Author: Lisa Devaney
Author to Host Leiden University Conference – 3rd October 2007
Dr. Richard Barbrook will host and speak at The Netherlands Conference “The Futures of Digital Technologyâ€? at Leiden University in The Netherlands, 3rd October 2007. He joins academics, digital professionals and writers, including popular science fiction writer China Mièville. Please see the attached press release and conference flyer for more information about this event. Download […]
Author: Lisa Devaney
The Guardian Features Imaginary Futures
In “How we have been fooled by utopian visions of the future”, Christine Evans-Pughe, writing for The Guadian’s Technology section, concludes of Richard Barbrook’s Imaginary Futures that: Barbrook has an amusing take on our distorted − if not delusional − relationship with technology, but his underlying point is serious: future visions of technology are used […]
Author: Lisa Devaney
Book Launch Photos Live
Thanks to all – about 300 of you – who attended the Imaginary Futures book launch celebration on 16th May 2007 at Madame JoJos in London’s SoHo. Photos are now posted on Flickr.com, and will soon be added to the Imaginary Futures Gallery on this website. Please view the photos here.
Author: Lisa Devaney
First Review
Writer Sarah Snider has reviewed Richard Barbrook’s newly released book Imaginary Futures for Culture Wars She comments that: Imaginary Futures shows how technology has itself been, and is still, mediated by competing versions of the future. The parallax of time allows us to turn correlation into causality, retroactively instilling agents with intentionality, and actions with […]
Author: Lisa Devaney
Author To Host SOUNDWAVES Artist Evening
Join Richard this coming Wednesday, 30th May, to explore new sonic artworks showing in the SOUNDWAVES exhibition, a colloboration of Kinetica Museum and Cybersonica, running until 29th June. Richard will introduce audiences to Julie Freeman (Specious Dialogue), Michael Markert (Kontakstation and kII 2.2) and Andy Huntingdon (tapTap) who have produced works for the exhibition. The […]
Author: Lisa Devaney
Author Appearance – Housmans 29th May
Richard Barbrook will discuss his new book Imaginary Futures at Housmans bookshop this coming Tuesday, 29th May, 2007. Housemans specialises in books and periodicals of radical interest and progressive politics and offers the most comprehensive range of radical newsletters, newpapers and magazines of any shop in Britain. The shop is selling Imaginary Futures, and the […]
Author: Lisa Devaney
300 Welcome New Book
Imaginary Futures Book Launch Press Release The Imaginary Futures book launch at Madame JoJos in London’s SoHo drew a celebratory crowd of 300 on 16th May 2007. Richard Barbrook debuted his newest book, published by Pluto Press, to an enthusiastic audience of academics, press, technologists, students and the author’s friends and family at the nightclub […]
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