From Digital to Analog

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

• Author(s): Augustín Berti,
• Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
• Pages: 287
• ISBN_10: 1453916679
  ISBN_13: 9781453916674
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language , LAN004000 , Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies , Language Arts & Disciplines / Public Speaking & Speech Writing , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / American / General , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Performing Arts / Film / General , Philosophy / Aesthetics ,

Description:... «From Digital to Analog engagingly reveals the hidden significance of anomalous, unusual digital objects such as the early electronic literary project, Agrippa (A Book of the Dead), and of diverse practices of piracy, hacking, bootlegging, remixing, e-poetry, digital memes, leaks, clones, and zombies to understanding the strange life of digital objects and the current cultural formations they unsettle, redouble, and preserve. Its roundabout, thick description of the backalleys of digital culture and critical pursuit of what may appear to be momentary aberrations to acceptable, standardized digital reproduction effectively mobilizes recent philosophy of technology to unpack a series of persistent, unavoidable questions digital objects pose today. The book sheds crucial light on seemingly contradictory traits, such as digital objects' notoriously immaterial materiality, and underscores the pressing at once technical, aesthetic, political, and economic - importance of confronting this unacknowledged, underexplored complexity. Recontextualizing and rejecting predominant ideologies of the digital as «pure content» by reading them through and against the oblique shadows, contours, and diffractions provided by stray digital literary experiments and other unexpected digital forays, From Digital to Analog reasserts and significantly expands the value of reading electronic literature, print and digital hybrids, and other variously experimental digital practices with full awareness of their critical contributions to digital cultures face to face with their technicity.» (Laura Shackelford, Associate Professor of English, Rochester Institute of Technology / Author of Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction).