Mute, 3(2): Politics My Arse (2012)
Filed under magazine | Tags: · arab spring, art, democracy, media culture, politics
‘Well, the first thing I want to say is, politics my arse’ Issue 2 includes: cover art by Johnny Spencer * Alberto Toscano on logistics and anarchism * Gail Day on postmodernism at the V&A * Brian Ashton zooms in on RFID * Mark Neocleous on generalised anxiety * Benjamin Noys on spaghetti communism * Howard Slater on the August riots * Mme Tlank and Mira Mattar on motherly love, care and capital * Stefan Szczelkun on Gregory Sholette’s book, Dark Matter * Anustup Basu on the Arab Spring * Sander on why China won’t save capitalism
Editor Josephine Berry Slater
Publisher Mute, February 2012
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Comment (0)Access-Space.org: Grow Your Own Media Lab (2008)
Filed under book | Tags: · floss, free software, media culture, media labs, organization, technology
A comic book by Sheffield’s Access Space.
Text by James Wallbank
Pictures by Michael Tesh
Publisher Access Space, Sheffield, UK, June 2008
Creative Commons BY-SA 2.0 UK License
ISBN 9780955009136
116 pages
Review: Rob Myers (Furtherfield)
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Comments (2)Vito Campanelli: Web Aesthetics: How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, computing, digital media, internet, media, media culture, memes, networks, new media, remix, spam, subjectivity, technology, theory, virus, web
“We live in a world of rapidly evolving digital networks, but within the domain of media theory, which studies the influence of these cultural forms, the implications of aesthetical philosophy have been sorely neglected. Vito Campanelli explores network forms through the prism of aesthetics and thus presents an open invitation to transcend the inherent limitations of the current debate about digital culture.
The web is the medium that stands between the new media and society and, more than any other, is stimulating the worldwide dissemination of ideas and behaviour, framing aesthetic forms and moulding contemporary culture and society.
Campanelli observes a few important phenomena of today, such as social networks, peer-to-peer networks and ‘remix culture’, and reduces them to their historical premises, thus laying the foundations for an organic aesthetic theory of digital media.”
Publisher NAi Publishers, Rotterdam; in association with the Institute of Network Cultures at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences, October 2010
Studies in Network Cultures series
ISBN 9056627708, 9789056627706
276 pages
Reviews: Greg J Smith (Rhizome, 2011), Alessandro Ludovico (Neural, 2011), Regine Debatty (We Make Money Not Art, 2011).
Book website
Interview with the author (Geert Lovink)
Interview with the author (Pasquale Napolitano, Digicult)
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