Net, Web, and counter-Net
"[...] within the Net there has begun to emerge a shadowy sort of counter-Net, which we will call the Web (as if the Net were a fishing-net and the Web were spider-webs woven through the interstices and broken sections of the Net). Generally we'll use the term Web to refer to the alternate horizontal open structure of info-exchange, the non-hierarchic network, and reserve the term counter-Net to indicate clandestine illegal and rebellious use of the Web, including actual data-piracy and other forms of leeching off the Net itself. Net, Web, and counter-Net are all parts of the same whole pattern-complex --they blur into each other at innumerable points. The terms are not meant to define areas but to suggest tendencies.
(Digression: Before you condemn the Web or counter-Net for its "parasitism," which can never be a truly revolutionary force, ask yourself what "production" consists of in the Age of Simulation. What is the "productive class"? Perhaps you'll be forced to admit that these terms seem to have lost their meaning. In any case the answers to such questions are so complex that the TAZ tend to ignore them altogether and simply picks up what it can use. "Culture is our Nature" --and we are the thieving magpies, or the hunter/gatherers of the world of CommTech.)"
- Hakim Bey, [T.A.Z. : The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism], Autonomedia. 中
I found this cool notice in the book:
Anti-copyright, 1985, 1991. May be freely pirated & quoted -- the author & publisher, however, would like to be informed at: Autonomedia, P.O. Box 568, Willamsburgh Station, Brooklyn, NY 11211-0568
FYI, you can find some interesting contents or join their mailing list on the official website. Of course, you can buy their books, too!!!:
http://www.autonomedia.org/
(Digression: Before you condemn the Web or counter-Net for its "parasitism," which can never be a truly revolutionary force, ask yourself what "production" consists of in the Age of Simulation. What is the "productive class"? Perhaps you'll be forced to admit that these terms seem to have lost their meaning. In any case the answers to such questions are so complex that the TAZ tend to ignore them altogether and simply picks up what it can use. "Culture is our Nature" --and we are the thieving magpies, or the hunter/gatherers of the world of CommTech.)"
- Hakim Bey, [T.A.Z. : The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism], Autonomedia. 中
I found this cool notice in the book:
Anti-copyright, 1985, 1991. May be freely pirated & quoted -- the author & publisher, however, would like to be informed at: Autonomedia, P.O. Box 568, Willamsburgh Station, Brooklyn, NY 11211-0568
FYI, you can find some interesting contents or join their mailing list on the official website. Of course, you can buy their books, too!!!:
http://www.autonomedia.org/
