Matthew Battles on Going Feral on the Net: the Qualities of Survival in a Wild, Wired World
Channel: The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Date: 2012-05-15

How do we balance the empowering possibilities of the networked public sphere with the dark, unsettling, and even dangerous energies of cyberspace? Matthew Battles — author, cofounder of the blog HiLobrow.com, and program fellow with metaLAB (at) Harvard — blends a deep-historical perspective on the internet with storytelling that reaches into its weird, uncanny depths. The feral is a metaphor — and maybe more than just a metaphor — for thriving in cyberspace, a habitat that changes too rapidly for anyone truly to be native. This talk weaves critical and reflective discussion of online experience with a short story from Battles' new collection, The Sovereignties of Invention.

More info on this event here: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2012/05/battles