a wikizine
Flack Attack is a wikizine that largely concerns the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Second Life. I'm not much interested in these games myself but I do find the non-game extensions interesting. The wiki aspect of this publication seems to act more as a venue for submissions and editing rather than the final publishing format, which is a PDF document distributed through Whitney's ArtPort.
This is the first issue of the magazine (in progress) and it concerns autonomy, in a general sense, but mostly using Second Life as a focus. The content is fairly thin, but this could potentially grow into something interesting. Especially if it manages to move away from Second Life.
"The theme of the first issue is "Flack Attack on Autonomy": Autonomy as a complex concept in any governed situation. What does it mean to be autonomous within predefined social codes? Does the notion of autonomy contradict a common language and shared references?
In the specific case of online worlds the challenge is readily illustrated by the fact that all interaction takes place inside someone else's programmed code. But the same basic dilemma can be applied to any institution we find ourselves in, be it a nation, a family or an economy. "
