Techno-Prosthetic Romantic FuturismWikitopiaHow's this for a vision: criticism of Romanticism as a field of digital possibility, a cyberversity open to all. Texts freely available. Criticism a click away. A carnival of knowledge and knowledge production. A collective enterprise, self-perpetuating and -policing. Anyone could post. Anyone could emend. Authority a function not of force and privilege but of access and participation. [1] Credit no longer accruing to the individual career but to the collective enterprise. A new politics of technology? A purposeful and promising prosthetics? Cultural workers of the world unite![2] Notes1. How about a Romanticism site modeled on the Wikipedia? It's a shockingly credible resource for an open, collaborative enterprise: www.wikipedia.org. 2. See Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (New York: Vintage, 2001). Navigation |