Richard Barbrook
Biographic Data
| ID | 313801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Barbrook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Barbrook |
| SIGNATURE | BARBROOK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 214 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Resistance to the Current
How hacking cultures drive contemporary capitalism and the future of innovation. In Resistance to the Current, Johan Söderberg and Maxigas examine four historical case studies of hacker movements and their roles in shaping the twenty-first-century's network society. Based on decades of field work and analysis, this intervention into current debates situates an exploding variety of hacking practices within the contradictions of capitalism. Depolit…
Imaginary Futures
Winner of the MEA's 2008 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology.'A compelling, authoritative, and painstakingly documented narrative, Imaginary Futures traces the emergence of the computer era in the context of desperately competing ideologies, economics, and empires. This is a work of passionate and persuasive scholarship by a contemporary social theorist at the top of his game.'Douglas Rushkoff, author, Coerci…
New York Prophecies
Exhibiting the Future
In the modern world, our understanding of the present is often shaped by science fiction fantasies about what is to come. Ironically, the most influential of these visions of the future are already decades old. We are already living in the times when they were supposed to have come true. In this article, the author analyses the origins and evolution of the imaginary future of artificial intelligence in the 1950s and 1960s. By showing that the fut…
(Originally published in December 1998)
This paper is included in the First Monday Special Issue #3: Internet banking, e-money, and Internet gift economies, published in December 2005. Special Issue editor Mark A. Fox asked authors to submit additional comments regarding their articles. How has the hi-tech gift economy evolved since 1998, when the paper was written? This article was a product of its time. When I originally wrote The Hi-Tech Gift Economy, the Net was still a novelty for…
The Hi-Tech Gift Economy
The Regulation Of Liberty
The Napsterization Of Everything
“They just don’t get it.” During the dotcom boom of the late-1990s, this catch phrase was a popular way of dismissing anyone who expressed doubts about the world-historical significance of the Net. How could someone be so out-of-touch as not to realise that this technology was transforming everything: business, politics, culture and even personal relationships? The future would belong to those did “get it.” Yet, only a couple of years later, such…
Napster partout
de ce numéro sur Cairn.info
Le cyber-communisme ou le dépassement du capitalisme dans le Cyberespace
Cyber-Communism
(2000). CYBER-COMMUNISM: How the Americans are Superseding Capitalism in Cyberspace. Science as Culture: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 5-40
The Hi-Tech Gift Economy
During the Sixties, the New Left created a new form of radical politics: anarcho-communism. Above all, the Situationists and similar groups believed that the tribal gift economy proved that individuals could successfully live together without needing either the state or the market. From May 1968 to the late Nineties, this utopian vision of anarcho-communism has inspired community media and DIY culture activists. Within the universities, the gift …
The Pinocchio theory
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines by Kevin Kelly. London: Fourth Estate, 1994, 666 pages, hb £16.99, pb £8.99
The Californian ideology
quot;Not to lie about the future is impossible and one can lie about it at will "- Naum Gabo1 As the Dam Bursts... At the end of the twentieth century, the long predicted convergence of the media, computing and telecommunications into hypermedia is finally happening.2 Once again, capitalism's relentless drive to diversify and intensify the creative powers of human labour is on the verge of qualitatively transforming the way in which we work, play…
Enterprise radio
Selling the Sixties: Pirates and Pop. Music Radio, by Robert Chapman, London: Routlcdge, 1992, 295 pages, pb£12
Choice or participation? British radio in the 1990s
Broadcasting and national identity in Ireland
Mistranslations
Melodies or rhythms
On 12 July 1989, the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) announced that the Greater London FM licence would go to London Jazz Radio (LJR). This franchise was allocated as part of the expansion of commercial radio in Britain. As in most other countries, the British state owns the electromagnetic spectrum. This allows the government to choose who can broadcast over the airwaves. However, unlike most industrialised countries, the British state …
Radio after the White Paper
A new way of talking
The Californian ideology
quot;Not to lie about the future is impossible and one can lie about it at will "- Naum Gabo1 As the Dam Bursts... At the end of the twentieth century, the long predicted convergence of the media, computing and telecommunications into hypermedia is finally happening.2 Once again, capitalism's relentless drive to diversify and intensify the creative powers of human labour is on the verge of qualitatively transforming the way in which we work, play…
Broadcasting and national identity in Ireland
Cyber-Communism
(2000). CYBER-COMMUNISM: How the Americans are Superseding Capitalism in Cyberspace. Science as Culture: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 5-40
Mistranslations
The Regulation Of Liberty
Le cyber-communisme ou le dépassement du capitalisme dans le Cyberespace
Melodies or rhythms
On 12 July 1989, the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) announced that the Greater London FM licence would go to London Jazz Radio (LJR). This franchise was allocated as part of the expansion of commercial radio in Britain. As in most other countries, the British state owns the electromagnetic spectrum. This allows the government to choose who can broadcast over the airwaves. However, unlike most industrialised countries, the British state …
The Napsterization Of Everything
“They just don’t get it.” During the dotcom boom of the late-1990s, this catch phrase was a popular way of dismissing anyone who expressed doubts about the world-historical significance of the Net. How could someone be so out-of-touch as not to realise that this technology was transforming everything: business, politics, culture and even personal relationships? The future would belong to those did “get it.” Yet, only a couple of years later, such…
A new way of talking
A new way of talking
Radio after the White Paper
Mistranslations
Melodies or rhythms
On 12 July 1989, the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) announced that the Greater London FM licence would go to London Jazz Radio (LJR). This franchise was allocated as part of the expansion of commercial radio in Britain. As in most other countries, the British state owns the electromagnetic spectrum. This allows the government to choose who can broadcast over the airwaves. However, unlike most industrialised countries, the British state …
Choice or participation? British radio in the 1990s
Broadcasting and national identity in Ireland
Enterprise radio
Selling the Sixties: Pirates and Pop. Music Radio, by Robert Chapman, London: Routlcdge, 1992, 295 pages, pb£12
The Pinocchio theory
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines by Kevin Kelly. London: Fourth Estate, 1994, 666 pages, hb £16.99, pb £8.99
The Californian ideology
quot;Not to lie about the future is impossible and one can lie about it at will "- Naum Gabo1 As the Dam Bursts... At the end of the twentieth century, the long predicted convergence of the media, computing and telecommunications into hypermedia is finally happening.2 Once again, capitalism's relentless drive to diversify and intensify the creative powers of human labour is on the verge of qualitatively transforming the way in which we work, play…
The Hi-Tech Gift Economy
During the Sixties, the New Left created a new form of radical politics: anarcho-communism. Above all, the Situationists and similar groups believed that the tribal gift economy proved that individuals could successfully live together without needing either the state or the market. From May 1968 to the late Nineties, this utopian vision of anarcho-communism has inspired community media and DIY culture activists. Within the universities, the gift …
Cyber-Communism
(2000). CYBER-COMMUNISM: How the Americans are Superseding Capitalism in Cyberspace. Science as Culture: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 5-40
Le cyber-communisme ou le dépassement du capitalisme dans le Cyberespace
The Hi-Tech Gift Economy
The Regulation Of Liberty
The Napsterization Of Everything
“They just don’t get it.” During the dotcom boom of the late-1990s, this catch phrase was a popular way of dismissing anyone who expressed doubts about the world-historical significance of the Net. How could someone be so out-of-touch as not to realise that this technology was transforming everything: business, politics, culture and even personal relationships? The future would belong to those did “get it.” Yet, only a couple of years later, such…
Napster partout
de ce numéro sur Cairn.info
(Originally published in December 1998)
This paper is included in the First Monday Special Issue #3: Internet banking, e-money, and Internet gift economies, published in December 2005. Special Issue editor Mark A. Fox asked authors to submit additional comments regarding their articles. How has the hi-tech gift economy evolved since 1998, when the paper was written? This article was a product of its time. When I originally wrote The Hi-Tech Gift Economy, the Net was still a novelty for…
Exhibiting the Future
In the modern world, our understanding of the present is often shaped by science fiction fantasies about what is to come. Ironically, the most influential of these visions of the future are already decades old. We are already living in the times when they were supposed to have come true. In this article, the author analyses the origins and evolution of the imaginary future of artificial intelligence in the 1950s and 1960s. By showing that the fut…
Imaginary Futures
Winner of the MEA's 2008 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology.'A compelling, authoritative, and painstakingly documented narrative, Imaginary Futures traces the emergence of the computer era in the context of desperately competing ideologies, economics, and empires. This is a work of passionate and persuasive scholarship by a contemporary social theorist at the top of his game.'Douglas Rushkoff, author, Coerci…
New York Prophecies
Resistance to the Current
How hacking cultures drive contemporary capitalism and the future of innovation. In Resistance to the Current, Johan Söderberg and Maxigas examine four historical case studies of hacker movements and their roles in shaping the twenty-first-century's network society. Based on decades of field work and analysis, this intervention into current debates situates an exploding variety of hacking practices within the contradictions of capitalism. Depolit…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Business (4 works)