[ox-en] Book announcement -- Lovink
- From: David Weininger <dgw MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:44:07 -0500
I thought readers of the Project Oekonux English List might be interested
in this book. For more information, feel free to visit
http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262122510. Thanks!
Uncanny Networks
Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia
Geert Lovink
For Lovink, interviews are imaginative texts that can help to create
global, networked discourses not only among different professions but also
among different cultures and social groups. Conducting interviews online,
over a period of weeks or months, allows the participants to compose
documents of depth and breadth, rather than simply snapshots of timely
references.
The interviews collected in this book are with artists, critics, and
theorists who are intimately involved in building the content, interfaces,
and architectures of new media. The topics discussed include digital
aesthetics, sound art, navigating deep audio space, European media
philosophy, the Internet in Eastern Europe, the mixing of old and new in
India, critical media studies in the Asia-Pacific region, Japanese techno
tribes, hybrid identities, the storage of social movements, theory of the
virtual class, virtual and urban spaces, corporate takeover of the
Internet, and the role of cyberspace in the rise of nongovernmental
organizations. Of particular interest is an exchange with Lev Manovich on
the future of European software.
Geert Lovink is an independent media theorist and net critic. He is the
founder of nettime mailing lists, a member of Adilkno, and a cofounder of
the online community server Digital City.
Interviewees
Norbert Bolz, Paulina Borsook, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Kuan-Hsing Chen, Cãlin
Dan, Mike Davis, Mark Dery, Kodwo Eshun, Susan George, Boris Groys, Frank
Hartmann, Michael Heim, Dietmar Kamper, Zina Kaye, Tom Keenan, Arthur
Kroker, Bruno Latour, Marita Liulia, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Peter Lunenfeld,
Lev Manovich, Mongrel, Edi Muka, Jonathan Peizer, Saskia Sassen, Herbert
Schiller, Gayatri Spivak, János Sugár, Ravi Sundaram, Toshiya Ueno, Tjebbe
van Tijen, McKenzie Wark, Hartmut Winkler, Slavoj Zizek.
"More than a mere collection of interviews, Uncanny Networks is a book of
dialogues. Lovink has as much knowledge of and experience with alternative
media as any of his subjects. Rather than approach them as a journalist or
outsider might, he engages them as equals, eliciting deep and thoughtful
responses."
--Manuel de Landa, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and
Preservation, Columbia University
7 x 9, 392 pp., cloth, ISBN 0-262-12251-0
David Weininger
Associate Publicist
MIT Press
5 Cambridge Center, 4th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02142
617.253.2079
617.253.1709 fax
dgw mit.edu
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