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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