In this book, Goriunova offers a critical analysis of the processes that produce digital culture. Digital cultures thrive on creativity, developing new forces of organization to overcome repetition and reach brilliance. In order to understand the processes that produce culture, the author introduces the concept of the art platform, a specific configuration of creative passions, codes, events, individuals and works that are propelled by cultural currents and maintained through digitally native means. Art platforms can occur in numerous contexts bringing about genuinely new cultural production, that, given enough force, come together to sustain an open mechanism while negotiating social, technical and political modes of power. Software art, digital forms of literature, 8-bit music, 3D art forms, pro-surfers, and networks of geeks are test beds for enquiry into what brings and holds art platforms together. Goriunova provides a new means of understanding the development of cultural forms on the Internet, placing the phenomenon of participatory and social networks in a conceptual and historical perspective, and offering powerful tools for researching cultural phenomena overlooked by other approaches.

Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

Computers & Technology

Goriunova, Olga

Computer Science

Routledge

Bleak Joys: Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility (Volume 53) (Posthumanities)

A philosophical and cultural distillation of the bleak joys in today’s ambivalent ecologies and patterns of life
 Bleak Joys develops an understanding of complex entities and processes—from plant roots to forests to ecological damage and its calculation—as aesthetic. It is also a book about “bad” things, such as anguish and devastation, which relate to the ecological and technical but are also constitutive of politics, the ethical, and the formation of subjects.
Avidly interdisciplinary, Bleak Joys draws on scientific work in plant sciences, computing, and cybernetics, as well as mathematics, literature, and art in ways that are not merely illustrative of but foundational to our understanding of ecological aesthetics and the condition in which the posthumanities are being forged. It places the sensory world of plants next to the generalized and nonlinear infrastructure of irresolvability—the economics of indifference up against the question of how to make a home on Planet Earth in a condition of damaged ecologies. Crosscutting chapters on devastation, anguish, irresolvability, luck, plant, and home create a vivid and multifaceted approach that is as remarkable for its humor as for its scholarly complexity.
Engaging with Deleuze, Guattari, and Bakhtin, among others, Bleak Joys captures the modes of crises that constitute our present ecological and political condition, and reckons with the means by which they are not simply aesthetically known but aesthetically manifest.

Literature & Fiction

Fuller, Matthew

History & Criticism

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Bleak Joys develops an understanding of complex entities and processes—from plant roots to forests to ecological damage and its calculation—as aesthetic. It draws on scientific work in plant sciences, computing, and cybernetics, as well as mathematics, literature, and art in ways that are foundational to understanding ecological aesthetics and the condition in which the posthumanities are being forged.

Software art is a practice that regards software as a cultural phenomenon that defines one of the principal domains of our existence today. Thus, software is not regarded as an invisible layer, but rather as a decisive level and a language working at reproduction of certain orders, whether aesthetic, cultural, social or political. Software art creatively questions and redefines software and its ways of functioning.

Read Me: Software Art & Cultures

Arts & Photography

Aarhus University Press

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Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

Bleak Joys: Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility (Volume 53) (Posthumanities)

Bleak Joys: Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility (Volume 53) (Posthumanities)

Read Me: Software Art & Cultures