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

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

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

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

The Little Database

Daniel Scott Snelson

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations
• A poetics for reading the everyday objects that populate a hard drive Bespoke online archives like PennSound and Eclipse host an astounding array of "... 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 nature ... 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

Metagaming

Stephanie Boluk, Patrick LeMieux

• Hardcover | Electronic Mediations
• A playful and provocative call to stop playing videogames and begin making metagames 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

Cyberspaces Of Everyday Life

Mark Nunes

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 19
• Networks and computer-mediated communication now penetrate the spaces of everyday life at a fundamental level. We communicate, work, bank, date, check... Lees meer

Digital Baroque

Timothy Murray

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 26
• A surprising and original application of theories of new media art In this intellectually groundbreaking work, Timothy Murray investigates a paradox e... Lees meer

Connected

Steven Shaviro

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 9
• In the twenty-first century, a network society is emerging. Fragmented, visually saturated, characterized by rapid technological change and constant s... Lees meer

Hypertext and the Female Imaginary

Jaishree K Odin

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 31
• In Hypertext and the Female Imaginary , Jaishree K. Odin reveals how media that use hypertextual strategies of narrative fragmentation provocatively e... Lees meer

Vilém Flusser

Anke Finger, Rainer Guldin, Gustavo Bernardo

• Paperback | 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

How to Do Things with Videogames

Ian Bogost

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations
• In recent years, computer games have moved from the margins of popular culture to its center. Reviews of new games and profiles of game designers now ... Lees meer

Digital Memory and the Archive

Wolfgang Ernst

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 39
• In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositories... Lees meer

Biomedia

Eugene Thacker

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 11
• The merging of computer science and molecular biology, genetic codes and computer codes As biotechnology defines the new millennium, genetic codes and... Lees meer

On the Existence of Digital Objects

Yuk Hui

• Hardcover | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 48
• Digital objects, in their simplest form, are data. They are also a new kind of industrial object that pervades every aspect of our life today--as onli... Lees meer

Gameplay Mode

Patrick Crogan

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations
• From flight simulators and first-person shooters to MMPOG and innovative strategy games like 2008's Spore , computer games owe their development to co... Lees meer

Does Writing Have a Future?

Vilém Flusser

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations
• In Does Writing Have a Future? , a remarkably perceptive work first published in German in 1987, Vilém Flusser asks what will happen to thought and co... Lees meer

How to Talk about Videogames

Ian Bogost

• Paperback | Engels | Electronic Mediations | nr. 47
• Videogames! Aren't they the medium of the twenty-first century? The new cinema? The apotheosis of art and entertainment, the realization of Wagnerian ... Lees meer