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UNPLUGGED: Outside the Global Net?

In one globally connected world, is there some space left beyond those limits? Or are there only small differences in scope, e.g. how powerful are connections and lines between centers and peripheries? On the history, the metaphors and the politics between the 'plugged' and the 'unplugged'.

An update by Rüdiger Wischenbart

Ars Electronica’s theme for 2002, UNPLUGGED has its ambivalence. On one hand, it reflects the fact of one globally connected world; but on the other hand, it says to be about those 'blind spots' of globalisation. What is it though? The first question is simple: is there some space left beyond those limits? Or are there only small differences in scope, e.g. how powerful are connections and lines between centers and peripheries?

On the history, the metaphors and the politics between the 'plugged' and the 'unplugged'.

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