The Californian Ideology

"The Californian Ideology" is a 1995 essay by English media theorists Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron of the University of Westminster. Barbrook describes it as a "critique of dotcom neoliberalism".[1] In the essay, Barbrook and Cameron argue that the rise of networking technologies in Silicon Valley in the 1990s was linked to American neoliberalism and a paradoxical hybridization of beliefs from the political left and right in the form of hopeful technological determinism.

The original essay was published in Mute magazine[2] in 1995 and later appeared on the nettime Internet mailing list for debate. A final version was published in Science as Culture in 1996. The critique has since been revised in several different versions and languages.[1]

Andrew Leonard of Salon called Barbrook and Cameron's essay "one of the most penetrating critiques of neo-conservative digital hypesterism yet published."[3] In contrast, Wired magazine publisher Louis Rossetto criticized the essay as showing "a profound ignorance of economics".[4]

  1. ^ a b Barbrook 2007, Imaginary Futures: Other Works.
  2. ^ The Californian Ideology, Barbrook, Cameron, 1995-09, Mute Vol 1 #3 CODE, ISSN 1356-7748, Mute, London, http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology
  3. ^ Leonard, Andrew (1999-09-10), "The Cybercommunist Manifesto", Salon.com, retrieved 2012-11-01
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).