Postdigital Aesthetics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Thinking Postdigital Aesthetics: Art, Computation and Design

   • David M. Berry, Michael Dieter

   Pages 1-11

3. What Is ‘Post-digital’?

   • Florian Cramer

   Pages 12-26

4. Genealogies of the New Aesthetic

   • Christiane Paul, Malcolm Levy

   Pages 27-43

5. The Postdigital Constellation

   • David M. Berry

   Pages 44-57

6. Communication Models, Aesthetics and Ontology of the Computational Age Revealed

   • Lukasz Mirocha

   Pages 58-71

7. How to Be Theorized: A Tediously Academic¹ Essay on the New Aesthetic

   • Katja Kwastek

   Pages 72-85

8. A Hyperbolic and Catchy New Aesthetic

   • Daniel Pinkas

   Pages 86-95

9. The Genius and the Algorithm: Reflections on the New Aesthetic as a Computer’s Vision

   • Stamatia Portanova

   Pages 96-108

10. Selfiecity: Exploring Photography and Self-Fashioning in Social Media

    • Alise Tifentale, Lev Manovich

    Pages 109-122

11. Judging Like a Machine

    • David Golumbia

    Pages 123-135

12. Not Now? Feminism, Technology, Postdigital

    • Caroline Bassett

    Pages 136-150

13. Postscript on the Post-digital and the Problem of Temporality

    • Geoff Cox

    Pages 151-162

14. Dark Patterns: Interface Design, Augmentation and Crisis

    • Michael Dieter

    Pages 163-178

15. Data Visualization and the Subject of Political Aesthetics

    • Sean Cubitt

    Pages 179-190

16. School Will Never End: On Infantilization in Digital Environments — Amplifying Empowerment or Propagating Stupidity?

    • Mercedes Bunz

    Pages 191-202

17. The City and the City: London 2012 Visual (Un)Commons

    • Jussi Parikka

    Pages 203-218

18. Going Beyond the Visible: New Aesthetic as an Aesthetic of Blindness?

    • Shintaro Miyazaki

    Pages 219-231

19. Glitch Sorting: Minecraft, Curation and the Postdigital

    • Thomas Apperley

    Pages 232-244

20. Through Glass Darkly: On Google’s Gnostic Governance

    • Marc Tuters

    Pages 245-258

Postdigital Aesthetics is a contribution to questions raised by our newly computational everyday lives and the aesthetics which reflect both the postdigital nature of this age, but also critical perspectives of a post-internet world.

• Postdigital
• digital
• art
• computation
• design
• post-internet
• aesthetics
• glitch
• media
• theory
• software
• technology
• computer

'What is the digital? Or rather, what was it? And how has culture changed, now that the Internet got normal? In this capacious compendium of essays, some of the world's leading scholars discuss the art and culture of the present age, a time not so much 'of' the digital but forged in reaction to it. From the New Aesthetic and Post-Internet Art to more exotic trends in contemporary theory, this timely volume explores what it means to see, feel, and think after the advent of ubiquitous digitality.' Alexander R. Galloway, New York University, USA

"Computational thought and perspectives now permeate every aspect of our lives and profoundly influence our cultural and aesthetic perceptions, leading to claims of the emergence of a new aesthetic. However, the postdigital landscape is not the techno-utopian dream of Silicon Valley, but a vibrant, messy, conflicted and confusing arena of debate and uncertainty which challenges every aspect of our cultural formation, including our own humanity. This groundbreaking collection of essays is a thought-provoking guide to a new and contested intellectual territory.' Andrew Prescott, University of Glasgow, UK

'This book critically examines the way in which the digital is both embedded in, and has dramatically transformed, our sense of the social; structurally, aesthetically and individually. It uniquely, through a wonderful collection of essays, develops a much needed critical theoretical vocabulary that permits us to (re)evaluate what a postdigital aesthetics might look like. Thoroughly recommended.' Michael Bull, University of Sussex, UK

• University of Sussex, UK

  David M. Berry

• University of Warwick, UK

  Michael Dieter

Christian Ulrik Andersen, Aarhus University, Denmark Tom Apperley, Editor, Digital Culture and Education Caroline Bassett, University of Sussex, UK Mercedes Bunz, University of Westminster, UK Vito Campanelli, Writer and New Media Theorist Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brown University, USA Geoff Cox, Aarhus University, Denmark Florian Cramer, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK David Golumbia, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA Katja Kwastek, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Malcolm Levy, Centre for Digital Media, Canada Lev Manovich, City University of New York, USA Lukasz Mirocha, University of Warsaw, Poland Shintaro Miyazaki, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland Jussi Parikka, University of Southampton, UK Christiane Paul, The New School, USA Daniel Pinkas, HEAD - Genève, Switzerland Søren Bro Pold, Aarhus University, Denmark Stamatia Portanova, Universita' degli Studi di Napoli 'L'Orientale', Naples Alise Tifentale, City University of New York, USA Marc Tuters, Independent Academic

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