Posts Tagged: book review

Imagining Possible Worlds with “Aesthetics of the Commons”

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, March 5, 2021

Part of a series by the Institute for Contemporary Art Research at the Zürich University of the Arts, Aesthetics of the Commons investigates the fruitful intersection between the idea of the commons, and the aesthetics of practices that relate to the concept. Overall, the publication ponders how to enact a shift in academia, arts and [...]
By: By jussi.parikka at 27/04/2011 – 06:30 Jussi Parikka’s blog...

review Nettitudes – net art politics

By margreet riphagen, April 28, 2011

By: By jussi.parikka at 27/04/2011 – 06:30 Jussi Parikka’s blog Amsterdam based journalist and critic Josephine Bosma’s just published book Nettitudes. Let’s Talk Net Art (2011) tackles the themes of net.art, aesthetics, politics and network culture practices in a great way. Bosma, herself very much an insider to the net art scene since its emergence [...]

Review MyCreativity reader by Megan Yarrow

By margreet riphagen, June 22, 2009

Cultural Studies: My Creativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries My favourite piece in My Creativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries -a collection of essays edited by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter- is Annelys De Vet’s Creativity is not About Industry: I have nothing smart to say about the creative industry. This might be [...]
INC’s research intern Dennis Deicke wrote his second book review,...

Brainless Text Culture and Mickey Mouse Science

By sabine, June 21, 2009

INC’s research intern Dennis Deicke wrote his second book review, of Stefan Weber’s Das Google-Copy-Paste-Syndrome: Wie Netzplagiate Ausbildung und Wissen gefährden. Heise Verlag, Hannover: 2009. The Google-Copy-Paste-Syndrome: How Web-Plagiarism endangers Education and Knowledge, written by Stefan Weber, deals with the influence of the ever-increasing internet use on the prevalent culture of knowledge. Austrian media scholar [...]
As the INC is preparing for a conference on search...

Search Engine Theory Book Reviews

By sabine, June 17, 2009

As the INC is preparing for a conference on search engines, titled The Society of the Query, research intern Dennis Deicke is delving deep into search engine theory. His book reviews can be read on the preliminary conference site www.networkcultures.org/query. Dennis has published his first review, which covers David Gugerli’s Suchmaschinen, Die Welt als Datenbank. [...]