A Geology of Media

Jussi Parikka

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 46
• Media history is millions, even billions, of years old. That is the premise of this pioneering and provocative book, which argues that to adequately u... Lees meer

Bodies in Technology

Don Ihde

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 5
• An original exploration of the ways cyberspace affects human experience. New technologies suggest new ideas about embodiment: our "reach" extends to g... Lees meer

Vilém Flusser

Anke Finger, Rainer Guldin, Gustavo Bernardo

• Hardcover | Engels | Electronic Mediations
• Vilém Flusser (1920-1991) has long been known and celebrated in Europe and Brazil primarily as a media theorist. Only recently have other facets of hi... Lees meer

Digitize This Book!

Gary Hall

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 24
• How open access can transform academia for the better In the sciences, the merits and ramifications of open access--the electronic publishing model th... Lees meer

Playing Nature

Alenda Y Chang

• Hardcover | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 58
• A potent new book examines the overlap between our ecological crisis and video games Video games may be fun and immersive diversions from daily life, ... Lees meer

Internet Daemons

Fenwick McKelvey

• Hardcover | Engels | Electronic Mediations
• A complete history and theory of internet daemons brings these little-known--but very consequential--programs into the spotlight We're used to talking... Lees meer

World Projects

Markus Krajewski

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 45
• Markus Krajewski is emerging as a leading scholar in the field of media archaeology, which seeks to trace cultural history through the media networks ... Lees meer

Nauman Reiterated

Janet Kraynak

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 43
• Bruce Nauman has been a force in the art world since the early 1960s with his challenging audio and video installations, photographic art, neon art, a... Lees meer

Small Tech

• Hardcover | Electronic Mediations
• The essays in Small Tech investigate the cultural impact of digital tools and provide fresh perspectives on mobile technologies such as iPods, digital... Lees meer

Into the Universe of Technical Images

Vilém Flusser

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations
• Poised between hope and despair for a humanity facing an urgent communication crisis, this work by Vilém Flusser forecasts either the first truly huma... Lees meer

What's the Matter with the Internet?

Mark Poster

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 3
• A provocative investigation into the social and cultural implications of the Internet by a leading cultural critic. As the Internet has become more an... Lees meer

Sensations of History

James J Hodge

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 57
• A phenomenological investigation into new media artwork and its relationship to history What does it mean to live in an era of emerging digital techno... Lees meer

Small Tech

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 22
• The essays in Small Tech investigate the cultural impact of digital tools and provide fresh perspectives on mobile technologies such as iPods, digital... Lees meer

The Exploit

Alexander R Galloway, Eugene Thacker

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 21
• "The Exploit is that rare thing: a book with a clear grasp of how networks operate that also understands the political implications of this emerging f... Lees meer

Cyberculture

Pierre Levy

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 4
• A clear explanation and provocative look at the impact of new technologies on world society. Needing guidance and seeking insight, the Council of Euro... Lees meer

Comparative Textual Media

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations
• For the past few hundred years, Western cultures have relied on print. When writing was accomplished by a quill pen, inkpot, and paper, it was easy to... Lees meer

What Is Information?

Peter Janich

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 55
• A novel way of looking at information challenges longstanding dogmas--from a preeminent German thinker It is widely agreed that we live in an "informa... Lees meer

Tactical Media

Rita Raley

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 28
• The first book to focus exclusively on the tactics and goals of new media art activists Tactical media describes interventionist media art practices t... Lees meer

Screens

Kate Mondloch

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 30
• Media screens--film, video, and computer screens--have increasingly pervaded both artistic production and everyday life since the 1960s. Yet the natur... Lees meer

The Souls of Cyberfolk

Thomas Foster

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 13
• In The Souls of Cyberfolk, Thomas Foster traces the transformation of cyberpunk from a literary movement into a multimedia cultural phenomenon. He exa... Lees meer

What Is Information?

Peter Janich

• Hardcover | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 55
• A novel way of looking at information challenges longstanding dogmas--from a preeminent German thinker It is widely agreed that we live in an "informa... Lees meer

Hypertext and the Female Imaginary

Jaishree K. Odin

• Hardcover | Electronic Mediations
• Explores the use of hypertext in postmodern electronic and film media by women. Lees meer

Metagaming

Stephanie Boluk, Patrick LeMieux

• Hardcover | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 53
• The greatest trick the videogame industry ever pulled was convincing the world that videogames were games rather than a medium for making metagames. E... Lees meer

Games of Empire

Nick Dyer-Witheford, Greig de Peuter

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 29
• In the first decade of the twenty-first century, video games are an integral part of global media culture, rivaling Hollywood in revenue and influence... Lees meer