A collection of essays and examples of contemporary cultural practices, the second in the DATA browser series. Social change does not result from simple resistance to the existing set of conditions, but from adapting and transforming the technical apparatus itself. Walter Benjamin in his essay, The Author as Producer (1934), recommends that cultural producers intervene in the production process in order to transform the apparatusto act, in effect, as engineers. But can this method be applied today, when production, consumption and circulation operate through complex global networks served by information technologies Can the optimism of involvement be maintained when technology operates in the service of capital in ever more insidious ways