And what I mean here, for example, is that I cannot in good faith ask US Dreamers (http://unitedwedream.org, http://drmactioncoalition.org, etc), other advocates for the US undocumented (2Million+ deportations during Obama's supposedly "liberal" administration - http://ndlon.org and many others), and how about the "low pay is not OK" people (Walmart, etc..), to dish out $100+ for a book that I nevertheless know could be quite useful to fine-tune their fight, since they are heavy users of "the digital", Facebook and Twitter inclusive or predominantly, to fight.
Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes <[email protected]> +1 (817) 271-9619 On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes <[email protected]> wrote: > salad is VERY GOOD FOOD. BETTER THAN BBQ or EMPIRICISM > > Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, > > Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes > <[email protected]> > +1 (817) 271-9619 > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes > <[email protected]> wrote: >> David, >> >> It is just so ironic that your book on what I gather is a perspective >> inspired on the Frankfurt School's Critical Theory to the modern >> digital world is published primarily by print media, and at a cost >> that makes it prohibitive to the very people that can benefit "through >> its discussion of how the digital can be transformed by political >> action and the organisation of digital resistance." - Christian De >> Cock, University of Essex, UK >> >> Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, >> >> Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes >> <[email protected]> >> +1 (817) 271-9619 >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:37 AM, David Berry <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I apologise in advance for my use of words. The publishers are very tiresome >>> in requiring not only words, but also sentences, paragraphs and so forth. >>> There is also an argument in the book. Made up of words. That are actually >>> connected together. At least I hope so. One never knows after having been >>> though the copyediting/proofing process. >>> >>> For those who prefer books in hexadecimal, I plan a forthcoming version, >>> Critical Theory and the Hexadecimal, which will be encrypted using the NSA >>> backdoored random number generator (Dual_EC_DRBG), weak public key >>> cryptography (896bit RSA, no padding, no signatures, no authenticity), the >>> worst cryptographic hash function possible as a KDF (MD2), and XOR as a >>> cipher.* This will be an ironic gesture. >>> >>> :-) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> * Thanks to Moxie Marlinspike for the text inspiration. >>> >>> >>> On Tue Feb 25 07:25:53 PST 2014, Reed Black reed at unsafeword.org wrote: >>> >>> word salad and the digital >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:05 AM, David Berry <dmberry at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> I hope you don't mind my announcing my new book *Critical Theory and the >>>> Digital* which explores the contemporary landscape related to >>>> computational technology and argues for an approach that revitalises >>>> critical theory in light of current questions over cryptography, critical >>>> technical practice and related notions of critical digital humanities and >>>> code work. I think that some of the subscribers to this list might find >>>> the >>>> arguments articulated in the book of some interest. >>>> >>>> >>>> http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/critical-theory-and-the-digital-9781441166395/ >>>> >>>> This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers an original >>>> analysis of the role of the digital in today's society. It rearticulates >>>> critical theory by engaging it with the challenges of the digital >>>> revolution to show how the digital is changing the ways in which we lead >>>> our politics, societies, economies, media, and even private lives. In >>>> particular, the work examines how the enlightenment values embedded within >>>> the culture and materiality of digital technology can be used to explain >>>> the changes that are occurring across society. >>>> >>>> Critical Theory and the Digital draws from the critical concepts developed >>>> by critical theorists to demonstrate how the digital needs to be >>>> understood >>>> within a dialectic of potentially democratizing and totalizing technical >>>> power. By relating critical theory to aspects of a code-based digital >>>> world >>>> and the political economy that it leads to, the book introduces the >>>> importance of the digital code in the contemporary world to researchers in >>>> the field of politics, sociology, globalization and media studies. >>>> >>>> Some blurb: >>>> >>>> "'Adorno will not be your Facebook friend.' Instead of lamenting the >>>> cultural elitism of the Frankfurt School, David Berry reopens critical >>>> theory's conceptual toolbox with a renewed curiosity. These days the >>>> theorist is no longer a prophet who ponders the world divorced from the >>>> materiality of communication. It is not enough to merely explore the >>>> technosphere, there is an urgency to radically question digital >>>> technologies. In this age of conflict, the neoliberal consensus culture is >>>> taken to task by critical theory David-Berry-style. In line with the >>>> info-activism of Wikileaks and Snowden, Berry instructs us how to read the >>>> black box that dominates our everyday lives and helps us to develop a new >>>> vocabulary amidst all the crazes, from speculative realism to digital >>>> humanities." - Geert Lovink, Media Theorist, Amsterdam >>>> >>>> "Berry's timely book engages with a broad range of topics that define our >>>> digital culture. It guides us to the political materiality of software >>>> culture with excellent insights. Importantly, this book updates critical >>>> theory for the digital age." - Dr Jussi Parikka, Winchester School of >>>> Art, >>>> author of What is Media Archaeology? (2012) >>>> >>>> "In this lucid, learned and highly original book Berry confronts the >>>> nature of digital knowledge in society through the re-invigorated lens of >>>> Critical Theory asking how we can regain control of the knowledge >>>> structures embedded in the digital technologies that we increasingly rely >>>> upon in daily life." - Michael Bull, author of Sound Moves: iPod Culture >>>> and Urban Experience >>>> >>>> "Critical Theory and the Digital offers an important new addition to >>>> critical theory that explores questions raised by the digital in light of >>>> the work of the Frankfurt school. Providing an accessible and critical >>>> appraisal of the digital world we live in today, the book argues that >>>> critical praxis must today be rethought in light of digital technologies >>>> and the affordances that are made available to state, corporate and civil >>>> society actors. The book offers both a theoretical and a political >>>> contribution: the former through its exploration of how the digital can be >>>> read, written, and hacked critically; the latter through its discussion of >>>> how the digital can be transformed by political action and the >>>> organisation >>>> of digital resistance." - Christian De Cock, University of Essex, UK >>>> >>>> "Unlike many media studies scholars who refer to the Frankfurt School's >>>> critique of the cultural industries only to show its inapplicability to >>>> the >>>> open source world of the digital age, David Berry accomplishes the >>>> remarkable feat of re-instating that critique for the new brave world that >>>> is afforded by digital technology. Easily moving between Heidegger, Adorno >>>> and Stiegler, Berry mobilizes a formidable array of theoretical resources >>>> in aid of what he calls 'iteracy', an emerging competence in tracking the >>>> contexts in which 'being digital' is continually formed and re-formed. The >>>> result is a milestone in both critical theory and the digital humanities." >>>> - Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, Department of >>>> Sociology, University of Warwick, UK >>>> >>>> "Bringing dialectical critique to digital culture, David Berry replenishes >>>> the legacy of the Frankfurt School in order to devise strategies to live >>>> within and against the real-time streams of computational capitalism. >>>> Fusing critical theory with the political economy of social media (think >>>> Facebook and Twitter), the surveillance paranoia of NSA, the wild party of >>>> Hacklabs, the secret autonomy of cryptography, and the accelerated economy >>>> of algorithmic trading, Berry registers the contours of the black box that >>>> defines digital labour and life." - Ned Rossiter, Institute for Culture >>>> and Society, University of Western Sydney, Australia >>>> >>>> Best >>>> >>>> David >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> --- >>>> >>>> Dr. David M. 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