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Delusive spaces: essays on culture, media and technology

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The open terrain of new media is closing fast. Market concentration, legal consolidation and tightening governmental control have effectively ended the myth of the free and open networks. In Delusive Spaces, Eric Kluitenberg takes a critical position that retains a utopian potential for emerging media cultures. The book investigates the archeology of media and machine, mapping the different methods and metaphors that speak about technology. Returning to the present, Kluitenberg discusses the cultural use of new media in an age of post-governmental politics. Delusive Spaces concludes with the impossibility of representation. Going beyond the obvious delusions of the 'new' and the 'free', Kluitenberg theorizes artistic practices and European cultural policies, demonstrating a provocative engagement with the utopian dimension of technology. Eric Kluitenberg is a Dutch media theorist, writer and organizer. Since the late 1980s, he has been involved in numerous international projects in the field of electronic art, media culture, and information politics. Kluitenberg heads the media program at De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics in Amsterdam. He is the editor of the Book of Imaginary Media (NAi Publishers, 2006) and the theme issue Hybrid Space of Open, journal on art and the public domain (2007).

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Making virtual worlds : Linden Lab and Second Life

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The past decade has seen phenomenal growth in the development and use of virtual worlds. In one of the most notable, Second Life, millions of people have created online avatars in order to play games, take classes, socialize, and conduct business transactions. Second Life offers a gathering point and the tools for people to create a new world online. Too often neglected in popular and scholarly accounts of such groundbreaking new environments is the simple truth that, of necessity, such virtual worlds emerge from physical workplaces marked by negotiation, creation, and constant change. Thomas Malaby spent a year at Linden Lab, the real-world home of Second Life, observing those who develop and profit from the sprawling, self-generating system they have created.

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War and peace in the global village

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Originally published in 1968, this sequel to "The Medium is the Massage" is a collage of images and text that sharply illustrates how electric technology "stimulate more discontinuity and diversity and division than the old mechanical society."

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La galaxie Gutenberg

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Analysant les effets des changements techniques sur la communication, les cultures, les sociétés et la politique depuis l’époque médiévale, McLuhan livre avec La Galaxie Gutenberg, son œuvre majeure. « Le médium est le message », résume-t-il. Une idée toujours pertinente à notre époque où triomphe une culture de l’image qui semble nous ramener à un stade pré-alphabétique, rythmé par le flot ininterrompu des sentiments et des réactions immédiates.

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Interact or die!

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Interaction is a defining characteristic of every living being. Bodies and objects build connections, form networks, and then, through interaction, achieve organization, structure, memory and heredity. The only selection criterion for interaction is whether it worksm that is, whether it is operational. Interactivity is on the one hand a method of bringing something into a being - a form, a structure, an organization, a body, an institute, a work of art - and on the other hand a way of dealing with it.

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Prometheus wired: the hope for democracy in the age of network technology

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From all sides, we hear that computer technology, with its undeniable power to disseminate information and connect individuals, holds enormous potential for a reinvigoration of political life. But will the Internet really spark a democratic revolution? And will the changes it brings be so profound that past political thought will be of little use in helping us to understand them? In Prometheus Wired, Darin Barney debunks claims that a networked society will provide the infrastructure for a political revolution and shows that the resources we need for understanding and making sound judgments about this new technology are surprisingly close at hand. By looking to thinkers who grappled with the relationship of society and technology, such as Plato, Aristotle, Marx, and Heidegger, Barney critically examines such assertions about the character of digital networks. Darin Barney is assistant professor of communication at the University of Ottawa.

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The network society

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In The Network Society, Darin Barney provides a compelling examination of the social, political and economic implications of network technologies and their application across a wide range of practices and institutions. Are we in the midst of a digital revolution? Have new information and communication technologies given birth to a new form of society, or do they reinforce and extend existing patterns and relationships? This book provides a clear and engaging discussion of these and other questions. Using a sophisticated model of the relationship between technology and society, Barney investigates both what has changed, and what has remained the same, in the age of the Internet. Among the issues discussed are debates concerning the emergence of a 'knowledge economy'; digital restructuring of employment and work; globalization and the status of the nation-state; the prospects of digital democracy; the digital divide; new social movements; and culture, community and identity in the age of new media. This book provides an accessible resource for a thoughtful engagement with life in the network society. It will be essential reading for students in sociology and media and communication studies. This will be a valuable textbook for undergraduate students of sociology and media and communication studies.

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Interactive architecture 2

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This is the second issue of this innovative bookzine, an inter-disciplinary look at interactive architecture from researchers, students and guest lectures in Kas Oosterhuis's Hyperbody at the Delft Institute of Technology, along with experts from other organizations. This issue brings the reader deeper into the interactive relationships between built components and people, using parametric Design, Powerlines and multiplayer design games. It also offers an overview on the iWEB pavilion, a vehicle for trans-disciplinary research, education and design developed by Hyperbody, from the software it applies to the building process and to its opening event. A publication fulfilling its destiny as an essential component in this groundbreaking architectural movement.

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Networked publics

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Digital media and network technologies are now part of everyday life. The Internet has become the backbone of communication, commerce, and media; the ubiquitous mobile phone connects us with others as it removes us from any stable sense of location. Networked Publics examines the ways that the social and cultural shifts created by these technologies have transformed our relationships to (and definitions of) place, culture, politics, and infrastructure.

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Search terms : basse déf.

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Que produisent ces millions de sons et d’images qui circulent chaque année devant nos yeux et entre nos oreilles, par nos téléphones portables, nos ordinateurs ou nos tablettes? Quelles catégories esthétiques correspondent à l’époque de la démocratisation des biens d’équipement et de l’amateurisme consacré? Où l’art contemporain se niche-t-il dans les réseaux sociaux? Entre 2009 et 2011, le groupe de recherche «Basse définition», initié par Nicolas Thély et regroupant Annie Gentès, Anne Laforet, David-Olivier Lartigaud, Karine Lebrun, Gilles Rouffineau et Stéphane Sauzedde, s’est enquis d’interroger ce qui gouverne aujourd’hui les manières de penser et de créer des acteurs du monde de l’art. S’inscrivant dans le champ des Humanités numériques, cet ouvrage se présente sous la forme d’un guide de requêtes qui prend acte de la redistribution et de la diffusion du savoir par les moteurs de recherche et les encyclopédies collectives. Il a pour ambition de prolonger la recherche en contribuant à fabriquer des ressources de première main: artistes et chercheurs de différentes générations ont ainsi choisi leurs propres mots clés et les ont enrichis de leurs expériences afin de les rendre communicables. Ouvrage publié avec le concours de l’Université Paris I Panthéon-Sobonne