Electronic Mediations – serie
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82 produkter
Thinking Further
Fragments of Communicology
Av Vilém Flusser, Aaron Jaffe m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
301 kr
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The first English-language translation of Vilém Flusser's final series of lectures: the definitive introduction to his methods and ideas in new media theoryIn summer 1991, shortly before his death, Vilém Flusser gave a series of lectures as guest professor at Ruhr University Bochum at the …
Into the Universe of Technical Images
Häftad, 2011
247 kr
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Poised between hope and despair for a humanity facing an urgent communication crisis, this work by VilÉm Flusser forecasts either the first truly human, infinitely creative society in history or a society of unbearable, oppressive sameness, locked in a pattern it cannot change. First published in …
On the Existence of Digital Objects
Av Yuk Hui
Häftad, 2016
301 kr
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Digital objects, in their simplest form, are data. They are also a new kind of industrial object that pervades every aspect of our life today-as online videos, images, text files, e-mails, blog posts, Facebook events.Yet, despite their ubiquity, the nature of digital objects remains unclear.On the …
Exploit
A Theory of Networks
Av Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker
Häftad, 2007
209 kr
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“The Exploit is that rare thing: a book with a clear grasp of how networks operate that also understands the political implications of this emerging form of power. It cuts through the nonsense about how 'free' and 'democratic' networks supposedly are, and it offers a rich analysis of how network …
Digital and Its Discontents
Av Aden Evens, Alexander R. Galloway
Häftad, 2024
315 kr
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A groundbreaking critique of the digital world that analyzes its universal technological foundationsWhence that nagging sense that something in the digital is amiss-that, as wonderful as our devices are, time spent on smartphones and computers leaves us sour, enervated, alienated? The Digital and …
What Is Information?
Av Peter Janich
Inbunden, 2018
1127 kr
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A novel way of looking at information challenges longstanding dogmas-from a preeminent German thinkerIt is widely agreed that we live in an “information age,” but what exactly is information? This small, seemingly facile question is in fact surprisingly difficult, and it has occupied many of the …
Bridging Benjamin Volume 68
A Philosophy of Technology, Place, and Education
Häftad, 2026
301 kr
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Walter Benjamin reimagined through the forgotten power of radioPhilosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) has long been recognized for his influence on the fields of literature, film, media studies, critical legal theory, and philosophy. Bringing fresh attention to an …
Summa Technologiae
Häftad, 2014
315 kr
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The Polish writer Stanislaw Lem is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the 1961 science fiction novel Solaris, adapted into a meditative film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and remade in 2002 by Steven Soderbergh. Throughout his writings, comprising dozens of science fiction novels …
Digital Sensations
Space, Identity, and Embodiment in Virtual Reality
Av Ken Hillis
Häftad, 1999
311 kr
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Considers the cultural and philosophical assumptions underlying virtual reality, and how the technology affects the real world.Virtual reality is in the news and in the movies, on TV and in the air. Why is the technology-or the idea-so prevalent precisely now? What does it mean-what does it do-to …
High Techne
Art and Technology from the Machine Aesthetic to the Posthuman
Av R.L. Rutsky
Häftad, 1999
311 kr
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Explores our changing cultural perceptions of the relations between technology and art.In an age of high tech, our experience of technology has changed tremendously, yet the definition of technology has remained largely unquestioned. High Techne redresses this gap in thinking about technology, …
Digital Baroque
New Media Art and Cinematic Folds
Häftad, 2008
320 kr
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A surprising and original application of theories of new media artIn this intellectually groundbreaking work, Timothy Murray investigates a paradox embodied in the book’s title: What is the relationship between digital, in the form of new media art, and baroque, a highly developed early modern …
Souls of Cyberfolk
Posthumanism As Vernacular Theory
Häftad, 2005
289 kr
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In The Souls of Cyberfolk, Thomas Foster traces the transformation of cyberpunk from a literary movement into a multimedia cultural phenomenon. He examines how cyberpunk defined a framework for thinking about the cultural implications of new technologies - a framework flexible enough to incorporate …
Cybering Democracy
Public Space and the Internet
Av Diana Saco
Häftad, 2002
299 kr
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Reconceptualizes the relationship between participatory democracy, technology, and spaceThe Internet has been billed by some proponents as an "electronic agora" ushering in a "new Athenian age of democracy." That assertion assumes that cyberspace’s virtual environment is compatible with democratic …
Cognitive Fictions
Av Joseph Tabbi
Häftad, 2002
347 kr
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The first comprehensive look at the effect of new technologies on contemporary American fictionBringing together cognitive science and literary analysis to map a new "media ecology," Cognitive Fictions limns an evolutionary process in which literature must find its place in an artificial …
Writings
Häftad, 2004
302 kr
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Ten years after his death, Vilém Flusser's reputation as one of Europe's most original modern philosophers continues to grow. Increasingly influential in Europe and Latin America, the Prague-born intellectual's thought has until now remained largely unknown in the English-speaking world. His …
Cyberculture
Av Pierre Levy
Häftad, 2001
274 kr
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A clear explanation and provocative look at the impact of new technologies on world society.Needing guidance and seeking insight, the Council of Europe approached Pierre LÉvy, one of the world’s most important and well-respected theorists of digital culture, for a report on the state (and, frankly, …
What's the Matter with the Internet?
Av Mark Poster
Häftad, 2001
282 kr
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A provocative investigation into the social and cultural implications of the Internet by a leading cultural critic.As the Internet has become more and more a part of our daily lives, responses to its impact on culture and society have tended toward the extremes, hopeful or pessimistic. Fears that …
Bodies in Technology
Av Don Ihde
Häftad, 2001
273 kr
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An original exploration of the ways cyberspace affects human experience.New technologies suggest new ideas about embodiment: our "reach" extends to global sites through the Internet; we enter cyberspace through the engines of virtual reality. In this book, a leading philosopher of technology …
Database Aesthetics
Art in the Age of Information Overflow
Häftad, 2007
314 kr
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Database Aesthetics examines the database as cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated in network culture by creating data art. The essays in this collection look at how an aesthetic emerges when artists use the vast amounts of available information as their medium. …
Deja Vu
Aberrations of Cultural Memory
Av Peter Krapp
Häftad, 2004
302 kr
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The pitfalls of cultural memory and forgetting, understood through the genealogy of the phenomenon called dÉjÀ vuReferring to a past that never was, dÉjÀ vu shares a structure not only with fiction, but also with the ever more sophisticated effects of media technology. Tracing the term from the end …
Biomedia
Häftad, 2004
289 kr
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The merging of computer science and molecular biology, genetic codes and computer codesAs biotechnology defines the new millennium, genetic codes and computer codes increasingly merge-life understood as data, flesh rendered programmable. Where this trend will take us, and what it might mean, is …
Connected
Or What It Means to Live in the Network Society
Häftad, 2003
282 kr
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In the twenty-first century, a network society is emerging. Fragmented, visually saturated, characterized by rapid technological change and constant social upheavals, it is dizzying, excessive, and sometimes surreal. In this breathtaking work, Steven Shaviro investigates popular culture, new …
Lara Croft
Cyber Heroine
Häftad, 2005
203 kr
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Since the game Tomb Raider was first released in 1996, its protagonist Lara Croft has become an international celebrity. The virtual archaeologist-adventuress has been featured in various sequels to the original game, a line of action figures, two Hollywood films starring Angelina Jolie, forty …
Electronic Monuments
Häftad, 2005
281 kr
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While corporations, governmental groups, and public relations firms debated the best way to memorialize the event of 9/11, sites of commemoration could be seen across the country and especially on the Internet. Greg Ulmer suggests that this reality points us to a new sense of monumentality, one …
Digitizing Race
Visual Cultures of the Internet
Häftad, 2007
248 kr
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In the nineties, neoliberalism simultaneously provided the context for the Internet’s rapid uptake in the United States and discouraged public conversations about racial politics. At the same time many scholars lauded the widespread use of text-driven interfaces as a solution to the problem of …
Avatars of Story
Häftad, 2006
281 kr
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Since its inception, narratology has developed primarily as an investigation of literary narrative fiction. Linguists, folklorists, psychologists, and sociologists have expanded the inquiry toward oral storytelling, but narratology remains primarily concerned with language-supported stories. In …
Cyberspaces of Everyday Life
Av Mark Nunes
Häftad, 2006
303 kr
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Networks and computer-mediated communication now penetrate the spaces of everyday life at a fundamental level. We communicate, work, bank, date, check the weather, and fuel conspiracy theories online. In each instance, users interact with network technology as much more than a computational device. …
Gaming
Essays on Algorithmic Culture
Häftad, 2006
203 kr
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Video games have been a central feature of the cultural landscape for over twenty years and now rival older media like movies, television, and music in popularity and cultural influence. Yet there have been relatively few attempts to understand the video game as an independent medium. Most such …
Digitize This Book!
The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now
Av Gary Hall
Häftad, 2008
217 kr
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How open access can transform academia for the betterIn the sciences, the merits and ramifications of open access-the electronic publishing model that gives readers free, irrevocable, worldwide, and perpetual access to research-have been vigorously debated. Open access is now increasingly proposed …
Small Tech
The Culture of Digital Tools
Av Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
303 kr
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The essays in Small Tech investigate the cultural impact of digital tools and provide fresh perspectives on mobile technologies such as iPods, digital cameras, and PDAs and software functions like cut, copy, and paste and WYSIWYG. Together they advance new thinking about digital environments. …
