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My First Recession
Critical Internet Culture in Transition

 By Geert Lovink

ISBN 90-5662-353-2
V2_Publishers, Rotterdam, 2003

My First Recession starts after the party is over. This study maps the
transition of critical Internet culture from the mid to late 1990s Internet
craze to the dotcom crash, the subsequent meltdown of global financial
markets and 9/11. In his discussion of the dotcom boom-and-bust cycle, Geert
Lovink lays out the challenges faced by critical Internet culture today. In
a series of case studies, Lovink meticulously describes the ambivalent
attitude that artists and activists take as they veer back and forth between
euphoria and skepticism. As a part of this process, Lovink examines the
internal dynamics of virtual communities through an analysis of the use of
moderation and "collaborative filtering" on mailing lists and weblogs. He
also confronts the practical and theoretical problems that appear as artists
join the growing number of new-media education programs. Delving into the
unexplored gold mines of list archives and weblogs, Lovink reveals a world
that is largely unknown to both the general public and the Internet
visionaries.

Geert Lovink is a Australian-based Dutch media theorist and Internet critic,
a co-founder of numerous online projects such as Nettime and Fibreculture,
and the author of Dark Fiber and Uncanny Networks.

Table of Contents: Introduction: Currents in Critical Internet Culture;
Post-speculative Internet Theory, Three Positions: Dreyfus, Castells,
Lessig; Anatomy of Dotcommania, Overview of Recent Literature; Deep Europe
and the Kosovo Conflict, a History of the V2_East/Syndicate Network;
Principles of Streaming Sovereignty, a History of the Xchange Network;
Oekonux and the Free Software Model, From Linux to the GPL-Society; The
Battle over New Media Art Education, Models and Experiences; Defining Open
Publishing, Of Lists and Weblogs; Conclusion: Boundaries and Sustainable
Models.

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