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Virtual Americas: The Internationalization of American studies and the Ideology of Exchange

EARLY IN 1995, WIRED, THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE DEDICATED TO celebrating the information revolution, published its first British edition. Emblazoned across the cover was a portrait of Thomas Paine, together with one of his famous apocalyptic maxims: "We have it in our power to begin the world over again." Elsewhere in this issue, Wired hailed Paine as its newly-appointed "Patron Saint," a beacon of libertarian thought whose concern for the empowerment of individual citizens rather than their subjection to oppressive authorities would provide a potential model for the decentralized, anti-institutional forces