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Spring 2001
Volume 00, Number 2

Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers

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The Commodity in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine

I examine the phenomenon of digital cultural objects and test the extent to which they are assimilable to the capitalist commodity form. I look at various efforts to understand the "digital economy" and relate these to the question of cultural objects. I ask if new legal and moral relations are evinced by the seemingly free exchange of cultural objects on the Internet.

Electronic Texts for Scholarship
Mark Rooks, InteLex Corporation

This is a demonstration of the electronic texts available for research and scholarship rrom InteLex. Past Masters is a series of full-text humanities databases on CD-ROM. POIESIS: Philosophy Online Serials is an essential reference and publishing service that offers searchable online access to a single database containing the full text of current, recent, and back issues of a growing number of philosophy journals. Every word in every journal issue in the database is fully searchable, including all articles, book reviews, footnotes, announcements, and notices. Uniquely structured around the journals in a single discipline, POIESIS includes dozens of philosophy journals published by philosophical societies, departments, university presses, and commercial publishers. POIESIS will ultimately contain 100 philosophy journals. More than 70 journals have been licensed for the project, and current and/or recent issues of 40 philosophy journals are now in the POIESIS database.

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APA Newsletters

Spring 2001 Volume 00, Number 2

Spring 2001
Volume 00, Number 2