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Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes <a...@acm.org> +1 (817) 271-9619 On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes <alps6...@gmail.com> wrote: > David, > > It is just so ironic that your book on what I gather is a perspective > inspired on the Frankfurt School's Critical Theory to the modern > digital world is published primarily by print media, and at a cost > that makes it prohibitive to the very people that can benefit "through > its discussion of how the digital can be transformed by political > action and the organisation of digital resistance." - Christian De > Cock, University of Essex, UK > > Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, > > Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes > <a...@acm.org> > +1 (817) 271-9619 > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:37 AM, David Berry <dmbe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I apologise in advance for my use of words. The publishers are very tiresome >> in requiring not only words, but also sentences, paragraphs and so forth. >> There is also an argument in the book. Made up of words. That are actually >> connected together. At least I hope so. One never knows after having been >> though the copyediting/proofing process. >> >> For those who prefer books in hexadecimal, I plan a forthcoming version, >> Critical Theory and the Hexadecimal, which will be encrypted using the NSA >> backdoored random number generator (Dual_EC_DRBG), weak public key >> cryptography (896bit RSA, no padding, no signatures, no authenticity), the >> worst cryptographic hash function possible as a KDF (MD2), and XOR as a >> cipher.* This will be an ironic gesture. >> >> :-) >> >> >> >> >> >> * Thanks to Moxie Marlinspike for the text inspiration. >> >> >> On Tue Feb 25 07:25:53 PST 2014, Reed Black reed at unsafeword.org wrote: >> >> word salad and the digital >> >> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:05 AM, David Berry <dmberry at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> I hope you don't mind my announcing my new book *Critical Theory and the >>> Digital* which explores the contemporary landscape related to >>> computational technology and argues for an approach that revitalises >>> critical theory in light of current questions over cryptography, critical >>> technical practice and related notions of critical digital humanities and >>> code work. I think that some of the subscribers to this list might find >>> the >>> arguments articulated in the book of some interest. >>> >>> >>> http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/critical-theory-and-the-digital-9781441166395/ >>> >>> This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers an original >>> analysis of the role of the digital in today's society. It rearticulates >>> critical theory by engaging it with the challenges of the digital >>> revolution to show how the digital is changing the ways in which we lead >>> our politics, societies, economies, media, and even private lives. In >>> particular, the work examines how the enlightenment values embedded within >>> the culture and materiality of digital technology can be used to explain >>> the changes that are occurring across society. >>> >>> Critical Theory and the Digital draws from the critical concepts developed >>> by critical theorists to demonstrate how the digital needs to be >>> understood >>> within a dialectic of potentially democratizing and totalizing technical >>> power. By relating critical theory to aspects of a code-based digital >>> world >>> and the political economy that it leads to, the book introduces the >>> importance of the digital code in the contemporary world to researchers in >>> the field of politics, sociology, globalization and media studies. >>> >>> Some blurb: >>> >>> "'Adorno will not be your Facebook friend.' Instead of lamenting the >>> cultural elitism of the Frankfurt School, David Berry reopens critical >>> theory's conceptual toolbox with a renewed curiosity. These days the >>> theorist is no longer a prophet who ponders the world divorced from the >>> materiality of communication. It is not enough to merely explore the >>> technosphere, there is an urgency to radically question digital >>> technologies. In this age of conflict, the neoliberal consensus culture is >>> taken to task by critical theory David-Berry-style. In line with the >>> info-activism of Wikileaks and Snowden, Berry instructs us how to read the >>> black box that dominates our everyday lives and helps us to develop a new >>> vocabulary amidst all the crazes, from speculative realism to digital >>> humanities." - Geert Lovink, Media Theorist, Amsterdam >>> >>> "Berry's timely book engages with a broad range of topics that define our >>> digital culture. It guides us to the political materiality of software >>> culture with excellent insights. Importantly, this book updates critical >>> theory for the digital age." - Dr Jussi Parikka, Winchester School of >>> Art, >>> author of What is Media Archaeology? (2012) >>> >>> "In this lucid, learned and highly original book Berry confronts the >>> nature of digital knowledge in society through the re-invigorated lens of >>> Critical Theory asking how we can regain control of the knowledge >>> structures embedded in the digital technologies that we increasingly rely >>> upon in daily life." - Michael Bull, author of Sound Moves: iPod Culture >>> and Urban Experience >>> >>> "Critical Theory and the Digital offers an important new addition to >>> critical theory that explores questions raised by the digital in light of >>> the work of the Frankfurt school. Providing an accessible and critical >>> appraisal of the digital world we live in today, the book argues that >>> critical praxis must today be rethought in light of digital technologies >>> and the affordances that are made available to state, corporate and civil >>> society actors. The book offers both a theoretical and a political >>> contribution: the former through its exploration of how the digital can be >>> read, written, and hacked critically; the latter through its discussion of >>> how the digital can be transformed by political action and the >>> organisation >>> of digital resistance." - Christian De Cock, University of Essex, UK >>> >>> "Unlike many media studies scholars who refer to the Frankfurt School's >>> critique of the cultural industries only to show its inapplicability to >>> the >>> open source world of the digital age, David Berry accomplishes the >>> remarkable feat of re-instating that critique for the new brave world that >>> is afforded by digital technology. Easily moving between Heidegger, Adorno >>> and Stiegler, Berry mobilizes a formidable array of theoretical resources >>> in aid of what he calls 'iteracy', an emerging competence in tracking the >>> contexts in which 'being digital' is continually formed and re-formed. The >>> result is a milestone in both critical theory and the digital humanities." >>> - Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, Department of >>> Sociology, University of Warwick, UK >>> >>> "Bringing dialectical critique to digital culture, David Berry replenishes >>> the legacy of the Frankfurt School in order to devise strategies to live >>> within and against the real-time streams of computational capitalism. >>> Fusing critical theory with the political economy of social media (think >>> Facebook and Twitter), the surveillance paranoia of NSA, the wild party of >>> Hacklabs, the secret autonomy of cryptography, and the accelerated economy >>> of algorithmic trading, Berry registers the contours of the black box that >>> defines digital labour and life." - Ned Rossiter, Institute for Culture >>> and Society, University of Western Sydney, Australia >>> >>> Best >>> >>> David >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> --- >>> >>> Dr. David M. Berry >>> Reader >>> >>> Silverstone 316 >>> >>> School of Media, Film and Music >>> University of Sussex, >>> Falmer, >>> East Sussex. BN1 8PP >>> >>> http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/125219 >>> >> >> >> --- >> >> Dr. David M. Berry >> Reader >> >> Silverstone 316 >> >> School of Media, Film and Music >> University of Sussex, >> Falmer, >> East Sussex. BN1 8PP >> >> http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/125219 >> >> >> -- >> Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of >> list guidelines will get you moderated: >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, >> change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at >> compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
