Critical Digital Studies
A Reader
Published on 12. September 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-0-8020-9546-6 (ISBN)
Description
From the spectacular emergence of new media innovations such as blogging, podcasting, flashmobs, mashups, and RSS feeds to video-sharing websites, like MySpace and YouTube, and online role-playing games, contemporary society, culture, and politics are being transformed continuously by new digital communication technology. In Critical Digital Studies, internationally renowned theorists Arthur and Marilouise Kroker lead the search for a new method of understanding digitally mediated culture. Digital studies is a rapidly expanding field that encompasses the research interests of social scientists and humanities scholars, multimedia artists, and activists. With this ground-breaking reader, we are introduced to a new style of thought that has emerged directly from Internet culture itself. Critical Digital Studies is inspired by the same spirit that gave rise to the Open Architecture Movement, Shareware, Web 2.0 - a creative mashup, mixing the enduring human demand to understand the world around us with the new means of analysis, communication, and living that define the twenty-first century. Among the contributors are: Sara Diamond, Donna Haraway, N.
Katherine Hayles, Lynn Hershmann, Lev Manovich, Charles Mudede, Stephen Pfohl, and Stelarc. An indispensable resource for instructors and students in digital studies programs, Critical Digital Studies is a comprehensive, creative, and fascinating look at a digital culture that is struggling to be born, survive, and flourish.
Katherine Hayles, Lynn Hershmann, Lev Manovich, Charles Mudede, Stephen Pfohl, and Stelarc. An indispensable resource for instructors and students in digital studies programs, Critical Digital Studies is a comprehensive, creative, and fascinating look at a digital culture that is struggling to be born, survive, and flourish.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
900 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8020-9546-6 (9780802095466)
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Persons
Arthur Kroker is the director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, and Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture, and Theory at the University of Victoria. Marilouise Kroker is a senior research scholar in the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture at the University of Victoria.
Content
Acknowledgments Critical Digital Studies: An Introduction ARTHUR AND MARILOUISE KROKER CODE BREAKERS * Traumas of Code N. KATHERINE HAYLES* A Game of Cat's Cradle: Sign Studies, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies DONNA HARAWAY* Reframing the Cathedral: Opening the Sources of Technologies and Cultural Assumptions SARA DIAMOND* Romancing the Anti-body: Lust and Longing in (Cyber)space LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON TECHNOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND SURVEILLANCE * Precision + Guided + Seeing JORDAN CRANDALL* Understanding Meta-media LEV MANOVICH* Warcraft and Utopia ALEXANDER R. GALLOWAY* The Age of Blur and Technology NATE BURGOS* Biophilosophy for the 21st Century EUGENE THACKER* Hypervirus: A Clinical Report THIERRY BARDINI* Algebra of Identity: Skin of Wind, Skin of Streams, Skin of Shadows, Skin of Vapour D. FOX HARRELL* The Ambiguous Panopticon: Foucault and the Codes of Cyberspace MARK WINOKUR POLITICS, GENDER, AND RELIGION INFORMATION AND POWER * Communication and Imperialism JAMES TULLY* Tell Us What's Going to Happen: Information Feeds to the War on Terror SAMUEL NUNN* Grammar of Terrorism: Captivity, Media, and the Critique of Biopolitics MICHAEL DARTNELL* Infomobility and Technics: Some Travel Notes BELINDA BARNET GENDER * The Cyborg Mother: A Breached Boundary JAIMIE SMITH-WINDSOR* When Taste Politics Meet Terror: The Critical Art Ensemble on Trial JOAN HAWKINS* Virtually Queer? Homing Devices, Mobility, and Un/Belongings MARY BRYSON, LORI MACINTOSH, SHARALYN JORDAN, AND HUI-LING LIN RELIGION AND SOCIETY * The Passion of the Social: Reflections on the Seattle Rave Killings ANDREW WERNICK* Digital Cosmologies: Religion, Technology, and Ideology ARTHUR KROKER* Technologies of the Apocalypse: The Left Behind Novels and Flight from the Flesh STEPHEN PFOHL* Terri Schiavo: Bride of 'Compassionate Conservatism' AUGUSTINE OF EPCOT AND HIS SCRIBE DANIEL WHITE CITIES *21st Century Graffiti: Detroit Tagging JEFF RICE* Circuits, Death, and Sacred Fiction: The City of Banaras MAHESH SENAGALA* Louis Armstrong International Airport: A Post-Katrina Meditation RICHARD CARLSON CULTURE, COMMUNICATION, AND MEDIA PERCEPTION * Welcome to Google Earth ANNA MUNSTER* Distraction and Digital Culture WILLIAM BOGARD* The Rebirth of the Author NICHOLAS ROMBES BODIES * Metal Performance: Humanizing Robots, Returning to Nature, and Camping About STEVE DIXON* Prosthetic Head: Intelligence, Awareness, and Agency STELARC* Simulated Talking Machines: Stelarc's Prosthetic Head JULIE CLARKE* Slipstreaming the Cyborg: Interview with Christina McPhee FRANCESCA DE NICOLO IN CONVERSATION WITH CHRISTINA MCPHEE SOUND * Black Secret Technology (The Whitey on the Moon Dub) JULIAN JONKER* The Turntable CHARLES MUDEDE* Silent Theory: Aurality, Technology, Philosophy FRANCES DYSON Bibliography Contributors