Two new publications: Online Courtship and In the Facebook Aquarium. Get your copy now!

By Miriam Rasch, July 10, 2015

Two new editions in our Theory on Demand-series are available now! Theory on Demand #15 was published a couple of weeks ago on the eve of the Facebook Farewell Party: Ippolita’s In the Facebook Aquarium. Theory on Demand #16 is our very first publication about a subject that affects the lives of millions around the [...]

TOD #24: Culture of the Selfie: Self-Representation in Contemporary Visual Culture

By Leonieke van Dipten, May 19, 2017

About the book Culture of the Selfie is an in-depth art-historical overview of self-portraiture, using a set of theories from visual studies, narratology, media studies, psychotherapy, and political principles. Collecting information from various fields, juxtaposing them on the historical time-line of artworks, the book focuses on space in self-portraits, shared between the person self-portraying and [...]

TOD #23: +KAOS: Ten Years of Hacking and Media Activism

By Leonieke van Dipten, April 21, 2017

About the book At the end of the 20th century, hacking was bleeding edge. When the ideas, practices and pranks of this experimental niche of technophiles attracted the attention of a handful of activists in Italy, they understood that information and communication were what would give shape and voice to social, political, and cultural processes [...]

TOD #22: The List Serves: Population Control and Power

By Leonieke van Dipten, February 10, 2017

About the book: Inspired by taxonomist Jack Goody’s theorizing of ‘ancient lists’ as ‘intellectual technologies’, this book analyzes listing practices in modern and contemporary formations of power, and how they operate in the installation and securing of the milieus of circulation that characterize Michel Foucault’s conception of governmentality. Propelling the list’s role in the delimitation [...]

TOD #21: Playful Mapping in the Digital Age

By Leonieke van Dipten, December 12, 2016

About the book: From Mah-Jong, to the introduction of Prussian war-games, through to the emergence of location-based play: maps and play share a long and diverse history. This monograph shows how mapping and playing unfold in the digital age, when the relations between these apparently separate tropes are increasingly woven together. Fluid networks of interaction [...]

TOD #20: The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital

By Nadine Roestenburg, July 14, 2016

About the book: The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital is an interdisciplinary analysis focusing on new digital phenomena at the intersections of theory and contemporary art. Asserting the unique character of New Aesthetic objects, Contreras-Koterbay and Mirocha trace the origins of the New Aesthetic in visual arts, design, and software, find its [...]

TOD #19: Internet on the Outstation: The Digital Divide and Remote Aboriginal Communities

By Miriam Rasch, June 7, 2016

About this publication: 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 [...]

TOD #18: Geoblocking and Global Video Culture

By Leonieke van Dipten, January 22, 2016

Read online About this publication: How do global audiences use streaming platforms like YouTube, Netflix and iPlayer? How does the experience of digital video change according to location? What strategies do people use to access out-of-region content? What are the commercial and governmental motivations behind geoblocking? Geoblocking and Global Video Culture explores the cultural implications [...]

TOD #17: The Gray Zones of Creativity and Capital

By Miriam Rasch, December 2, 2015

Read online About this publication: What is the correlation among the creative industries, creative industry policies, new media paradigms and capitalism as colonial relations of dominance? What is the role of these industries in the prioritization of the interests of capital at the expense of those of society and how can these paradigms be criticized [...]

TOD #16: Online Courtship – Interpersonal Interactions Across Borders

By Miriam Rasch, July 10, 2015

Read online About this publication: Computer mediated interpersonal interactions are defining our daily lives as we know it. Studying this phenomenon with various methodologies, across different cultures and traditions is a crucial component in understanding social ties. This book brings together articles that approach online dating from a range of cultural and critical perspectives. The [...]