Studies in Network Cultures

Anti-Media: Ephemera on Speculative Arts, Florian Cramer

By admin, June 20, 2013

        Anti-Media: Ephemera on Speculative Arts by Florian Cramer About the book: 1. There is art, and there is anti-art. 2. If that is so, there must also be anti-media. 3. ‘Media’ as a term is as fuzzy as ‘art’. 4. Both ‘art’ and ‘media’ refuse to go away. Anti-media is what [...]

Nettitudes – Let’s Talk Net Art, Josephine Bosma

By admin, December 16, 2012

        Nettitudes: Let’s Talk Net Art by Josephine Bosma About the book: Never the darling of the media art institutions and ignored by many curators and critics since its emergence, net art still persists as a ‘non-movement’, residing in the cracks of contemporary media culture. Nettitudes provides an analytical foundation and an [...]

Web Aesthetics: How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society

By admin, December 16, 2012

        Web Aesthetics: How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society by Vito Campanelli About the book: Online video, Web interfaces, file sharing, mailing lists and social networks are transforming our experience of the world. While the social dimension of these Web-related forms dominates public discourse, their aesthetic impact is largely ignored. In [...]

Animal Spirit: A Bestiary of the Commons

By admin, December 16, 2012

        Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons by Matteo Pasquinelli About the book: After a decade of digital fetishism, the spectres of the financial and energy crisis have also affected new media culture and brought into question the autonomy of networks. Yet activism and the art world still celebrate Creative Commons [...]

Delusive Spaces: Essays on Culture, Media and Technology

By admin, December 16, 2012

        Delusive Spaces: Essays on Culture, Media and Technology by Eric Kluitenberg About the book: The formerly open terrain of the new media is closing fast: market concentration, legal consolidation and tightening governmental control have effectively ended the myth of the new media networks as the home of the free. The object [...]

Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions

By admin, December 16, 2012

        Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions by Ned Rossiter About the book: The celebration of network cultures as open, decentralized, and horizontal all too easily forgets the political dimensions of labour and life in informational times. Organized Networks sets out to destroy these myths by tracking the antagonisms that [...]