Articles related to FutureCulture

These articles are in some way related to the wide range of themes that FutureCulture seeks to discuss. There is no fixed criteria for what gets put here, the theory being that too much is better than too little.

See also the texts written by participants on the FutureCulture and Cybermind.

Texts by Alluquere Rosanne Stone

Alluquere Rosanne Stone is a fascinating writer concerned with identity and gender in cyberspace. These texts were culled from the University of Texas ftp repository.

• Violation and Virtuality: Two cases of physical and psychological boundary transgression and their implications
• What Vampires Know: Transsubjection and Transgender in Cyberspace
• The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto
• Alluquere Rosanne Stone Interview for MONDO 2000

Texts by Andy Hawks

Andy Hawks is a well-known net.personality in certain regions of the net. He created the FutureCulture list and was for a long time central to the evolution of that net.space, as well as contributing enourmously to the community that emerged around FutureCulture and its related net.spaces.

• Maniphest Destin-E: What is FutureCulture
• i feel these wires, a powerful piece of net.prose posted to FutureCulture after a painful incident on IRC.

Miscellaneous texts

• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein, hypertext-ified by Graham J Ward.
• Fuck Art, Let's Kill!: Towards a Post Modern Community (Terrorism in Cyberspace), self-pronounced authorless/subjectless text about the Post Modern Culture MOO Terrorists, pillaged and bricolaged by Troy Whitlock
• Report of the [UBC] Task Force on the Appropriate Use of Information Technology, including statements on pornography and sexual harassment on computer networks.
• Speed 1.1, the first issue of a new electronic zine for "the critical investigation of technology, media, and society." The online version allows for easier browsing.
• Electropolis: Communication and Community on Internet Relay Chat, by Elizabeth Reid
• The alt.syntax.tactical FAQ, describing how the AST intends to invade and destroy newsgroups.
• The alt.current-events.net-abuse Spam, in which someone posted thousands of garbage messages that seemed to come from Emmanuel Goldstein, the editor of 2600. This file includes "tissue samples" of the spam in question, as well as some follow-ups. It is relevant to Cybermind as an example of controversial uses on the net, as well as showing how the net works as a self-organizing organism.

Last updated: July 10th 1996

Marius Watz - Mail to: marius@hok.no