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Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the virtual intelligentsia by Geert Lovink, MIT, 拢18.50/$27.95, ISBN 0262122510 Reviewed by Wendy M. Grossman

COMMENTARY about the Net has been in general so dominated by Silicon Valley that it鈥檚 easy to forget there are other points of view. Many of these are represented day in and day out on the Nettime mailing list, which carries an unusual mix of postings about art, local politics, and media theory from all over the world. The list, which is 鈥渟lightly moderated鈥�, has a very high proportion of valuable discussion.

In Uncanny Networks, Geert Lovink, who co-founded Nettime in 1995, has put together a series of online interviews with the same overall feel to it. The interviews were conducted online, which Lovink believes gives people a chance to think more thoroughly and deeply about what they say than when they鈥檙e speaking off the cuff. Many people might disagree, feeling that at least you can鈥檛 copy and paste from previously written material when you鈥檙e speaking, but these interviews do come across as both natural, like speech, and thoughtful, like writing.

Few of the interviewees are from the business and technical press. Instead they range from German media theorist Dietmar Kamper and the philosopher Michael Heim to Gayatri Spivak, an Indian specialist in postcolonial studies. Probably the most well known is Paulina Borsook, author of Cyberselfish, a critique of libertarianism.