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From City Space to Cyberspace

Art, Squatting, and Internet Culture in the Netherlands
ID 405492
Slug from-city-space-to-cyberspace-amanda-wasielewski
Contributors
Author : Amanda Wasielewski
Annotation
Description The narrative of the birth of internet culture often focuses on the achievements of American entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, but there is an alternative history of internet pioneers in Europe who developed their own model of network culture in the early 1990s. Drawing from their experiences in the leftist and anarchist movements of the '80s, they built DIY networks that give us a glimpse into what internet culture could have been if it were in the hands of squatters, hackers, punks, artists, and activists. In the Dutch scene, the early internet was intimately tied to the aesthetics and politics of squatting. Untethered from profit motives, these artists and activists aimed to create a decentralized tool that would democratize culture and promote open and free exchange of information.
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740 Mens en maatschappij algemeen NUR
NSTC
Publisher Amsterdam University Press
Imprint
Language eng
Page count 254
Duration
Publication date first 2021-06-16
Publication date latest 2021-06-16
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  • ISBN: 9789048553723 (EA)

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