Review: UbuWeb by Kenneth Goldsmith, et al
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2012-09
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Dockray, Sean
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University of California Press
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Kenneth Goldsmith, et al. UbuWeb, http://www.ubuweb.com.
There is no question that contemporary technology has allowed for a massive redistribution of cultural works. Texts, music, and films have been transcoded and put into circulation on the internet reaching ever-broader audiences. Whole Earth Catalogue founder Stewart Brand has been criticized for the way he phrased the idea that “information wants to be free” to Steve Wozniak, cofounder of Apple Computer, in 1984.1 But in the context of the expanding internet, information has realized a kind of autonomy and tendency toward dispersion that points to H. G. Wells’s 1937 idea for a “world brain,” which might have “at once, the concentration of a craniate animal and the diffused vitality of an amoeba
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
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