, from the political to the personal. Our mission is to provide electronic versions of texts without judging their content.

Human Body Modeling & Deformation The modeling of realistic human figure in computer graphics.

On Becoming Posthuman Copyright 1994. Max More. more@extropy.org. ... brains. The Posthuman Goal.

Cyber Cultures: Sustained Release - Posthuman Bodies Posthuman Bodies explores the way that new technologies are changing our concepts of human nature and human identity as we evolve from the human into the technologically enhanced 'posthuman'.

STELARC Is an Australian-based performance artist whose work explores and extends the concept of the body and its relationship with technology through human/machine interfaces incorporating the Internet and Web, sound, music, video and computers.

Posthuman Science Artificial Culture Experiments in Synthetic Anthropology
Nicholas Gessler. In the posthuman, there are no essential differences or absolute demarcations between bodily existence and computer simulation, cybernetic mechanism and biological organism, robot teleology and human goals.

Transhumanist Resources 'What is a human being, then?' 'A seed.' 'A... seed?' 'An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree'

Infiltration Offers a mix of the practice and theory of urban exploration in areas not designed for public usage. You can find out more about the zine (new issue!) or mailing list, peruse my updated journal or some extras, or jump straight into the FAQs and expeditions below

The Spoon Collective Is a list dedicated to promoting discussion of philosophical and political issues.

May 1968 revolt Translations of over 200 graffiti from the May 1968 revolt in France are online at The Bureau of Public Secrets. A few examples: Power to the imagination. Be realistic, demand the impossible. It's painful to submit to our bosses; it's even more stupid to choose them.No forbidding allowed. When examined, answer with questions. The more I make love, the more I want to make revolution. The more I make revolution, the more I want to make love. Boredom is counterrevolutionary. Run, comrade, the old world is behind you!

Webartery.com A collective Web site that features discussion of poetics of Web art/net.work, links to member sites, the Defib archive of chat shows, and other projects, including this one.

NoLogo site "Ethical shareholders, culture jammers, street reclaimers, McUnion organizers, humanrights hacktivists, school-logo fighters and Internet corporate watchdogs are at the early stages of demanding a citizen-centered alternative to the international rule of brands. That demand, still sometimes in some areas of the world whispered for fear of a jinx, is to build a resistance both high-tech and grassroots, both focused and fragmented that is as global, and as capable of coordinated action, as the multinational corporations it seeks to subvert."

Vispo ~ Langu(im)age Jim Andrews's site features new media work of various poetics, essays on technologies of the word, sound poetry, great guests, free software, webartery chat, and other varietous writings.

the pickings An exploration of hypertext and computer graphics, including: animations, illustrated texts, and curious forms, by Randy Adams.

Riding the Meridian Exists to seek out and support new forms of literary art based on Internet technology and emerging theories, to facilitate communication within the online art and literary communities, and to explore the myriad forms by which the Internet can be used to publish and promote art and literature. Edited primarily by Jennifer Ley.

netArteFact Site(s), project(s) exploring, discovering art on the Net by Reiner Strasser and collaborating artists.

arc[texture.eyes].hive Seeks to fill the gap left by those lists previously devoted to the evolution, discussion, practice, & slippage of all actions.

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