The first netage article posted on the Web dealing with the first major event covered by the Internet. Revealing unprecedented disclosure of documents appearing out of nowhere challenging the “official” story about the war on Yugoslavia, of a US led NATO attack on a continent with an inconspicuous rising currency, the Euro. Our prediction that journalists rather than newspapers were bound to determine the political agenda in the future was somewhat confirmed.
Linux operating system reveals how open-source systems are emerging as an alternate form of governance challenging the top-down system by a synergetic force that gravitates around a self-regulating center, where the “good” of the whole system is the primary goal, dislocating the “individual” as the center of attention.
Hierarchy in governance is the most elusive power scheme. Although the power is eminently present, it is invisible and unfathomable. The tier top-down levels of control is so efficient that it has survived and expanded since the beginning of civilization; a control system that is consistently confused with the power of God.
Additional comments on the basic principles of the sacred, the profane and the wholly other that have been outlined elsewhere on this web site.
A rehashing of an article posted on Unita Online about pioneer artists of the Internet.
Two tricksters that have used the Internet to their advantage in diverting people to their own web site by impersonating popular brand names. In folklore and mythology, the trickster is mostly portrayed in the guise of a fox or a coyote. Tricksters typically play pranks on unsuspecting characters of a story by breaking normal rules of conduct.
How bottom-up systems can exist without a leader and thrive on self coordination and emergence. Bottom-up systems present a challenge to the ancestral top-down hierarchies that have ruled the world through control, secrecy, violence and conquest.
A short piece on how the advent of HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) has dismantled the idea authority.
The medium is the message; the Internet ushered an unprecedented bottom-up interactivism that challenges the ancestral top-down systems.
