Postdigital Aesthetics

'What is the digital? Or rather, what was it? And how has culture changed, now that the Internet got normal? In this capacious compendium of essays, some of the world's leading scholars discuss the art and culture of the present age, a time not so much 'of' the digital but forged in reaction to it. From the New Aesthetic and Post-Internet Art to more exotic trends in contemporary theory, this timely volume explores what it means to see, feel, and think after the advent of ubiquitous digitality.' Alexander R. Galloway, New York University, USA "Computational thought and perspectives now permeate every aspect of our lives and profoundly influence our cultural and aesthetic perceptions, leading to claims of the emergence of a new aesthetic. However, the postdigital landscape is not the techno-utopian dream of Silicon Valley, but a vibrant, messy, conflicted and confusing arena of debate and uncertainty which challenges every aspect of our cultural formation, including our own humanity. This groundbreaking collection of essays is a thought-provoking guide to a new and contested intellectual territory.' Andrew Prescott, University of Glasgow, UK 'This book critically examines the way in which the digital is both embedded in, and has dramatically transformed, our sense of the social; structurally, aesthetically and individually. It uniquely, through a wonderful collection of essays, develops a much needed critical theoretical vocabulary that permits us to (re)evaluate what a postdigital aesthetics might look like. Thoroughly recommended.' Michael Bull, University of Sussex, UK

Christian Ulrik Andersen, Aarhus University, Denmark Tom Apperley, Editor, Digital Culture and Education Caroline Bassett, University of Sussex, UK Mercedes Bunz, University of Westminster, UK Vito Campanelli, Writer and New Media Theorist Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brown University, USA Geoff Cox, Aarhus University, Denmark Florian Cramer, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK David Golumbia, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA Katja Kwastek, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Malcolm Levy, Centre for Digital Media, Canada Lev Manovich, City University of New York, USA Lukasz Mirocha, University of Warsaw, Poland Shintaro Miyazaki, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland Jussi Parikka, University of Southampton, UK Christiane Paul, The New School, USA Daniel Pinkas, HEAD - Genve, Switzerland Sren Bro Pold, Aarhus University, Denmark Stamatia Portanova, Universita' degli Studi di Napoli 'L'Orientale', Naples Alise Tifentale, City University of New York, USA Marc Tuters, Independent Academic

1. Introduction; David Berry And Michael Dieter 2. What Is Post-Digital?; Florian Cramer 3. Genealogies Of The New Aesthetic; Malcolm Levy And Christine Paul 4. The Post-Digital Constellation; David Berry 5. Communication Models, Aesthetics And Ontology Of The Computational Age Revealed; Lukasz Mirocha 6. How To Be Theorized. A F*** Academic Essay On The New Aesthetic; Katja Kwastek 7. A Hyperbolic New Aesthetic; Daniel Pinkas 8. The Genius And The Algorithm. Reflections On The New Aesthetic As A Computer's Vision; Stamatia Portanova 9. Selfiecity: Exploring Photography And Self-Fashioning In Social Media; Lev Manovich And Alise Tifentale 10. Judging Like A Machine; David Golumbia 11. Not Now? : Feminism, Technology, Postdigital; Caroline Bassett 12 . Postscript On The Problem Of Temporality In The Post-Digital; Geoff Cox 13. Dark Patterns: Interface Design, Augmentation And Crisis; Michael Dieter 14. Data Visualisation And The Subject Of Political Aesthetics; Sean Cubitt 15 . School Will Never End: On Infantilization In Digital Environments Amplifying Empowerment Or Propagating Stupidity?; Mercedes Bunz 16 . The City And The City: London 2012 Visual (Un)Commons; Jussi Parikka 17 . Going Beyond The Visible: New Aesthetic As An Aesthetic Of Blindness?; Shintaro Miyazaki 18. Glitch Sorting: Minecraft, Curation And The Postdigital; Thomas Apperley 19 . Through Glass Darkly: Google's Gnostic Governance; Marc Tuters 20. New Aesthetic In The Perspective Of Social Photography; Vito Campanelli 21 . Aesthetics Of The Banal 'New Aesthetics' In An Era Of Diverted Digital Revolutions; Sren Bro Pold And Christian Ulrik Andersen 22. Networks NOW: Belated Too Early; Wendy Chun