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Vito Campanelli and the Memetic Contagion of Aestheticized Objects

Vito Campanelli's presentation of his own Web Aesthetics. How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society (published by NAi) was one of the few theoretical ones in a very visual and demo-ridden Video Vortex edition. In his work, the Italian scholar reduces...
By Nicola Bozzi on 03/11/11 Comments Off on Vito Campanelli and the Memetic Contagion of Aestheticized Objects

Book Review – Open 20: The Populist Imagination

The Populist Imagination comes in a timely moment. The 20th issue of Open, the cahier on art and the public domain published by NAi, is a collection of essays dealing with “the role of myth, narratives and identity in...
By Nicola Bozzi on 03/07/11 2

Book review of: Animal Spirits

In Animal Spirits, Matteo Pasquinelli takes on a burdensome task of elaborating on modern digital culture (or capitalism) from the viewpoint of complicated philisophical sociology. This goes alongside John Keynes’ definition of the animal spirits as a dynamic endogenious...
By Sjoerd Tuinema on 09/14/09 Comments Off on Book review of: Animal Spirits