The CyberAnthropology Page

The CyberAnthropology Page is dedicated to research on cyberculture, and the formation of new cultures and cultural practices in cyberspace.

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Theory

• Cyberspace and the Changing Landscape of the Self by Michael Strangelove
• What is CyberAnthropology?
• The Hidden Center of the Gutenberg Galaxy (a refutation of technological determinism)
• Anthropocybersynchronicity (a mouthful)
• Lost in Cyberspace: the Cultural Geography of Noplace
• Visions of Excess in Cyberspace by Stephen Webb

Reflections

• The Ghost in the Machine: Voudoun in Gibson's Matrix
• And PKD Wept: Previsions of Cyberpunk in Radio Free Albemuth

Praxis

• Artificial Life: its origins and its meanings
• Information Technology and Sustainable Development
• The Many Meanings of "Virtual Reality"
• Timothy Leary, Cyberpunk
• The Flesh Made Word: information, energy, entropy, and time

Cyborg Eschatology

• The Ethics of the Cyborg: what will the post-human future be like?
• Techgnosis: the Mystique of Information

Predictions

• A Somewhat Biased Review of Competing for the Future
• A Futurist Scenario for 2005: the Media Landscape
• A 2nd Futurist Scenario for 2005

Cyberanthropological Links

• Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS)
• Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
• Community of Anthropologists studying Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC)
• John December's Computer-Mediated Communications (CMC) Studies Webring
• Electric Minds - the study of virtual communities
• EFF Cyborg Anthropology Archive
• CyberAnthropology.Org - the meme has spread
• CyberSoc - Robin Hamman's site on cyber-sociology
• UK Memes Central - a memetics site
• Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Resource Network
• CMU English Server - docs on cyberculture, etc.
• Institute for Advanced Tech in the Humanities (IATH) - home of Postmodern Culture Journal
• Internet History
• Center for New Media Studies

AnthroFuturism

Technology and the future of humanity

• Space Frontier Foundation and Living Universe Foundation - formerly Millenial Project - promoting space colonization
• Life Extension Foundation - extending the human lifespan
• Human Cloning Foundation - promoting cloning and genetic engineering
• Bucky Fuller page - a futurist visionary
• Self Organizing Systems
• Extropians - these techno-visionaries go way beyond any of my beliefs about human potentials
• Mutate Project - You must MUTATE NOW
• Philip K. Dick - the first cyberpunk visionary
• Alife.org - everything on Artificial Life

The Cultures of Technology

Ethnogenesis

• Iterative Discourse and the Formation of New Subcultures
• New Selves for the 21st Century: Technology and the Transformation of Identity
• Technoculture by Andrew Ross
• Utopian American Communities: in the U.S. from the 1700s to the Space Age

Rave On: Youth Cultures and Electronic Music

• Ambient Music FAQ
• Is there Music in the House?: an Ethnomusicology of Techno/Rave
• Zippies!
• A Spirited Defense of Techno

Links to rave-related sites

• Hyperreal
• Raverbooks: Ecstasy for the Mind
• Dream Escape - live web casts of raves
• The Trance Domain

The Computer Underground

• The Baudy World of the Byte Bandit by Meyer and Thomas
• The Electronic Discourse of the Computer Underground
• Is there a Hacker Ethic for 90s Hackers?
• Old vs. New Hackers

Links to CU-related resources

• Hacker.Org the name says it all
• DefCON the hacker's convention
• 2600 - The hacker quarterly
• Project Cyberpunk - the cyberpunk subculture
• The Cyphernomicon - a cypherpunks resource
• The Church of Technology - a phreaker's page
• CUD-WWW - Computer Underground Digest

Modern Primitives

• Modern Primitives: The Collision of Past and Future
• Stelarc: Post-Human
• Survival Research Labs

Links to modprim-related resources

• Modern Primitives Tatoo Co.
• Body Play - Fakir Musafar's home page
• RE/Search publication's ModPrim website
• Stelarc's official website
• The Body Art Web

Natives on New Frontiers: Indigenous Cyborgs of the Americas

• Star Wanderers: Lakota Ethnoastronomy
• Thunderbird and Trickster : sacred clowns (heyoka) and the Thunderbird
• The White Roads of the Yucatan: the Mayan sacbeob and how they form an early "world wide web"

Links to some related resources

• Native Tech
• American Indian Computer Art Project
• INDIANnet
• Center for World Indigenous Studies - formerly Fourth World Documentation Project
• Native Web
• Hopi Information Network
• Mayan Astronomy

The African Diaspora in the Americas

• Voodoo Server
• Cuban Santeria
• Brazilian Spiritism

Virtual Communities

• MUDs as a Psychological Laboratory
• A Slice of Life in My Virtual Community by Howard Rheingold
• To Define Culture in a Virtual World

Links to virtual communities

• The WELL - Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link - one of the oldest virtual communities - Mindvox is no longer with us (it seems)
• MOOCentral - a MOO is a specifically defined type of MUD, but from my point of view, a MOO is a MUD more devoted to exploration and interaction than "combat" or "adventure"
• Educational VR Guide - links to other MOOs and interactive virtual world simulations
• 3D Virtual Sites - Links to Internet VRML and other VR worlds
• CONTACT Consortium - research on simulated worlds
• Intentional Communities

Techno-Mysticism

• CyberCraft
• Technoshamanism
• Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth (TOPY)

Links to technomysticism-related resources

• TOPY Digital Access Point
• Erik Davis' Figments and Inklings - read TechGnosis