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1. Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves

   Selfies, blogs and lifelogging devices have become important ways in which we understand ourselves. Jill Walker Rettberg analyses these and related genres as three intertwined modes of self-representation: visual, written and quantitative. Rettberg explores topics like the meaning of Instagram filters, smartphone apps that write your diary for you, and the ways in which governments and commercial entities create their own representations of us from the digital traces we leave behind as we go through our lives. This book is open access under a CC BY license. (Source: Publisher's blurb)

   Alvaro Seica - 26.09.2014 - 18:29

2. Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities

   This book introduces programming to readers with a background in the arts and humanities; there are no prerequisites, and no knowledge of computation is assumed. In it, Nick Montfort reveals programming to be not merely a technical exercise within given constraints but a tool for sketching, brainstorming, and inquiring about important topics. He emphasizes programming’s exploratory potential—its facility to create new kinds of artworks and to probe data for new ideas. The book is designed to be read alongside the computer, allowing readers to program while making their way through the chapters. It offers practical exercises in writing and modifying code, beginning on a small scale and increasing in substance. In some cases, a specification is given for a program, but the core activities are a series of “free projects,” intentionally underspecified exercises that leave room for readers to determine their own direction and write different sorts of programs. Throughout the book, Montfort also considers how computation and programming are culturally situated—how programming relates to the methods and questions of the arts and humanities.

   Alvaro Seica - 18.02.2016 - 11:40

3. Aesthetic Animism: Digital Poetry's Ontological Implications

   This book offers a decoder for some of the new forms of poetry enabled by digital technology. Examining many of the strange technological vectors converging on language, it proposes a poetics appropriate to the digital era while connecting digital poetry to traditional poetry’s concerns with being (a.k.a. ontological implications). Digital poetry, in this context, is not simply a descendent of the book. Digital poems are not necessarily “poems” or written by “poets”; they are found in ads, conceptual art, interactive displays, performative projects, games, or apps. Poetic tools include algorithms, browsers, social media, and data. Code blossoms into poetic objects and poetic proto-organisms. Introducing the terms TAVs (Textual-Audio-Visuals) and TAVITS (Textual-Audio-Visual-Interactive), Aesthetic Animism theorizes a relation between scientific method and literary analysis; considers the temporal implications of animation software; and links software studies to creative writing. Above all it introduces many examples of digital poetry within a playful yet considered flexible taxonomy.

   Alvaro Seica - 22.09.2016 - 15:10

4. Animal, Vegetable, Digital: Experiments in New Media Aesthetics and Environmental Poetics

   In Animal, Vegetable, Digital, Elizabeth Swanstrom makes a confident and spirited argument for the use of digital art in support of ameliorating human engagement with the environment and suggests a four-part framework for analyzing and discussing such applications.
    
   Through close readings of a panoply of texts, artworks, and cultural artifacts, Swanstrom demonstrates that the division popular culture has for decades observed between nature and technology is artificial. Not only is digital technology not necessarily a brick in the road to a dystopian future of environmental disaster, but digital art forms can be a revivifying bridge that returns people to a more immediate relationship to nature as well as their own embodied selves.
    

   Scott Rettberg - 08.06.2018 - 09:12

5. Why only us: Language and evolution

   Why only us: Language and evolution

   Chiara Agostinelli - 22.09.2018 - 19:59

6. Digital Humanities and Digital Media: Conversations on Politics, Culture, Aesthetics, and Literacy

   Digital Humanities and Digital Media: Conversations on Politics, Culture, Aesthetics, and Literacy

   Chiara Agostinelli - 23.09.2018 - 22:39

7. Of Grammatology

   Of Grammatology

   Chiara Agostinelli - 23.09.2018 - 22:56

8. The Untold Story of the Talking Book

   The Untold Story of the Talking Book

   Chiara Agostinelli - 23.09.2018 - 23:51

9. Literature in the Digital Age: An Introduction

   Literature in the Digital Age: An Introduction

   Lene Tøftestuen - 27.05.2021 - 18:01

10. 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

    24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

    Lene Tøftestuen - 28.05.2021 - 13:42

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