Technological Innovation and Social Change

In Memoriam: The New Economy



This web dossier brings together a collection of essays gathered in the frame of the Tulipomania DotCom conference, which was organised by De Balie at the initiative of media theorist Geert Lovink, on June 2nd and 3rd in De Balie in Amsterdam, and on June 4th 2000 at the Frankfurter Kunstverein. The texts were put together in a post-conference reader in the Summer of 2000. They are complemented here with more recent materials on the subject. The historical significance of the events surrounding the new economy and dotcom hype and their disastrous failure is hard to miss today.


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Introduction to the Tulipomania DotCom Reader & Conceptual Background
The original introduction text to the Tulipomania DotCom Reader and the text on the conceptual background of the conference.

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The New Economy - Premises and Pitfalls
Essay by Douglas Henwood

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Mental Labor in the New Economy
Andrew Ross analyses the artisan new economy flex worker - by now a species extinct....

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How the Internet Ruined San Francisco
In this essay Paulina Borsook describes how the internet-hype of the late nineties destroyed the unique cultural and social infrastructure of San Francisco, prerequisite to its 'succes'. A similar story could easily have been written about Amsterdam...

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No-Collar: The Humane Workplace and Its Hidden Costs
Interview with Andrew Ross, introducing his book on new economy workfloor conditions (Dec. 2002)

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Cyberculture in the Age of Dotcom.mania
A Vista over Internet Strategies - Essay by Geert Lovink in which he question the position of new media culture after the dotcom implosion.

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Cyberselfishness Explained
Interview with Paulina Borsook by Geert Lovink

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The Battle of the Three Letter Acronyms
Essay based on talk delivered at the Tulipomania DotCom conference by Jesse Hirsh.

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The Ideology of Immateriality
Text of the talk given by Felix Stalder.

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Het Internet, de Muziek, en de Regels (deel 1)
Essay by economist Wilfred Dolfsma on the economics of copyright law and the music industry in the digital domain, commisioned by De Balie and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. (Dutch text)

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The New Culture? The New Economy!
Essay by Max Bruinsma & Chris Keulemans (2000) in response to the Tulipomania DotCom conference, orignally published in the Dutch weekly De Groene Amsterdammer.

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BLUEPRINT FOR TOYWAR II
From Net Criticism to a Politics of Code - Theses on Network Economics and Network Politics.
Essay by Reinhold Grether

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Did you really think you were worth $300 Million?
If you're so smart, how come you're not rich (any more)?
Short essay by Dave Mandl.

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Was the Dot-Com Gold Rush Worth it?
By columnist and investment trend-watcher Christopher Byron.

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From New Economy to War Economy
The Financial Fallout - an assesment by time reporters Peter G. Goseelin and Jube Shiver Jr. less than two weeks after the 9/11 attacks.

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The Dot-Com Economy:
An Economy with no mediation?
by Korinna Patelis

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A Concise History of the New Economy
Stories on the Dotcom Crazes and Crashes, Winter/Spring 2000.

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Toward a New Political Economy:
Classically Marxist' analysis by researcher and Multitudes editor Pascal Jollivet.

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Smash the Surface / Break Open the Box / Disrupt the Code
The essay explores the connection between real-time mediation, economy, power and artist / activist responses. By Eric Kluitenberg.

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Fear in the Markets
Essay by Donald MacKenzie, analyses investment strategies of the investment partnership Long-Term Capital Management, that abruptly filed bankruptcy in September 1998.

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