This sounds great - wish I could come to London to the launch ... Ursula >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] >t: +44 (0)20 7919 7206 >w: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cultural-studies/staff/m-fuller.php >_______________________________________________ >NetBehaviour mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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