The web of the 2000s, built around platforms where users post and share their own content: blogs, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
We came up within the moment of Web 2.0, where suddenly there was a new paradigm to make sense of. It came with a lot of hidden nasties as well as many new tools and possibilities to play with.
Ed Fornieles, Ed Fornieles on Art as Human Sacrifice
HEXEN 2.0 analyzed the legacy of cybernetics as embodied in Web 2.0 and systems of control, showing how Web 2.0 works as a societal controlling system.
Suzanne Treister, Suzanne Treister on Critical Futurism