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AcknowledgementsMany people, groups and institutions played a fundamental part inthe writing of this book. The University of Berkeley’s Engineeringand Science Libraries (for their open doors policy of access andconsultation); Danan Sudindranath, Mr Gary Pickens and CarolWright for technical intelligence; the friends and former colleaguesat the Department of Cultural and Innovation Studies, Universityof East London (and in particular Ash Sharma, Paul Gormley, andJeremy Gilbert); the Signs of the Times collective; Martha Michailidou,Nicholas Thoburn and David Whittle (for reading and/or discussingparts of this work); Nick Couldry and the OUR MEDIA network; theESRC, for funding part of this project; the Department of Sociology atthe University of Essex (for granting two study leaves that allowed thewriting of this book); Andrew Ross at the American Studies Centre,NYU, for his friendship and enduring support; Patricia Clough andthe students at the CUNY Graduate Center for enthusiastic supportand challenging feedback; the collective intelligences of nettime,Rekombinant, Syndicate and e-laser (for everything); Marco d’Eramofor his kind interest and bibliographical gems; the staff and studentsat the Center for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths’ College (Scott Lashand Axel Roch and for extra special support Sebastian Olma andSandra Prienekenf); Riccardo and Simonetta; Betti Marenko fromInSectCorp; the Mute collective (special thanks to Pauline van MourikBroeckmann, Ben Seymour, Josephine Berry Slater, and Jamie King);my mentors and friends at the Istituto Universitario Orientale inNaples (especially Lidia Curti, Ian Chambers, Silvana Carotenutoand Anna Maria Morelli); the friends of the Hermeneia project at theUniversitat Oberta de Barcelona (thanks to Laura Borràs Castanyer,Joan Elies Adell and Raffaele Pinto for some wonderful workshops);to Anne Beech and Judy Nash at Pluto Press, for their patience andfor trusting their authors; Kode 9 from hyperdub.com and DaddyG from uncoded.net (for the bass lines and visions); and of coursemy family and friends back in Sicily, who provided free sunshine,blue sea, good food and warm company during the last stages in thewriting of this book – the hot, hot summer of 2003.Finally, special thanks to Luciana Parisi – for being a friend and asister throughout our turbulent and co-symbiotic becomings.vii