Inhalte/ Contents

The internet has been a subject of many political concerns, utopias and dystopias throughout the last 50 years. A great variety of them can be traced through the history of one particular writing practice ― a manifesto. Written by hackers, cyberfeminists and journalists, as well as tech marketing professionals, manifestos have been a fruitful playground for political discussions and aesthetic experiments. Yet these materials and their historical role are largely understudied. Within the working group, participants would have the chance to formulate and work through their own (group or individual) research question, working with a database of >1000 examples of internet manifestos published between the 1980s and 2020s. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, the group will trace the interplay between manifesto writing and the technological and political history of the internet. The project would be accompanied by a public blog, tracing preliminary observations. 

Kontakt/ Contact

anya.shchetvina@posteo.net

Link zum Vorlesungsverzeichnis/ Link to the course catalogue

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