Dear all,
my PhD "Networked Disruption" is finally published and I would like to
share this news with you. Below are some additional information, plus
the link for free download.
For the people living in Berlin, the launch is on Tuesday 26 at c-base, 8pm.
More info are on the website:
http://disruptiv.biz
About the launch:
http://www.transmediale.de/content/resource-004-networked-disruption
All the best,
Tatiana
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Networked Disruption
Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social
Networking
By Tatiana Bazzichelli
Published by Digital Aesthetics Research Center Press.
Download free PDF:
http://disruptiv.biz/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Networked-Disruption-web-version-15.03.2013.pdf
(licensed under the Peer Production License)
The current techno-economic paradigm of Web 2.0 has challenged notions
of art and hacktivism within digital culture. The book "Networked
Disruption" takes up this challenge and discusses a new perspective on
political and social criticism. It simultaneously asks what are the
conditions for hacker and artistic practices under Web 2.0 and how can
social networking be seen to build on and incorporate artistic practices
from the earlier decades of digital and network culture.
Through its theoretical discussion of contemporary art and hacktivism,
the book maps out a new contradictory space for art and criticism:
Networked disruption.
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##What is the book about?
After the emergence of Web 2.0, the critical framework of art and
hacktivism has shifted from developing strategies of opposition to
embarking on the art of disruption. By identifying the emerging
contradictions within the current economical and political framework of
Web 2.0, the aim is to reflect on the status of activist and hacker
practices as well as those of artists in the new generation of social
media (or so called Web 2.0 technologies), analysing the interferences
between networking participation and disruptive business innovation.
Connecting together disruptive practices of networked art and hacking in
California and Europe, Tatiana Bazzichelli proposes a constellation of
social networking projects that challenge the notion of power and
hegemony, such as mail art, Neoism, The Church of the SubGenius, Luther
Blissett, Anonymous, Anna Adamolo, Les Liens Invisibles, the
Telekommunisten collective, The San Francisco Suicide Club, The
Cacophony Society, the early Burning Man Festival, the NoiseBridge
hackerspace, and many others.
##Main objective and themes
The objective of this book is to rethink the meaning of critical and
oppositional practices in art, hacktivism and the business of social
networking. The aim is to analyse hacker and artistic practices through
business instead of in opposition to it. Shedding light on the mutual
interferences between networking participation and disruptive business
innovation, this book explores the current transformation in political
and technological criticism. The analysis poses the following questions:
Is the business of social media co-opting DIY culture? How can hackers
and artists be critical in the business context of social media? Is it
possible to respond critically to business without either being co-opted
by it or refusing it? Is criticism only possible through opposition?
Disruption becomes a two-way strategy in networking contexts, a practice
to generate criticism, and a methodology to create business innovation.
Connecting together disruptive practices of networked art and hacking in
California and in Europe, and comparing North American and European
political traditions, Tatiana Bazzichelli proposes a constellation of
social networking projects that challenge the notion of power and hegemony.
##A new perspective for social and political criticism
By describing the concept of "disruptive business" as an art practice,
Tatiana Bazzichelli's analysis becomes an opportunity, both for
academics and practitioners, to imagine new possible routes of social
and political action. Distributed, autonomous and decentralised
networking practices of disruption become a means for rethinking
oppositional hacktivist and artistic strategies within the framework of
art and business.
Bazzichelli's hypothesis is that mutual interferences between art,
hacktivism and the business of social networking have changed the
meaning and contexts of political and technological criticism. Hackers
and artists have been active agents in business innovation, while at the
same time also undermining business. Artists and hackers use disruptive
techniques of networking within the framework of social media, opening
up a critical perspective towards business to generate unpredictable
feedback and unexpected reactions; business enterprises apply disruption
as a form of innovation to create new markets and network values, which
are often just as unpredictable. Bazzichelli proposes the concept of the
art of disruptive business as a form of artistic intervention within the
business field of Web 2.0. The notion of disruptive business becomes a
means for describing immanent practices of hackers, artists, networkers
and entrepreneurs, which are analysed through specific case studies.
##What does this book add to the field?
This book analyses artistic practices through business disruption
instead of in opposition to it. The concept of business, which has
become so common in Anglo-Saxon daily life and language is far from
obvious, and deserves a deeper critique. An analysis of how business
("being busy", in the context of Protestant culture) relates to
political and aesthetic disruption is needed in the field. Many
activists usually prefer not to deal with the notion of "business",
confining it to the domain of commercial market logic. The book
demonstrates how artists-critics use business logic knowingly, how they
"co-opt the co-optation". Tatiana Bazzichelli's proposal offers some
ways to overcome the apparent dialectical deadlock that currently
characterizes the dichotomical process of invention/subsumption.
Connecting disruptive practices of networked art and hacking in
California and Europe, it offers unique insights into the techno-social
and material processes that constitute the art and activist projects
under scrutiny. The projects are positioned within a rich context, both
on theoretical and practical levels, and across historical and
contemporary modes. The concept of "The Art of Disruptive Business"
includes suggestions for future effective critical strategies that
recombine critical art practices and disruptive business.
##Theory and Practice
This book adopts a comparative approach not only conceptually
(researching the mutual interferences between business and disruption),
but also by shedding light simultaneously on heterogeneous practices of
hackers, artists, networkers, activists and entrepreneurs, who engage
deeply with network activity. This practice-based research also becomes
a methodological challenge. The theoretical viewpoint of this research
is closely connected with the act of being a direct part of the research
subject, creating a mutual exchange with the actors of the analysis
through conversations and interviews as well as participating in some of
the projects described in the book. The method is based on the
reformulation of a research approach, which functions within the subject
of research, rather than on the subject of research. The result is a
methodological constellation of networking practices, which aims to
actualise – and to question – the notion of "fieldwork" itself.
More info: http://disruptiv.biz/networked-disruption-the-book/
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Tatiana Bazzichelli // programme curator
reSource transmedial culture berlin // http://www.transmediale.de/resource
BWPWAP - transmediale 2013
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