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@book{ AlexanderR.Galloway1, title = "Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization", title_sort = "Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization", author_sort = "Galloway, Alexander R.", author = "Alexander R. Galloway", note = "Is the Internet a vast arena of unrestricted communication and freely exchanged information or a regulated, highly structured virtual bureaucracy? In Protocol, Alexander Galloway argues that the founding principle of the Net is control, not freedom, and that the controlling power lies in the technical protocols that make network connections (and disconnections) possible. He does this by treating the computer as a textual medium that is based on a technological language, code. Code, he argues, can be subject to the same kind of cultural and literary analysis as any natural language; computer languages have their own syntax, grammar, communities, and cultures. Instead of relying on established theoretical approaches, Galloway finds a new way to write about digital media, drawing on his backgrounds in computer programming and critical theory. {"}Discipline-hopping is a necessity when it comes to complicated socio-technical topics like protocol,{"} he writes in the preface.Galloway begins by examining the types of protocols that exist, including TCP/IP, DNS, and HTML. He then looks at examples of resistance and subversion -- hackers, viruses, cyberfeminism, Internet art -- which he views as emblematic of the larger transformations now taking place within digital culture. Written for a nontechnical audience, Protocol serves as a necessary counterpoint to the wildly utopian visions of the Net that were so widespread in earlier days.
\#\#\# Review
{"}A very valuable, very original, and very significant contribution to the field of media studies and cultural theory.{"}--Tilman Baumgärtel, media critic, and author of *net.art* and *net.art 2.0 - New Material towards Net Art*
{"}An engaging methodological hybrid of the Frankfurt School and *UNIX for Dummies*.... Galloway brings the uncool question of morality back into critical thinking.{"} Ed Halter The Village Voice
{"}Galloway is one of the very few people who are equally well versed in poststructuralist cultural theory and computer programming.{"} Steven Shaviro The Pinocchio Theory Weblog
{"}Protocol...is a book on computer science written by someone who's not a computer scientist, and that's a good thing.{"} Gary Singh Metro
\#\#\# From the Inside Flap
{"}A very valuable, very original, and very significant contribution to the field of media studies and cultural theory.{"} --Tilman Baumgärtel, media critic, and author of *net.art* and *net.art 2.0 - New Material towards Net Art*
{"}Expressing some startling new lines of thought with refreshingly straightforward clarity, Galloway reminds all of us why thinking about networks and their protocols is so relevant to our time. From FTP to fluxus or Deleuze to DNS, these are the connections that need to be made between the models competing to be our reality.{"} --Douglas Rushkoff, author of *Media Virus*, *Coercion*, and *Nothing Sacred* ", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Alexander R. Galloway/Protocol\_ How Control Exists After Decentralization (1)/cover.jpg", formats = "pdf", calibreid = "1", isbn = "978-02-6257-233-0", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "2006", month = "Feb", publisher = "The MIT Press", rating = "8", volume = "1", size = "2828040 octets", tags = "GS, Promiscuous pipelines", timestamp = "2014-07-23", uuid = "471b32e2-be88-431c-be9c-aeb04fd7c08f", languages = "eng", identifiers = "amazon:0262572338,isbn:9780262572330" }
@book{ BrettM.Frischmann2, title = "Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources", title_sort = "Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources", author_sort = "Frischmann, Brett M.", author = "Brett M. Frischmann", note = "Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whether and how to protect our natural environment, energy policy, even patent law reform, universal health care, network neutrality regulation and the future of the Internet. Each of these involves a battle to control infrastructure resources, to establish the terms and conditions under which the public receives access, and to determine how the infrastructure and various dependent systems evolve over time. Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources devotes much needed attention to understanding how society benefits from infrastructure resources and how management decisions affect a wide variety of interests. The book links infrastructure, a particular set of resources defined in terms of the manner in which they create value, with commons, a resource management principle by which a resource is shared within a community. The infrastructure commons ideas have broad implications for scholarship and public policy across many fields ranging from traditional infrastructure like roads to environmental economics to intellectual property to Internet policy. Economics has become the methodology of choice for many scholars and policymakers in these areas. The book offers a rigorous economic challenge to the prevailing wisdom, which focuses primarily on problems associated with ensuring adequate supply. The author explores a set of questions that, once asked, seem obvious: what drives the demand side of the equation, and how should demand-side drivers affect public policy? Demand for infrastructure resources involves a range of important considerations that bear on the optimal design of a regime for infrastructure management. The book identifies resource valuation and attendant management problems that recur across many different fields and many different resource types, and it develops a functional economic approach to understanding and analyzing these problems and potential solutions. ", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Brett M. Frischmann/Infrastructure\_ The Social Value of Shared Resources (2)/cover.jpg", formats = "epub", calibreid = "2", isbn = "978-01-9993-013-5", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "2012", month = "Feb", publisher = "Oxford University Press", volume = "1", size = "3564882 octets", tags = "Mondotheque, GS, Promiscuous pipelines", timestamp = "2014-02-23", uuid = "ba5e0498-add4-49a5-8788-2a1dab164281", languages = "eng", identifiers = "amazon:0199975507,isbn:9780199930135,google:tlZpAgAAQBAJ" }
@book{ TomStandage3, title = "The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers", title_sort = "Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers, The", author_sort = "Standage, Tom", author = "Tom Standage", note = "**A new paperback edition of the first book by the bestselling author of *A History of the World in 6 Glasses*--the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world's first {"}Internet,{"} which revolutionized the nineteenth century even more than the Internet has the twentieth and twenty first.** *The Victorian Internet *tells the colorful story of the telegraph's creation and remarkable impact, and of the visionaries, oddballs, and eccentrics who pioneered it, from the eighteenth-century French scientist Jean-Antoine Nollet to Samuel F. B. Morse and Thomas Edison. The electric telegraph nullified distance and shrank the world quicker and further than ever before or since, and its story mirrors and predicts that of the Internet in numerous ways.
\#\#\# Amazon.com Review
Imagine an almost instantaneous communication system that would allow people and governments all over the world to send and receive messages about politics, war, illness, and family events. The government has tried and failed to control it, and its revolutionary nature is trumpeted loudly by its backers. The Internet? Nope, the humble telegraph fit this bill way back in the 1800s. The parallels between the now-ubiquitous Internet and the telegraph are amazing, offering insight into the ways new technologies can change the very fabric of society within a single generation. In *The Victorian Internet*, Tom Standage examines the history of the telegraph, beginning with a horrifically funny story of a mile-long line of monks holding a wire and getting simultaneous shocks in the interest of investigating electricity, and ending with the advent of the telephone. All the early {"}online{"} pioneers are here: Samuel Morse, Thomas Edison, and a seemingly endless parade of code-makers, entrepreneurs, and spies who helped ensure the success of this communications revolution. Fans of *Longitude* will enjoy another story of the human side of dramatic technological developments, complete with personal rivalry, vicious competition, and agonizing failures. *--Therese Littleton*
\#\#\# From Publishers Weekly
A lively, short history of the development and rapid growth a century and a half ago of the first electronic network, the telegraph, Standage's book debut is also a cautionary tale in how new technologies inspire unrealistic hopes for universal understanding and peace, and then are themselves blamed when those hopes are disappointed. The telegraph developed almost simultaneously in America and Britain in the 1840s. Standage, a British journalist, effectively traces the different sources and false starts of an invention that had many claims on its patents. In 1842, Samuel F.B. Morse demonstrated a working telegraph between two committee rooms of the Capitol, and Congress reluctantly voted $30,000 for an experimental line to Baltimore?89 to 83, with 70 abstaining {"}to avoid the responsibility of spending the public money for a machine they could not understand.{"} By 1850 there were 12,000 miles of telegraph line in the U.S., and twice that two years later. Standage does a good job sorting through a complicated and often contentious history, showing the dramatic changes the telegraph brought to how business was conducted, news was reported and humanity viewed its world. The parallels he draws to today's Internet are catchy, but they sometimes overshadow his portrayal of the unique culture and sense of excitement the telegraph engendered?what one contemporary poet called {"}the thrill electric.{"} News of the first transatlantic cable in 1858 led to predictions of world peace and an end to old prejudices and hostilities. Soon enough, however, Standage reports, criminal guile, government misinformation and that old human sport of romance found their way onto the wires. 18 illustrations. BOMC, QPB and History Book Club alternates. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. ", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Tom Standage/The Victorian Internet\_ The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Li (3)/cover.jpg", formats = "epub", calibreid = "3", isbn = "978-16-2040-592-5", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "2007", month = "Sep", publisher = "Bloomsbury USA", rating = "8", volume = "1", series = "GradresearchTexts", size = "4902268 octets", tags = "GS, Promiscuous pipelines", timestamp = "2015-01-19", uuid = "6ad7e369-07b6-4337-963a-7ffb3ebe2445", languages = "eng", identifiers = "amazon:0802716040,isbn:9781620405925,google:hf\_lnAEACAAJ" }
@book{ LucianaParisi6, title = "Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Bio-Technology and the Mutations of Desire", title_sort = "Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Bio-Technology and the Mutations of Desire", author_sort = "Parisi, Luciana", author = "Luciana Parisi", note = "\#\#\# Review
'...Her vision, and it is a vision, is literally a molecular one in which sex is instantiated in any number of biologically, cultutally and technologically define assemblages...*Abstract Sex *does a good job of developing a productive critique of the anthropomorphic assumptions of much theorising about sex and gender and its technique of magnifying the place of sex and reproduction onto every stratum of nature-culture is a useful reminder of the relatively limited place of human sex across life forms.'
(Andrew Goffey )
'...Her vision, and it is a vision, is literally a molecular one in which sex is instantiated in any number of biologically, cultutally and technologically define assemblages...*Abstract Sex *does a good job of developing a productive critique of the anthropomorphic assumptions of much theorising about sex and gender and its technique of magnifying the place of sex and reproduction onto every stratum of nature-culture is a useful reminder of the relatively limited place of human sex across life forms.'
(, )
\#\#\# About the Author
Luciana Parisi lectures at the University of East London. ", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Luciana Parisi/Abstract Sex\_ Philosophy, Bio-Technology and the Mutations of Desire (6)/cover.jpg", formats = "pdf", calibreid = "6", isbn = "978-08-2646-989-2", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "2004", month = "May", publisher = "Continuum", volume = "1", size = "1306824 octets", tags = "GenderBlending, Promiscuous pipelines", timestamp = "2014-07-23", uuid = "98f62ca6-8664-45ce-b188-0f035f9ef477", languages = "eng", identifiers = "amazon:0826469892,sha1:54321,isbn:9780826469892,goodreads:3272275,google:SGISAQAAMAAJ" }
@misc{ SusanLeighStar7, title = "The ethnography of infrastructure", title_sort = "ethnography of infrastructure, The", author_sort = "Star, Susan Leigh", author = "Susan Leigh Star", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Susan Leigh Star/The ethnography of infrastructure (7)/cover.jpg", formats = "pdf", calibreid = "7", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "1999", month = "Nov", volume = "1", size = "51895 octets", tags = "article, Let's first get things done!, Cqrrelations, Promiscuous pipelines", timestamp = "2014-05-31", uuid = "0a931a58-c903-4581-809f-73001e872479", languages = "eng" }
@book{ RosiBraidotti8, title = "Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics", title_sort = "Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics", author_sort = "Braidotti, Rosi", author = "Rosi Braidotti", note = "This major new book offers a highly original account of ethical and political subjectivity in contemporary culture. It makes a strong case for a non-unitary or nomadic conception of the subject, in opposition to the claims of ideologies such as conservatism, liberal individualism and techno-capitalism.
Braidotti takes a bold stand against moral universalism, while offering a vigorous defence of nomadic ethics against the charges of relativism and nihilism. She calls for a new form of ethical accountability that takes {"}Life{"} as the subject, not the object, of enquiry. This ethics is presented as a fundamental reconfiguration of our being in the world and it calls for more conceptual creativity in the production of worldviews that can better enable us to behave ethically in a technologically and globally mediated world. The nomadic ethical subject negotiates successfully the complex tension between the multiplicity of political forces on the one hand and the sustained commitment to emancipatory politics on the other.
*Transpositions* provides an intellectually rich guide to the leading critical debates of our time and will be of great interest to scholars and students throughout the humanities and social sciences.
\#\#\# Review
{"}A rich, immensely generous, and quite beautiful book.{"}
***London Review of Books***
{"}Playing on Braidotti’s inspiration room music and genetics in her definition of transpositions. I read her wise, smart, inviting book as itself a “transposon”-i.e. a mobile vehicle for risky change in the score of post humanist becoming that is mortal life. Braidotti transplants vigorous philosophical shoots into worldly solid as she cultivates less death-defying, more nomadic, and insatiably curious and passionate ethics for our schizophrenic biotechnological times.{"}
**Donna J. Haraway, *University of California at Santa Cruz***
{"}This is a remarkably strong book, especially in its negotiation of the complex tension between the multiplicity of political forces on the one hand and the sustained commitment to emancipatory politics (without essential identity) on the other. A substantial intervention in social and political theory.{"}
**Claire Colebrook, *Edinburgh University
* * *
\#\#\# From the Back Cover
This major new book offers a highly original account of ethical and political subjectivity in contemporary culture. It makes a strong case for a non-unitary or nomadic conception of the subject, in opposition to the claims of ideologies such as conservatism, liberal individualism and techno-capitalism.
Braidotti takes a bold stand against moral universalism, while offering a vigorous defence of nomadic ethics against the charges of relativism and nihilism. She calls for a new form of ethical accountability that takes {"}Life{"} as the subject, not the object, of enquiry. This ethics is presented as a fundamental reconfiguration of our being in the world and it calls for more conceptual creativity in the production of worldviews that can better enable us to behave ethically in a technologically and globally mediated world.
*Transpositions* provides an intellectually rich guide to the leading critical debates of our time and will be of great interest to scholars and students throughout the humanities and social sciences. ", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Rosi Braidotti/Transpositions\_ On Nomadic Ethics (8)/cover.jpg", formats = "pdf", calibreid = "8", isbn = "978-07-4563-595-8", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "2006", month = "Mar", publisher = "Polity", volume = "1", size = "24153783 octets", tags = "Promiscuous pipelines", timestamp = "2014-03-22", uuid = "d6cfaccd-60bd-4576-b97c-f1ccbbbfea29", languages = "eng", identifiers = "amazon:0745635954,isbn:9780745635958,google:iSmwVs99P3QC" }
@misc{ EleanorSaitta9, title = "Playing with the Built City", title_sort = "Playing with the Built City", author_sort = "Saitta, Eleanor", author = "Eleanor Saitta", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Eleanor Saitta/Playing with the Built City (9)/cover.jpg", formats = "pdf", calibreid = "9", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "101", month = "Jan", volume = "1", size = "227285 octets", tags = "Promiscuous pipelines, open content, article", timestamp = "2015-08-17", uuid = "dcfdc14d-d9de-4e66-a74e-637007acbbc2", languages = "eng" }
@misc{ RobPike10, title = "Program design in the UNIX environment", title_sort = "Program design in the UNIX environment", author_sort = "Pike, Rob \& Kernighan, Brian W.", author = "Rob Pike and Brian W. Kernighan", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Rob Pike/Program design in the UNIX environment (10)/cover.jpg", formats = "pdf", calibreid = "10", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "101", month = "Jan", volume = "1", size = "26912 octets", tags = "open content, Promiscuous pipelines, article", timestamp = "2015-08-17", uuid = "35c0c032-9dd8-4a78-a1ac-19429677cace", languages = "eng" }
@misc{ M.DouglasMcIlroy11, title = "A Research UNIX Reader: Annotated Excerpts from the Programmer’s Manual, 1971-1986", title_sort = "Research UNIX Reader: Annotated Excerpts from the Programmer’s Manual, 1971-1986, A", author_sort = "McIlroy, M. Douglas", author = "M. Douglas McIlroy", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/M. Douglas McIlroy/A Research UNIX Reader\_ Annotated Excerpts from the Programmer's Manual, 1971-1986 (11)/cover.jpg", formats = "pdf", calibreid = "11", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "101", month = "Jan", volume = "1", size = "76885 octets", tags = "open content, Promiscuous pipelines, article", timestamp = "2015-08-17", uuid = "3301b346-a399-40a5-b1cf-ee6f28b67e7e", languages = "eng" }
@book{ EricStevenRaymond12, title = "The Art of Unix Programming", title_sort = "Art of Unix Programming, The", author_sort = "Raymond, Eric Steven", author = "Eric Steven Raymond", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Eric Steven Raymond/The Art of Unix Programming (12)/cover.jpg", formats = "epub", calibreid = "12", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "2012", month = "Jan", publisher = "github.com/danchoi/docs\_on\_kindle", volume = "1", size = "882415 octets", tags = "Promiscuous pipelines", timestamp = "2015-08-17", uuid = "e409770d-96d8-4351-9821-6c2d9f63d563", languages = "eng" }
@book{ AdrianMackenzie13, title = "Cutting Code: Software and Sociality (Digital Formations)", title_sort = "Cutting Code: Software and Sociality (Digital Formations)", author_sort = "Mackenzie, Adrian", author = "Adrian Mackenzie", note = "Software has often been marginalized in accounts of digital cultures and network societies. Although software is everywhere, it is hard to say what it actually is. *Cutting Code: Software and Sociality* is one of the first books to treat software seriously as a full-blown cultural process, and as a subtly powerful material in contemporary communication. From deCSS to Java, from Linux to Extreme Programming, this book analyses software artworks, operating systems, commercial products, infrastructures and programming practices. It explores social forms, identities, materialities and power relations associated with software, and it asks how software provokes the re-thinking of production, consumption and distribution as entwined cultural processes. *Cutting Code* argues that analysis of code as a mosaic of algorithms, protocols, infrastructures, and programming conventions offers valuable insights into how contemporary social formations invent new kinds of personhood and new ways of acting. ", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Adrian Mackenzie/Cutting Code\_ Software and Sociality (Digital Formations) (13)/cover.jpg", formats = "pdf", calibreid = "13", isbn = "978-08-2047-823-4", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "2006", month = "Mar", publisher = "Peter Lang International Academic Publishers", volume = "1", size = "18426029 octets", tags = "Cqrrelations, Promiscuous pipelines", timestamp = "2014-10-11", uuid = "afe35215-a7ba-4b36-99ab-b2c1cbc2de3e", languages = "eng", identifiers = "amazon:0820478237,isbn:9780820478234" }
@misc{ PipShea14, title = "Entanglements: Activism and technology", title_sort = "Entanglements: Activism and technology", author_sort = "Shea, Pip", author = "Pip Shea", note = "http://fibreculturejournal.org/cfp\_entanglements
Entanglements: activism and technology Editors: Pip Shea, Tanya Notley and Jean Burgess This themed issue explores the entanglements that arise due to frictions between the philosophies embedded within technologies and the philosophies embedded within activism. Straightforward solutions are rarely on offer as the bringing together of different philosophies requires the negotiation of acceptance, compromise, or submission (Tsing 2004). This friction can be disruptive, productive, or both, and it may contribute discord or harmony. In this special issue, we seek submissions that respond to the idea that frictions between technologies and activists may ultimately enhance the ability of activists to take more control of their projects, create new ethical spaces and subvert technologies, just as it may also result in tension, conflict and hostility. By dwelling in between and within these frictions and entanglements – through strategic and tactical media discourses as well as the very concept of an activist politics within technology – this special issue will elucidate the context-specific nature, constraints and possibilities of the digital environments that are co-habited by activists from proximate fields including social movements, human rights, ecological and green movements, international development, community arts and cultural development.
Past issues of the Fibreculture Journal have examined activist philosophies from angles such as social justice and networked organisational forms, communication rights and net neutrality debates, and the push back against precarious new media labour. Our issue extends this work by revealing the conflicting debates that surround activist philosophies of technology. Submissions are sought that engage specifically with the ethics, rationales and methods adopted by activists to justify selecting, building, using, promoting or rejecting specific technologies. We also encourage work that considers the ways in which these negotiations speak to broader mythologies and tensions embedded within in digital culture – between openness and control; political consistency and popular appeal; appropriateness, usability and availability.
We invite responses to these provocations from activists, practitioners and academics. Critiques, case studies, and multimedia proposals will be considered for inclusion. Submissions should explore both constraints and possibilities caused by activism and its digital technology entanglements through the following themes:
Alternative technology versus appropriate technology Pragmatism and technology choice The philosophies and practices of hacking technologies Activist cultures and the proprietary web Digital privacy and security breaches and errors Uncovering and exposing technology vulnerabilities Technology and e-waste The philosophies of long/short term impact Authenticity and evidence Submission details:
Initial submissions should comprise 300 word abstracts and 60 word biographies, emailed to p.shea@qub.ac.uk and t.notley@uws.edu.au Abstract deadline: August 20 2014 (no late abstracts will be accepted)?Invitations to submit full articles: September 5 2014?Article deadline: November 3 2014 ?Publication aimed for: February 2015 All contributors and editors must read the guidelines at: http://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/ before working with the Fibreculture Journal. Email correspondence for this issue: p.shea@qub.ac.uk References: Tsing, A. 2005 Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Pip Shea/Entanglements\_ Activism and technology (14)/cover.jpg", formats = "pdf", calibreid = "14", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "2014", month = "Jun", volume = "1", size = "46629 octets", tags = "article, Promiscuous pipelines", timestamp = "2014-09-29", uuid = "3c4ba8b8-496f-4565-9113-d6ca0c545545", languages = "eng" }
@book{ JussiParikka15, title = "Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology", title_sort = "Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology", author_sort = "Parikka, Jussi", author = "Jussi Parikka", note = "Since the early nineteenth century, when entomologists first popularized the unique biological and behavioral characteristics of insects, technological innovators and theorists have proposed insects as templates for a wide range of technologies. In *Insect Media*, Jussi Parikka analyzes how insect forms of social organization-swarms, hives, webs, and distributed intelligence-have been used to structure modern media technologies and the network society, providing a radical new perspective on the interconnection of biology and technology.
Through close engagement with the pioneering work of insect ethologists, including Jakob von Uexküll and Karl von Frisch, posthumanist philosophers, media theorists, and contemporary filmmakers and artists, Parikka develops an insect theory of media, one that conceptualizes modern media as more than the products of individual human actors, social interests, or technological determinants. They are, rather, profoundly nonhuman phenomena that both draw on and mimic the alien lifeworlds of insects.
Deftly moving from the life sciences to digital technology, from popular culture to avant-garde art and architecture, and from philosophy to cybernetics and game theory, Parikka provides innovative conceptual tools for exploring the phenomena of network society and culture. Challenging anthropocentric approaches to contemporary science and culture, *Insect Media* reveals the possibilities that insects and other nonhuman animals offer for rethinking media, the conflation of biology and technology, and our understanding of, and interaction with, contemporary digital culture.
\#\#\# Review
{"}With *Insect Media *Jussi Parikka offers a theory of media that challenges our traditional views of the natural and the artificial. Parikka not only understands insects through the lens of media and mediation, he also unearths an insect logic at the heart of our contemporary fascination with networks, swarming, and intelligent agents. Such a project requires the ability to interweave cultural theory with a deep understanding of the sciences—something for which Parikka is well-suited. Most importantly, Insect Media reminds us of the non-human aspect of media, communication, intelligence. Insect Media is a book that is sure to create a buzz.{"} —Eugene Thacker, author of *After Life*
\#\#\# From the Back Cover
{"}With *Insect Media* Jussi Parikka offers a theory of media that challenges our traditional views of the natural and the artificial. Parikka not only understands insects through the lens of media and mediation, he also unearths an insect logic at the heart of our contemporary fascination with networks, swarming, and intelligent agents. Such a project requires the ability to interweave cultural theory with a deep understanding of the sciences--something for which Parikka is well-suited. Most importantly, Insect Media reminds us of the non-human aspect of media, communication, intelligence. Insect Media is a book that is sure to create a buzz.{"} - Eugene Thacker, **author of *After Life*** ", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Jussi Parikka/Insect Media\_ An Archaeology of Animals and Technology (15)/cover.jpg", formats = "pdf", calibreid = "15", isbn = "978-08-1666-740-6", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "2010", month = "Dec", publisher = "Univ Of Minnesota Press", rating = "4", volume = "11", series = "Posthumanities", size = "2362220 octets", tags = "Promiscuous pipelines", timestamp = "2013-06-16", uuid = "0abfb7a0-9fd9-45d0-8c13-2bf13f4bb222", languages = "eng", identifiers = "amazon:0816667403,isbn:9780816667406" }
@book{ MiltonMueller16, title = "Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace", title_sort = "Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace", author_sort = "Mueller, Milton", author = "Milton Mueller", note = "In Ruling the Root, Milton Mueller uses the theoretical framework of institutional economics to analyze the global policy and governance problems created by the assignment of Internet domain names and addresses. {"}The root{"} is the top of the domain name hierarchy and the Internet address space. It is the only point of centralized control in what is otherwise a distributed and voluntaristic network of networks. Both domain names and IP numbers are valuable resources, and their assignment on a coordinated basis is essential to the technical operation of the Internet. Mueller explains how control of the root is being leveraged to control the Internet itself in such key areas as trademark and copyright protection, surveillance of users, content regulation, and regulation of the domain name supply industry.Control of the root originally resided in an informally organized technical elite comprised mostly of American computer scientists. As the Internet became commercialized and domain name registration became a profitable business, a six-year struggle over property rights and the control of the root broke out among Internet technologists, business and intellectual property interests, international organizations, national governments, and advocates of individual rights. By the late 1990s, it was apparent that only a new international institution could resolve conflicts among the factions in the domain name wars. Mueller recounts the fascinating process that led to the formation of a new international regime around ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. In the process, he shows how the vaunted freedom and openness of the Internet is being diminished by the institutionalization of the root.
\#\#\# Review
{"}If you care about the prospect of losing your rights...this book's for you - perhaps even on a beach.{"} Anick Jesdanun LA Times
{"}If you care about the prospect of losing your rights...this book's for you.{"} Anick Jesdanun LA Times
{"}The Internet is in the midst of a kind of 'constitutional crisis,' with contending parties struggling, largely out of public view, for control of the 'root,' the one central point of authority on which the functioning of the Internet depends. It is a complicated story, but Mueller tells it well, demystifying the complex web of technical and policy questions at the very heart of this struggle; anyone interested in whether, and how, the Internet might continue its remarkable growth into the future would be well advised to start here.{"}--David Post, Temple University Law School
\#\#\# About the Author
Milton L. Mueller is Professor at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies. He is the author of * Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace* (MIT Press, 2002) and other books. ", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Milton Mueller/Ruling the Root\_ Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace (16)/cover.jpg", formats = "pdf", calibreid = "16", isbn = "978-02-6213-412-5", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "2002", month = "May", publisher = "MIT", volume = "1", size = "994999 octets", tags = "Promiscuous pipelines", timestamp = "2014-10-27", uuid = "66f7db17-1605-49a4-b91b-f75def92c88d", languages = "eng", identifiers = "amazon:0262134128,isbn:9780262134125,goodreads:3249569,google:ECKvQgAACAAJ" }
@book{ AlexanderR.Galloway17, title = "The Exploit: A Theory of Networks", title_sort = "Exploit: A Theory of Networks, The", author_sort = "Galloway, Alexander R. \& Thacker, Eugene", author = "Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker", note = "“The Exploit is that rare thing: a book with a clear grasp of how networks operate that also understands the political implications of this emerging form of power. It cuts through the nonsense about how 'free' and 'democratic' networks supposedly are, and it offers a rich analysis of how network protocols create a new kind of control. Essential reading for all theorists, artists, activists, techheads, and hackers of the Net.” —McKenzie Wark, author of A Hacker Manifesto
The network has become the core organizational structure for postmodern politics, culture, and life, replacing the modern era’s hierarchical systems. From peer-to-peer file sharing and massive multiplayer online games to contagion vectors of digital or biological viruses and global affiliations of terrorist organizations, the network form has become so invasive that nearly every aspect of contemporary society can be located within it.
Borrowing their title from the hacker term for a program that takes advantage of a flaw in a network system, Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker challenge the widespread assumption that networks are inherently egalitarian. Instead, they contend that there exist new modes of control entirely native to networks, modes that are at once highly centralized and dispersed, corporate and subversive.
In this provocative book-length essay, Galloway and Thacker argue that a whole new topology must be invented to resist and reshape the network form, one that is as asymmetrical in relationship to networks as the network is in relation to hierarchy.
Alexander R. Galloway is associate professor of culture and communications at New York University and the author of Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture (Minnesota, 2006) and Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization.
Eugene Thacker is associate professor of new media at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the author of Biomedia (Minnesota, 2004) and The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture.
\#\#\# About the Author
**Alexander R. Galloway** is associate professor of media studies at New York University and lives in New York, NY. He is the author of four books on digital media and critical theory, most recently *The Interface Effect*. ", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Alexander R. Galloway/The Exploit\_ A Theory of Networks (17)/cover.jpg", formats = "pdf", calibreid = "17", isbn = "978-08-1665-044-6", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "2007", month = "Oct", publisher = "Univ Of Minnesota Press", rating = "4", volume = "1", size = "1497734 octets", tags = "Cqrrelations, Promiscuous pipelines", timestamp = "2014-07-23", uuid = "a8e81a2b-eb61-413b-b6fd-f3423b5193de", languages = "eng", identifiers = "amazon:0816650446,isbn:9780816650446" }
@book{ LucianaParisi18, title = "Contagious Architecture: Computation, Aesthetics, and Space", title_sort = "Contagious Architecture: Computation, Aesthetics, and Space", author_sort = "Parisi, Luciana", author = "Luciana Parisi", note = "In *Contagious Architecture*, Luciana Parisi offers a philosophical inquiry into the status of the algorithm in architectural and interaction design. Her thesis is that algorithmic computation is not simply an abstract mathematical tool but constitutes a mode of thought in its own right, in that its operation extends into forms of abstraction that lie beyond direct human cognition and control. These include modes of infinity, contingency, and indeterminacy, as well as incomputable quantities underlying the iterative process of algorithmic processing.
The main philosophical source for the project is Alfred North Whitehead, whose process philosophy is specifically designed to provide a vocabulary for {"}modes of thought{"} exhibiting various degrees of autonomy from human agency even as they are mobilized by it. Because algorithmic processing lies at the heart of the design practices now reshaping our world -- from the physical spaces of our built environment to the networked spaces of digital culture -- the nature of algorithmic thought is a topic of pressing importance that reraises questions of control and, ultimately, power. *Contagious Architecture* revisits cybernetic theories of control and information theory's notion of the incomputable in light of this rethinking of the role of algorithmic thought. Informed by recent debates in political and cultural theory around the changing landscape of power, it links the nature of abstraction to a new theory of power adequate to the complexities of the digital world.
@misc{ Collective19, title = "Interference (Reader)", title_sort = "Interference (Reader)", author_sort = "Collective", author = "Collective", note = "Interference was three days of exploring modes of combining theory and practice, breaking and (re)inventing systems and networks, and playing with the art and politics of everyday life. Topics may or may not include philosophy of technology, spectacle, communication guerrilla, temporary autonomous zones, cybernetics, bureaucratic exploits, the illusions of liberating technologies, speculative software, the creative capitalism joke, the maker society and its enemies, hidden- and self- censorship, and the refusal of the binarity of gender, life, and logic. ", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Collective/Interference (Reader) (19)/cover.jpg", formats = "pdf", calibreid = "19", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "101", month = "Jan", volume = "1", size = "49808437 octets", tags = "Books with an attitude, Let's first get things done!, Promiscuous pipelines", timestamp = "2014-09-14", uuid = "af6db759-da7c-4107-b64d-d64e9dd26251", languages = "eng" }
@book{ DanHill20, title = "Dark Matter and Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary", title_sort = "Dark Matter and Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary", author_sort = "Hill, Dan", author = "Dan Hill", note = "We live in an age of sticky problems, whether it’s climate change or the decline of the welfare state. With conventional solutions failing, a new culture of decision-making is called for. Strategic design is about applying the principles of traditional design to {"}big picture{"} systemic challenges such as healthcare, education and the environment. It redefines how problems are approached and aims to deliver more resilient solutions. In this short book, Dan Hill outlines a new vocabulary of design, one that needs to be smuggled into the upper echelons of power. He asserts that, increasingly, effective design means engaging with the messy politics – the “dark matter” – taking place above the designer’s head. And that may mean redesigning the organisation that hires you. ", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Dan Hill/Dark Matter and Trojan Horses\_ A Strategic Design Vocabulary (20)/cover.jpg", formats = "epub, mobi", calibreid = "20", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "2012", month = "May", publisher = "Strelka Press", volume = "1", size = "298604 octets", tags = "Promiscuous pipelines", timestamp = "2013-10-16", uuid = "16efa96c-45e8-4be2-9213-e13a706656c5", languages = "eng", identifiers = "mobi-asin:B0085KEVO8" }
@misc{ FlorianCramer21, title = "Buffer overflows: Codes, systems and subversion in computational poetics", title_sort = "Buffer overflows: Codes, systems and subversion in computational poetics", author_sort = "Cramer, Florian", author = "Florian Cramer", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Florian Cramer/Buffer overflows\_ Codes, systems and subversion in computational poetics (21)/cover.jpg", formats = "pdf", calibreid = "21", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "101", month = "Jan", volume = "1", size = "1299806 octets", tags = "article, Technical writing, Promiscuous pipelines", timestamp = "2013-10-16", uuid = "12ef7843-126d-427f-b8b4-884ace2e7425", languages = "eng" }
@book{ WendyHuiKyongChun22, title = "Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics", title_sort = "Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics", author_sort = "Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong", author = "Wendy Hui Kyong Chun", note = "How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid) myths of the Internet as total freedom/total control, she says, stem from our reduction of political problems into technological ones.Drawing on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault and analyzing such phenomena as Webcams and face-recognition technology, Chun argues that the relationship between control and freedom in networked contact is experienced and negotiated through sexuality and race. She traces the desire for cyberspace to cyberpunk fiction and maps the transformation of public/private into open/closed. Analyzing {"}pornocracy,{"} she contends that it was through cyberporn and the government's attempts to regulate it that the Internet became a marketplace of ideas and commodities. Chun describes the way Internet promoters conflated technological empowerment with racial empowerment and, through close examinations of William Gibson's Neuromancer and Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell, she analyzes the management of interactivity in narratives of cyberspace.The Internet's potential for democracy stems not from illusory promises of individual empowerment, Chun argues, but rather from the ways in which it exposes us to others (and to other machines) in ways we cannot control. Using fiber optic networks -- light coursing through glass tubes -- as metaphor and reality, Control and Freedom engages the rich philosophical tradition of light as a figure for knowledge, clarification, surveillance, and discipline, in order to argue that fiber-optic networks physically instantiate, and thus shatter, enlightenment.
\#\#\# Review
{"}Control and Freedom is the most theoretically rich, deftly written, and historically grounded treatment of race in cyberspace to date. In this fine and enjoyable book, Chun traces the intermedial connections between online and offline representations of race and gender. This is a lucid, rigorous, and fascinating critical analysis of new media.{"} Lisa Nakamura, Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Visual Culture Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
{"}*Control and Freedom* is the most theoretically rich, deftly written, and historically grounded treatment of race in cyberspace to date. In this fine and enjoyable book, Chun traces the intermedial connections between online and offline representations of race and gender. This is a lucid, rigorous, and fascinating critical analysis of new media.{"}--Lisa Nakamura, Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Visual Culture Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison
{"}*Control and Freedom* makes a major contribution to our understanding of digital media and networked society. Chun offers up a refreshing and much-needed challenge to the core assumptions of Lev Manovich's *The Language of New Media*, moving beyond that book's insistent formalism toward a more contextualized understanding of the difference that a medium makes. Her book also breaks free of the tired old binary of techno-euphoria vs. techno-phobia, challenging popular assumptions that the computer is either empowering and transparent or a relentless surveillance machine.{"}--Tara McPherson, University of Southern California
\#\#\# Review
{"}Control and Freedom is the most theoretically rich, deftly written, and historically grounded treatment of race in cyberspace to date. In this fine and enjoyable book, Chun traces the intermedial connections between online and offline representations of race and gender. This is a lucid, rigorous, and fascinating critical analysis of new media.{"} Lisa Nakamura, Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Visual Culture Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison {"}Katherine Hayles' Writing Machines is a major addition to the scholarship on hypertext and, in general, on the relation of technology to literature. As this volume so clearly demonstrates, Hayles is a subtle reader of texts, a knowledgeable critic of new technology, and a fine theorist of culture. The combination here results in an outstanding piece of writing. I am certain readers of Writing Machines will place it near the top of their list of books on hypertext.{"}--Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine {"}*New Philosophy for New Media* is a major contribution to the question of digital media and art. Unlike too many other writers on the subject, Hansen is able to approach his topic in relation to the most profound efforts of the philosophical tradition and his highly original take on the question is one that recognizes the media specificity of the digital in its novelty while insisting on the continuing importance of the body in the practice of new media art.The book pursues its thesis of the place of the human in face of digitized information in a rigorous, systematic manner.{"}--Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine {"}*Control and Freedom* is the most theoretically rich, deftly written, and historically grounded treatment of race in cyberspace to date. In this fine and enjoyable book, Chun traces the intermedial connections between online and offline representations of race and gender. This is a lucid, rigorous, and fascinating critical analysis of new media.{"}--Lisa Nakamura, Ass istant Professor of Communication Arts and Visual Culture Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison {"}*Control and Freedom* makes a major contribution to our understanding of digital media and networked society. Chun offers up a refreshing and much-needed challenge to the core assumptions of Lev Manovich's *The Language of New Media*, moving beyond that book's insistent formalism toward a more contextualized understanding of the difference that a medium makes. Her book also breaks free of the tired old binary of techno-euphoria vs. techno-phobia, challenging popular assumptions that the computer is either empowering and transparent or a relentless surveillance machine.{"}--Tara McPherson, University of Southern California {"}*Getting Under the Skin* is a major contribution to the debate over the relation of new media to the human body. Wegenstein argues convincingly against both the humanist defense of the body against the 'abstractions' of mediated communication and against those who would 'upload' their consciousness and leave their 'meat' behind. Instead, she invents a third path that sees the body as always already mediated. With great theoretical subtlety she explores the dialectic of the body and media from the Surrealists and Situationists, installation art, and experimental body performances to new media artists and architects. Wegenstein sheds striking new light on the all-important question of the relation of humans to information machines.{"}--Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine ", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Wendy Hui Kyong Chun/Control and Freedom\_ Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (22)/cover.jpg", formats = "pdf", calibreid = "22", isbn = "978-02-6253-306-5", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "2008", month = "Sep", publisher = "The MIT Press", rating = "8", volume = "1", size = "2685196 octets", tags = "Mondotheque, Promiscuous pipelines", timestamp = "2014-03-15", uuid = "7ac51277-6666-482e-b696-5bfc476f16e2", languages = "eng", identifiers = "amazon:0262533065,isbn:9780262533065" }
@book{ AdrianMackenzie24, title = "Codes and Codings in Crisis: Signification, Performativity and Excess", title_sort = "Codes and Codings in Crisis: Signification, Performativity and Excess", author_sort = "Mackenzie, Adrian \& Vurdubakis, Theo", author = "Adrian Mackenzie and Theo Vurdubakis", note = "\#\# Abstract
The connections between forms of code and coding and the many crises that currently afflict the contemporary world run deep. Code and crisis in our time mutually define, and seemingly prolong, each other in ‘infinite branching graphs’ of decision problems. There is a growing academic literature that investigates digital code and software from a wide range of perspectives –power, subjectivity, governmentality, urban life, surveillance and control, biopolitics or neoliberal capitalism. The various strands in this literature are reflected in the papers that comprise this special issue. They address topics ranging from social networks, mass media, financial markets and academic plagiarism to highway engineering in relation to the dynamics and diversity of crises. Against this backdrop, the purpose of this essay is to highlight and explore some of the underlying themes connecting codes and codings and the production and apprehension of ‘crisis’. We analyse how the ever-increasing intermediation of contemporary life by codes of various kinds has been closely shadowed by a proliferation of crises. We discuss three related aspects of the coupling of code and crisis (signification, performativity and excess) running across these seemingly diverse topics. We and the other contributors in this special issue seek to go beyond the restricted (and often restricting) understanding of code as the language of machines. Rather, we view code *qua* programs and algorithms as epitomizing a much broader phenomenon. The codes that we live, and that we live by, also tell us about the ways in which the ‘will to power’ and the 'will to knowledge' tend to be enacted in the contemporary world. ", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Adrian Mackenzie/Codes and Codings in Crisis\_ Signification, Performativity and Excess (24)/cover.jpg", formats = "pdf", calibreid = "24", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "2011", month = "Nov", publisher = "SAGE", volume = "28", series = "Theory Culture Society", size = "229412 octets", tags = "article, Cqrrelations, Promiscuous pipelines", timestamp = "2013-05-09", uuid = "5938c78f-2e69-438b-ae8a-0fc1c6e1f097", languages = "eng", identifiers = "doi:10.1177/0263276411424761" }
@book{ AdrianMackenzie25, title = "Transductions: Bodies and Machines at Speed", title_sort = "Transductions: Bodies and Machines at Speed", author_sort = "Mackenzie, Adrian", author = "Adrian Mackenzie", note = "What do the patented data structures embedded deep in the code of an online computer game or the massively complicated architecture of the latest supercomputer used to simulate nuclear explosions have to do with culture, life or meaning? Why does technology attract such wildly differing responses - from fervour to boredom to distrust?
*Transductions* explores these questions by drawing on science and technology studies, contemporary critical theory and corporeal theory. An exploration of complex technologies such as online computer games, genomic databases and the global positioning system reveals how the borders between bodies and machines, between what counts as social and what counts as technical, are no less diverse and complicated than culture itself. Indeed, they constitute a crucial dimension of contemporary culture. Through a critical analysis of the widely accepted notion that technology speeds everything up, *Transductions* argues that there are only ever differences in speed. The question for us now is how can such differences be represented?
*Transductions *was originally part of the Technologies: Studies in Culture and Theory series.
@misc{ LaboriaCuboniks26, title = "Xenofeminism: A politics for alienation", title_sort = "Xenofeminism: A politics for alienation", author_sort = "Cuboniks, Laboria", author = "Laboria Cuboniks", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Laboria Cuboniks/Xenofeminism\_ A politics for alienation (26)/cover.jpg", formats = "pdf", calibreid = "26", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "2015", month = "Jun", volume = "1", size = "72856 octets", tags = "Promiscuous pipelines", timestamp = "2015-07-21", uuid = "02c30d49-4d40-447a-9b19-00b41ba1fa2c", languages = "eng" }
@book{ KenKnabb27, title = "Situationist International Anthology", title_sort = "Situationist International Anthology", author_sort = "Knabb, Ken", author = "Ken Knabb", note = "Literary Nonfiction. Politics. Critical Theory. Art. In 1957 a few European avant-garde groups came together to form the Situationist International. Picking up where the dadaists and surrealists had left off, the situationists challenged people's passive conditioning with carefully calculated scandals and the playful tactic of detournement. Seeking a more extreme social revolution than was dreamed of by most leftists, they developed an incisive critique of the global spectacle-commodity system and of its {"}Communist{"} pseudo-opposition, and their new methods of agitation helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France. Since then—although the SI itself was dissolved in 1972\#8212;situationist theories and tactics have continued to inspire radical currents all over the world. The SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY, generally recognized as the most comprehensive and accurately translated collection of situationist writings in English, presents a rich variety of articles, leaflets, graffiti and internal documents, ranging from early experiments in {"}psychogeography{"} to lucid analyses of the Watts riot, the Vietnam War, the Prague Spring, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and other crises and upheavals of the sixties. For this new edition the translations have all been fine-tuned and over 100 pages of new material have been added.
\#\#\# Review
{"}The accused have never denied the charge of misappropriating the funds of the Strasbourg Student Union. Indeed, they openly admit to having made the union pay nearly 5000 francs for the printing of 10,000 pamphlets, not to mention the cost of other literature inspired by the 'Situationist International.' These publications express aims and ideas which, to put it mildly, have nothing to do with the purpose of a student union. . . . Rejecting all morality and legal restraint, making sweeping denunciations of their fellow students, their professors, God, religion, the clergy, and the governments and political and social systems of the entire world, these cynics do not hesitate to advocate theft, the destruction of scholarship, the abolition of work, total subversion, and a permanent worldwide proletarian revolution with 'unrestrained pleasure' as its only goal.{"} -- *Judge Llabador, Strasbourg District Court 1966*
\#\#\# Language Notes
Text: English, French (translation) ", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Ken Knabb/Situationist International Anthology (27)/cover.jpg", formats = "epub", calibreid = "27", isbn = "978-09-3968-204-1", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "2006", month = "Jan", publisher = "A K PressDistribution", rating = "8", volume = "1", size = "679667 octets", tags = "Promiscuous pipelines", timestamp = "2014-09-02", uuid = "c547bdbb-c4e6-415f-a76a-85593e4ab766", languages = "eng", identifiers = "amazon:0939682044,isbn:9780939682041,mobi-asin:B007K8JPZG,google:ts\_dAAAACAAJ" }
@book{ MatthewFuller28, title = "Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture", title_sort = "Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture", author_sort = "Fuller, Matthew", author = "Matthew Fuller", note = "In Media Ecologies, Matthew Fuller asks what happens when media systems interact. Complex objects such as media systems --understood here as processes, or elements in a composition as much as {"}things{"} -- have become informational as much as physical, but without losing any of their fundamental materiality. Fuller looks at this multiplicitous materiality -- how it can be sensed, made use of, and how it makes other possibilities tangible. He investigates the ways the different qualities in media systems can be said to mix and interrelate, and, as he writes, {"}to produce patterns, dangers, and potentials.{"}Fuller draws on texts by Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze as well as writings by Friedrich Nietzsche, Marshall McLuhan, Donna Haraway, Friedrich Kittler, and others, to define and extend the idea of {"}media ecology.{"} Arguing that the only way to find out about what happens when media systems interact is to carry out such interactions, Fuller traces a series of media ecologies -- {"}taking every path in a labyrinth simultaneously,{"} as he describes one chapter. He looks at contemporary London-based pirate radio and its interweaving of high- and low-tech media systems; the {"}medial will to power{"} illustrated by {"}the camera that ate itself{"}; how, as seen in a range of compelling interpretations of new media works, the capacities and behaviors of media objects are affected when they are in {"}abnormal{"} relationships with other objects; and each step in a sequence of Web pages, Cctv -- world wide watch, that encourages viewers to report crimes seen via webcams.Contributing to debates around standardization, cultural evolution, cybernetic culture, and surveillance, and inventing a politically challenging aesthetic that links them, Media Ecologies, with its various narrative speeds, scales, frames of references, and voices, does not offer the academically traditional unifying framework; rather, Fuller says, it proposes to capture {"}an explos ion of activity and ideas to which it hopes to add an echo.{"}
\#\#\# Review
{"}Fuller's ability to make agile jumps from the general to the particular and back again makes this book a fascinating, if sometimes labyrinthian read.{"} **Michael Gibbs ** *Art Monthly*
{"} *Media Ecologies* offers an exciting first map of the mutational body of analog and digital media technologies. Fuller rethinks the generation and interaction of media by connecting the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of perception.{"} **Luciana Parisi **, Leader, MA Program in Cybernetic Culture, University of East London
{"}*Media Ecologies* offers an exciting first map of the mutational body of analog and digital media technologies. Fuller rethinks the generation and interaction of media by connecting the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of perception.{"}--Luciana Parisi, School of Cultural and Innovation Studies, University of East London
\#\#\# About the Author
Matthew Fuller is David Gee Reader in Digital Media at the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the author of * Behind the Blip: Essays on the Culture of Software* and * Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture* (MIT Press, 2005) and editor of * Software Studies: A Lexicon* (MIT Press, 2008). ", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Matthew Fuller/Media Ecologies\_ Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture (28)/cover.jpg", formats = "pdf", calibreid = "28", isbn = "978-02-6256-226-3", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "2005", month = "Dec", publisher = "MIT", volume = "1", size = "3153028 octets", tags = "Toolbending, Promiscuous pipelines", timestamp = "2013-12-05", uuid = "3e8e20c8-e91c-433a-8f30-d6e7a4fb8e87", languages = "eng", identifiers = "isbn:9780262562263,amazon:026256226X,barnesnoble:w/media-ecologies-matthew-fuller/1103854322,google:1FLIHNPucroC" }
@book{ ChantalMouffe29, title = "The Return of the Political", title_sort = "Return of the Political, The", author_sort = "Mouffe, Chantal", author = "Chantal Mouffe", note = "In this work, Mouffe argues that liberal democracy misunderstands the problems of ethnic, religious and nationalist conflicts because of its inadequate conception of politics. He suggests that the democratic revolution may be jeopardized by a lack of understanding of citizenship, community and pluralism. Mouffe examines the work of Schmidt and Rawls and explores feminist theory, in an attempt to place the project of radical and plural democracy on a more adequate foundation than is provided by liberal theory.
** ", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/Chantal Mouffe/The Return of the Political (29)/cover.jpg", formats = "pdf", calibreid = "29", isbn = "978-18-4467-057-4", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "2005", month = "Sep", publisher = "Verso", rating = "4", volume = "1", size = "6206942 octets", tags = "Reroam, Promiscuous pipelines", timestamp = "2013-09-15", uuid = "c11b2102-bb4a-411a-9b58-467f788a567b", languages = "eng", identifiers = "amazon:1844670570,isbn:9781844670574,google:ApKFSeQE-HMC" }
@book{ JamesKentLewis30, title = "Linux Utilities Cookbook", title_sort = "Linux Utilities Cookbook", author_sort = "Lewis, James Kent", author = "James Kent Lewis", note = "Everything you need to know about Linux but were afraid to ask. This book will make you a master of the command line and teach you how to configure the network, write shell scripts, build a custom kernel, and much more.
**Overview**
* Use the command line like a pro * Pick a suitable desktop environment * Learn to use files and directories efficiently
**In Detail**
Linux is a stable, reliable and extremely powerful operating system. It has been around for many years, however, most people still don't know what it can do and the ways it is superior to other operating systems. Many people want to get started with Linux for greater control and security, but getting started can be time consuming and complicated.
A practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of clear step-by-step examples to help you solve many of the questions that crop up when using an operating system you may not be familiar with.
Presenting solutions to the most common Linux problems in a clear and concise way, this helpful guide starts with spicing up the terminal sessions by command retrieval and line editing, and shell prompt variables. We will then get to know the different desktops (GUIs) available for Linux systems and which is the best fit for you. We will then explore the world of managing files and directories, connectivity, and what to do when it goes wrong. We will also learn a range of skills, from creating and managing user accounts to securing your system, managing and limiting processes, and letting information flow from one process to another using pipes. Later, we will master disk management, working with scripts and automating tasks quickly, and finally, understand the need for a custom kernel and tips on how to build one.
Based on the author's extensive experience, there is a section on best practices that every Linux user should be familiar with.
**What you will learn from this book**
* Configure the network and using the Internet on your Linux Desktop * Learn about permissions, access, and security * Understand processes under Linux * Work with disks and partitions * Write shell scripts * Automate tasks with crontab * Learn how to build a custom kernel
**Approach**
A Cookbook-style guide packed with examples and illustrations, it offers organized learning through recipes and step-by-step instructions. The book is designed so that you can pick exactly what you need, when you need it.
**Who this book is written for**
Written for anyone that would like to familiarize themselves with Linux. This book is perfect migrating from Windows to Linux and will save your time and money, learn exactly how to and where to begin working with Linux and troubleshooting in easy steps.
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*The Cathedral \& the Bazaar* is a must for anyone who cares about the future of the computer industry or the dynamics of the information economy. Already, billions of dollars have been made and lost based on the ideas in this book. Its conclusions will be studied, debated, and implemented for years to come. According to Bob Young, {"}This is Eric Raymond's great contribution to the success of the open source revolution, to the adoption of Linux-based operating systems, and to the success of open source users and the companies that supply them.{"}
The interest in open source software development has grown enormously in the past year. This revised and expanded paperback edition includes new material on open source developments in 1999 and 2000. Raymond's clear and effective writing style accurately describing the benefits of open source software has been key to its success. With major vendors creating acceptance for open source within companies, independent vendors will become the open source story in 2001.
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Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There’s not a shred of evidence to support it.
Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.
Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it.
*Debt: The First 5,000 Years *is a fascinating chronicle of this little known history—as well as how it has defined human history, and what it means for the credit crisis of the present day and the future of our economy.
*From the Hardcover edition.*
\#\#\# Review
**Praise for David Graeber**
“I consider him the best anthropological theorist of his generation from anywhere in the world.”** —Maurice Bloch, professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics ** “A scholar whose books and articles are used in college classrooms around the world and an anarchist who is a card-carrying member of the Industrial Workers of the World.” ***—The New York Times*** “He’s a public intellectual. He speaks out. He participates. He’s not someone who simply does good scholarship; he’s an activist and a controversial person.” **—Stanley Aronowitz ** “If anthropology consists of making the apparently wild thought of others logically compelling in their own cultural settings and intellectually revealing of the human condition, then David Graeber is the consummate anthropologist. Not only does he accomplish this profound feat, he redoubles it by the critical task—now more urgent than ever—of making the possibilities of other people’s worlds the basis for understanding our own.” **—Marshall Sahlins, University of Chicago**
*From the Hardcover edition.*
\#\#\# About the Author
DAVID GRAEBER teaches anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of *Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value; Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar; Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology; Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire*; and *Direct Action: An Ethnography*. He has written for *Harper's, Nation, Mute*, and the *New Left Review*. ", cover = "/home/murtaugh/mnt/bibliotecha/David Graeber/Debt\_ The First 5,000 Years (42)/cover.jpg", calibreid = "42", isbn = "19-3363-386-7", library_name = "bibliotecha", year = "2011", month = "Jul", publisher = "Melville House", rating = "8", volume = "1", tags = "Business \& Economics, Economics, Theory, Economic History, History, Social History", timestamp = "2014-01-22", uuid = "c6393164-6425-4a90-be6a-3ab32b8f065e", languages = "eng", identifiers = "amazon:B00513DGIO,isbn:1933633867,google:2Fy9dD3AsBcC" }
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Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.
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*From the Hardcover edition.*
\#\#\# Review
**Praise for David Graeber**
“I consider him the best anthropological theorist of his generation from anywhere in the world.”** —Maurice Bloch, professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics ** “A scholar whose books and articles are used in college classrooms around the world and an anarchist who is a card-carrying member of the Industrial Workers of the World.” ***—The New York Times*** “He’s a public intellectual. He speaks out. He participates. He’s not someone who simply does good scholarship; he’s an activist and a controversial person.” **—Stanley Aronowitz ** “If anthropology consists of making the apparently wild thought of others logically compelling in their own cultural settings and intellectually revealing of the human condition, then David Graeber is the consummate anthropologist. Not only does he accomplish this profound feat, he redoubles it by the critical task—now more urgent than ever—of making the possibilities of other people’s worlds the basis for understanding our own.” **—Marshall Sahlins, University of Chicago**
*From the Hardcover edition.*
\#\#\# About the Author
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