Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia :: Uncanny Networks Dialogues Virtual Intelligentsia

Uncanny Networks Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia - Challenging Conceptions of breeding SocietyThis book is a collection of thirty-five interviews that examine the non-homogeneous political, ideological, and theoretical opinions of significant media and cultural theorists, critics, artists, and philosophers from the past decade, on the topic of the blurring of distinctions mingled with cultural guess and information. The interviewer, Geert Lovink, is a media theorist, former editor of the new media humanities magazine Mediamatic, founder of Nettime mailing lists, the cofounder of the online community server Digital City, and the generator of Dark Fiber Tracking Critical Internet Culture (MIT Press, 2002). tally to the Foreword by Joel Slayton, the interview discourse can be just about grouped into four overlapping ideas 1) media possibility and criticism 2) sociology, economics, and cultural theory of digital computation, networks, and communications 3) theoretical o ntology relating to an architecture of media and 4) new media art as information strategy. Topics discussed include cyberspace and the rise of nongovernmental organizations, digital aesthetics, corporate coup of the Internet, sound art, realistic and urban spaces, navigating deep audio space, theory of the virtual class, European media philosophy, the storage of social movements, the Internet in Eastern Europe, hybrid identities, the mixing of old and new in India, Japanese techno tribes, and critical media studies in the Asia-Pacific, just to name a few. For Lovink, interviews are imaginative texts creating global networked discourses amongst and among professions, cultures, and social groups. Most of the interviews were done online, allowing the role players to write responses to questions that have both abstruseness and breadth, given that time periods of weeks and months passed before the entire interview with each participant was completed. Many of the interviewees are we ll-known and unknown artists, critics, theorists, and philosophers worldwide who are mental synthesis and designing the content, interfaces, and architectures of new media.After the Foreword, the book begins with an interesting self-interview of Geert Lovink himself. A prompt snapshot of each interviewee and topics of discussion include. Dietmar Kamper disguised form of cloak and authenticity in cyberspace . Norbert Bolz transformation of media theory into computational theory . Michael Heim the implication of technological metaphysics . Slavoj Zizek suspicion of multicultural, neutral, liberal attitudes surrounding nationalist fury . Arthur Kroker virtual class as predatory capitalists and computer visionaries . Luchezar Boyadjiev financial sphere of influence as the avant-garde in artistic media strategy . Gayatri Spivak ethics of picking between telematic culture and the reality of a developing state