Critical Digital Studies: A Reader, Second Edition

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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. Cover Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction CODE BREAKERS 1 Traumas of Code 2 A Game of Cat’s Cradle: Science Studies, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies 3 Reframing the Cathedral: Opening the Sources of Technologies and Cultural Assumptions 4 Romancing the Anti-body: Lust and Longing in (Cyber)space NEW DIGITAL MEDIA 5 All Bugs Are Shallow: Digital Biopower, Hacker Resistance, and Technological Error in Open-Source Software 6 Contagion Theory: Beyond the Microbe 7 A Conversation with Spirits inside the Simulation of a Coast Salish Longhouse 8 Empire@Play: Virtual Games and Global Capitalism 9 Archaeologies of Media Art TECHNOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND SURVEILLANCE 10 Precision + Guided + Seeing 11 Understanding Meta-media 12 Black Box, Black Bloc 13 Biophilosophy for the 21st Century 14 Algebra of Identity: Skin of Wind, Skin of Streams, Skin of Shadows, Skin of Vapour POLITICS, GENDER, AND RELIGION INFORMATION AND POWER 15 Communication and Imperialism 16 Occupology, Swarmology, Whateverology: The City of (Dis)order versus the People’s Archive 17 Tell Us What’s Going to Happen: Information Feeds to the War on Terror 18 Grammar of Terrorism: Captivity, Media, and a Critique of Biopolitics 19 Virilio’s Apocalypticism GENDER AND SEXUALITY 20 The Cyborg Mother: A Breached Boundary 21 Haptics, Mobile Handhelds, and other ‘Novel’ Devices: The Tactile Unconscious of Reading across Old and New Media 22 Becoming Dragon: A Transversal Technology Study RELIGION AND SOCIETY 23 Circuits, Death, and Sacred Fiction: The City of Banaras 24 Digital Cosmologies: Religion, Technology, and Ideology 25 Technologies of the Apocalypse: The Left Behind Novels and Flight from the Flesh CULTURE, ART, AND COMMUNICATION PERCEPTION 26 The Aura of the Digital 27 When Taste Politics Meets Terror: The Critical Art Ensemble on Trial 28 Distraction and Digital Culture PERFORMANCE 29 Metal Performance: Humanizing Robots, Returning to Nature, and Camping About 30 Prosthetic Head: Intelligence, Awareness, and Agency 31 Simulated Talking Machines: Stelarc’s Prosthetic Head 32 Slipstreaming the Cyborg SOUND 33 Black Secret Technology (The Whitey on the Moon Dub) 34 Material Memories: Time and the Cinematic Image 35 The Turntable Bibliography Contributors