generation-online...

...has had a presence on the internet since 2000. It is brought to you by Arianna Bove and Erik Empson.

...users are always telling us how much they love this site, until now we've resisted asking you to put your proverbial money where your mouth is, but heck, times are hard, web hosting costs (we get a lot of traffic - a large part of it from academic institutions in the USA) and we keep on buying books. Clearly this is a non-commerical site so any surplus will go on beer for the workers or more books. Here is the easy-to-donate link:

acknowledgements

Paul "Joey" Clark, Florian Schneider and friends, Nate Holdren, Il Vampiro, Dan Skinner, Matteo Mandarini, Pier Paolo Frassinelli

reading group

The discussion list began in Summer 2001 with an online reading of Negri and Hardt's book Empire. We continued to circulate and discuss material relevant to the themes of the book, some of which is available here. This involved the all too important work of the translation of crucial texts many of which can be found here. As of the beginning of December 2002 we read Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition. (more info/ resources here). Under various pressures and when its role had ceased to be productive we suspended the list in July 2003. There were approximately 250 subscribers.

In a follow up initiative, the generation-online reading group began reading Paolo Virno's book Grammar of the Multitude*. Originally presented as lectures to the Department of Sociology and Political Science at Calabria University, these concise, approachable and challenging texts offer insights into the complex process of the constitution of multitudes. Our reading group encouraged the dissemination, examination and discussion of textual materials and their open circulation. The mailing list is inactive at the moment, but will reopen as soon as something exciting happens. Watch this space or contact us with any suggestions.

generation-online wiki

Suspended due to security vulnerabilities

contact

To contact us please email either editor at our domain name or translations @ our domain name.

what on earth are we doing here?

The reference section is destined to be an eternal life of ‘work in progress’. For us it is a way of collating information, note-taking and seeing how the connections between things develop. The quality of the information varies as widely as its coverage, but we are confident it will continue to grow and improve. There is no systematic approach and the information is characteristically eclectic and one-sided, but sometimes downright specialistic. If you hunt around you can find some unique and interesting material.

The archive collects and produces material relating to the research and interests of a small group of people interested in developing critical approaches to philosophy and social and political thought. It involves theoretical openness as an experimental method, as an ethical principle and as a social practice. In respect to these goals, one can also have a look at this short piece Online Generation: the strategy of refusal and the refusal of strategy.

Currently the best way to contribute is to to email us [write to either editor or translations @ our domain name]. If you have electronic versions of any material that you think would be relevant to this project, or issues with any of the information stored here please do not hesitate to contact us. However please do not send us unsolicited attachments of text without having in someway indicated to us beforehand the nature of its contents. Many apologies if your anonymous submission has not been acknowledged because of this.