Lisa Nakamura, Peter Chow-White (eds.): Race After the Internet (2011)

“In Race After the Internet, Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White bring together a collection of interdisciplinary essays exploring the complex role that digital media technologies play in shaping our ideas about race. Contributors interrogate changing ideas of race within the context of an increasingly digitally mediatized cultural and informational landscape. Using social scientific, rhetorical, textual, and ethnographic approaches, these essays show how new and old styles of race as code, interaction, and image are played out within digital networks of power and privilege.

Race After the Internet includes essays on the shifting terrain of racial identity and its connections to social media technologies like Facebook and MySpace, popular online games like World of Warcraft, YouTube and viral video, WiFi infrastructure, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program, genetic ancestry testing, and DNA databases in health and law enforcement. Contributors also investigate the ways in which racial profiling and a culture of racialized surveillance arise from the confluence of digital data and rapid developments in biotechnology. This collection aims to broaden the definition of the “digital divide” in order to convey a more nuanced understanding of access, usage, meaning, participation, and production of digital media technology in light of racial inequality.”

Contributors: danah boyd, Peter Chow-White, Wendy Chun, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Troy Duster, Anna Everett, Rayvon Fouché, Alexander Galloway, Oscar Gandy, Eszter Hargittai, Jeong Won Hwang, Curtis Marez, Tara McPherson, Alondra Nelson, Christian Sandvig, Ernest Wilson.

Publisher Taylor and Francis, 2011
ISBN 0415802369, 9780415802369
352 pages

Review: Patti (Reviews in Cultural Theory, 2012).

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Pool (2011-2012)

“Pool is a platform dedicated to expanding and improving the discourse between online and offline realities and their cultural, societal and political impact on each other.”

Contributors: Absis Minas, Andreas Ervik, Andrew Norman Wilson, Ann Hirsch, Anne de Vries, Billy Rennekamp, Bunny Rogers, Caitlin Denny, Casey A. Von Gollan, Constant Dullaart, Daniel G. Baird, Devin Kenny, Duncan Malashock, Erik Stinson, Eugene Kotlyarenko, Gene McHugh, Ginger Scott, Harry Burke, Isabel Gylling & Matthew Ferguson, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Jennifer Chan, Jimmy Chen, Joanne McNeil, Jordan Tate, Joshua Simon, Karen Archey, Kate Steciw, Katja Novitskova, Leo Merz, Louis Doulas, Marisa Olson, Martin Jaeggi, Nicholas O’Brien, Patrick Armstrong, Riyo Nemeth, Robert John, Robert Lorayn, Ry David Bradley, Ryan Barone, Samuel Riviere, Sofia Leiby, Timur Si-Qin, Tom Moody, Wyatt Niehaus

Editor: Louis Doulas
Contributing editors: Absis Minas, Ria Roberts, Sofia Leiby
PDF design: Rasmus Svensson
Pool can easily be physically distributed and stocked at any gallery, shop, library, etc. by simply downloading each month’s PDF issue and printing.

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Eugene Thacker: In the Dust of This Planet (2011)

The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. In this book Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. To confront this idea is to confront the limit of our ability to understand the world in which we live – a central motif of the horror genre.

In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy and horror. In Thacker’s hands, philosophy is not academic logic-chopping; instead, it is the thought of the limit of all thought, especially as it dovetails into occultism, demonology, and mysticism. Likewise, Thacker takes horror to mean something beyond the focus on gore and scare tactics, but as the under-appreciated genre of supernatural horror in fiction, film, comics, and music. This relationship between philosophy and horror does not mean the philosophy of horror, if anything, it means the reverse, the horror of philosophy: those moments when philosophical thinking enigmatically confronts the horizon of its own existence. For Thacker, the genre of supernatural horror is the key site in which this paradoxical thought of the unthinkable takes place.

Publisher Zero Books, Winchester, UK / Washington, USA, 2011
Horror of Philosophy vol. 1
ISBN 184694676X, 9781846946769
179 pages

author (Occultural studies blog at Metamute.org)

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