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Wired women

Another book I picked up last month in Yungaburra was Lynn Cherny and Elizabeth Reba Weise’s Wired Women collection from 1996. Subtitled “Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace”, it gives an insight into the imaginaries and experiences of women heading online when Usenet and IRC were at a peak. Having come to the internet — [...]

Settling

2008 marks my fifth year in Brisbane, and by the end of February I will have been here longer than I lived in Sydney. Given how much I have struggled to embrace Brisbane as a long-term location, that’s quite a psychological turning point for me to wrestle with. A few things have conspired recently that [...]

An introduction to affect

With one project finally off my whiteboard for good, it’s getting to crunch time for The Affect Reader, as Greg and I try to get a full draft to Duke in time for peak commissioning season in the US. My most recent experience of academic presses in the States was frustrating, and as an Australian [...]

Zero Comments: Selections so far

Geert Lovink’s latest book is entertaining preparation for the blogging conference. I don’t often follow all of Geert’s writing because I’m not sufficiently attached to the same anarcho- artist- activist scenes, but when he does cover topics that cross over with mine I find his voice an incredibly refreshing mixture of gross generalisation, useful new [...]

Affective labour on social networking sites

The discussion currently taking place on the cultstud list about self-branding on social networking sites bears interesting relation to the similar spate of posts on fibreculture recently. Both developed out of efforts on the part of some members to develop relevant discussion groups on Facebook, and my initial response has been to wonder why lists [...]

Quotes of the week

Hmm, I’d like to start a new Friday series for all of you who spend the week reading, largely on your own, for whatever work you’re doing. Wouldn’t it be nice to share with others the most interesting idea you encountered? Would it help mark the end of a long week to remember what you [...]

Geert Lovink interviews Andrew Ross

“I’d like to see new media tacticians think more about sustainable income models for everyone rather than focus primarily on the livelihoods of creatives or high-skill knowledge workers.”
Read more here.

Quotes I can’t fit in my review, contd.

Email occupies a paradoxical relation to space… marking distance as both necessary and irrelevant; dispatch and destination must be noncoterminous, but the distance between termini must be more virtual than actual. (86)
While simulating a network of determinate, point-to-point contact, email also sets up a social space that is more distributive than connective. (87)
To the extent [...]

Quotes I can’t fit in my review

The situation of cyberspace as a real space, mapped in relational terms, is perhaps clearest in instances where the networks of communication explicitly relate to the networks of everyday life. With a “buddy list” or AOL Instant Message, for example, the network of computers reinforces the idea that at the same moment that I am [...]

Networky

Rosalind Gill has a new report on new media labour available for free download at the Institute of Network Cultures website. Given the nature of the discussions taking place here over the last few days, it might be of interest to some of you. The report is only a brief introduction, and it mostly focuses [...]

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