[NetBehaviour] BOOK LAUNCH - 'The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of, Digital Culture'

[marc garrett]

Hi Rob,

I would love to go, but during that period busy setting up the Classwar
games at HTTP, for that weekend. Will seriously consider it though...

marc
>
> This looks really good. Wish I could get to the launch.
>
> - rob.
>
>> On Sep 16, 2009 11:45 AM, "marc garrett"
>> <marc.garrett at furtherfield.org
>> <mailto:marc.garrett at furtherfield.org>> wrote:
>>
>> BOOK LAUNCH
>> 'The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies from the Dark
>> Side of
>> Digital Culture'
>> Edited by: Jussi Parikka and Tony D. Sampson
>> (Hampton Press, Alternative Communications Series, 2009)
>>
>> Friday, September 25th, 6-8pm (prompt)
>>
>> Room 3/4
>> Ben Pimlott Building,  (silver building with squiggle)
>> Goldsmiths, Lewisham Way
>> New Cross
>>
>> Contributors to the book will make short interventions based on their
>> texts:
>>
>> Matthew Fuller
>> Andrew Goffey
>> Steve Goodman
>> Jussi Parikka
>> Sadie Plant
>> Tony Sampson
>>
>> For those of us increasingly reliant on email networks in our everyday
>> social interactions, spam can be a pain; it can annoy; it can deceive; it
>> can overload. Yet spam can also entertain and perplex us. This book is an
>> aberration into the dark side of network culture. Instead of
>> regurgitating
>> stories of technological progress or over-celebrating creative social
>> media
>> on the Internet, it filters contemporary culture through its
>> anomalies. The
>> book features theorists writing on spam, porn, censorship, and
>> viruses. The
>> evil side of media theory is exposed to theoretical interventions and
>> innovative case studies that touch base with new media and Internet
>> studies
>> and the sociology of new network culture, as well as
>> post-representational
>> cultural theory.
>>
>> Contents:
>> Foreword, Sadie Plant
>> On Anomalous Objects of Digital Culture: An Introduction, Jussi
>> Parikka and
>> Tony D. Sampson.
>> CONTAGIONS.
>> Mutant and Viral: Artificial Evolution and Software Ecology, John
>> Johnston.
>> How Networks Become Viral: Three Questions Concerning Universal
>> Contagion,
>> Tony D. Sampson.
>> Extensive Abstraction in Digital Architecture, Luciana Parisi.
>> Unpredictable Legacies: Viral Games in the Networked World, Roberta
>> Buiani.
>> BAD OBJECTS.
>> Archives of Software—Malicious Codes and the Aesthesis of Media
>> Accidents, Jussi Parikka.
>> Contagious Noise: From Digital Glitches to Audio Viruses, Steve Goodman.
>> Toward an Evil Media Studies, Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey.
>> PORNOGRAPHY.
>> Irregular Fantasies, Anomalous Uses:Pornography Spam as Boundary Work,
>> Susanna Paasonen. Make Porn, Not War: How to Wear the Network’s
>> Underpants, Katrien Jacobs.
>> Can Desire Go On Without a Body?: Pornographic Exchange as Orbital
>> Anomaly,
>> Dougal Phillips.
>> CENSORED.
>> Robots.txt: The Politics of Search Engine Exclusion, Greg Elmer.
>> The Internet Treats Censorship as a Malfunction and Routes Around It?: A
>> New Media
>> Approach to the Study of State Internet Censorship, Richard Rogers.
>> On Narcolepsy, Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker.
>>
>>
>>
>> Organised by: The Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of
>> London
>> _________________________________
>> Dr. Matthew Fuller
>> David Gee Reader in Digital Media
>>
>> Centre for Cultural Studies
>> Goldsmiths College
>> University of London
>> New Cross
>> London SE14 6NW
>>
>> e: m.fuller at gold.ac.uk <mailto:m.fuller at gold.ac.uk>
>> t: +44 (0)20 7919 7206
>> w: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cultural-studies/staff/m-fuller.php
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