Category: Reviews

Review of Failure, and Discussion with Neta Alexander, by Ekin Erkan

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The following is half-book review, half-interview with one of the book’s authors. Failure by Neta Alexander and Arjun Appadurai (Cambridge, UK: 2019) Publisher’s web page: https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509504718   In Arjun Appadurai and Neta Alexander’s co-written book, Failure, the duo examine regimes of technological/computational failure as well as the protocols producing these regimes. In particular, there is Read More …

Review: Richard Seymour’s The Twittering Machine, by Sean Phelan

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Review: Richard Seymour’s The Twittering Machine. London: The Indigo Press https://www.theindigopress.com/the-twittering-machine By Sean Phelan In his most explicitly philosophical book Pascalian Meditations, Pierre Bourdieu (2000) clarified what he meant by the notion of symbolic violence. Symbolic violence signifies more than simply forms of discursive power that mediate social relationships without the imposition of physical force. Read More …

Melody Jue: Behind the cover image of Wild Blue Media

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Review: Stuart Hall – Conversations, Projects and Legacies, Reviewed by Karen Wilkes

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Review: French Translation of Jussi Parikka’s, What is Media Archaeology

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Jussi Parikka, Qu’est-ce que l’archéologie des médias ? (traduction Christophe Degoutin), Grenoble, UGA Éditions, 2018 Translation of Jussi Parikka’s, What is media archaeology? John Wiley & Sons, 2013. Publisher’s webpage: https://www.uga-editions.com/menu-principal/collections-et-revues/toutes-nos-collections/savoirs-litteraires-et-imaginaires-scientifiques/qu-est-ce-que-l-archeologie-des-media–282025.kjsp For the original French version of this review, see here: https://wp.me/p8w5Ao-uR

Rescension (français): Jussi Parikka, Qu’est-ce que l’archéologie des médias, par Camille Paloque-Berges

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Jussi Parikka, Qu’est-ce que l’archéologie des médias ? (traduction Christophe Degoutin), Grenoble, UGA Éditions, 2018 Page d’éditeur: https://www.uga-editions.com/menu-principal/collections-et-revues/toutes-nos-collections/savoirs-litteraires-et-imaginaires-scientifiques/qu-est-ce-que-l-archeologie-des-media–282025.kjsp For the English version of this review, see here: https://wp.me/p8w5Ao-uW

Review: David Lapoujade’s Powers of Time, by Ekin Erkan

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Powers of Time: Versions of Bergson by David Lapoujade trans. Andrew Goffey (Univocal, 2018)

Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Review: Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, by William Morgan

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff (Public Affairs Books, 2019) https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781478947271/

Technic and Magic

Review: Federico Campagna’s Technic and Magic, by James Edward Draney

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Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality (Bloomsbury, 2018), Federico Campagna Reviewed by James Edward Draney Publisher’s website: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/technic-and-magic-9781350044036/

This is Not a Remix

Review: Margie Borschke’s This is Not a Remix, by Owen Gallagher

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This is Not a Remix: Piracy, Authenticity and Popular Music by Margie Borschke Reviewed by Owen Gallagher Publisher’s website: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/this-is-not-a-remix-9781501318948/