New Media and Technocultures Reader

Seth Giddings and Martin Lister are members of the Department of Culture, Media and Drama, in the Faculty of Creative Arts at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

• AcknowledgementsPermissionsIntroductionPART 1: Genealogies of Technoculture1.1 The first and second industrial revolutionNorbert Wiener1.2 The ontology of the enemy: Norbert Wiener and the cybernetic visionPeter Galison1.3 Dazzling the multitude: original media spectaclesCarolyn Marvin1.4 Selected material from Computer Lib / Dream MachinesTed Nelson1.5 From Kaleidoscomaniac to cybernerd: Towards an archaeology of the media Erkki Huhtamo1.6 Introduction to War in the Age of Intelligent MachinesManuel de LandaPART 2: Models of Technology, Media and Culture2.1 The labour process and alienation in machinery and scienceKarl Marx2.2 Selected material from Understanding Media: the extensions of man (‘The medium is the message’, ‘Media as translators’, ‘The typewriter’)Marshall McLuhan2.3 The technology and the societyRaymond Williams2.4 The proliferation of hybrids Bruno Latour2.5 The vanishing point of communicationJean Baudrillard2.6 ‘The informatics of domination’ and ‘Women in the integrated circuit’ from A Cyborg Manifesto Donna Haraway2.7 Balance program for desiring machinesFeliz GuattariPART 3: Bodies and Agents3.1 Where are the missing masses? The sociology of a few mundane artifactsBruno Latour3.2 Cyborgs, coyotes and dogs: a kinship of feminist figurations / there are always more things going on than you thought: methodologies as thinking technologiesDonna Haraway3.3 Feedback and cybernetics: reimaging the body in the age of the cyborgDavid Tomas3.4 Creatures on the InternetSarah Kember3.5 Intelligent AgencyJ. Macgregor Wise3.6 Female Quake players and the politics of identityHelen KennedyPART 4: Texts, Forms, Codes4.1 VirtualityBenjamin Woolley4.2 InteractivityPierre Levy4.3 The adventure gameEspen Aarseth4.4 Selected material from The Language of New Media (‘The database’ and ‘Navigable space’)Lev Manovich4.5 Invisible mediaLaura U. Marks4.6 Theses on distributed aestheticsGeert Lovinck4.7 "Hacking" the iPod: A Look Inside Apple’s Portable Music PlayerGabrielle Consentino4.8 Listening in cyberspaceMark Katz4.9 Hybrid Cinema: The Mask, Masques and Tex AveryNorman Klein4.10 Photography in the age of electronic imagingMartin Lister4.11 ‘Eyeball’ from Pilgrim in the Microworld: eye, mind and the essence of video skillDavid Sudnow PART 5: Network Culture5.1 Trading sexpics on IRC : embodiment and authenticity on the internetDon Slater5.2 Free labourTiziana Terranova5.3 Gaming lifeworlds: social play in persistent environmentsT.L. Taylor5.4 Technoscience in hypertextDonna Haraway5.5 Updating tactical mediaGeert Lovinck5.6 Indymedia.org: a new communications commonsDorothy KiddPART 6: Everyday Media Technocultures6.1 The domestic ecology of objectsElaine Lally6.2 Domesticating New Media: A discussion on locating mobile mediaLarissa Hjorth6.3 Bergson’s iPod? The cognitive management of everyday lifeMichael Bull6.4 Everyday (virtual) lifeMark Poster6.5 Japan’s mobile technoculture: the productions of a cellular playscape and its cultural implicationsMichal Daliot-Bul6.6 Playspaces, childhood and videogamesShanly Dixon & Sandra Weber 6.7 Mobilizing imagination in everyday play: the case of Japanese media mixesMizuko ItoIndex