Claire Taylor, Thea Pitman (eds.): Latin American Cyberculture and Cyberliterature (2007)

This highly-innovative volume provides the first sustained academic focus on cyberliterature and cyberculture in Latin America, investigating the ways in which this form of cultural production is providing new configurations of subjects, narrative voices, and even political agency. Despite cyberculture’s spread throughout the Hispanic diaspora, much of the influence of this new discipline on Latin American culture remains undocumented. This timely volume focuses on the inclusivity of this new scholarship and provides extensive geographical coverage of topics as diverse as Chicano border writing and Brazilian and Argentine cybercultural phenomena.

Publisher Liverpool University Press, 2007
ISBN 184631061X, 9781846310614
295 pages

Key terms: Zapatistas, posthuman, virtual communities, Rayuela, cyberspace, weblog, hypermedia, netwar, e-magazines, Cyberliterature, blog, Latin American literature, Mexico City, hypertext fiction, EZLN, Jorge Luis Borges, hacktivism, Latin American Cinema.

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Jane Arthurs, Iain Grant (eds.): Crash Cultures: Modernity, Mediation and the Material (2000)

We are surrounded daily with crashing vehicles, economies, computers and bodies. At the intersection of speed, development, design and automation, the crash punctuates cultural and technological change with the automated mundanity of death, risk and destruction. Yet the only studies conducted into crashes concern safety measures and the mythology of prevention. This volume aims therefore to investigate crashes to the fullest extent of their invasion of the everyday, to document their commemoration and productivity, and to offer accounts of the significance of these extreme yet banal moments.

Published by Intellect Books, 2000
ISBN 1841500917, 9781841500911
202 pages

Key terms:
English Patient, heterotopia, Amelia Earhart, death drive, Pleasure Principle, Un Chien Andalou, animist, Kensington Palace, mass media, Camera Lucida, Saipan, BBFC, jouissance, Roland Barthes, Negative Dialectics, semiotic, Rodney King, Paul Mantz, Jackie Cochran, Tokyo Rose

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Ágnes Ivacs, János Sugár (eds.): Buldózer: Médiaelméleti antológia (1997) [Hungarian]

An anthology of contemporary media theory in Hungarian, derived from the Metaforum conference series and Nettime mailing list.

Contents:
Introduction by Janos Sugar (English)
Preface by Geert Lovink (English)
I.
Gilles Deleuze: Postscript on the Societies of Control
Thomas Pynchon: Is it O.K. to be a Luddite?
Tjebbe van Tijen: Ars Oblivivendi
Bruce Sterling: The Brief History of the Internet
II.
Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron: Californian Ideology
Manuel De Landa: Markets and Antimarkets
closing debate of MetaForum 3
Felix Stalder: Financial Networks
Matthew Fuller: Spew- Excess and Moderation on the Networks
Critical Art Ensemble: Net Realities – Utopian Promises
Data Trash an interview with Arthur Kroker by Geert Lovink
János Sugár: Paradigm Shift Interruptus
III.
Pit Schultz: The Final Content
Geert Lovink: A Push Media Critique
Alexei Shulgin: Art, Power, and Communication
Calin Dan: Journey through a Data Room
David Garcia, Geert Lovink: ABC of Tactical Media
Miklós Peternák: In Medias Res – The Man without Interface
Lev Manovich: Digital Reality
Hans-Christian Dany: Schizos Still Wanna Have Fun
Michael Heim: Anxieties
IV.
Attila Kotányi: Is There Any Media Criticism That Isn’t Suicidal?
Gábor Bora: AI Service
Alpár Losoncz: Digitalization of Borders
Erik Davis: Technoculture and the Religious Imagination
Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey): Net-Religion – War in Heaven

Edited by Agnes Ivacs and János Sugár, in cooperation with Diana McCarty, Geert Lovink, and Pit Schultz
Biographical notes by Diana McCarty
Publisher Media Research Foundation, Budapest, October 1997
Layout: Balazs Boethy using Heath Bunting’s graphics
ISSN 1417-6033
220 pages

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