| Parikka, Jussi on Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:27:48 +0200 (CEST) |
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| <nettime-ann> The Spam Book - On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies From the Dark Side of Digital Culture |
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| Announcing a new book on the dark side of network culture: THE SPAM BOOK On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies From the Dark Side of Digital Culture edited by Jussi Parikka and Tony D. Sampson With Foreword by Sadie Plant Hampton Press, 2009 For those of us increasingly reliant on email networks in our everyday social interactions, spam can be a pain; it can annoy; it can deceive; it can overload. Yet spam can also entertain and perplex us. This book is an aberration into the dark side of network culture. Instead of regurgitating stories of technological progress or over celebrating creative social media on the Internet, it filters contemporary culture through its anomalies. The book features theorists writing on spam, porn, censorship, and viruses. The evil side of media theory is exposed to theoretical interventions and innovative case studies that touch base with new media and Internet studies and the sociology of new network culture, as well as post-representational cultural analysis. “Parikka and Sampson present the latest insights from the humanities into software studies. This compendium is for all you digital Freudians. Electronic deviances no longer originate in Californian cyber fringes but are hardwired into planetary normalcy. Bugs breed inside our mobile devices. The virtual mainstream turns out to be rotten. The Spam book is for anyone interested in new media theory.” —Geert Lovink, Dutch/Australian media theorist “What if all those things we most hate about the Internet—the spam, the viruses, the phishing sites, the flame wars, the latency and lag and interruptions of service, and the glitches that crash our computers—what if all these are not bugs, but features? What if they constitute, in fact, the way the system functions? The Spam Book explores this disquieting possibility.” —Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University Contents: Orders from Hampton Press: as well as bookstores and online sellers. Launch event: Goldsmiths College, London: Friday, September 25th, 6-8pm (prompt) Room 3/4 Ben Pimlott Building, (silver building with squiggle) Goldsmiths, Lewisham Way New Cross Contributors to the book will make short interventions based on their texts: Matthew Fuller Andrew Goffey Steve Goodman Jussi Parikka Luciana Parisi Sadie Plant Tony Sampson Editors: Dr Jussi Parikka is Reader in Media Theory and History at Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge. He has a PhD in Cultural History from University of Turku, Finland and is now the co-director of the Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture. He is the author of Digital Contagions – A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses (2007). More info: http://www.jussiparikka.com , Jussi.parikka@anglia.ac.uk, mobile: + 44 (0)7846 476 425. Dr Tony D. Sampson is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in New Media at The University of East London. He has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Essex. More info: http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/T.D.Sampson/research.htm, email: t.d.sampson@uel.ac.uk __________________________________________________ Reader in Media Theory & History Co-Director of the Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture (ArcDigital) Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK http://www.anglia.ac.uk/arcdigital http://machinology.blogspot.com/ Among the academic disciplines now rated 'World-leading' are Allied Health Professions & Studies; Art & Design; English Language & Literature; Geography & Environmental Studies; History; Music; Psychology; and Social Work & Social Policy & Administration. Visit www.anglia.ac.uk/rae This e-mail and any attachments are intended for the above named recipient(s) only and may be privileged. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone: please reply to this e-mail to highlight the error and then immediately delete the e-mail from your system. Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of Anglia Ruskin University. Although measures have been taken to ensure that this e-mail and attachments are free from any virus we advise that, in keeping with good computing practice, the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. Please note that this message has been sent over public networks which may not be a 100% secure communications Email has been scanned for viruses by Altman Technologies' email management service |
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