Location, location, location: Desktop real estate and the cultural economy of the World Wide Web

Convergence

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 48-61

  Grusin, Richard ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 33646524475     PISSN: 13548565     EISSN: 17487382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/135485650000600106     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. This is a revised version of my keynote address presented at the Creativity and Consumption conference, University of Luton, UK, 29-31 March 1999. It is deeply indebted to my work with Jay Bolter, from which portions of this essay are derived. See Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, Remediation: Understanding New Media (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1999).
2. In Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, edited and with an introduction by Hannah Arendt, translated by Harry Zohn (N.Y: Schocken, 1969), pp. 217-252.
3. John Perry Barlow, 'Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace', at http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/barlow_0296.declaration (31 January 2000).
4. Svetlana Alpers, The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983).
5. Marcos Novak, 'Liquid Architectures in Cyberspace,' in Cyberspace: First Steps, ed. Michael Benedikt (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1991), p. 225.
6. William Gibson, Neuromancer (New York: Ace Books, 1986), p. 52.
7. David Tomas, 'Old Rituals for New Space,' in Benedikt, p. 35.
8. Michael Benedikt, in Benedikt, pp. 122-123.
9. Michael Heim, 'The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace,' in Benedikt, p. 73.
10. Christine Wertheim, The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet (New York: W.W. Norton, 1999).
11. Don Norman, The Invisible Computer (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1999).
12. Wendy A. Kellogg, John M. Carroll, and John T. Richards, 'Making Reality a Cyberspace,' in Benedikt, pp. 411-433.
13. Bruno Latour, 'Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts,' in Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change, eds. W.E. Bijker and J. Law (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1992), pp. 225-258.
14. Kellogg, Carroll, and Richards, p. 418.
15. Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, trans. Catherine Porter (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1993).
16. Marc Augé, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, trans. John Howe (London: Verso, 1995).
17. At http://www.thepixelcompany.com/ (29 March 1999).
18. Although the Pixel Company has now renamed their software xSides™, the assumptions underlying it, and much of the rhetoric promoting it, remains the same.
19. At http://www.free-pc.com (29 March 1999).
20. Knowbotic Research, '10_Dencies - Questioning Urbanity,' in The Art of the Accident, ed. Joke Brouwer et al (Rotterdam: NAI Publishers/V2_Organisatie, 1998), p. 194.
21. Jean Baudrillard, The Perfect Crime, trans. Chris Turner (London: Verso, 1996).
22. Knowbotic Research, p. 200.