Full Description
Since its initial publication, Critical Digital Studies has proven an indispensable guide to understanding digitally mediated culture. Bringing together the leading scholars in this growing field, internationally renowned scholars Arthur and Marilouise Kroker present an innovative and interdisciplinary survey of the relationship between humanity and technology. The reader offers a study of our digital future, a means of understanding the world with new analytic tools and means of communication that are defining the twenty-first century.
The second edition includes new essays on the impact of social networking technologies and new media. A new section - "New Digital Media" - presents important, new articles on topics including hacktivism in the age of digital power and the relationship between gaming and capitalism. The extraordinary range and depth of the first edition has been maintained in this new edition. Critical Digital Studies will continue to provide the leading edge to readers wanting to understand the complex intersection of digital culture and human knowledge.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
ARTHUR AND MARILOUISE KROKER
CODE BREAKERS
Traumas of Code
N. KATHERINE HAYLES
A Game of Cat's Cradle: Science Studies, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies
DONNA J. HARAWAY
Reframing the Cathedral: Opening the Sources of Technologies and Cultural Assumptions
SARA DIAMOND
Romancing the Anti-body: Lust and Longing in (Cyber)space
LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON
NEW DIGITAL MEDIA
All Bugs Are Shallow: Digital Biopower, Hacker Resistance, and Technological Error in Open-Source Software
MATTHEW KELLY
Contagion Theory: Beyond the Microbe
TONY D. SAMPSON
A Conversation with Spirits inside the Simulation of a Coast Salish Longhouse
JACKSON 2BEARS
Empire@Play: Virtual Games and Global Capitalism
NICK DYER-WITHEFORD AND GREIG DE PEUTER
Archaeologies of Media Art
JUSSI PARIKKA IN CONVERSATION WITH GARNET HERTZ
TECHNOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND SURVEILLANCE
Precision + Guided + Seeing
JORDAN CRANDALL
Understanding Meta-media
LEV MANOVICH
Black Box, Black Bloc
ALEXANDER R. GALLOWAY
Biophilosophy for the 21st Century
EUGENE THACKER
Algebra of Identity: Skin of Wind, Skin of Streams, Skin of Shadows, Skin of Vapour
D. FOX HARRELL
POLITICS, GENDER, AND RELIGION
INFORMATION AND POWER
Communication and Imperialism
JAMES TULLY
Occupology, Swarmology, Whateverology: The City of (Dis)order versus the People's Archive
GREGORY SHOLETTE
Tell Us What's Going to Happen: Information Feeds to the War on Terror
SAMUEL NUNN
Grammar of Terrorism: Captivity, Media, and a Critique of Biopolitics
MICHAEL DARTNELL
Virilio's Apocalypticism
MARK FEATHERSTONE
GENDER AND SEXUALITY
The Cyborg Mother: A Breached Boundary
JAIMIE SMITH-WINDSOR
Haptics, Mobile Handhelds, and Other 'Novel' Devices: The Tactile Unconscious of Reading across Old and New Media
RACHEL C. LEE
Becoming Dragon: A Transversal Technology Study
MICHA CÁRDENAS
RELIGION AND SOCIETY
Circuits, Death, and Sacred fiction: The City of Banaras
MAHESH DAAS
Digital Cosmologies: Religion, Technology, and Ideology
ARTHUR KROKER
Technologies of the Apocalypse: The Left Behind Novels and Flight from the Flesh
STEPHEN PFOHL
CULTURE, ART, AND COMMUNICATION
PERCEPTION
The Aura of the Digital
MICHAEL BETANCOURT
When Taste Politics Meets Terror: The Critical Art Ensemble on Trial
JOAN HAWKINS
Distraction and Digital Culture
WILLIAM BOGARD
PERFORMANCE
Metal Performance: humanizing Robots, Returning to Nature, and Camping About
STEVE DIXON
Prosthetic Head: Intelligence, Awareness, and Agency
STELARC
Simulated Talking Machines: Stelarc's Prosthetic Head
JULIE CLARKE
Slipstreaming the Cyborg
FRANCESCA DE NICOLÒ IN CONVERSATION WITH CHRISTINA MCPHEE
SOUND
Black Secret Technology (The Whitey on the Moon Dub)
JULIAN JONKER
Material Memories: Time and the Cinematic Image
PAUL D. MILLER (DJ SPOOKY)
The Turntable
CHARLES MUDEDE
Bibliography
Contributors
