Uncanny Networks

For Geert Lovink, interviews are imaginative texts that can help to
create global, networked discourses not only among different professions but also
among different cultures and social groups. Conducting interviews online, over a
period of weeks or months, allows the participants to compose documents of depth and
breadth, rather than simply snapshots of timely references.The interviews collected
in this book are with artists, critics, and theorists who are intimately involved in
building the content, interfaces, and architectures of new media. The topics
discussed include digital aesthetics, sound art, navigating deep audio space,
European media philosophy, the Internet in Eastern Europe, the mixing of old and new
in India, critical media studies in the Asia-Pacific region, Japanese techno tribes,
hybrid identities, the storage of social movements, theory of the virtual class,
virtual and urban spaces, corporate takeover of the Internet, and the role of
cyberspace in the rise of nongovernmental organizations.Interviewees included
Norbert Bolz, Paulina Borsook, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Kuan-Hsing Chen,
C㬩n Dan, Mike Davis, Mark Dery, Kodwo Eshun, Susan George, Boris
Groys, Frank Hartmann, Michael Heim, Dietmar Kamper, Zina Kaye, Tom Keenan, Arthur
Kroker, Bruno Latour, Marita Liulia, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Peter Lunenfeld, Lev
Manovich, Mongrel, Edi Muka, Jonathan Peizer, Saskia Sassen, Herbert Schiller,
Gayatri Spivak, Jᮯs SugᲬ Ravi Sundaram, Toshiya Ueno, Tjebbe van
Tijen, McKenzie Wark, Hartmut Winkler, and Slavoj Zizek.