Index

Contents

     Acknowledgements viii
     Introduction: Twilight of the Digirati  2

Theory	
     Essay on Speculative Media Theory (1996)  22
     Portrait of the Virtual Intellectual (1997)  30

Case Studies	
     The Digital City--Metaphor and Community (2001)  42
     The Moderation Question: Nettime and the Boundaries of Mailing List Culture 
     (2001)  68

Crystals of Net Criticism	
     Language? No Problem (1996)  122
     A Push Media Critique (1997)  130
     Mass Psychology of the Net: A Proposal (1998)  136
     Net. Times, Not Swatch Time: 21st-Century Global Time Wars (1998)  142
     Fragments of Network Criticism (1999)  160
     Sweet Erosions of Email (2000)  176

Travelogues	
     Culture after the Final Breakdown: Tirana, Albania, May 1998 (1998)  182
     The 9/21 Aftershocks: Taiwan, December 1999 (1999)  194
     At the Opening of New Media Centre Sarai: Delhi, February 2001 (2001)  204

Dynamics of Net Culture	
     Radical Media Pragmatism (1998)  218
     Network Fears and Desires (1998)  226
     An Early History of 1990s Cyberculture (1999)  234
     The Importance of Meetspace: On Conferences and Temporary Media Labs 
     (2000)  240
     An Insider's Guide to Tactical Media (2001)  254

Reality Check	
     Organized Innocence and War in the New Europe: Adilkno, Culture, and the 
     Independent Media (1995)  276
     Soros and the NGO Question, or The Art of Being Independent (1997)  296
     Information Warfare: From Propaganda Critique to Culture Jamming (1998)  306
     Kosovo: War in the Age of Internet (1999)  318

Towards a Political Economy	
     Cyberculture in the Dotcom Age (2000)  330
     The Rise and Fall of Dotcom Mania (2001)  348
     Hi-Low: The Bandwidth Dilemma, or Internet Stagnation after Dotcom Mania 
     (2001)  370

     Bibliography  380