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1. New Philosophy for New Media

   In New Philosophy for New Media, Mark Hansen defines the image in digital art in terms that go beyond the merely visual. Arguing that the "digital image" encompasses the entire process by which information is made perceivable, he places the body in a privileged position—as the agent that filters information in order to create images. By doing so, he counters prevailing notions of technological transcendence and argues for the indispensability of the human in the digital era. Hansen examines new media art and theory in light of Henri Bergson's argument that affection and memory render perception impure—that we select only those images precisely relevant to our singular form of embodiment. Hansen updates this argument for the digital age, arguing that we filter the information we receive to create images rather than simply receiving images as preexisting technical forms.

   Scott Rettberg - 26.02.2011 - 15:36

2. Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization

   From the publisher: From Intermedia to Microcosm, Storyspace, and the World Wide Web, Landow offers specific information about the kinds of hypertext, different modes of linking, attitudes toward technology, and the proliferation of pornography and gambling on the Internet. For the third edition he includes new material on developing Internet-related technologies, considering in particular their increasingly global reach and the social and political implications of this trend as viewed from a postcolonial perspective. He also discusses blogs, interactive film, and the relation of hypermedia to games. Thoroughly expanded and updated, this pioneering work continues to be the "ur-text" of hypertext studies.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 25.08.2011 - 22:53

3. 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

4. Control and freedom : power and paranoia in the age of fiber optics

   Control and freedom : power and paranoia in the age of fiber optics

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 03.03.2012 - 19:58

5. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

   The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

   Scott Rettberg - 14.01.2013 - 14:24

6. Bodies in Code

   "Bodies in Code explores how our bodies experience and adapt to digital environments. Cyberculture theorists have tended to overlook biological reality when talking about virtual reality, and Mark B. N. Hansen's book shows what they've been missing. Cyberspace is anchored in the body, he argues, and it's the body--not high-tech computer graphics--that allows a person to feel like they are really "moving" through virtual reality. Of course these virtual experiences are also profoundly affecting our very understanding of what it means to live as embodied beings. 

   Hansen draws upon recent work in visual culture, cognitive science, and new media studies, as well as examples of computer graphics, websites, and new media art, to show how our bodies are in some ways already becoming virtual."

   (Source: Publisher website)

   Elisabeth Nesheim - 15.05.2013 - 12:18

7. Gramophone, Film, Typewriter

   Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the hegemony of the printed word was shattered by the arrival of new media technologies that offered novel ways of communicating and storing data. Previously, writing had operated by way of symbolic mediation—all data had to pass through the needle's eye of the written signifier—but phonography, photography, and cinematography stored physical effects of the real in the shape of sound waves and light. The entire question of referentiality had to be recast in light of these new media technologies; in addition, the use of the typewriter changed the perception of writing from that of a unique expression of a literate individual to that of a sequence of naked material signifiers. Part technological history of the emergent new media in the late nineteenth century, part theoretical discussion of the responses to these media—including texts by Rilke, Kafka, and Heidegger, as well as elaborations by Edison, Bell, Turing, and other innovators—Gramophone, Film, Typewriter analyzes this momentous shift using insights from the work of Foucault, Lacan, and McLuhan.

   Scott Rettberg - 29.06.2013 - 13:45

8. The New Media Theory Reader

   The study of new media opens up some of the most fascinating issues in contemporary culture: questions of ownership and control over information and cultural goods; the changing experience of space and time; the political consequences of new communication technologies; and the power of users and consumers to disrupt established economic and business models. (Source: Open University Press)

   Alvaro Seica - 19.02.2014 - 22:39

9. Escrituras nómades : del libro perdido al hipertexto

   La autora estudia la práctica de las literaturas no lineales a lo largo de la historia de la literatura. Si bien mucho se ha hablado sobre literaturas no lineales desde contextos cercanos a las teorías de los nuevos medios, este libro acentúa la continuidad de estas prácticas a lo largo de la historia de la literatura. Los nuevos dispositivos de escritura, surgidos a partir de tecnologías digitales, permiten alcanzar dimensiones antes no previstas en estrategias tales como la no linealidad de las tramas, la interactividad o el reparo en el aspecto perceptual de los signos. Sin embargo, este tipo de experiencias no son nuevas en el campo literario. Desde los "Carmina Figurata" hasta los poemas dadá, desde el "Tristam Shandy" de Lawrence Stern hasta los viajes africanos de Raymond Roussel, desde el "Coup de dés" de Mallarmé hasta el "Nouveau Roman", desde la verbivocovisualidad joyciana (Finnegan's Wake) hasta el concretismo, desde los lenguajes inventados por Velemir Khlebnikov hasta los "event scores" de Fluxus se han buscado formas de decir y de narrar que escapasen a modelos canónicos y automatismos lingüísticos.

   Maya Zalbidea - 23.07.2014 - 22:19

10. The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft

    "As we spend more and more of our time staring at the screens of movies, televisions, computers, and handheld devices—"windows" full of moving images, texts, and icons—how the world is framed has become as important as what is in the frame. In The Virtual Window, Anne Friedberg examines the window as metaphor, as architectural component, and as an opening to the dematerialized reality we see on the screen.[...]Friedberg considers such topics as the framed view of the camera obscura, Le Corbusier's mandates for the architectural window, Eisenstein's opinions on the shape of the movie screen, and the multiple images and nested windows commonly displayed on screens today. The Virtual Window proposes a new logic of visuality, framed and virtual: an architecture not only of space but of time." http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/virtual-window

    Anne Karhio - 10.04.2015 - 13:23

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