Autonomedia Archived Websites
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Abstract
Autonomedia, founded in 1984, is a North American publisher of radical theoretical works. The collection consists of their main website, online bookstore, and their online forum, the InterActivist Info Exchange. The websites were collected from 2007-2017.
Historical Note
Founded in 1984, Autonomedia is a North American publisher of radical theoretical works, especially in the anarchist tradition. Autonomedia publishes books on topics such as anarchism, Marxist works, cyberfeminism, drug literature, turn of the 21st century queer individualist anarchist novels, and other works. They are known for publishing the "Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints," in which every day of the calendar recalls a deceased person of some significance to progressive movements or thought. They also maintain the InterActivist Info Exchange, an online forum for discourse and debate on themes relevant to the books that they publish.
Arrangement
Websites are arranged alphabetically.
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the Autonomedia web presence from 2007-2017. From 2007-2011, the homepage of Autonomedia listed recent books published by the organization with short summaries and reviews of the books. Topics of books published by the press include anarchism, radical arts, counterculture, criticism, biographies, drugs, ecology, economics, education, feminism, fiction, history, poetry, Marxism, philosophy, politics, race, religion, and theory. In 2010, the website redesigned. The bookstore subdomain includes listings of bestsellers as well as books featured and on sale by the organization.
This collection also contains the website for the InterActivist Info Exchange, initially established as a project of Autonomedia and the InterActivist Network. The forum featured news, events, reviews, announcements, and analysis from independent media sources. The forum existed on both subdomains of Interactivist and Autonomedia, http://slash.interactivist.net/ and http://slash.autonomedia.org/, respectively, until 2010. In around 2011, the website redesigned at http://interactivist.autonomedia.org/.
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Conditions Governing Access
Open to researchers without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use materials in the collection in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Preferred Citation
To cite the archived website in this collection: Identification of item, date; Autonomedia Archived Websites; MSS 617; Wayback URL; Fales Library, New York University.
Custodial History
http://www.autonomedia.org/, http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/, http://interactivist.autonomedia.org/, http://slash.interactivist.net/, and http://slash.autonomedia.org/ were initially selected by Tamiment curators and captured through the use of The California Digital Library's Web Archiving Service in circa 2007-2009 as part of the Alternative Mass Media / News Web Sites Web Archive. In November 2015, these websites were migrated to Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. In 2015, http://www.autonomedia.org/, http://interactivist.autonomedia.org/, and http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/ was transferred to Fales Libary.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.
Take Down Policy
Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.
If you hold the rights to materials in our archived websites that are unattributed, please let us know so that we may maintain accurate information about these materials.
If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material on this website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), you may request the removal of the material from our site by submitting a notice, with the elements described below, to the special.collections@nyu.edu.
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Appraisal
Robots.txt (a piece of code designed to limit crawler activity within a website) was ignored. Seeds were rescoped to filter out repeating directories.
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Processing Information
In 2014, the Autonomedia archived website was added to Tamiment Library Web Collection on Organizations (WEB ARC 003). Crawling of the websites in this collection were ceased in 2018. In 2022, archived websites associated with this collection in the Alternative Mass Media / News Web Sites Web Archive were shared to the Autonomedia Web Archive in Archive-It for access and replay purposes. This finding aid was created in Fall 2022 and description was standardized across the collection.
