e-flux Journal #31
<p>As we continue to reflect upon the chain of political upheavals of 2011, it may be interesting to consider a particular shift in the status of information technology, now that it has been deployed as such a powerful force in facilitating the rise of a new popular voice.</p> <p>But first, how did this happen? How did a form of communication—developed in the late 1950s with a well-funded US Defense Department initiative in response to the Sputnik threat, then blossoming in the hands of engineer-entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley of the 1970s into the center of accelerated hyper-capitalism in the 1990s—evolve to become a strange hybrid of a free press, judiciary, and public market?…</p> <p><b>Editorial</b><br /> Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>An Internet of Things</b><br /> Keller Easterling</p> <p><b>Notes on the Inorganic, Part I: Accelerations</b><br /> Gean Moreno</p> <p><b>After OWS: Social Practice Art, Abstraction, and the Limits of the Social</b><br /> Gregory Sholette</p> <p><b>General Performance</b><br /> Sven Lütticken</p> <p><b>The Sound of Breaking Glass, Part II: Agonism and the Taming of Dissent</b><br /> Grant Kester</p>
Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
Contributors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Keller Easterling, Gean Moreno, Gregory Sholette, Sven Lütticken, Grant Kester
Part of: e-flux journal
ISSN: 21641625