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'Future Culture' is a mailing list also known as "FUTUREC" or "FC" that currently resides on listserv.uark.edu. ==History== The mailing list was created in 1992 on a public Unix system by Andy Hawks, then in high school. After a fallout with the rest of the group, Andy destroyed the list of members early 1993 and took the list offline. Various subscribers have since continued the Future Culture list at a different address and the list moved from nyx.cs.du.edu, ending up on the UAFSYSB mainframe (fondly remembered as "list dad") at the University of Arkansas under the care of Alias Datura ("list mom"). See here for a brief overview of the early days of Future Culture. Andy Hawk's original ''Future Culture Manifesto'', also known as the (Bubble Manifesto ), can be considered to be an historical document reflecting the state of mind at the dawn of the Internet, specifically the aspect of "virtual culture". This document refers to key movements in the early 1990s that have led to – and have strongly influenced – how society thinks about and uses technology and specifically the internet. The pre-corporate Internet was envisioned as a place of massive movement of thought; the manifesto documents this and approaches the ideas of transformation: from an economic-based world to an ideas-based world. As it turned out, this did not happen, but the idea was documented here and referred to repeatedly in a variety of different media, especially by academics working in Internet-related fields of study. (cf MIT Media Lab (mediaMOO), as well as a variety of people working under the general rubric of PostModernism.) Although many of the Future Culture list were vehemently opposed to making the archives of their postings publicly available, a selection〔(Index of /Zines/ASCII/Future.Culture )〕 of the emails that were exchanged during the initial period found their way to the web. These archived messages give a good impression of the topics that were typically discussed. An indication for the popularity of Future Culture during its hey-days, is that the group was mentioned on Billy Idol's album ''Cyberpunk''. A document listing a variety of influences this mailing list has had on other groups or that carry on in the same memespace is found on (Marius Watz' ) FutureCulture page. This page also serves as a link to a memorial for (Michael Current ), who was among the most active members. His death was a huge shock for the Future Culture community. An in-depth coverage of the events leading up his death, a hoax suicide threat, and the painful aftermath has been written 〔(Ten Reasons Why Essay: The Word and The Body )〕 by a Future Culture's member. This sad event was also an inspiration for Mia Lipner's sound art piece Requiem Digitatem.〔(WandP Issue 17: HEARING THE NET: MIA LIPNER )〕〔(Issue 17 )〕 FutureCulture had part in 'liberating' the William Gibson work ''Agrippa: A Book of the Dead''.〔(Gibson, William: ''Agrippa: A Book of the Dead'' ).〕〔Kirschenbaum, Matthew G: ("Hacking 'Agrippa'": The Source of the Online Text" ) in ''Mechanisms: New Media and the New Textuality'' (forthcoming from MIT Press). ISBN 978-0-262-11311-3.〕 The list has been mentioned in at least two books introducing the reader to the world of cyber cultures, Victor J. Vitanza's ''CyberReader 2/e'', "an anthology of readings on the new technologies and their impact on social and individual identities"〔(Vitanza, CyberReader 2/e Web Site, Allyn&Bacon )〕 and in Jonathan Marshall's ethnography of the mailing list Cybermind, ''Living on Cybermind'' 〔Marshall, ''Living on Cybermind: Categories, Communication and Control'', NY:Peter Lang, 2008〕 It is mentioned as "landmark event" by Andrew Edmond in his article "Pioneers of the Virtual Underground: A History of our Culture" in issue 1, 1997 of ''The Resonance Project''.〔(Erowid Psychoactive Vaults : "Pioneers of the Virtual Underground" )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Futureculture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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