#57 - FROM CALIFORNIA IDEOLOGY TO CYBER-COMMUNIST UTOPIA: Professorbrained Theories of the Technofuture
Added 2021-04-05 20:18:15 +0000 UTCDimitri and Khalid discuss the incisive and prescient 1995 essay “The Californian Ideology” by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron, as well as their equally misguided and delusional 1999 essay “CYBER-COMMUNISM: How the Americans are Superseding Capitalism in Cyberspace”, wherein they postulate that Silicon Valley is fulfilling the dream of “Stalinist Communism”.
“The Californian Ideology” (1995): https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology
“CYBER-COMMUNISM: How the Americans are Superseding Capitalism in Cyberspace” (1999): https://www.monoskop.org/images/5/5f/Barbrook_Richard_2000_Cyber-Communism_How_the_Americans_are_Superseding_Capitalism_in_Cyberspace.pdf
