Richard Barbrook

Richard Barbrook is an academic in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Languages at the University of Westminster.

Barbrook was born in Nottingham in 1956 and grew up in Canterbury, where his father taught US politics at the University of Kent.

[4] Working with Andy Cameron (interactive artist), he wrote the essay "The Californian Ideology"[5][6] a pioneering critique of the neo-liberal politics of Wired magazine.

His other important writings about the Net include "The Hi-Tech Gift Economy",[7] "Cyber-communism",[8] "The Regulation of Liberty",[9] and "The Class of the New".

In 2007, Barbook moved to the Social Sciences School of the University of Westminster[10] and published his study of the political and ideological role of the prophecies of artificial intelligence and the information society Imaginary Futures.