Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the virtual intelligentsia by Geert Lovink, MIT, £18.50/$27.95, ISBN 0262122510 Reviewed by Wendy M. Grossman
COMMENTARY about the Net has been in general so dominated by Silicon Valley that it’s easy to forget there are other points of view. Many of these are represented day in and day out on the Nettime mailing list, which carries an unusual mix of postings about art, local politics, and media theory from all over the world. The list, which is “slightly moderated”, has a very high proportion of valuable discussion.
In Uncanny Networks, Geert Lovink, who co-founded Nettime in…
