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From Digital to Analog

«Agrippa» and Other Hybrids in the Beginnings of Digital Culture

Augustín Berti (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

287 Seiten

2015 | New edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-2504-1 (ISBN)

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From Digital to Analog delves into the origins of digitization and its effects on contemporary culture. The book challenges the «common sense» assertion that digitization is just another step in the evolution of the culture of the editorial, film and recorded music industries and their enforcement of copyright laws. Digital technologies in contemporary culture have paradoxically undermined and, at the same time, strengthened such practices, provoking an unprecedented quarrel over the possession of, and access to, cultural products. Agustín Berti uses the release of Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) in 1992 to study this paradox. The importance of Agrippa for digital culture studies is proven through the discussion of the frequently understated importance of the materiality of digital culture. The book develops a critique of digital technology and its alleged neutrality and transparency. Ultimately, it illustrates how Agrippa anticipated a number of contemporary phenomena such as piracy, leaks, remixes, memes, and more, forcing us to rethink the concept of digital content itself and thus the way in which culture is produced, received and preserved today. From Digital to Analog is ideal reading for a graduate student readership, especially Master candidates in the fields of Literature, Arts, Digital Humanities, Digital Culture and New Media Studies.

Agustín Berti, PhD in Literature, is head professor of «Analysis and Critique» in the National University of Córdoba. He is a researcher for the Argentinean Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) and has published in a variety of journals, including Flusser Studies, Nombres and Interventions.

Contents: Pirate Havens and Digital Coyotes – Milestones between matter and digits – Bit Rot – Crossing Borders. Pre-digital works in the Age of Digitization – Illegalized Aliens in the land of the copyrighted – The book of the dead and the death of the books – Epilogue: Hybrid genealogies in digital Genealogies in Digital Culture.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.10.2016
Reihe/Serie	New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies ; 69
Reihe/Serie	New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies ; 69
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 220 mm
Gewicht	430 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Briefe / Präsentation / Rhetorik
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4331-2504-8 / 1433125048
ISBN-13	978-1-4331-2504-1 / 9781433125041
Zustand	Neuware