Blood & Volts
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Blood & Volts
Edison, Tesla and the Invention of the Electric Chair
Th. MetzgerAt the dawn of the twentieth century, General Electric (using Thomas Edison’s direct current) and Westinghouse (employing Nikola Tesla’s groundbreaking alternating current) were locked in combat to determine which would dominate the technological fate of the nation. Electricity was thought to be a highly ambiguous force: both godlike creative power and demonic destroyer of life. Th. Metzger argues that for scientists of the day, as well as the general populace, the electric chair was both harbinger and early pinnacle of modernity, the high altar of the rising cult of progress. In the popular imagination, Tesla and Edison were seen as nearly superhuman beings, and their struggle was not only for wealth and power, but to reshape the face of America. In Blood and Volts, Metzger creates a unique synthesis of scholarship, storytelling and cultural critique to present a clear and compelling story of America struggling to define itself through scientific innovation....
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Cassette Mythos
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Edited by Robin James
Essays, stories, and manifestoes from the real musical underground. The cassette is an egalitarian communication tool that has given many the power to produce and distribute their own music and aural communiques from the fringe. Intimate and impenetrable, always in their own style and for their own purposes, free of the mediated nets of cash, and commerce. Works by Chadbourne, Gunderloy, Cutler, Margolis and others.Caliban and the Witch
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Caliban and the Witch
Women, The Body, and Primitive Accumulation
Silvia FedericiCaliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the battle against the rebel body and the conflict between body and mind are essential conditions for the development of labor power and self-ownership, two central principles of modern social organization.Table of Contents Preface Introduction All the World Needs a Jolt: Social Movements and Political Crisis in Medieval Europe The Accumulation of Labor and the Degradation of Women: Constructing “Difference” in the “Transition to Capitalism” The Great Caliban: The Struggle Against the Rebel Body The Great Witch-Hunt in Europe Colonization and Christianization: Caliban and Witches in the New World Index Bibliography “In the neoliberal era of postmodernism, the proletariat is whited-out from the pages of history....
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Digital Resistance
Explorations in Tactical Media
Critical Art EnsembleEssays in cultural politics and technology from the collective authors of Electronic Disturbance, Electronic Civil Disobedience and Flesh Machine. Chapters in this new volume include “Electronic Civil Disobedience and the Public Sphere,” “The Mythology of Terrorism on the Net,” “The Promissory Rhetoric of Biotechnology,” “Observations on Collective Cultural Action,” “Recombinant Theater and Digital Resistance,” “Contestational Robotics,” “Children as Tactical Media Participants,” and “The Financial Advantages of Anti-Copyright.”
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Curating Immateriality
The Work of the Curator in the Age of Network Systems
Joasia Krysa, editorThis is the third book in the DATA Browser series of critical texts that explore issues at the
intersection of culture and technology.
The site of curatorial production has been expanded to include the space of the Internet and the focus of curatorial attention has been extended from the object to processes to dynamic network systems. As a result, curatorial work has become more widely distributed between multiple agents, including technological networks and software. This upgraded ‘operating system’ of art presents new possibilities of online curating that is collective and distributed — even to the extreme of a self-organising system that curates itself. The curator is part of this entire system but not central to it.The subtitle of the book makes reference to the essay ‘The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems’...
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CHRONIC RIOT SPASM
Zines, 1992_1996
FlyThis anthology of New York City’s street artist Fly’s zines from 1992-1996 contains equal amounts of surreal comix and twisted prose, describing her daily struggle to keep things going against powerful controlling forces and have some fun, too. Fighting with contemptuous cops, fixing up abandoned buildings, hanging around making observations about street life and love are some of the themes that construct this book, a celebration of the nonalienated life and its schizzy absurdities.
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