[spectre] book announcement--Lovink: Uncanny Networks

[David Weininger]

I thought readers of the SPECTRE mailing list might be interested in 
this book.  For more information please visit 
http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262122510

Uncanny Networks
Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia
Geert Lovink

=46or Lovink, interviews are imaginative texts that can help to create 
global, networked discourses not only among different professions but 
also among different cultures and social groups. Conducting 
interviews online, over a period of weeks or months, allows the 
participants to compose documents of depth and breadth, rather than 
simply snapshots of timely references.

The interviews collected in this book are with artists, critics, and 
theorists who are intimately involved in building the content, 
interfaces, and architectures of new media. The topics discussed 
include digital aesthetics, sound art, navigating deep audio space, 
European media philosophy, the Internet in Eastern Europe, the mixing 
of old and new in India, critical media studies in the Asia-Pacific 
region, Japanese techno tribes, hybrid identities, the storage of 
social movements, theory of the virtual class, virtual and urban 
spaces, corporate takeover of the Internet, and the role of 
cyberspace in the rise of nongovernmental organizations.

Geert Lovink is an independent media theorist and net critic. He is 
the founder of nettime mailing lists, a member of Adilkno, and a 
cofounder of the online community server Digital City.

Interviewees
Norbert Bolz, Paulina Borsook, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Kuan-Hsing Chen, 
C=E3lin Dan, Mike Davis, Mark Dery, Kodwo Eshun, Susan George, Boris 
Groys, Frank Hartmann, Michael Heim, Dietmar Kamper, Zina Kaye, Tom 
Keenan, Arthur Kroker, Bruno Latour, Marita Liulia, Rafael 
Lozano-Hemmer, Peter Lunenfeld, Lev Manovich, Mongrel, Edi Muka, 
Jonathan Peizer, Saskia Sassen, Herbert Schiller, Gayatri Spivak, 
J=E1nos Sug=E1r, Ravi Sundaram, Toshiya Ueno, Tjebbe van Tijen, McKenzie 
Wark, Hartmut Winkler, Slavoj Zizek.

"More than a mere collection of interviews, Uncanny Networks is a 
book of dialogues. ovink has as much knowledge of and experience with 
alternative media as any of his subjects. Rather than approach them 
as a journalist or outsider might, he engages them as equals, 
eliciting deep and thoughtful responses."
--Manuel de Landa, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and 
Preservation, Columbia University


7 x 9, 392 pp., cloth, ISBN 0-262-12251-0

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