{"product_id":"a-sexual-history-of-the-internet","title":"A Sexual History Of The Internet","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eTHIS BOOK IS A HISTORY.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIt gathers anecdotes, artworks, and historical artifacts that reveal the pervasive and perverted origins of our digital tools.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eTHIS BOOK IS A SCRIPT.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIt documents A Sexual History of the Internet, a participatory lecture performance told through the audience’s phones. It is a polyvocal story, whose citations are read aloud by the audience — performance as re-citation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eTHIS BOOK IS AN EXPERIMENT.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis book is a fiscal experiment of redistribution. In it, you’ll find citations by 45 people who have shaped my understanding of the internet, sex, and sexual technologies. When you buy this book, they will split a percentage of profits. We call this experiment “Citational Splits,” a new model of attribution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis Metalabel release makes available 5000 first-edition copies of the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFurther details:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePublished by The Dark Forest Collective\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eLeatherbound paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e704 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e8.5 × 14.5 × 5.0 cm \/ 3.35 × 5.71 × 1.97 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eISBN: 979-8-9929364-1-4\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFirst Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e5000 copies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eRelease Date: September 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eMindy Seu (b. 1991, California) is an artist and technologist based in Los Angeles and New York City whose practice focuses on technology-driven performance and publication. A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET (2025) follows her first book CYBERFEMINISM INDEX (2023), a pseudo-encyclopedia that gathers three decades of online activism and net art, which was commissioned by Rhizome, premiered at the New Museum, and awarded a Graham Foundation Grant. Mindy is currently teaching as an Associate Professor at University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Design Media Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Dark Forest Collective","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42441324134498,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0866\/5580\/files\/01_9ecfffb4-a545-47b3-98ff-321d16ee680a.jpg?v=1767909145","url":"https:\/\/actualsource.org\/products\/a-sexual-history-of-the-internet","provider":"Actual Source","version":"1.0","type":"link"}