Sorry for any cross posting... The Secret War Between Uploading And Downloading.
Rob Myers reviews Peter Lunenfeld's new publication 'The Secret War Between Downloading & Uploading: Tales Of The Computer As Culture Machine'.
A vivid new conceptualization of threats to and the promise of networked computers as culture machines and presenting a new way of looking at the cultural struggle for control of the internet, whilst managing to avoid, singularization, fantasy and anthropological despair, and reaching a surprising conclusion.
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