From: David Weininger [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 24 January 2003 19:11
To: John Armitage
Subject: book announcement--Lovink
Dear John,
I wondered whether the following book announcement would be appropriate for
posting to the CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE. I'd be happy to edit the announcement to
meet your specifications. Please let me know whether or not you post the
announcement. Thank you!
Best,
David
I thought readers of the CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE might be interested in this
book. For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262122510
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.
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, Călin
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. ovink 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
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