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tenure-track application online

ein klassisches netzliteraturprojekt aus den späten 1990ern

jede menge theorie-pdfs, sehr empfehlenswert (registrierung notwendig, aber unaufwendig und lohnend)

[Das ist NICHT zentral für unsere LV.] Ein (vollständig online verfügbares) Buch über Programme als Kunst, und zwar auch schon vor dem Computer. "Executable code existed centuries before the invention of the computer in magic, Kabbalah, musical composition and experimental poetry. These practices are often neglected as a historical pretext of contemporary software culture and electronic arts. Above all, they link computations to a vast speculative imagination that encompasses art, language, technology, philosophy and religion. These speculations in turn inscribe themselves into the technology. Since even the most simple formalism requires symbols with which it can be expressed, and symbols have cultural connotations, any code is loaded with meaning. This booklet writes a small cultural history of imaginative computation, reconstructing both the obsessive persistence and contradictory mutations of the phantasm that symbols turn physical, and words are made flesh."

bin zuällig in ubi drüber gestossen, schaut auf den ersten blick ganz interessant aus, wenngleich für unser thema im engeren sinn nicht relevant, als beispiel für den weiteren netz-diskurs im angloamerikanischen raum: This dissertation is a critical and ethnographic study of camgirls: women who use webcams and interactive journals for autobiographical purposes over the Internet. While conducting this research, the author also lived as a camgirl herself. The dissertation's over-arching question is, "What does it mean for feminists to speak about the personal as political in a networked society that simultaneously encourages women to 'represent' through confession, celebrity and sexual display, and punishes too much visibility with conservative censure and backlash?"