[rohrpost] Fwd: book announcement--Lovink

[Florian Cramer <cantsin@zedat.fu-berlin.de>]

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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:00:51 -0500
To: <cantsin@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
From: David Weininger <dgw@MIT.EDU>
Subject: book announcement--Lovink

Dear Moderator,
I wondered whether the following book announcement would be appropriate for 
posting to the Rohropost.  I’d be happy to edit the announcement to meet 
your specifications.  Please let me know whether or not you post the 
announcement.  Thank you!

Best,
David

I thought readers of the Rohropost 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

For 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, Călin 
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, János Sugár, 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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David Weininger
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The MIT Press
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Cambridge, MA  02142
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