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1. Ether: The Nothing That Connects Everything

   Every culture has its own word for this nothing. Synonymous with the idea of absolute space and time, the ether is an ancient concept that has continually determined our definition of environment, our relations to each other, and our ideas about technology. It has also instigated our desire to know something irrepressibly beyond all that. 

   In Ether, the histories of mysticism and the unseen merge with discussions of the technology and science of electromagnetism. Joe Milutis explores how the ideas of Anton Mesmer and Isaac Newton have manifested themselves as the inspiration for occult theories and artistic practices from Edgar Allan Poe’s works to today. In doing so, he demonstrates that fading in and out of scientific favor has not prevented the ether, a uniquely immaterial concept, from being a powerful force for material progress. 

   Joe Milutis - 20.01.2012 - 21:59

2. Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century

   Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 03.02.2012 - 15:47

3. Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture

   Video games have been a central feature of the cultural landscape for over twenty years and now rival older media like movies, television, and music in popularity and cultural influence. Yet there have been relatively few attempts to understand the video game as an independent medium. Most such efforts focus on the earliest generation of text-based adventures (Zork, for example) and have little to say about such visually and conceptually sophisticated games as Final Fantasy X, Shenmue, Grand Theft Auto, Halo, and The Sims, in which players inhabit elaborately detailed worlds and manipulate digital avatars with a vast—and in some cases, almost unlimited—array of actions and choices. In Gaming, Alexander Galloway instead considers the video game as a distinct cultural form that demands a new and unique interpretive framework.

   Hannah Ackermans - 18.03.2016 - 15:49

4. The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923

   The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923

   Ana Castello - 13.10.2018 - 16:16