MindVox: Encyclopedia II - MindVox - MindVox in the 21st. Century

MindVox - MindVox in the 21st. Century

During 2000 a variety of MindVox pieces went back online [60], at phantom.com and additional material was released by MindVox to textfiles.com. By 2001 Kroupa was back in the public eye and openly acknowledged being a lifelong heroin addict, who had finally kicked heroin and cocaine through the use of the hallucinogenic drug ibogaine [61].

In 2005, MindVox was featured in two documentary films. Bruce Fancher is interviewed in BBS: The Documentary [62], [63], and Patrick Kroupa plays himself in Ibogaine: Rite of Passage [64], [65].

On December 9, 2005, the Transcriptions Project [66], placed The Agrippa Files online [67], as a supplementary resource for Matthew G. Kirschenbaum's, "Hacking 'Agrippa': The Source of the Online Text," a chapter in his book Mechanisms: New Media and the New Textuality (MIT Press, 2006) [68]. The "Agrippa" discussed by Kirschenbaum was an unusual cyberpunk-influenced media project from 1992 by the science-fiction author William Gibson; its first public "leak" was to MindVox users in December of that year.

Within the chapter, Kirschenbaum references several personal letters to Patrick Kroupa, circa 2003, and reveals that Kroupa apparently cooperated with researchers at the English Department of UCSB, placing all of MindVox back online "for an hour or 5" [69] so that Kirschenbaum could view the context within which Agrippa was originally released. In discussing the service, Kirschenbaum referred to MindVox as "a kind of interface between what Alan Sondheim has aptly called the darknet and the clean, well lighted cyberspaces" [70].

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