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How we think : digital media and contemporary technogenesis

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How do we think?” N. Katherine Hayles poses this question at the beginning of this bracing exploration of the idea that we think through, with, and alongside media. As the age of print passes and new technologies appear every day, this proposition has become far more complicated, particularly for the traditionally print-based disciplines in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. With a rift growing between digital scholarship and its print-based counterpart, Hayles argues for contemporary technogenesis — the belief that humans and technics are coevolving — and advocates for what she calls comparative media studies, a new approach to locating digital work within print traditions and vice versa.

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Sharing : culture and the economy in the internet age

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In the past fifteen years, file sharing of digital cultural works between individuals has been at the center of a number of debates on the future of culture itself. To some, sharing constitutes piracy, to be fought against and eradicated. Others see it as unavoidable, and table proposals to compensate for its harmful effects. Meanwhile, little progress has been made towards addressing the real challenges facing culture in a digital world. Sharing starts from a radically different viewpoint, namely that the non-market sharing of digital works is both legitimate and useful. Philippe Aigrain looks at the benefits of file sharing, which allows unknown writers and artists to be appreciated more easily. It supports this premise with empirical research, demonstrating that non-market sharing leads to more diversity in the attention given to various works.

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Lire à l'écran : contribution du design aux pratiques et aux apprentissages des savoirs dans la culture numérique

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Les technologies numériques sont des technologies d'écriture et, par conséquent, de lectures. Elles impliquent des compétences et des pratiques spécifiques de celles de la culture du livre sans pour autant les annuler. Alors qu'il participe à l'organisation des contenus, à leurs condition d'accès et d'appropriation, le design graphique et typographique agit non pas à la surface des choses, mais dans leur structure, dans le processus, dans les relations. Il y a donc un rôle décisif à jouer dans la conception des conditions de lecture et d'écriture sur les divers écrans aujourd'hui à notre disposition. C'est cette réflexion que souhaitent amorcer les actes de cette journée d'étude organisée par l'École supérieure d'art et design Grenoble-Valence.

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Jussi Parikka : What is media archaeology?

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This cutting-edge text offers an introduction to the emerging field of media archaeology and analyses the innovative theoretical and artistic methodology used to excavate current media through its past. Written with a steampunk attitude, What is Media Archaeology? examines the theoretical challenges of studying digital culture and memory and opens up the sedimented layers of contemporary media culture. The author contextualizes media archaeology in relation to other key media studies debates including software studies, German media theory, imaginary media research, new materialism and digital humanities.

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Networked publics

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Digital media and network technologies are now part of everyday life. The Internet has become the backbone of communication, commerce, and media; the ubiquitous mobile phone connects us with others as it removes us from any stable sense of location. Networked Publics examines the ways that the social and cultural shifts created by these technologies have transformed our relationships to (and definitions of) place, culture, politics, and infrastructure.

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David Joselit : After art

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Examining the work of architectural firms such as OMA, Reiser + Umemoto, and Foreign Office, as well as the art of Matthew Barney, Ai Weiwei, Sherrie Levine, and many others, After Art provides a compelling and original theory of art and architecture in the age of global networks.

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Search terms : basse déf.

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Que produisent ces millions de sons et d’images qui circulent chaque année devant nos yeux et entre nos oreilles, par nos téléphones portables, nos ordinateurs ou nos tablettes? Quelles catégories esthétiques correspondent à l’époque de la démocratisation des biens d’équipement et de l’amateurisme consacré? Où l’art contemporain se niche-t-il dans les réseaux sociaux? Entre 2009 et 2011, le groupe de recherche «Basse définition», initié par Nicolas Thély et regroupant Annie Gentès, Anne Laforet, David-Olivier Lartigaud, Karine Lebrun, Gilles Rouffineau et Stéphane Sauzedde, s’est enquis d’interroger ce qui gouverne aujourd’hui les manières de penser et de créer des acteurs du monde de l’art. S’inscrivant dans le champ des Humanités numériques, cet ouvrage se présente sous la forme d’un guide de requêtes qui prend acte de la redistribution et de la diffusion du savoir par les moteurs de recherche et les encyclopédies collectives. Il a pour ambition de prolonger la recherche en contribuant à fabriquer des ressources de première main: artistes et chercheurs de différentes générations ont ainsi choisi leurs propres mots clés et les ont enrichis de leurs expériences afin de les rendre communicables. Ouvrage publié avec le concours de l’Université Paris I Panthéon-Sobonne

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Giorgio Agamben : qu'est-ce qu'un dispositif?

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J’appelle dispositif tout ce qui a, d’une manière ou d’une autre, la capacité de capturer, d’orienter, de déterminer, d’intercepter, de modeler, de contrôler et d’assurer les gestes, les conduites, les opinions et les discours des êtres vivants. Giorgio Agamben Les dispositifs où se jouent désormais nos existences – du téléphone portable à la télévision, de l’ordinateur à l’automobile – ne se trouvent pas face à l’homme comme de simples objets de consommation. Ils transforment nos personnalités. La question devient alors : quelle stratégie devons-nous adopter dans le corps à corps quotidien qui nous lie aux dispositifs ?

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Anime's media mix: franchising toys and characters in Japan

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In Anime’s Media Mix, Marc Steinberg convincingly shows that anime is far more than a style of Japanese animation. He traces the cultural genealogy that spawned Astro Boy to the transformations of Japanese media culture that followed—and forward to the even more profound developments in global capitalism supported by the circulation of characters like Doraemon, Hello Kitty, and Suzumiya Haruhi. He details how convergence was sparked by anime, with its astoundingly broad merchandising of images and its franchising across media and commodities. He also explains how the rise of anime cannot be understood properly—historically, economically, and culturally—without grasping the integral role that the media mix played from the start. Engaging with film, animation, and media studies, as well as analyses of consumer culture and theories of capitalism, Steinberg offers a sustained study of the Japanese mode of convergence that informs global media practices to this day.

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Digital art and meaning: reading kinetic poetry, text machines, mapping art, and interactive installations

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In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. Popular writing about specific artworks seldom goes beyond promoting a given piece and explaining how it operates, while scholars and critics remain unsure about how to interpret and evaluate them. This is where Roberto Simanowski intervenes, demonstrating how such critical work can be done. Digital Art and Meaning offers close readings of varied examples from genres of digital art such as kinetic concrete poetry, computer-generated text, interactive installation, mapping art, and information sculpture. For instance, Simanowski deciphers the complex meaning of words that not only form an image on a screen but also react to the viewer’s behavior; images that are progressively destroyed by the human gaze; text machines generating nonsense sentences out of a Kafka story; and a light show above Mexico City’s historic square, created by Internet users all over the world. Simanowski combines these illuminating explanations with a theoretical discussion that employs art philosophy and history to achieve a deeper understanding of each particular example of digital art and, ultimately, of the genre as a whole.