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CTHEORY is the name for the re-branded Canadian Journal of Social and Political Theory.

Based at Concordia University until 2002, CTHEORY was one of the first academic journals to go 100% electronic, in 1994.

The conversion to internet formats began with a simple mailing list and shortly following (late 1994) on the then-new WWW. The editors of CTHEORY were (and still are) Arthur & Marilouise Kroker (now based in Victoria, BC), and at the time they were featured in Mondo 2000, Wired, bOING bOING and other magazines.

Michael Boyle was the assistant editor when the journal converted from paper to electronic formats. Carl Steadman, who was also the first production director at HotWired and the creator of the seminal web magazine Suck, produced the original website.

CTHEORY was a very early example of the use of the reverse-chronological format later seen in weblogs, and at the time was considered one of the top digital theory sites on the Internet.

[modifier] Archive Web

November 1996 - http://web.archive.org/web/19961101194018/http://www.ctheory.com/