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No. 10: The Internet Revolution: From Dot-com Capitalism to Cybernetic
Communism by Richard Barbrook, with Andy Cameron

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*About this publication: *Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron’s The
Californian Ideology, originally published in 1995 by Mute magazine and the
nettime mailinglist, is the iconic text of the first wave of Net criticism.
The internet might have fundamentally changed in the last two decades, but
their demolition of the neoliberal orthodoxies of Silicon Valley remains
shocking and provocative. They question the cult of the dot-com
entrepreneur, challenging the theory of technological determinism and
refuting the myths of American history. Denounced as the work of ‘looney
lefties’ by Silicon Valley’s boosters when it first appeared, The
Californian Ideology has since been vindicated by the corporate take-over
of the Net and the exposure of the NSA’s mass surveillance programmes.
Published in 1999 at the peak of the dot-com bubble, Richard Barbrook’s
Cyber-Communism offers an alternative vision of the shape of things to
come, inspired by Marshall McLuhan’s paradoxical ‘thought probes’. With the
Californian Ideology growing stronger, the Net was celebrated as the
mechanical perfection of neoliberal economics. Barbrook shows how this
futurist prophecy is borrowed from America’s defunct Cold War enemy:
Stalinist Russia. Technological progress was the catalyst of social
transformation. With copyright weakening, intellectual commodities were
mutating into gifts. Invented in capitalist America, the Net in the
late-1990s had become the first working model of communism in human
history. In an introduction written specially for this 20th anniversary
edition, Richard Barbrook takes a fresh look at the hippie capitalists who
shaped Silicon Valley and explains how their influence continues to this
day. These thought probes are still relevant in understanding the
contradictory impact of ubiquitous social media within the modern world. As
McLuhan had insisted, theoretical provocation creates political
understanding. Richard Barbrook is Senior Lecturer in the Department of
Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster,
London, England. He is a trustee of Cybersalon and a founder member of
Class Wargames. He has written about the politics of the Net and gaming in
his books Media Freedom: The Contradictions of Communications in the Age of
Modernity; The Class of the New; Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines
to the Global Village; and Class Wargames: Ludic Subversion Against
Spectacular Capitalism. *Colofon: *Author: Richard Barbrook with Andy
Cameron. Network Notebook editors: Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch. Design:
Medamo, Rotterdam. EPUB development: André Castro. Printer: Printvisie.
Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2015. ISBN:
978-94-92302-02-1.
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