That is always the case, even with Quinby's Enlightenment. In the eighteenth century, the notables bought the Encyclopedia and the aristocrats held the salons at which Voltaire and the rest expounded their views. Should we dismiss socialist ideas because Engels was a capitalist and Marx a bourgeois. No, the issue does not lie there. Instead I advocate an awareness of the importance of the Internet and call for a mobilization to insure its accessibility to all, to configure the technology, within its inherent materiality, into a vehicle of open cultural creation.
Political life is polymorphous and polysemous.
Neo-Nazis and Trotskyite alike have bulletin boards. Nothing is pure about the Internet. The question is who shall transform its possibilities into determinate cultural configurations and this remains an open issue. Return to text. Return to Contents.