Michael Current is dead. Let noone forget him.

There is a more updated home page for FutureCulture that effectively supercedes these pages. The address is http://futurec.taylor.org/, and it`s maintained by taylor.

This page will remain indefinitely, even if it is no longer updated or represents an even remotely accurate image of the mailing list as it is today. Consider it an archive or a freezeframe flashback image to FutureCulture somewhere in 1995. If you`re looking for something or someone you vaguely remember being on the list at some point you might find it useful to try the simple search facility I've added to this site. No list messages have been archived here, but you`ll find a good archive at taylor's site here.

mariussigningoff12december1996

The FutureCulture mailing list has to be one of the better known lists on what could be termed the Alternative Circuit on the Net. Started by Andy Hawks, it has survived net.death several times and continues to evolve with a sense of real community.

FutureCulture is deliberately broad in scope when it comes to the topics discussed, but a quick list might include:

• Technoculture/new edge/cyberculture
• Cyberspace & the Internet
• Virtual reality
• The computer underground
• Cyberpunk (literary and cultural movements)
• Raves and rave culture
• Media (music/movies/books/magazines) that are relevant
• Virtual communities
• Social and public policy issues

However, be warned that FutureCulture is not just another generic K00L cyberpunk discussion list, but rather a community. Sometimes we discuss Artificial Life and nanotech, sometimes we discuss the future of monogamy and the misery of breaking up. We're cyborgs, but we're also humans.

Future Culture info

• FutureCulture introduction
• The FutureCulture FAQ, from March 1993 (Note that this FAQ is not updated as to reflect the current state of the list, which naturally has a focus somewhat different from what it had two years ago...)
• FutureCulture people's home pages
• An archive of FutureCulture bric-a-brac I collected through the years. Some of it dates back to 1993, and includes seminal messages from Michael Current and Andy Hawks, as well as pleasant silliness and theoretical tracts. An old attic full of dust and old-fashioned clothes.
• The introductions thread from September 1994, in which a lot of FC people introduced themselves. Kindly supplied by Gregory H. Ritter.
• Andy's FutureCulture Manifesto, also known as the bubble manifesto.
• An archive of articles related to FutureCulture issues.
• An archive of texts written by people from the FutureCulture and Cybermind mailing lists. This used to reside on my Cybermind page, but did not relocate when Cybermind got a new home elsewhere.

Related information

These are items that either originated on FutureCulture or is somehow relevant to the issues discussed on FutureCulture. They all show something of the FutureCulture mindset and the focus of the people there.

• An interview with Jack Womack, one of the few writers to really take the consequence of dystopia. Roll over, Gibson.
• Terence McKenna with the Shamen: Re:Evolution
• LeriWeb, home page of the famous Leri-L
• The library of Scotto, de-leri-ous writer and FC oldtimer, here presenting a mass of mindspew.
• honoria in ciberspazio, a collaborative cyberspace opera, featuring FC characters.
• The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension, featuring Terence McKenna, a certain R.Anton Wilson, thought crime, what have you.
• The FIXION project, an excursion in collaborative writing and the process known as "scrytching".
• NEW IMPROVED MANIPHEST-O-MATIC AUTONYM
• Culture Jammer's Manifesto
• ScreamBaby, BladeX' way cool e-zine
• Mark Dery's Culture Jamming essay (this is just a link to a file at the WELL's gopher, he does not allow free redistribution).
• Articles by Kenneth McKenzie Wark, a FC oldtimer who is not around anymore...
• City of Bits , a Web site version of the recent book by William Mitchell.
• An IRC discussion about the history of Future Culture
• The Cyberpoet's Guide to Virtual Culture
• friendli-l! If you have ever needed a friend or somewhere to go when all your net.spaces are consumed by flamewars, friendli-l is the place to go. Be friendli! (Courtesy of Chris Heschong)
• The Cybermind list, started by Michael Current and Alan Sondheim and focus for a lot of discussion about the philosophical aspects of the net.
• The NEXUS project is also a FutureCulture offshoot. Read their manifesto.
• Alternative X, Mark Amerika's Avant-Pop hangout
• The Electronic Revolution, by Willam S. Burroughs
• Tribe, the mailinglist started by Andy Hawks as a project in virtual communities after he left FC.
• Seeker1's CyberAnthropology page, containing quite a few essays on relevant stuff.
• I/O/D, a multimedia e-zine for the Mac, with works by Mark Amerika, Matthew Fuller and other notables.

Last updated: December 12th 1996

Marius Watz - Mail to: mariusw@notam.uio.no