Uncanny networks : dialogues with the virtual intelligentsia / Geert Lovink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lovink, Geert.

Series:

Leonardo.

Leonardo

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information society.

Computer networks--Social aspects.

Computer networks.

Internet--Social aspects.

Internet.

Cyberspace.

Computers and civilization.

Information technology--Social aspects.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

xv, 374 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2002]

Summary:

Geert Lovink interviews an international group of artists, critics, and theorists on aesthetic, cultural, and political aspects of new media.

Contents:

The Art of Electric Dialogue: Self-Interview as Introduction / Geert Lovink 2

"We don't know what it is we invented" / Dietmar Kamper 12

Rethinking Media Aesthetics / Norbert Bolz 18

Heidegger Online / Michael Heim 28

Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality / Slavoj Zizek 36

Data Trash: The Theory of the Virtual Class / Arthur Kroker 50

How to Turn Your Liability into an Asset: Media, Art, and Politics in Post-Communist Bulgaria / Luchezar Boyadjiev 58

Pax Electronica: Against Crisis-Driven Global Telecommunication / Gayatri Spivak 74

Digital Constructivism: What Is European Software? / Lev Manovich 82

"We no longer collect the carrier but the information": On Movements, Archives, and Media Memory / Tjebbe van Tijen 96

Bandwidth and Accountability / Saskia Sassen 104

Building a Progressive, Pragmatic Futurism / Mark Dery 112

About the Brazilianization of India / Ravi Sundaram 122

Cultural Imperialism and Information Inequality / Herbert I. Schiller 132

Taiwan Media and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies / Kuan-Hsing Chen 138

The Ins and Outs of the Soros Internet Program in Former Eastern Europe / Jonathan Peizer 144

There Is No Information, Only Transformation / Bruno Latour 154

Implosion, Media, and the Arts in Albania / Eduard Muka 162

The Computer: Medium or Calculating Machine? / Hartmut Winkler 186

Gated Communities, Themeparks, Youth Revolts / Mike Davis 196

Art in the Age of the Mobile Phone: Text Messages from Finland / Marita Liulia 204

Media Wars and the Humanitarian (Non-)Interventions / Thomas Keenan 214

Audio Freedom / Zina Kaye 224

Enemy of Nostalgia, Victim of the Present / Peter Lunenfeld 232

National Heritage and Body Politics / Mongrel 246

"The insider is curious, the outsider is suspicious" / Boris Groys 254

Urban Techno Tribes and the Japanese Recession / Toshiya Ueno 262

Intermedia: The Digital Bauhaus / Janos Sugar 276

Demystifying the Virtual Power Structures / Susan George 288

Media Philosophy beyond the Dualism of Image and Text / Frank Hartmann 294

Real and Virtual Light of Relational Architecture / Rafael Lozano-Hemmer 304

The Power of Multiplicity and the Multiplicity of Power / McKenzie Wark 314

"I am a believer in the symbolic aspect of culture clashes" / Calin Dan 326

Cyberselfishness Explained / Paulina Borsook 336

"Everything was to be done. All the adventures are still there" / Kodwo Eshun 348.

Notes:

Includes bibligraphical references (pages 370-374).

ISBN:

0262122510

OCLC:

49531385