TOD #34: The Age of Total Images: Disappearance of a Subjective Viewpoint in Post-digital Photography

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, March 9, 2020

The Age of Total Images: Disappearance of a Subjective Viewpoint in Post-digital Photography In The Age of Total Images, art historian Ana Peraica focuses on the belief that the shape of the planet is two-dimensional which has been reawakened in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and the ways in which these ‘flat Earth’ [...]

TOD #32: Networked Content Analysis: The Case of Climate change

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, December 16, 2019

TOD#32: Networked Content Analysis: The Case of Climate Change By Sabine Niederer With a foreword by Klaus Krippendorff Description: Climate change is one of the key societal challenges of our times, and its debate takes place across scientific disciplines and into the public realm, traversing platforms, sources, and fields of study. The analysis of [...]

Out now: Internet on the Outstation, Theory on Demand #19

By Miriam Rasch, June 7, 2016

Internet on the Outstation provides a new take on the digital divide. Why do whole communities choose to go without the internet when the infrastructure for access is in place? Through an in-depth exploration of the digital practices occurring in Aboriginal households in remote central Australia, the authors address both the dynamics of internet adoption [...]

TOD #31: Media Do Not Exist

By Valeria Pugliese, October 30, 2019

TOD#31: Media Do Not Exist Media Do Not Exist: Performativity and Mediating Conjunctures by Jean-Marc Larrue and Marcello Vitali-Rosati offers a radically new approach to the phenomenon of mediation, proposing a new understanding that challenges the very notion of medium. It begins with a historical overview of recent developments in Western thought on mediation, [...]

TOD #30: Bilwet Fascismemap (1983-1994)

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, March 27, 2019

Download de Bilwet Fascismemap: Of bestel een gedrukt exemplaar via Lulu: TOD#30: BILWET FASCISMEMAP (1983-1994) Dit boek is een brede collectie teksten over eigentijds fascisme, geschreven door het Nederlandse theoriecollectief Bilwet in de periode 1983-1994. De map bevat onder andere een lezing over wolven, zes kleurplaten met Kuifje en Hitler, een analyse van [...]

TOD #28: Communities at a Crossroads

By Kelly Mostert, January 28, 2019

TOD#28: Communities at a Crossroads Material Semiotics for Online Sociability in the Fade of Cyberculture How to conceptualize online sociability in the 21st century? To answer this question, Communities at a Crossroads looks back at the mid-2000s. With the burst of the creative-entrepreneur alliance, the territorialisation of the internet and the commercialization of interpersonal ties, [...]

TOD #29: Good Data

By Barbara Dubbeldam, January 23, 2019

TOD #29: Good Data Moving away from the strong body of critique of pervasive ‘bad data’ practices by both governments and private actors in the globalized digital economy, this book aims to paint an alternative, more optimistic but still pragmatic picture of the datafied future. The authors examine and propose ‘good data’ practices, values [...]

TOD #27: Videoblogging Before YouTube

By Miriam Rasch, June 19, 2018

A compellingly written and highly original study of the practices of the early-adopter video blogging community. This essential study will change the ways in which we think about past, present and future online creative communities and digital platforms. – Catherine Grant, Birkbeck, University of London A rich and illuminating narrative of the communities, aesthetics and [...]

TOD #26: On Editorialization: Structuring Space and Authority in the Digital Age

By Miriam Rasch, March 9, 2018

About the book In On Editorialization: Structuring Space and Authority in the Digital Age Marcello Vitali-Rosati examines how authority changes in the digital era. Authority seems to have vanished in the age of the web, since the spatial relationships that authority depends on are thought to have levelled out: there are no limits or boundaries, [...]

TOD #25: General Theory of the Precariat

By Leonieke van Dipten, September 21, 2017

About the book From the fast-food industry to the sharing economy, precarious work has become the norm in contemporary capitalism, like the anti-globalization movement predicted it would. This book describes how the precariat came into being under neoliberalism and how it has radicalized in response to crisis and austerity. It investigates the political economy [...]