Bad Subjects
"We challenge progressive dogma by encouraging readers to think about the political dimension to all aspects of everyday life." A left wing journal with a sense of humour? 

Consumptive Writing (A Fatal Strategy)
The philosophy of Baudrillard underlies this attempt at removing notions of process from the teaching of composition in writing classes. What emerges is that the medium of the Web is at the heart of anti-processed writing. An engagingly eclectic mix of resources from hermeneutics to sit-coms, surrealism and semiotics are engaged. 

Critical Art Ensemble
The Critical Art Ensemble are a collective of five artists of various specialisations dedicated to exploring the intersections between art, technology, radical politics, and critical theory. On this site you'll find a copy of their book The Electronic Disturbance which looks at the area of the digi-tech age from a radical perspective using theories by Guattari and Deleuze and the like. 

CTheory
CTheory is an international journal of theory, technology and culture. Articles, interviews, and key book reviews in contemporary discourse are published weekly as well as theorisations of major "event-scenes" in the mediascape. If you want to know what's happened/happening to philosophy after/during post-modernism (depending on your point of view) then this is the journal to read. It boasts essays and reviews by a lot of  big names including Jean Baudrillard, the late Kathy Acker, Hakim Bey, and the Krokers.

Cybermind Mailing List
This is the home page for the mailing list Cybermind, which was founded by former trAce writer-in-residence Alan Sondheim. It aims to discuss the sociology, psychology and philosophy of cyberspace. The site includes links to the mailing list's archives, to a bibliography of papers by list members, and to a Ph.D. thesis about the list. It includes documents relating to an ongoing project on online gender and more.  

Cyberpoet's Guide to Virtual Culture
"A cyberpoet is one who strives to be artful in their use of virtual space. Someone who makes frequent trips to the edge of technology/culture/society and then reports back to anyone who will listen. The avant-guard of virtual culture." This site is worth visiting if you want to know more about cyberculture if only for the lexicon of virtual culture which will help you understand what Cyberpunk is about. There are also good links to various SF, Cyberbeatnik and Cyberpunk zines. 

Cybersoc
Cybersoc, maintained by Robin Hamman, is an online resource for social scientists interested in the study of the Internet, cyberspace, and online communities. The range is wide, from cybersociology about AOL users to ethnographic drama, and a discussion of Deleuze and Guattari's "Rhizome". Besides Hamman's research, there is a library of online papers addressing the language used by virtual communities, and how Muds, newsgoups and IRC impact on social interaction. 

Enculturation
Enculturation is a space devoted to theoretical approaches to discourse, culture, and society. Essays on rhetoric, music, film, literature, and critical/literary/postmodern theory, et al, are invited. While there is no limit on topics other than the broad scope of culture and/or society, a certain level of academic discourse is expected. 

Ensemble Logic + Choragraphy
An intriguing and ongoing project, in two parts, that launched on June 10. The first part was a series of nine "lectures" by writers, artists and theorists - including Sue Thomas the Director of trAce. "The intention is to produce an electronic rhetorics/poetics that will lead to the production of new art work(s) - Choragraphy." CUSeeMe, IRC and MOOs will be used as well as an email list in this artistic exercise that gets to grips with the essentials of the medium of cyberspace. 

frAme
Part of the trAce site, edited by Simon Mills, the focus is on critical cyberculture. That focus manifests in many ways. Cutting and pasting, for example, are mutating into strange new cyborg manifestations. Text, graphics, sound, other Websites - who can draw the line between artist, artform and programming anymore. Is there a line? 

Frontlist Books
Online bookshops are nothing new. But beyond the Amazons, BOLs et al, some of the specialist ones are definitely worth visiting. Frontline specialises in scholarly and avant-garde books for the theoretically minded. As well as the area of culture and technology, it is also strong on wider cultural studies, literary studies (theory and otherwise), feminist theory etc. New titles are flagged, which is helpful, and discounts are given on selected titles. 

geekgirl
Described by Wired as having "funny, intelligent features with a strong technowhore theme", this cyberfeminist zine is published in Australia. As well as raising your consciousness, you can  buy  T-shirts online too. Definitely worth dropping in on. 

Guattari and Deleuze
When the sun goes down on the Twentieth Century then Deleuze and Guattari will surely be considered as two of the most important theorists of our age, if only for being able to popularise the unlikely term Body-Without-Organs. This site provides links to Web sites which have D&G related material. 

Heim Seminars
Art is a well established medium for transforming reality. Does it provide a good model for reality bending cyber technologies? Digital and virtual reality are under a philosophical and theoretical microscope at this site, instigated by Michael Heim, that includes details of seminars, books, articles and conferences in the area. The front page has an applet that streams challenging quotes at the visitor very effectively. There's a Tai Chi page too for those who are looking for a way of maintaining psychic balance as they switch between physical and virtual realities. 

High Noon on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace
Cheers to MIT associate professor Peter Ludlow for publishing the core of his recent book on the Web free of charge. Perhaps this isn't so suprising as the work starts with the argument that 'information wants to be free' then looks at the problems surrounding intellectual property rights, particularly those associated with computers. Loads of interesting pieces here from various perspectives examining topics like piracy, bootlegging, hacking, warez and crypto-anarchy. So if you're thinking of getting some pirate software and need some moral justification this is the place to look. By the way has anyone got a cracked copy of Cubase Score... ? 

Hotwired
This is the online sister to Wired magazine and deals with the same kind of technology related subjects. It's probably the most famous of the online zines and rightly so. Even if the design tends to the garish. It's competently written and produced and invariably has something of interest to say about this increasingly digitized world of ours. You do have to subscribe to Hotwired but subscription is free, so it doesn't matter. 

Illuminations
Run by Douglas Brown and Douglas Kellner this is a useful website for anyone interested in the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. There are essays on Adorno, Fromm and Marcuse (among others) plus some work by the Next Generation including Steven Best and Douglas Kellner. 

Internationale Situationniste
The Situationists were an avant garde group in the same tradition as Dada and Fluxus. This site has a complete translation of Guy Debords' Society of the Spectacle, which is probably the most famous Situationist text and an incomplete translation of Raoul Vaneigem's brilliant The Revolution of Everyday Life. Chapter 20 Creativity, Spontaneity and Poetry is highly recommended if you need a bit of a lift. 

Parallel
An intelligent, attractive journal which "presents cross-disciplinary work from artists and writers". Topics include: art, fiction, design, video, film, sexualities, death, writing and maybe even the kitchen sink. The issue dated 1995 was still online in May 1998 

Pataphysics
Still searching for that moment of clarity? This is probably the site to visit. Jarry described Pataphysics as "the science of imaginary solutions" so it's good to see Baudrillard gets a mention. Other than that there are numerous links to all things pataphysical. 

Post Modern Culture
"An electronic journal of interdisciplinary criticism." A similar kind of journal to CTheory although it is a bit more diverse in that it has fiction and poetry as well. Off-line it's published by Oxford University Press. There are lots of back issues to peruse and also a link to PmcMoo. Another great aspect of this site is the search facility which allows you to enter a word and it will list not only places this word occurs within the journal but also in the virtual seminar records from the Moo. For example whilst searching for references to Baudrillard I found a virtual seminar given by Douglas Kellner! 

Public Netbase
This is a comprehensive theory and cyberculture site. A main attraction is Zero News which contains essays by Konrad Becker, Hakim Bey, Manuel de Landa, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Bob Black and interviews with Mark Dery, Sadie Plant and more! 

Readings And Surfings: Techno Cultural Media Resources
Ethics and the Internet is a course at Duke University. Its reading and Web links page is a mine of information about the history of computers and communications and how they feed into and are affected by: the media, journalism, postmodernism, cyberculture, art, technology and cognition. A massive resource that will be of use to academics, writers and anyone involved in interactive pursuits. 

Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
This is an ambitious project but from the initial signs it looks like it will achieve some success. The purpose is to "research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture". The site  went online in January 1997 and built up an impressive amount of information - including a useful annotated bibliography. The standards are high and the whole site is non-profit making. 

Speed
Addressing technology, media and society, the first edition of Speed was subtitled "Myths of Electronic Living" and contained pieces by or about Mark Leyner, Mark Pesce and Kathy Acker. A special edition dedicated entirely to Paul Virilio was online early in 1998. 

Spoons Collective: E-Mail Discussion Groups
If you'd like to do three incredible things before breakfast then one of them might be to read and answer the prodigous postings from one of the Spoons lists. Subjects range right across the theoretical spectrum. There are are often posting letting you know about new books, conferences and websites. 

Technoculture
A vast amount of links at this site cover the spectrum of the impact of digital technologies on culture from Howard Rheingold and virtual communities, through power abuses in cyber space, government attempts to hi-jack technology in order to shackle privacy and control citizens, and anti-technological movements exemplified by the Unabomber's manifesto. 

Technorealism
"Technorealism demands that we think critically about the role that tools and interfaces play in human evolution and everyday life. Integral to this perspective is our understanding that the current tide of technological transformation, while important and powerful, is actually a continuation of waves of change that have taken place throughout history."  

Technology - good or bad? Trying to trace a realistic centre path between utopianism and neo-Luddism, a group of writers and intellectuals calling themselves Technorealists have put online their manifesto for evaluating the complicated and often contradictory implications of modern technology. There's a high-profile list of signatories to the manifesto plus a link to a separate site for dialogue instigated by the original signers of the manifesto (Data Smog author David Shenk, The Nation's Andrew Shapiro, Cyberselfish author Paulina Borsook, et al), with guests, including Howard Rheingold and Kirkpatrick Sale. Join the debate. 

Technoromanticism
French speakers will find much of interest at Stephan Barron's site which has theoretical texts on romanticism, psychology, science and technology by authors such as Vilem Flusser, Derrick de Kerkhove, Pierre Restany, Francois Terrasson etc, and some excellent artwork too. As a concept, Technoromanticism was developed by Barron for his doctorate at the University of Paris and his book on the subject published this year. 

theory.org.uk
If you're interested in those areas of media and cultural studies that examine the relationship between the mass media, identity, gender and everyday lives, this site has resources and book reviews you might want to pursue. It looks at the Internet in teaching and communications as well. Star theorists who feature prominently include Adorno, Foucault and Gramsci. There's even an interactive critical-theory quiz for those who like their Frankfurt school seasoned with trivia. In the first four weeks after launching, the site received 4,000 visitors. 

Trincoll Journal
"The net's first multimedia magazine." This is a weekly magazine, produced by college students, which covers lots of issues and includes poetry and reviews. Worth a look if only because magazines like this are going to become more and more popular. There is an archive of all the back issues as well, of course. 

Virtual Community
Howard Rheingold, the self-styled prophet of computer communications, has here published a complete book available for free. Well, that is if you don't pay for your own online access time. If you do you might be better off getting it from your bookshop.