Tag Archives: book

Facebook the Movie

Jidi Guo | 10 September 2010, 11:35 am | 5 comments | tags: , , , ,

July this year Facebook achieved a big milestone, their 500 million member-mark. If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest one in the world. This success story started with Mark Zuckerberg who created Thefacebook at the age of nineteen as a Harvard student. This is exactly the story premiering this October on silver…

Review of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet

Sarah Moore | 17 September 2009, 7:41 pm | tags: , , ,

Lisa Nakamura’s book Digitizing Race and Culture: Visual Cultures of the Internet covers a range of issues involving race and gender on the internet. Nakamura is an associate professor in the Institute of Communication Research with a joint appointment in Asian American studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

She begins by giving a historical background of race in American…

Book review of “Against The Machine – Being Human In The Age Of The Electronic Mob” by Lee Siegel

Maarten Hoogvliet | 17 September 2009, 7:24 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

Lee Siegel was born in New York in 1957 and has Bachelor, Master and Master of Philosophy degrees from Columbia University.

While working as a staff writer at The New Republic, an American magazine on politics and the arts, he encountered anonymous comments on articles in the blog section: “Mr. Siegel came onto many peoples sanctuary, pissed in…

The Multilingual Internet, or Where the Green Ants Dream

Nicola Bozzi | 14 September 2009, 7:52 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

In one of the last scenes of Werner Herzog’s Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) an Aborigine stands up in a court room to speak up against some mineral excavations happening in a sacred tribal ground. The judge asks for a translation, but nobody can provide it. The man is called “the Mute”, being the last living…

Book Review of: (In)visible – Learning to Act in the Metaverse

Niels de Hoog | 13 September 2009, 5:30 pm | tags: , , , ,

In his book: (In)visible: Learning to Act in the Metaverse, the author, Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss, deals with the challenges and difficulties of the global data culture. By exploring the constituents of today’s network culture, he tries to map out new paths for scientific research and artistic development.

A Review of: Self-Organisation/Counter Economic Strategies – Superflex

Rutger van den Berg | 13 September 2009, 4:45 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

This book is an initiative by the Danish artists group: Superflex. Superflex has been working on a series of projects related to economic forces, democratic production conditions and Self-organisation since 1993. Most of their initiatives seem to question the existing economic structures. The initiatives aren’t necessarily opposed to the existing economical systems, but they…

Software Takes Command

Rosa Menkman | 27 November 2008, 12:11 am | 4 comments | tags: , , , , ,

6 days ago Lev Manovich released his softbook Software Takes Command. He described his book as a software, as it will have its patches in the same way as a new installments requires its bug (big?) -fixes:

One of the

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Book Review: “Software Studies: a Lexicon”

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 15 September 2008, 11:06 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

In June this year MIT Press released ‘Software Studies: a lexicon’, edited by Matthew Fuller and consisting of 38 contributors (couting by texts) ranging from ‘computer scientists, artists, designers, cultural theorists, programmers, and others from a range of disciplines each take on a key topic in the understanding of software and the work that surrounds it’.

The book starts of…