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1. Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics

   In Of Two Minds, noted hypertext novelist and writing teacher Michael Joyce explores the new technologies, mediums, and modalities for teaching and writing, ranging from interactive multimedia to virtual reality. As author of Afternoon: A Story, which the New York Times Book Review termed "the most widely read, quoted, and critiqued of all hypertext narratives," and co-developer of Storyspace, an innovative hypertext software acclaimed for offering new kinds of artistic expression, he is uniquely well qualified to explore this stimulating topic. The essays comprise what Joyce calls "theoretical narratives," woven from e-mail messages, hypertext "nodes," and other kinds of electronic text that move nomadically from one occasion or perspective to another, between the poles of art and instruction , teaching and writing. The nomadic movement of ideas is made effortless by the electronic medium, which makes it easy to cross borders (or erase them) with the swipe of a mouse, and which therefore challenges our notions of intellectual and artistic borders.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 15.10.2011 - 22:59

2. The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information

   Knowledge work is now the reigning business paradigm and affects even the world of higher education. But what perspective can the knowledge of the humanities and arts contribute to a world of knowledge work whose primary mission is business? And what is the role of information technology as both the servant of the knowledge economy and the medium of a new technological cool? In The Laws of Cool, Alan Liu reflects on these questions as he considers the emergence of new information technologies and their profound influence on the forms and practices of knowledge.

   (Source: University of Chicago Press online catalog.)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 19.10.2011 - 15:17

3. Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database

   Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 20.10.2011 - 09:18

4. Internet Art

   An exploration of the exciting and radical ways in which artists have embraced the internet and redefined the conventions of art.

   Throughout the book, the view of artists, curators and critics offer and insider's perspective on the subject, while a timeline and glossary provide easy-to-follow guides to the key works, events and technological developments that have taken art into the twenty-first century. (From book cover)

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 26.10.2011 - 10:38

5. The New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives with New Media

   The New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives with New Media

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 01.11.2011 - 16:55

6. Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics

   The book collects various writings centered around the theme digital poetics. It is based on earlier publications of the author and often accompany an element of language game to the chapters.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 11.11.2011 - 18:02

7. Tekst.no

   Norwegian textbook on online textuality for media studies and Nordic studies at universities, including general discussions of hypertext and some specific discussions of electronic literature.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 14.12.2011 - 13:57

8. Invisible Rendezvous: Connection and Collaboration in the New Landscape of Electronic Writing

   Invisible Rendezvous: Connection and Collaboration in the New Landscape of Electronic Writing

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 15.01.2012 - 12:25

9. The Ecological Thought

   In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interconnectedness penetrates all dimensions of life. No being, construct, or object can exist independently from the ecological entanglement, Morton contends, nor does “Nature” exist as an entity separate from the uglier or more synthetic elements of life. Realizing this interconnectedness is what Morton calls the ecological thought.

   In three concise chapters, Morton investigates the profound philosophical, political, and aesthetic implications of the fact that all life forms are interconnected. As a work of environmental philosophy and theory, The Ecological Thought explores an emerging awareness of ecological reality in an age of global warming. Using Darwin and contemporary discoveries in life sciences as root texts, Morton describes a mesh of deeply interconnected life forms—intimate, strange, and lacking fixed identity.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 17.01.2012 - 15:15

10. 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

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