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Subject(s)

• Internet—Social aspects [Browse]
• Internet—Political aspects [Browse]
• Internet—Moral and ethical aspects [Browse]
• Music and the Internet [Browse]
• Mass media and culture [Browse]
• Social media [Browse]

Editor

• Aranda, Julieta [Browse]
• Wood, Brian Kuan [Browse]
• Vidokle, Anton [Browse]

Series

E-flux journal. [More in this series]

Summary note

"The internet does not exist. Maybe it did exist only a short time ago, but now it only remains as a blur, a cloud, a friend, a deadline, a redirect, or a 404. If it ever existed, we couldn't see it. Because it has no shape. It has no face, just this name that describes everything and nothing at the same time. Yet we are still trying to climb onboard, to get inside, to be part of the network, to get in on the language game, to show up on searches, to appear to exist. But we will never get inside of something that isn't there. All this time we've been bemoaning the death of any critical outside position, we should have taken a good look at information networks. Just try to get in. You can't. Networks are all edges, as Bruno Latour points out. We thought there were windows but actually it's made of mirrors. And in the meantime we are being faced with more and more-not just information, but the world itself. And a very particular world that has already become part of our consciousness. And it wants something. It doesn't only want to harvest our eyeballs, our attention, our responses, and our feelings. It also wants to condition our minds and bodies to absorb all the richness of the planet's knowledge."--Back cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Introduction
• Too much world : is the Internet dead? / Hito Steyeri
• An Internet of things / Keller Easterling
• Some experiments in art and politics / Bruno Latour
• From the blue planet to Google Earth / Ursula K. Heise
• Notes on the inorganic, part I : accelerations / Gean Moreno
• Malinche and the end of the world / Franco "Bifo" Berardi
• Music---immateriality---value / Diedrich Diederichsen
• How music takes place : excerpts from "The post-digital manifesto" / Rasmus Fleischer
• Facebook : a court of ignorant, cruel judges / Jon Rich
• What is the social in social media? / Geert Lovink
• "I must first apologize ..." : in conversation with Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige / Brian Kuan Wood
• In conversation with Julian Assange / Hans Ulrich Obrist
• Captives of the Cloud, part III : all tomorrow's clouds / Metahaven
• The black stack / Benjamin Bratton
• Cosmogenic acceleration : futurity and ethics / Patricia MacCormack.

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ISBN

• 9783956791307
• 3956791304

OCLC

906967626

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