Hi Rob, I would love to go, but during that period busy setting up the Classwar games at HTTP, for that weekend. Will seriously consider it though...
marc > > This looks really good. Wish I could get to the launch. > > - rob. > >> On Sep 16, 2009 11:45 AM, "marc garrett" >> <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> BOOK LAUNCH >> 'The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies from the Dark >> Side of >> Digital Culture' >> Edited by: Jussi Parikka and Tony D. Sampson >> (Hampton Press, Alternative Communications Series, 2009) >> >> Friday, September 25th, 6-8pm (prompt) >> >> Room 3/4 >> Ben Pimlott Building, (silver building with squiggle) >> Goldsmiths, Lewisham Way >> New Cross >> >> Contributors to the book will make short interventions based on their >> texts: >> >> Matthew Fuller >> Andrew Goffey >> Steve Goodman >> Jussi Parikka >> Sadie Plant >> Tony Sampson >> >> For those of us increasingly reliant on email networks in our everyday >> social interactions, spam can be a pain; it can annoy; it can deceive; it >> can overload. Yet spam can also entertain and perplex us. This book is an >> aberration into the dark side of network culture. Instead of >> regurgitating >> stories of technological progress or over-celebrating creative social >> media >> on the Internet, it filters contemporary culture through its >> anomalies. The >> book features theorists writing on spam, porn, censorship, and >> viruses. The >> evil side of media theory is exposed to theoretical interventions and >> innovative case studies that touch base with new media and Internet >> studies >> and the sociology of new network culture, as well as >> post-representational >> cultural theory. >> >> Contents: >> Foreword, Sadie Plant >> On Anomalous Objects of Digital Culture: An Introduction, Jussi >> Parikka and >> Tony D. Sampson. >> CONTAGIONS. >> Mutant and Viral: Artificial Evolution and Software Ecology, John >> Johnston. >> How Networks Become Viral: Three Questions Concerning Universal >> Contagion, >> Tony D. Sampson. >> Extensive Abstraction in Digital Architecture, Luciana Parisi. >> Unpredictable Legacies: Viral Games in the Networked World, Roberta >> Buiani. >> BAD OBJECTS. >> Archives of Software—Malicious Codes and the Aesthesis of Media >> Accidents, Jussi Parikka. >> Contagious Noise: From Digital Glitches to Audio Viruses, Steve Goodman. >> Toward an Evil Media Studies, Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey. >> PORNOGRAPHY. >> Irregular Fantasies, Anomalous Uses:Pornography Spam as Boundary Work, >> Susanna Paasonen. Make Porn, Not War: How to Wear the Network’s >> Underpants, Katrien Jacobs. >> Can Desire Go On Without a Body?: Pornographic Exchange as Orbital >> Anomaly, >> Dougal Phillips. >> CENSORED. >> Robots.txt: The Politics of Search Engine Exclusion, Greg Elmer. >> The Internet Treats Censorship as a Malfunction and Routes Around It?: A >> New Media >> Approach to the Study of State Internet Censorship, Richard Rogers. >> On Narcolepsy, Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker. >> >> >> >> Organised by: The Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of >> London >> _________________________________ >> Dr. Matthew Fuller >> David Gee Reader in Digital Media >> >> Centre for Cultural Studies >> Goldsmiths College >> University of London >> New Cross >> London SE14 6NW >> >> e: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> t: +44 (0)20 7919 7206 >> w: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cultural-studies/staff/m-fuller.php >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
