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Subject: [CTHEORY] Announcement: Life in the Wires: The CTheory Reader
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CTHEORY THEORY, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE VOL 27, NOS 1-2
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Announcement 04/06/24 Editors: Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
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Announcement:
Life in the Wires: The CTheory Reader
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We are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication:
_Life in the Wires: The CTheory Reader_. Life in the Wires is
an interdisciplinary anthology on the future of technoculture
and the revolutionary impact of the Internet on media,
technology, culture and politics.
Beginning this fall, _Life in the Wires_ will be the organizing
text for a new, innovative series of electronic seminars
sponsored by CTheory and the Pacific Centre for Technology and
Culture. CTheory readers interested in participating in the
networked seminar discussions on Life in the Wires should
contact the editors at [log in to unmask]
Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Editors
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LIFE IN THE WIRES: THE CTHEORY READER
Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Editors
CTheory Books / NWP
ISBN 0-920393-21-7
CYBERNETICS LOVES THE BORDERLANDS
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Life in the Wires is about life today, from Al-Jazeera to eBay, from
creatively understanding new media to analyzing how questions of
gender, race, class and colonialism have been deeply transformed by
networked society.
Life in the Wires, is in essence what Jean-Paul Sartre calls a "fused
community" - a global intellectual community of theorists, musicians,
artists, filmmakers, computer programmers, multimedia designers,
architects, engineers, Soweto poets, Net activists - young and old, a
multiplicity of race, class, gender, nation and disciplines: writing
from universities, industry, media, the streets; the design and
programming centers of IT, from anti-globalization street protests,
from mediawatch, from the badlands of Texas, the streets of San
Francisco, the hybrid cities of Cape Town, London, Toronto, New York,
Paris, Helsinki, Singapore and Berlin.
KEY FEATURES OF THE READER INCLUDE
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www.lifeinthewires.net
(available July 1, 2004)
* An interactive website, continuously updated with new
supplementary materials for teaching
* Streamed electronic seminars, regularly updated, featuring
leading contemporary intellectuals such as: Donna Haraway,
DjSpooky, Stelarc, William Leiss and Arthur Kroker, among
others
* A general introduction by the editors to Life in the Wires
as well as thematic introductions to each section of the
Reader
* Index
* Key bibliographical references
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LIFE IN THE WIRES: THE CTHEORY READER
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Life in the Wires: Introduction 9
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~Arthur and Marilouise Kroker~
Screens in the Wires 17
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~Arthur and Marilouise Kroker~
1. Crossing into the Twisted World 20
~James Conlon~
2. Material Memories: Time And The Cinematic Image 27
~Paul D. Miller (Dj Spooky)~
3. Speed Ramping 34
~David Cox~
4. Making the World Safe for Fashionable Philosophy! 40
~Joe Milutis~
5. I Was Seduced by 48 Robots in a Metallic Arena 49
~Arthur and Marilouise Kroker~
Music in the Wires 55
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~Arthur and Marilouise Kroker~
6. Black Secret Technology (The Whitey On The Moon Dub) 61
~Julian Jonker~
7. The Turntable 70
~Charles Mudede~
8. Cardboard Resistance: 79
Deconstructed Rock and the Politics of Authenticity
~Phillip Vannini~
9. Full With Noise: Theory and Japanese Noise Music 86
~Paul Hegarty~
10. Go With the Flow 99
~Bo Vibe~
Politics in the Wires 105
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~Arthur and Marilouise Kroker~
11. Unmanned: 110
Embedded Reporters, Predator Drones and Armed Perception
~Jordan Crandall~
12. Priming the Pump of War 117
~Dion Dennis~
13. CTHEORY Interview With Paul Virilio: 126
The Kosovo War Took Place In Orbital Space
~Paulo Virilio in conversation with John Armitage~
14. 1000 Years of War: 135
CTHEORY Interview with Manuel De Landa
~Manuel De Landa in conversation with Evan Selinger et. al.~
15. Dangerous Philosophy: Threat, Risk and Security 155
~Irving Goh~
16. Networks, Swarms and Multitudes 165
~Eugene Thacker~
Gender in the Wires 179
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~Arthur and Marilouise Kroker~
17. The Cyborg Mother: A Breached Boundary 184
~Jaimie Smith-Windsor~
18. When Bad Girls Do French Theory 192
~Joan Hawkins~
19. Metal Gender 207
~Steve Dixon~
20. Screaming Eagle: For Kathy Acker 215
~Arthur and Marilouise Kroker~
21. Kathy Acker in Life and Death 218
~Arthur and Marilouise Kroker~
Cities in the Wires 221
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~Arthur and Marilouise Kroker~
22. ~Chimurenga~: Cape Town Now! 226
CTHEORY Interview with Ntone Edjabe
~Trebor Scholz~
23. Circuits, Death And Sacred Fiction: The City Of Banaras 230
~Mahesh Senagala~
24. Designing the Solipsistic City: 234
Themes of Urban Planning and Control in
~The Matrix~, ~Dark City~, and ~The Truman Show~
~Samuel Nunn~
Net in the Wires 245
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~Arthur and Marilouise Kroker~
25. The Rush to Judgment: Binary Thinking in a Digital Age 249
~Peter Lurie~
26. Flash Fetish 257
~Nate Burgos~
27. Spatial Discursions: 260
Flames Of The Digital And Ashes Of The Real
(Confessions Of A San Francisco Programmer)
~Robert Nirre~
28. Why the Web Will Win the Culture Wars for the Left: 269
Deconstructing Hyperlinks
~Peter Lurie~
29. Speaking in Djinni: 277
Media Arts and the Computational Language of Expression
~D. Fox Harrell~
30. The Ambiguous Panopticon: 285
Foucault and the Codes of Cyberspace
~Mark Winokur~
31. Technical Machines and Evolution 309
~Belinda Barnet~
Posthumanism in the Wires 327
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32. The Post-Cyborg Path to Deconism 333
~Steve Mann~
33. Lifestyles of the Cloned and (In)Famous 340
~Jason Lubyk~
34. Professor DVD 343
~Nicholas Rombes~
35. What is Cool? 348
Notes on Intellectualism, Popular Culture, and Writing
~Jeff Rice~
36. Beyond Postmodernism? 354
Paul Virilio's Hypermodern Cultural Theory
~John Armitage~
37. Hyper-Heidegger 369
~Arthur Kroker~
38. Myron Krueger Live: CTHEORY Interview 377
~Jeremy Turner~
Art in the Wires 385
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~Arthur and Marilouise Kroker~
39. Loving the Ghost in the Machine: 389
Aesthetics of Interruption
~Janne Vanhanen~
40. Koshun's Knob 398
~Lesego Rampolokeng~
41. Motion Perception in Movies and Painting: 402
Towards a New Kinetic Art
~Michael Betancourt~
42. Net Baroque 410
~Christina McPhee~
43. Digitality: Approximate Aesthetics 415
~Anna Munster~
44. Hallucinations of Invisibility: 430
From Silence to Delirium
~Ted Hiebert~
45. Distraction And Digital Culture 443
~William Bogard~
Contributors 461
Acknowledgments 466
Index 467
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