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Long before a clandestine military-academic collaboration created the 1960's
ARPANET the speculative mechanisms of conspiracy theories have fueled global events.
The Internet and its growing Web
2.0 counterpart have moved beyond the realm of information exchange and redundancy to become the real-time fora of narrative construction. Fuelling and fanning all forms of popular speculation the net now creates its own post-modern mythologies of world domination, corporate control and government induced fear fetishism
.
If the net itself is not a conspirative construct designed to control and influence global intellectual expression then, rumour has it, it plays the central role in implying as much.
Has the
Internet now become a self-fulfilling prophecy of its own destructive speculation?
Alessandro Ludovico is a media critic and editor in chief of
Neural magazine since
1993, for which he received a honorary mention of the
Prix Ars Electronica 2004. He writes essays on digital culture and he co-edited
Mag.Net
Reader. Alessandro is one of the founding contributors of the Nettime community, and also one of the founders of the Mag.Net organisation (
Electronic Cultural Publishers). He teaches at the
Academy of Art in
Carrara, Italy and was a research fellow at the
Piet Zwart Institute in
Rotterdam. Since
2005, he collaborates with
Ubermorgen and
Paolo Cirio on
Google Will Eat
Itself and the
Amazon Noir project, in conceptually conspiring against the smartest marketing techniques of major online corporations.
Hans Bernhard is a
Vienna/
St. Moritz based artist whose true madness first surfaced when he started up the internet-underground cult 'etoy' in
1994.
In
1999 he and three other founding members of etoy bought the mother company etoy.holding while investing dot-com money in a Sofia-based software firm (esof ltd)
.
In the same year, he and lizvlx created uebermorgen.com - a system critical leftover of net
.art.
During the web site action 'Vote-Auction' to buy and sell votes during the
2000 U.S. presidential elections, Hans and lizvlx (UBERMORGEN.
COM) were sued by 12
U.S. states, investigated by
U.S. federal attorney
Janet Reno, observed by the
FBI, the
CIA and the
Austrian secret police and put under
NSA surveillance.
After that he initiated
NAZI~
LINE (with
Christoph Schlingensief), a neo-nazi re-integration project. Other projects currently getting him into serious trouble with
German/Austrian secret services and corporate lawyers include GWEI (Google Will Eat Itself), the Injunction
Generator and Amazon Noir.
- published: 21 Jan 2011
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