Ágnes Ivacs, János Sugár (eds.): Buldózer: Médiaelméleti antológia (1997) [Hungarian]
Filed under book | Tags: · control society, critique, internet, media culture, media theory, tactical media
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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Arthur Kroker: Technology and the Canadian Mind: Innis, McLuhan, Grant (1984)
Filed under book | Tags: · media culture, media theory, technology
Technology and the Canadian Mind explores the relationship between technology and culture in a comprehensive discourse on Canadian culture. McLuhan, Grant and Innis are viewed as key figures in understanding contemporary society from a uniquely Canadian point of view.
©1984, New World Perspectives, CultureTexts Series
Montreal: New World Perspectives, ISBN 0-920393-00-4
Published simultaneously in the USA by St. Martin’s Press, ISBN 0-31278-832-0
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Geert Lovink: Zero Comments: Kernels of Critical Internet Culture (2007)
Filed under book | Tags: · blogging, collaboration, distributed aesthetics, internet, internet culture, media theory, net criticism, networks, web 2.0
In Zero Comments Geert Lovink upgrades worn-out concepts and inquires the latest Web 2.0 hype around blogs, wikis and social network sites. In this third volume of his studies into critical Internet culture, Lovink develops a ‘general theory of blogging.’ Unlike most publications he is not focusing on the dynamics between bloggers and the mainstream news media. Instead of celebrating ‘citizen journalism’ blogs are analyzed in their ‘nihilist impulse’ to empty out established meaning structures. Blogs bring on decay of the 20th century broadcast media, and are proud of their in-crowd aspect in which linking, tagging and ranking have become the main drivers. The book also deals with the silent globalization of the Net in which no longer the West, but countries like India, China and Brazil are becoming main players in new media culture. It is not only the latest that Internet enthusiasts should focus on. Zero Comments upgrades concepts such as global Internet time, tactical media, the crisis of new media arts and the problematic relationship between architecture and the Net. The book ends with speculative notions on concepts such as organized networks, free cooperation and distributed aesthetics.
Publisher Routledge, 2007
ISBN 0415973155, 9780415973151
312 pages