OPENING 01 JULY 2004

LIFE IN THE WIRES (available July 1, 2004)

Life in the Wires is about life today, from Al-Jazeera to eBay, from creatively understanding new media to analyzing how questions of gender, race, class and colonialism have been deeply transformed by networked society.

. An interactive website, continuously updated with new
supplementary materials for teaching.
. Streamed electronic seminars, regularly updated, featuring
leading contemporary intellectuals such as: Donna Haraway,
DjSpooky, Stelarc, William Leiss and Arthur Kroker, among
others.
. A general introduction by the editors to Life in the Wires
as well as thematic introductions to each section of the
Reader Index
. Key bibliographical references

Life in the Wires, is in essence what Jean-Paul Sartre calls a "fused community" - a global intellectual community of theorists, musicians, artists, filmmakers, computer programmers, multimedia designers, architects, engineers, Soweto poets, Net activists - young and old, a multiplicity of race, class, gender, nation and disciplines: writing from universities, industry, media, the streets; the design and programming centers of IT, from anti-globalization street protests, from mediawatch, from the badlands of Texas, the streets of San Francisco, the hybrid cities of Cape Town, London, Toronto, New York, Paris, Helsinki, Singapore and Berlin.