Olga Goriunova: Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet (2011)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, code, cultural production, electronic literature, internet, networks, organization, software, software art, web
“In this book, Goriunova offers a critical analysis of the processes that produce digital culture. Digital cultures thrive on creativity, developing new forces of organization to overcome repetition and reach brilliance. In order to understand the processes that produce culture, the author introduces the concept of the art platform, a specific configuration of creative passions, codes, events, individuals and works that are propelled by cultural currents and maintained through digitally native means. Art platforms can occur in numerous contexts bringing about genuinely new cultural production, that, given enough force, come together to sustain an open mechanism while negotiating social, technical and political modes of power.
Software art, digital forms of literature, 8-bit music, 3D art forms, pro-surfers, and networks of geeks are test beds for enquiry into what brings and holds art platforms together. Goriunova provides a new means of understanding the development of cultural forms on the Internet, placing the phenomenon of participatory and social networks in a conceptual and historical perspective, and offering powerful tools for researching cultural phenomena overlooked by other approaches.”
Publisher Routledge, 2011
Volume 35 of Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
ISBN 0415893100, 9780415893107
228 pages
Reviews: Annet Dekker (OPEN, 2012), Tony Sampson (Mute, 2012), Alessandro Ludovico (Neural, 2012), Hanna Kuusela (Media, Culture & Society, 2013).
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Comments (2)Christopher Kullenberg: Det nätpolitiska manifestet (2010) [Swedish]
Filed under book | Tags: · activism, darknet, free speech, internet, internet activism, networks
Mikroskopiska händelser förändrar internets karaktär. En enda tunnel eller en enda koppling kan förändra ett händelseförlopp radikalt. En bild inifrån en diktatur, ett läckt handelsavtal från en korrupt regim, ett stycke programkod eller en vittnesbörd kan smitta och spridas som en löpeld mellan internets noder. Det främsta kännetecknet för det öppna nätet är att vi inte kan veta vad som kommer att hända imorgon.
Det nätpolitiska manifestet är den tredje boken i serien Ink manifest. Den tar dig från Teherans gator till nätets djupaste darknets, från tingsrätten i Stockholm till de surrande datorhallar där varje steg du tar på nätet registreras. Det är en svindlande text som visar hur internet kastat omkull vår politiska tillvaro och bundit oss vid en teknologi som inte går att skilja från våra liv. Nätet är en möjlighet till politisk kamp och frigörelse, men det kan också utgöra ett verktyg för övervakning och repression. Genom en analys av de senaste årens konflikter kring The Pirate Bay-rättegången och genomdrivandet av FRA-lagen, men även globala nätrelaterade händelser som demonstrationerna i Iran och hjälpkonvojen till Gaza, visar Christopher Kullenberg vägen till ett kompromisslöst nätpolitiskt motstånd med räckvidd långt utanför fiberkanalerna.
Publisher Ink bokförlag, 2010
ISBN 9789197846912
80 pages
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Adrian Mackenzie: Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · locative media, network culture, networks, technology, wireless networks
How has wirelessness—being connected to objects and infrastructures without knowing exactly how or where—become a key form of contemporary experience? Stretching across routers, smart phones, netbooks, cities, towers, Guangzhou workshops, service agreements, toys, and states, wireless technologies have brought with them sensations of change, proximity, movement, and divergence. In Wirelessness, Adrian Mackenzie draws on philosophical techniques from a century ago to make sense of this most contemporary postnetwork condition. The radical empiricism associated with the pragmatist philosopher William James, Mackenzie argues, offers fresh ways for matching the disordered flow of wireless networks, meshes, patches, and connections with felt sensations.
For Mackenzie, entanglements with things, gadgets, infrastructures, and services—tendencies, fleeting nuances, and peripheral shades of often barely registered feeling that cannot be easily codified, symbolized, or quantified—mark the experience of wirelessness, and this links directly to James’s expanded conception of experience. “Wirelessness” designates a tendency to make network connections in different times and places using these devices and services. Equally, it embodies a sensibility attuned to the proliferation of devices and services that carry information through radio signals. Above all, it means heightened awareness of ongoing change and movement associated with networks, infrastructures, location, and information.
The experience of wirelessness spans several strands of media-technological change, and Mackenzie moves from wireless cities through signals, devices, networks, maps, and products, to the global belief in the expansion of wireless worlds.
Publisher MIT Press, 2010
ISBN 0262014645, 9780262014649
255 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-7-15)
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