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Tuesday May 29, 2007
Networked Books, Tentative and Complete
To demonstrate her support for the philosophy of collaborative culture, Harold and the University of Minnesota Press have created a wikipedic home page for OurSpace that links to the full text of the book's final chapter, "Inventing Public: Kairos* and Intellectual Property Law." Harold not only invites discussion on the chapter's ideas, she asks readers to provide their own real-life examples and advice for resisting corporate culture.
Of course, it's possible to take this model even further, and Harvard University Press and the Institute for the Future of the Book have teamed up to publish an edition of McKenzie Wark's Gamer Theory that incorporates feedback from readers who saw an earlier version of the book online last year. It also features "visualizations" of Wark's concepts, including this nifty bit of colorized ASCII art by Ben Delarre that renders the entire text of Gamer Theory as a Mario Bros. level: But experiments such as these aren't yet completely open-ended. "I will probably not produce a Version 3.0 of this book," Wark admits on the book's home page. "I'm the kind of person who likes to move on and do new things." Email This Post |
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