Balca Arda and Murat Guney
Can you give us and our readers, general information about CTheory?

Arthur & Marilouise Kroker:
CTheory(www.ctheory.net) is an electronic journal of theory, technology and culture. It has been described by Le Monde as “one of the three leading intellectual electronic reviews in the world.”

A unique intellectual project, CTheory is made possible by the age of the Internet, on-line 24/7 thanks to the web and streamed globally in a format that celebrates open-systems, open-architecture and open-file sharing. Resisting attempts to close down the utopian possibilities of the Net, CTheory does the opposite. It speaks and writes and publishes in a way that explores the possibilities of electronic culture for forms of thought, forms of publishing, forms of communication that are equal to the best democratic, critical and communal tendencies of digital culture. CTheory is a digital community.

Launched in 1993 as an ascii listserv that immediately attracted an international network of readers and writers, expanding quickly as one of the first publishing web sites due to the programming assistance of Carl Steadmann (the web designer who did the encryption protocols for Wired), CTheory now publishes in a variety of net formats: ascii, web, multimedia as well as a digital archive of books and journals stretching across three decades of collective reflection on key issues in technology, culture, politics and theory.
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Murat Guney: Do you think, that the International Criminal Court (ICC) which is established by UN is a real win for humanity?

Noam Chomsky: It is a step forward, but a small one. As matters stand, it is highly unlikely that the rich and powerful will accept its authority for themselves or their clients and allies, whatever they may say. What small likelihood there was has been effectively undermined by the stance of the United States. Nevertheless, small steps can make some difference, and even help raise consciousness and concern in the countries powerful enough to resist international authority — in the long run, the prerequisite for some form of international justice.

Murat Guney: You know that US declared that his leaders and soldiers have to have immunity at this court, beause they protected “peace on the world” by fighting “terrorism”. Except the allied state England, neither an European government nor the public of the countries show a strong reaction against this ironic situation. According to you why are there no reaction against US politics?

Noam Chomsky: The US stand has elicited plenty of criticism in Europe, but European elites would be unable to do very much even if they were willing to confront the US. They are not, partly from fear, but primarily because of shared interests.
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