Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Fischetti: Weaving the Web. The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web (1999)

Berners-Lee reveals the Web’s origins and the creation of the now ubiquitous http and www acronyms and shares his views on such critical issues as censorship, privacy, the increasing power of software companies, and the need to find the ideal balance between commercial and social forces. He offers insights into the nature of the Web, showing readers how to use it to its fullest advantage. And he presents his own plan for the Web’s future, calling for the active support and participation of programmers, computer manufacturers, and social organizations to manage and maintain this valuable resource so that it can remain a powerful force for social change and an outlet for individual creativity.

Foreword by Michael Dertouzos
Publisher HarperSanFrancisco, 1999
ISBN 0062515861, 9780062515865
226 pages

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Patricia Pisters: The Matrix of Visual Culture. Working with Deleuze in Film Theory (2003)

This book explores Gilles Deleuze’s contribution to film theory. According to Deleuze, we have come to live in a universe that could be described as metacinematic. His conception of images implies a new kind of camera consciousness, one that determines our perceptions and sense of selves: aspects of our subjectivities are formed in, for instance, action-images, affection-images and time-images. We live in a matrix of visual culture that is always moving and changing. Each image is always connected to an assemblage of affects and forces. This book presents a model, as well as many concrete examples, of how to work with Deleuze in film theory. It asks questions about the universe as metacinema, subjectivity, violence, feminism, monstrosity, and music. Among the contemporary films it discusses within a Deleuzian framework are Strange Days, Fight Club, and Dancer in the Dark.

Publisher Stanford University Press, 2003
Cultural Memory in the Present series
ISBN 0804740283, 9780804740289
303 pages

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The Invisible Committee: The Coming Insurrection (2007–) [FR, EN, ES]

“The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe. Written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of Guy Debord—and with comparable elegance—it has been proclaimed a manual for terrorism by the French government (who recently arrested its alleged authors). One of its members more adequately described the group as ‘the name given to a collective voice bent on denouncing contemporary cynicism and reality.’ The Coming Insurrection is a strategic prescription for an emergent war-machine to ‘spread anarchy and live communism.’

Written in the wake of the riots that erupted throughout the Paris suburbs in the fall of 2005 and presaging more recent riots and general strikes in France and Greece, The Coming Insurrection articulates a rejection of the official Left and its reformist agenda, aligning itself instead with the younger, wilder forms of resistance that have emerged in Europe around recent struggles against immigration control and the “war on terror.”

Hot-wired to the movement of ’77 in Italy, its preferred historical reference point, The Coming Insurrection formulates an ethics that takes as its starting point theft, sabotage, the refusal to work, and the elaboration of collective, self-organized forms-of-life. It is a philosophical statement that addresses the growing number of those—in France, in the United States, and elsewhere—who refuse the idea that theory, politics, and life are separate realms.”

French edition
Publisher Editions La Fabrique, Paris, 2007

English edition
Publisher Semiotext(e), 2009
Intervention series, 1
ISBN 1584350806, 9781584350804
136 pages

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L’insurrection qui vient (French, 2007, updated on 2017-6-26)
The Coming Insurrection (English, 2009, updated on 2017-6-26)
La insurrección que viene (Spanish, undated, added on 2013-9-26)