Krystian Woznicki on 13 Jul 2001 09:16:16 -0000 |
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Hallo, hier der Link zu meiner just erschienenen Diskussion dieses Projekts http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/buch/9069/1.html Gruss, Krystian - http://www.berlinergazette.de >From: Reinhold Grether <Reinhold.Grether@uni-konstanz.de> >Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:48:24 +0200 > >["Douglas Rushkoff is writing an open source novel that >readers are encouraged to leave footnotes on. These >footnotes can contain comments, suggestions or discussion >about other footnotes." >MetaFilter <http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/8880>] > >Exit Strategy >by Douglas Rushkoff ><http://www.yil.com/exitstrategy/> > >"Exit Strategy is an open source novel. The story I wrote >is merely the starting place for what I hope will be a >lively interaction between all of us. The premise is that >the central manuscript was written in the very near >future, then hidden online and discovered 200 years >later. Because society has changed so much, an >anthropologist has annotated the text for his >23rd-century contemporaries. They are no longer familiar >with notions such as venture capital or advertising, much >less Microsoft or Nasdaq. The 23rd-century reader even >needs a footnote explaining what condoms were used >for. > >These footnotes are a way for us to conceptualize a >future that has moved beyond our current obsessions. >Instead of describing that future explicitly, though, we >will suggest what it will be like by showing what facts >and ideas future readers won't understand. I've written a >hundred-odd footnotes to get us started re-imagining the >present from the perspective of the future. It's up to you >to fill in the rest. > >Remember, these footnotes don't have to be accurate. >They only have to show what anthropologists and other >experts from the future think are accurate explanations >of our society. And these experts needn't necessarily >agree with one another." > >You are free to create a footnote for any concept in the >book, including the footnotes themselves (and the >footnotes to the footnotes and so on). For each chapter >there will also be a discussion board, where we can >review just what sort of world we are creating together. >A new chapter will be posted here each week, and in >September you'll be able download the full e-book or >order a printed edition through iPublish. Early next year, >I'll be releasing an Open Source version of the book, >which will include 100 reader-written footnotes—the ones >that have created the most conversation, or become >regarded as classics by the community. The authors of >those footnotes will receive free signed copies of the >book, and be invited to a book party in New York. > >So, with this, I open the continuing authorship of our >collective Exit Strategy to you." > >Exit Strategy >by Douglas Rushkoff ><http://www.yil.com/exitstrategy/> ------------------------------------------------------- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste fuer Medien- und Netzkultur Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost Info: http://www.mikro.org/rohrpost Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.openoffice.de