If you like police stories with persecution, infiltration and investigation KINGPIN may be just the right book for you. Written by Kevin Poulsen, it is an exciting story of the rise of one hacker to the control of the biggest crime forum on the internet.
Kevin Poulsen is a former black hat hacker (a hacker that acts as a…
I knew that especially Camilo was up to something, though I wasn’t quite sure what it was yet; something with tiles and hacking the Bogota book fair, but the how or what remained in the dark. So driven by curiosity, I met both Camilo and Andres at 3 o’clock this afternoon in Andres’ living room. As soon as I arrived I was put to work and unexpectedly, I spend my whole afternoon Photoshopping a QR code
Reading and publishing in the digital age
The conventional notion of the book, based on centuries of print, is rapidly growing outdated. The book is coming unbound in a double sense: both freed from the bindings of the printed volume, and from the limitations of conventional text. The entire concept of ‘bookness’ needs reinvention. Critical cultural forces must step in…
Last Wednesday, author and journalist Nicholas Carr presented his new book “The Shallows: How the Internet is changing the way we think, read and remember” at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. After his famous 2008 essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, Carr again makes his audience ponder on how contemporary technologies have an immense effect on the way people think.
Mareline Heijman
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19 October 2010, 2:03 pm
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tags: book, digital, e-books, e-publishing, e-reader, iPad, Kindle Singles, Marx, McLuhan, Medium is the Message
Mcluhan believed the medium to be the message. When we are trying to understand the effects of the medium, we ought to analyze the medium. And when the medium changes, the message is bound to transform.
Who’s utopian vision is it to carry all your files, music, films, images and “books” on an exterior device? More and more we’ve incorporated…
Being a student of New Media, people I know who are less involved in the world of new media sometimes turn to me with questions on the latest technological developments that are being covered in the news. As if I personally were responsible for the launch of every new device, I get subjected to a barrage of questions (I do…
The death of the book has been foreseen: Several sources have predicted the demise of the book as we know it, like a modern Nostradamus. However, this is not the first time in history that we have heard this prediction. The introduction of the radio was also supposed to kill the book, as was the advent of …
Chris Hoogeveen
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13 October 2010, 7:54 pm
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Every old medium was once new. And when something gets old we’ve got to search for a way to give it its old glance back. The printed book was once a new medium. It was revolutionary, groundbreaking. But today the book is just a commodity. It is still used very often, but for how long? Terry Flew wrote in his…
Fei An Tjan
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20 September 2010, 3:21 pm
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tags: book, Delhi, Development, media, Modernity, new media, Pirate, Ravi Sundaram, review, sarai, urban
In Pirate Modernity: Delhi’s Media Urbanism, Ravi Sundaram clearly explains the way the new media have affected post colonial Delhi’s urban landscape from the 50’s onwards. Sundaram is one of the initiators of Sarai, an online platform dedicated to address media issues in South Asia. He focuses particularly on globalism and modernity in India and puts new media at the center if this. He has written multiple articles on technology, media and urban experience and their effect on each other and is also one of the editors of the Sarai Reader series. In 1996 Sundaram gave an interview on the ‘Brazilianation of India’ where many elements also treated in Pirate Modernity are discussed.
Rethinking Curating explores the characteristics distinctive to new media art, including its immateriality and its questioning of time and space, and relates them to such contemporary art forms as video art, conceptual art, socially engaged art, and performance art. The book offers curators a route through the hype around platforms and autonomous zones by following the lead of current artists’ practice
