Critical Digital Studies: A Reader, Second Edition

Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker

University of Toronto Press, 11 déc. 2013 - 624 pages

Since its initial publication, Critical Digital Studies has proven an indispensable guide to understanding digitally mediated culture. Bringing together the leading scholars in this growing field, internationally renowned scholars Arthur and Marilouise Kroker present an innovative and interdisciplinary survey of the relationship between humanity and technology. The reader offers a study of our digital future, a means of understanding the world with new analytic tools and means of communication that are defining the twenty-first century.

The second edition includes new essays on the impact of social networking technologies and new media. A new section – “New Digital Media” – presents important, new articles on topics including hacktivism in the age of digital power and the relationship between gaming and capitalism. The extraordinary range and depth of the first edition has been maintained in this new edition. Critical Digital Studies will continue to provide the leading edge to readers wanting to understand the complex intersection of digital culture and human knowledge.

Table des matières

• CODE BREAKERS: 14
• Traumas of Code: 39
• Science Studies Feminist Theory Cultural Studies: 59
• Lust and Longing in Cyberspace: 85
• Digital Biopower Hacker Resistance: 101
• Beyond the Microbe: 120
• A Conversation with Spirits inside the Simulation of a Coast: 144
• Virtual Games and Global Capitalism: 162
• Archaeologies of Media Art: 179
• Precision + Guided + Seeing: 193
• Understanding Metamedia: 212
• PERFORMANCE: 213
• Biophilosophy for the 21st Century: 227
• INFORMATION AND POWER: 257
• The City of Disorder: 283
• Captivity Media and a Critique of Biopolitics: 312
• Virilios Apocalypticism: 331
• GENDER AND SEXUALITY: 348
• A Transversal Technology Study: 373
• RELIGION AND SOCIETY: 393
• The Left Behind Novels and Flight: 408
• PERCEPTION: 433
• The Critical Art Ensemble on Trial: 447
• Distraction and Digital Culture: 465
• Humanizing Robots Returning to Nature: 485
• Intelligence Awareness and Agency: 519
• Stelarcs Prosthetic Head: 532
• SOUND: 545
• Time and the Cinematic Image: 566
• CHARLES MUDEDE: 580
• Contributors: 601

À propos de l'auteur

Arthur Kroker is an emeritus professor and adjunct professor of political science at the University of Victoria. He is the director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC).

Marilouise Kroker was a feminist scholar, publisher, editor, writer, theorist, and performance artist.

Informations bibliographiques

• Titre: Critical Digital Studies: A Reader, Second Edition
• Rédacteurs: Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker
• Édition: 2
• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press, 2013
• ISBN: 1442666714, 9781442666719
• Longueur: 624 pages