Critical Digital Studies: A Reader, Second Edition

✍ Scribed by Arthur Kroker (editor); Marilouise Kroker (editor)

Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 624
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Permissions
Introduction
CODE BREAKERS
1 Traumas of Code
2 A Game of Cat’s Cradle: Science Studies, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies
3 Reframing the Cathedral: Opening the Sources of Technologies and Cultural Assumptions
4 Romancing the Anti-body: Lust and Longing in (Cyber)space
NEW DIGITAL MEDIA
5 All Bugs Are Shallow: Digital Biopower, Hacker Resistance, and Technological Error in Open-Source Software
6 Contagion Theory: Beyond the Microbe
7 A Conversation with Spirits inside the Simulation of a Coast Salish Longhouse
8 Empire@Play: Virtual Games and Global Capitalism
9 Archaeologies of Media Art
TECHNOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND SURVEILLANCE
10 Precision + Guided + Seeing
11 Understanding Meta-media
12 Black Box, Black Bloc
13 Biophilosophy for the 21st Century
14 Algebra of Identity: Skin of Wind, Skin of Streams, Skin of Shadows, Skin of Vapour
POLITICS, GENDER, AND RELIGION
INFORMATION AND POWER
15 Communication and Imperialism
16 Occupology, Swarmology, Whateverology: The City of (Dis)order versus the People’s Archive
17 Tell Us What’s Going to Happen: Information Feeds to the War on Terror
18 Grammar of Terrorism: Captivity, Media, and a Critique of Biopolitics
19 Virilio’s Apocalypticism
GENDER AND SEXUALITY
20 The Cyborg Mother: A Breached Boundary
21 Haptics, Mobile Handhelds, and other ‘Novel’ Devices: The Tactile Unconscious of Reading across Old and New Media
22 Becoming Dragon: A Transversal Technology Study
RELIGION AND SOCIETY
23 Circuits, Death, and Sacred Fiction: The City of Banaras
24 Digital Cosmologies: Religion, Technology, and Ideology
25 Technologies of the Apocalypse: The Left Behind Novels and Flight from the Flesh
CULTURE, ART, AND COMMUNICATION
PERCEPTION
26 The Aura of the Digital
27 When Taste Politics Meets Terror: The Critical Art Ensemble on Trial
28 Distraction and Digital Culture
PERFORMANCE
29 Metal Performance: Humanizing Robots, Returning to Nature, and Camping About
30 Prosthetic Head: Intelligence, Awareness, and Agency
31 Simulated Talking Machines: Stelarc’s Prosthetic Head
32 Slipstreaming the Cyborg
SOUND
33 Black Secret Technology (The Whitey on the Moon Dub)
34 Material Memories: Time and the Cinematic Image
35 The Turntable
Bibliography
Contributors

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