Critical Digital Studies: A Reader, Second Edition

Published by University of Toronto Press 2013

Critical Digital Studies

A Reader, Second Edition

Edited by: Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442666702

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About this book

Author / Editor information

Kroker Arthur :

Arthur Kroker is an emeritus professor and adjunct professor of political science at the University of Victoria. He is the director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC).
Kroker Marilouise :

Marilouise Kroker was a feminist scholar, publisher, editor, writer, theorist, and performance artist.

Reviews

Ricardo Dominguez, Electronic Disturbance Theater:
“Critical Digital Studies offers sound and well-supported research at the very edge of critical reflection. Arthur and Marilouise Kroker's anthology keeps up with the speed economies of networks not from within the wave but where the waves crash and even at times outruns them.”

Ted Hiebert, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell:

“The Krokers are more than experts on questions of digital culture; they are leaders in the field who bring an essential, innovative, and irreplaceable perspective to literature in the area.”

Janine Marchessault, Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization, York University:

“Arthur and Marilouise Kroker have done a superb job in bringing together the most up-to-date and original scholarship in the field which, as theorists, they have helped to shape. This new edition should be required reading for anyone engaged in digital media research and/or new forms of creative digital practice.”

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Permissions Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CODE BREAKERS
1 Traumas of Code N. Katherine Hayles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
2 A Game of Cat’s Cradle: Science Studies, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies Donna J. Haraway Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
3 Reframing the Cathedral: Opening the Sources of Technologies and Cultural Assumptions Sara Diamond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
4 Romancing the Anti-body: Lust and Longing in (Cyber)space Lynn Hershman Leeson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
NEW DIGITAL MEDIA
5 All Bugs Are Shallow: Digital Biopower, Hacker Resistance, and Technological Error in Open-Source Software Matthew Kelly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
6 Contagion Theory: Beyond the Microbe Tony D. Sampson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
7 A Conversation with Spirits inside the Simulation of a Coast Salish Longhouse Jackson Bears Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
8 Empire@Play: Virtual Games and Global Capitalism Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig De Peuter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
9 Archaeologies of Media Art Jussi Parikka and Garnet Hertz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
TECHNOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND SURVEILLANCE
10 Precision + Guided + Seeing Jordan Crandall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
11 Understanding Meta-media Lev Manovich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
12 Black Box, Black Bloc Alexander R. Galloway Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
13 Biophilosophy for the 21st Century Eugene Thacker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
14 Algebra of Identity: Skin of Wind, Skin of Streams, Skin of Shadows, Skin of Vapour D. Fox Harrell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
POLITICS, GENDER, AND RELIGION
INFORMATION AND POWER
15 Communication and Imperialism James Tully Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
16 Occupology, Swarmology, Whateverology: The City of (Dis)order versus the People’s Archive Gregory Sholette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
17 Tell Us What’s Going to Happen: Information Feeds to the War on Terror Samuel Nunn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
18 Grammar of Terrorism: Captivity, Media, and a Critique of Biopolitics Michael Dartnell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	312
19 Virilio’s Apocalypticism Mark Featherstone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
GENDER AND SEXUALITY
20 The Cyborg Mother: A Breached Boundary Jaimie Smith-Windsor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	348
21 Haptics, Mobile Handhelds, and other ‘Novel’ Devices: The Tactile Unconscious of Reading across Old and New Media Rachel C. Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
22 Becoming Dragon: A Transversal Technology Study Micha Cárdenas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
RELIGION AND SOCIETY
23 Circuits, Death, and Sacred Fiction: The City of Banaras Mahesh Daas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
24 Digital Cosmologies: Religion, Technology, and Ideology Arthur Kroker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	398
25 Technologies of the Apocalypse: The Left Behind Novels and Flight from the Flesh Stephen Pfohl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	408
CULTURE, ART, AND COMMUNICATION
PERCEPTION
26 The Aura of the Digital Michael Betancourt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
27 When Taste Politics Meets Terror: The Critical Art Ensemble on Trial Joan Hawkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447
28 Distraction and Digital Culture William Bogard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	465
PERFORMANCE
29 Metal Performance: Humanizing Robots, Returning to Nature, and Camping About Steve Dixon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485
30 Prosthetic Head: Intelligence, Awareness, and Agency Stelarc Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	519
31 Simulated Talking Machines: Stelarc’s Prosthetic Head Julie Clarke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	532
32 Slipstreaming the Cyborg Francesca De Nicolò and Christina Mcphee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	542
SOUND
33 Black Secret Technology (The Whitey on the Moon Dub) Julian Jonker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	556
34 Material Memories: Time and the Cinematic Image Paul D. Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	566
35 The Turntable Charles Mudede Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	574
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	587
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	601

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 624
Keywords: Coursebook

eBook

Published: December 11, 2013
ISBN: 9781442666702