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Book SynopsisPresents a collection of essays on the continuing debates over medium specificity and the politics of the digital arts. This book stages debates across essays, creating dialogues that give different narrative accounts of what is historically and ideologically at stake in medium specificity and digital politics.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface: Origins, Agents, and Alternative Archaeologies PART I. MEDIUM SPECIFICITY AND PRODUCTIVE PRECURSORS Medium Specificity and Productive Precursors: An Introduction Marsha Kinder Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis N. Katherine Hayles Postmedia Aesthetics Lev Manovich If--Then--Else: Memory and the Path Not Taken Edward Branigan Cyberspace and Its Precursors: Lintsbach, Warburg, Eisenstein Yuri Tsivian Past Indiscretions: Digital Archives and Recombinant History Steve Anderson Films Beget Digital Media Stephen Mamber Navigating the Ocean of Streams of Story Grahame Weinbren Is This Not a Screen? Notes on the Mobile Phone and Cinema Caroline Bassett PART II. DIGITAL POSSIBILITIES AND THE REIMAGINING OF POLITICS, PLACE, AND THE SELF Digital Possibilities and the Reimagining of Politics, Place, and the Self: An Introduction Tara McPherson Transnational/National Digital Imaginaries John Hess and Patricia R. Zimmermann Is (Cyber) Space the Place? Herman Gray Linkages: Political Topography and Networked Topology David Wade Crane The Database City: The Digital Possessive and Hollywood Boulevard Eric Gordon Cuba, Cyberculture, and the Exile Discourse Cristina Venegas Thinking Digitally/Acting Locally: Interactive Narrative, Neighborhood Soil, and La Cosecha Nuestra Community John T. Caldwell Video Installation Art as Uncanny Shock, or How Bruce Nauman's Corridors Expand Sensory Life Mark B. N. Hansen Braingirls and Fleshmonsters Holly Willis Tech-illa Sunrise (.txt con Sangrita) Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Guillermo Gomez-Pena Works Cited Index
