[spectre] DATA Browser 01

[Geert Lovink]

> From: joasia <joasia at i-dat.org>
> Date: 28 February 2005 6:06:53 PM
> To: i-DAT <joasia at i-dat.org>
> Subject: DATA Browser 01
>
> The first book in the DATA Browser series:
>
> ECONOMISING CULTURE: ON 'THE (DIGITAL) CULTURE INDUSTRY'
>
> http://www.data-browser.net/01
>
> contributors:
> Carbon Defense League & Conglomco Media Conglomeration | Adam  
> Chmielewski |
> Jordan Crandall | Gameboyzz Orchestra | Marina Grzinic | Brian Holmes |
> Margarete Jahrmann | Esther Leslie | Marysia Lewandowska & Neil  
> Cummings
> |Armin Medosch | Julian Priest & James Stevens | Raqs Media Collective  
> |
> Mirko Tobias Schäfer | Jeremy Valentine | The Yes Men
>
> --
> The interaction between culture and economy was famously explored by  
> Theodor
> Adorno and Max Horkheimer by the term 'Kulturindustrie' (The Culture
> Industry) to describe the production of mass culture and power  
> relations
> between capitalist producers and mass consumers. Their account is a  
> bleak
> one, but one that appears to hold continuing relevance, despite being
> written in 1944. Today, the pervasiveness of network technologies has
> contributed to the further erosion of the rigid boundaries between  
> high art,
> mass culture and the economy, resulting in new kinds of cultural  
> production
> charged with contradictions. On the one hand, the culture industry  
> appears
> to allow for resistant strategies using digital technologies, but on  
> the
> other it operates in the service of capital in ever more complex ways.  
> This
> publication, the first in the series, uses the concept of the culture
> industry as a point of departure, and tests its currency under new
> conditions.
>
> --
> details:
> Title: ECONOMISING CULTURE: ON ‘THE (DIGITAL) CULTURE INDUSTRY’
> Authors: Various contributors, edited by Geoff Cox, Joasia Krysa, Anya  
> Lewin
> Publisher: Autonomedia (DATA browser 01) in association with i-DAT
> Copyright 2004 (all texts released under a Creative Commons License)
> ISBN 1-57027-168-2
> Pages 256, Paper Perfectbound
> Price $15
>
> To order online visit:
> <http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/index.cgi? 
> cart_id=6878017.4706&pid=460>
> Or
> <http://www.data-browser.net/01/>
>
> Distributed by Autonomedia (US) and Pluto Press (UK & Europe).