Tiziana Terranova

This is a book about (among other things) information and entropy, cybernetic and thermodynamics, mailing lists and talk shows, the electronic Ummah and chaos theory, web rings and web logs, mobile robots, cellular automata and the New Economy, open-source programming and reality TV, masses and multitudes, communication management and information warfare, networked political movements, open architecture, image flows and the interply of affects and meaning in the constitution of the common. It is a book, that is, about a cultural formation, a network culture, that seem to be characterized by an uprecedented abundance of informational output and by an acceleration of informational dynamics.

Terranova is a fantastic intellect and this book does justice to this paragraph and more.… (meer)