Sarah Kember: Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life (2003)
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Comment (0)Fred Turner: Burning Man at Google: A Cultural Infrastructure for New Media Production (2009)
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Every August for more than a decade, thousands of information technologists and other knowledge workers have trekked out into a barren stretch of alkali desert and built a temporary city devoted to art, technology and communal living: Burning Man. Drawing on extensive archival research, participant observation, and interviews, this paper explores the ways that Burning Man’s bohemian ethos supports new forms of production emerging in Silicon Valley and especially at Google. It shows how elements of the Burning Man world – including the building of a socio-technical commons, participation in project-based artistic labor, and the fusion of social and professional interaction – help shape and legitimate the collaborative manufacturing processes driving the growth of Google and other firms. The paper thus develops the notion that Burning Man serves as a key cultural infrastructure for the Bay area’s new media industries. (Abstract)
Key Words: peer production, counterculture, cultural economy, art and technology, cultural infrastructure, free labor.
Published in New Media & Society 11, 2009
Comment (0)Paul Virilio: The Vision Machine (1988-) [EN, ES, SK, RU]
Filed under book | Tags: · art history, cinema, photogrqphy, technology, telepresence, urbanism, war
Surveying art history as well as the technologies of war and urban planning, one of France’s leading intellectuals provides an introduction to a new “logistics of the image.”
Originally published in French as Le machine de vision, Editions Galilee, 1988
Translated by Julie Rose
Publisher Indiana University Press, 1994
ISBN 0253209013, 9780253209016
81 pages
Key words and phrases
Gericault, telepresence, phatic, Paul Strand, Edward Steichen, Descartes, Gustave Lebon, Abel Gance, Daniel Buren, Adolf Loos, speed of light, Robert Flaherty, Edgar Allan Poe, Madame Bovary, Auguste Rodin, camera obscura, Albert Speer, British Documentary Movement, wings of desire
PDF (English, trans. Julie Rose, 1994)
PDF (La Máquina de Visión, Spanish, 2nd ed., trans. Mariano Antolin Rato, 1998)
PDF (Stroj videnia, Slovak, trans. Mária Ferenčuhová, 2002)
PDF (Машина зрения [Mashina zreniya], Russian, trans. A. В. Шестакова, 2004)