Recalling that Donna Haraway's Cyborg was never meant to be a wired, blissed-out bunny, Marc Bousquet and Katherine Wills recover the political dimension in socialist-feminist thought. Their five-volume edited series, "The Politics of Information," brings class back into cultural studies, considers the Web as crucial to the expanding 'informatics of domination,' and recovers the cyborg as a key figure for an entire world of labor and lifeways.

Two Gestures, While Waiting for a Third

Juggling economies and unknotting threads, Victor Vitanza pulls back to drop the curtain, theoretically, on The Politics of Information.

Teaching the Cyborg (5 of 5)

The Politics of Information: fifth and final installment under the Technocapitalist thread.

The Florida Research Ensemble and the Prospects for an Electronic Humanities

Chris Carter and Greg Ulmer dialogue through e-mails on the mission of the FRE.

Women in the Web

Katie King on the challenges and rewards, in her own life and the lives of her students, that emerge when writing about personal encounters with technology.

The Fan’s Desire and Technopower

Whether they fret over Ziggy Stardust or the condition of posthumanity, fans and scholars share, argues Harvey Molloy, a few habits of mind.

Next Generation Student Resources: A Speculative Primer

A survey of humanities research websites (and how to teach with them) by Susan Schreibman.

Resistance Through Hypertext: ACTing UP in the Electronic Classroom

Laura Sullivan and her students explore webwriting and content provision as activist tools.

The Informatics of Higher Education (4 of 5)

In The Politics of Information, v.4, Bousquet, Wills, and Co bring their critique home to Higher Education.

The Information University

Marc Bousquet discusses university labor delivered in "the mode of information."

The Digital Downside: Moving from Craft to Factory Production in Online Learning

Tim Luke takes on the business of online learning.

From Utopianism to Weak Messianism: Electronic Culture’s Spectral Moment

Stephanie Tripp addresses Spectres of Marx, the text featuring some of Derrida?s most detailed encounters with both historical materialism and information technology.

Michael Milken and the Corporate Raid on Education

Junk bond swami Michael Milken jumped out of prison a few years ago and into for-profit education. Ken Saltman submits Milken's latest venture to the light of day.

Textual Events (3 of 5)

How to commodify "intellectual property" when the object, a text, is made of other texts, and each reading is a re-writing? The Politics of Information, Part 3, considers the identity of event and machine.

What’s Left: Materialist Responses to the Internet

Urging adaptibility and breadth, Mark Poster takes issue with the niches bored by early Internet critiques.

Before and After the Web: George P. Landow (interviewed by Harvey L. Molloy)

George Landow talks with Harvey Molloy about personal projects and future Web speculations.

On ®TMark, or, The Limits of Intellectual Property Hacktivism

Caren Irr on ®TMark.com.

Intellectual Property Law, Freedom of Expression, and the Web

Kembrew McLeod, fresh from having trademarked the phrase freedom of expression®, speeds through the domain name scandals of the information superhighway.

What's Mine is Mine, and What's Yours Is Mine: Ownership in Online Universities

Paul Collins on collegiate content: syllabus, discussions, lectures, and all.

Patched In: A Conversation with Anne-Marie Schleiner about Computer Gaming Culture

An essay by Tara McPherson (and a conversation with Anne-Marie Schleiner) concerning patch mutations, opensorcery, and other explainable gaming offshoots.

The Politics of Information (Part 2 of 5)

Part 2 of The Politics of Information, a collection that reintroduces class and materiality to the study of technocultures.

Prospects for a Materialist Informatics: An Interview with Donna Haraway

Lisa Nakamura questions Donna Haraway about race, speed, and the cyborg.

Metadiversity: On the Unavailability of Alternatives to Information

Tempering the myth of global variety, David Golumbia processes the dominance of English in digital environments - and a highly standardized English at that.

Virtuality and VRML: Software Studies After Manovich

A call for (and example of) material studies of software from Matt Kirschenbaum, spurred by the Digital Arts and Culture conference, 2000.

Social Worlds of the Information Society: Lessons from the Calumet Region

U.S. Steel chiefs and AOL-Time Warner executives span one hundred years of decimation wrapped in rhetoric. John Monberg annotates their enduring logics of expansion.

Sim Capital: General Intellect, World Market, Species Being, and the Video Game

Nick Dyer-Witheford figures the place of video games in the global market, drawing on Marx's "species being" for scratch paper.

The Politics of Information: A Critical E-Book Under Way

On the imminent publication of the first alt-x critical e-book.

Beyond the Voting Machine

Marc Bousquet introduces a forthcoming Altx critical e-book, hosted online by ebr, appearing in five sections through the Fall of 2003. A new ebr thread, Technocapitalism, is built around its concerns.

Electronic Pies in the Poetry Skies

Charles Bernstein's reflections on populism, democracy, and authority in the turbulent waters of web discussion groups and other new Internet sites.

Resisting the Interview

Katherine Wills' anti-interview with Mark Amerika about Internet art.

Delete the Border!

A first-person narrative of Hactivism, Performance, and growing up at the U.S./Mexico Border from Fran Ilich.

The Selling of E-The People

Bennett Voyles' retrospective on the apolitical Nineties, and the fate of democratic electronic activism without content.

The Censoring of Burn!

The story of an activist website's shutdown, as told by DeeDee Halleck, with interstitial e-mails.

Illegal Knowledge: Strategies for New Media Activism

A discussion of net.activism, net.tactics, and strategy featuring Bruce Simon, Geert Lovink, Chris Carter, and Ricardo Dominguez.

Histories of the Future

Steve Shaviro reviews Tomorrow Now by Bruce Sterling, a book that (for an eminent cyberpunk novelist) is perhaps too sane and sensible.

Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy

In between bubble and burst, e-commerce drew much of its content from donated labor. Tiziana Terranova questions just how "free" such labor has proved in practice.

Avant-PoPoMo Now

Ronald Sukenick turns hypercapitalism inside out, and finds no place to hide.

Notes From the Digital Overground

Mark Amerika on establishing an electronic publishing network in the no-man's land between the commercial, the academic, and the underground.