Pynchon mention

pynchonoid pynchonoid at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 3 10:49:53 CST 2003


Cognitive Dissident 
John Perry Barlow, the man who coined the term
'cyberspace', discusses the Total Information
Awareness project, online activism, file sharing, and
the prospect of a digital counterculture. 

John Perry Barlow
Interviewed by Tim Dickinson 
February 3, 2003 

[...] MotherJones.com: What do you make of the Total
Information Awareness project?  

John Perry Barlow: I was just writing a spam to my
friends last night about its "all seeing eye" logo
[The logo has since been changed - Ed.]. Looking at
that logo, you've got to wonder if they aren't just
engaged in some massive prank on us. It's hilarious --
straight out of a Thomas Pynchon novel. Can you beat
it? It's fortunate that this is so stupefyingly funny.
[...] 

<http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2003/06/we_268_01.html>

-Doug

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