We propose to develop a cooperative, open-content research format that will facilitate a detailed theoretical debate on the historical relations between technological and political transformations, culminating in studies of the present crisis of "informationalism" or the "network society." Building on existing concepts of the technological paradigm, we seek to enlarge the current horizons of research by establishing a chronological framework to track developments in the arts and the communications media as well as changing patterns of consumption, circulation, self-organization and political mobilization. The resulting more broadly integrated model of technopolitics will allow individual researchers to develop their own applications of shared concepts and resources, thus contributing to an informational commons and an enriched public sphere.
...discussed the question of a queer technology and just what queer theory might contribute to the fields of art and technology
...to what extent will the tools we create come to dominate us... :D
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Ronfeldt maintains that technology is not neutral or apolitical but it does “widen the range of possibilities within a particular context.â€
I’d offer the hypothesis that any sufficiently advanced read/write technology will get used for two purposes: pornography and activism.
