ReadMe! ASCII Culture and the Revenge of Knowledge

by Nettime

Media Studies. Technology. This collection, filtered by Nettime, was generated as the result of various meetings, conferences, and an internet mailing list dealing with current technological and political issues. Nettime has been described as a collective subjectivity with no fixed identity, made up of the people who come and go from the Nettime list, who contribute more or less to it characteristic ideas and expressions (Introduction). The result is a vigorous international networked discourse that neither promotes cash-cow euphoria nor propagates cynical generalizations about the cultural possibilities of new media. READ ME pits the printing press against the Turing machine in an intellectual demolition derby. E-mail addresses of the authors are provided in the last section of the book, inviting collaboration on the part of the reader.

556 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999