From: Dean, Jodi [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 11 September 2006 14:05
To: j.armitage
Subject: books
John,
Would you mind mentioning a couple of books on the cybersociety list?
1. Zizek's Politics, by Jodi Dean (Routledge)
Slavoj Zizek is perhaps the most important, original and enigmatic
philosophers writing today. Many readers both inside and outside of the
academy have been intrigued by both the man and his writing yet, given the
density of his prose and the radical views he often espouses, they have
struggled to get a handle on his basic positions. He draws upon and makes
continual reference to the challenging concepts of Kant, Hegel, Marx, Lacan,
and Badiou. His prose is dense and frenetic and his dialectical twists and
turns seem to make it impossible to attribute to him any specific position:
he celebrates St. Paul and orthodox Christians even as he engages in a
spirited defense of Lenin. Zizek's Politics synthesizes Zizek's myriad
political writings into a systematic theory and puts his theory into
dialogue with key concepts and positions in contemporary political thought.
It will provide readers with a much needed critical introduction to the
political thought of one of the world's most widely known and eccentric
thinkers.
http://www.amazon.com/Zizek-s-Politics-Jodi-Dean/dp/0415951763/sr=1-1/qid=11
57986425/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-3367638-6638521?ie=UTF8&s=books
2. Reformmating Politics, edited by Jodi Dean, Jon Anderson, and Geert
Lovink (forward by Saskia Sassen)
Reformatting Politics examines the ways in which new information and
communication technologies (ICTs) are being used by civil society
organizations (CSOs) to achieve their aims through activities and networks
that cross national borders. These new ICTs--the internet, mobile phones,
satellite radio and television--have allowed these civil society
organizations to form extensive networks linking the local and the global in
new ways and to flourish internationally in ways that were not possible
without them.
The book consists of four sections containing essays by some of the top
scholars and activists working at the intersections of networked societies,
civil society organizations, and information technology. The book also
includes a section that takes a critical look at the UN World Summit of
Information Society and the role that global governance has played and will
play in the use and dissemination of these new technologies. Finally, the
book aims to influence this important and emerging fieldof inquiry by posing
a set of questions and directions for future research. In sum, Reformatting
Politics is a fresh look at the way critical network practice through the
use of information technology is reformatting the terms and terrains of
global politics.
http://www.amazon.com/Reformatting-Politics-Networked-Communications-Society
/dp/0415952980/ref=sr_11_1/102-3367638-6638521?ie=UTF8
thanks, Jodi
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