Uncanny networks : dialogues with the virtual intelligentsia /
Geert Lovink.
- xv, 374 pages ; 24 cm.
- Leonardo .
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-374).
Foreword / The Art of Electric Dialogue: Self-Interview as Introduction / "We don't know what it is we invented" / Rethinking Media Aesthetics / Heidegger Online / Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality / Data Trash: The Theory of the Virtual Class / How to Turn Your Liability into an Asset: Media, Art, and Politics in Post-Communist Bulgaria / Pax Electronica: Against Crisis-Driven Global Telecommunication / Digital Constructivism: What Is European Software? / "We no longer collect the carrier but the Information": On Movements, Archives, and Media Memory / Bandwidth and Accountability / Building a Progressive, Pragmatic Futurism / About the Brazilianization of India / Cultural Imperialism and Information Inequality / Taiwan Media and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies / The Ins and Outs of the Soros Internet Program in Former Eastern Europe / There Is No Information, Only Transformation / Implosion, Media, and the Arts in Albania / The Computer: Medium or Calculating Machine? / Gated Communities, Themeparks, Youth Revolts / Art in the Age of the Mobile Phone: Text Messages from Finland / Media Wars and the Humanitarian (Non-)Interventions / Audio Freedom / Enemy of Nostalgia, Victim of the Present / National Heritage and Body Politics / "The insider is curious, the outsider is suspicious" / Urban Techno Tribes and the Japanese Recession / Intermedia: The Digital Bauhaus / Demystifying the Virtual Power Structures / Media Philosophy beyond the Dualism of Image and Text / Real and Virtual Light of Relational Architecture / The Power of Multiplicity and the Multiplicity of Power / "I am a believer in the symbolic aspect of culture clashes" / Cyberselfishness Explained / "Everything was to be done. All the adventures are still there." / Joel Slayton -- Geert Lovink -- Dietmar Kamper -- Norbert Bolz -- Michael Heim -- Slavoj Zizek -- Arthur Kroker -- Luchezar Boyadjiev -- Gayatri Spivak -- Lev Manovich -- Tjebbe van Tijen -- Saskia Sassen -- Mark Dery -- Ravi Sundaram -- Herbert I. Schiller -- Kuan-Hsing Chen -- Jonathan Peizer -- Bruno Latour -- Eduard Muka -- Hartmut Winkler -- Mike Davis -- Marita Liulia -- Thomas Keenan -- Zina Kaye -- Peter Lunenfeld -- Mongrel -- Boris Groys -- Toshiya Ueno -- Janos Sugar -- Susan George -- Frank Hartmann -- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer -- McKenzie Wark -- Calin Dan -- Paulina Borsook -- Kodwo Eshun.
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