SpecLab: digital aesthetics and projects in speculative computing
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Main Author: Drucker, Johanna (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2009
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index
Introduction: the background to SpecLab -- Speculative computing -- From digital humanities to speculative computing -- Speculative computing: basic principles and essential distinctions -- Projects at SpecLab -- Temporal modeling -- Ivanhoe -- Subjective meteorology: a system of mapping personal weather -- Modeling a critical approach: metadata in ABsOnline -- The 'patacritical demon -- From aesthetics to aesthesis -- Graphesis and code -- Intimations of (im)materialty: text as code in the electronic environment -- Modeling functionality: from codex to e-book -- Aesthetics and new media -- Digital aesthetics and critical opposition -- Lessons of SpecLab
Nearly a decade ago, Johanna Drucker cofounded the University of Virginia's SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to risky projects with serious aims. In SpecLab she explores the implications of these radical efforts to use critical practices and aesthetic principles against the authority of technology based on analytic models of knowledge
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xix, 241 pages)
ISBN:0226165094
9780226165097

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