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Luciana Parisi - Abstract Sex Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire - Continuum, Uk, 2004

Abstract Sex investigates the impact of advances in contemporary science and information technology on conceptions of sex. 
Evolutionary theory and the technologies of viral information transfer, cloning and genetic engineering are changing the way we think about human sex, reproduction and the communication of genetic information. 

Abstract Sex presents a philosophical exploration of this new world of sexual, informatic and capitalist multiplicity, of the accelerated mutation of nature and culture.

Luciana Parisi: Senior Lecturer/Convenor of PhD Cultural Studies

“'...Her vision, and it is a vision, is literally a molecular one in which sex is instantiated in any number of biologically, cultutally and technologically define assemblages...Abstract Sex does a good job of developing a productive critique of the anthropomorphic assumptions of much theorising about sex and gender and its technique of magnifying the place of sex and reproduction onto every stratum of nature-culture is a useful reminder of the relatively limited place of human sex across life forms.'” – Andrew Goffey,

“"I deeply appreciate Parisi's vigorous and unapologetic engagement with scientific theories and evidence." -Myra J. Hird, Feminist Studies, Vol. 35, Summer 2009” – 

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Dr Luciana Parisi’s research looks at the asymmetric relationship between science and philosophy, aesthetics and culture, technology and politics to investigate potential conditions for ontological and epistemological change.  Her work on cybernetics and information theories, evolutionary theories, genetic coding and viral transmission has informed her analysis of culture and politics, the critique of capitalism, power and control. During the late 90s she worked with the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at Warwick and has since been writing with Steve Goodman (aka kode 9). In 2004, she published Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire (Continuum Press), where she departed from the critical impasse between notions of the body, sexuality, gender on the one hand, and studies of science and technologies on the other. Her work engaged with ontological and epistemological transformations entangled to the technocapitalist development of biotechnologies, which un-intentionally re-articulated models of evolutions, questioning dominant conceptions of sex, femininity and desire.  Since the publication of Abstract Sex, she has also written on the bionic transformation of the perceptive sensorium triggered by new media, on the advancement of new techno-ecologies of control, and on the nanoengineering of matter.  She has published articles about the relation between cybernetic machines, memory and perception in the context of a non-phenomenological critique of computational media and in relation to emerging strategies of branding and marketing. Her interest in interactive media has also led her research to engage more closely with computation, cognition, and algorithmic aesthetics. She is currently writing on architectural modeling and completing a monograph: Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics and the Control of Space  (MIT Press, April 2013).

The Dark Side of the Digital - May 2-4 2013, Milwaukee, Usa

At least since the 1980s, the digital has been the occasion for enthusiastic, often utopian, dreams. In almost every area of human and nonhuman endeavor—finance, consumer culture, technoscience, education, medicine, communication, or the arts—digital technologies have been heralded as revolutionary if not redemptive. But there has always been a dark side to such digital enthusiasm—dark places that scholars of the digital tend to overlook as they illuminate new fields and paths; dark practices that intensify social inequalities and accelerate environmental destruction; and dark politics that often remain obscure to global media users. Devastating labor conditions at factories like FoxConn in China are exacerbated by the appetite for next generation iPhones or iPads. Securitization and data mining are fueled by the eagerness of contemporary media users to share their search patterns, location, and affective labor. And the environmental destruction from disposing the hazardous waste of still functioning but outmoded media devices, or mining for the precious metals that the continued production of these new devices require, is mostly invisible to the consumers of new tablets, mobile phones, HD monitors, and netbooks.

The Dark Side of the Digital seeks proposals for critical, historical, and theoretical papers and creative presentations that shed light on some of the dangerous but overlooked consequences of the 21st-century transformation from mechanical reproduction to digital remediation. We are especially interested in work that pays particular attention to the conjunction of neoliberalism and socially networked digital media, in order to offer some suggestions about how the digital can best move forward in the 21st century. In particular we seek papers and presentations that pursue instances of specific digital technologies in such realms as:

• surveillance and security
• cyberwar and drone warfare
• technoscience
• media, arts, or culture
• communication
• education
• economy and finance
• energy, resource, and waste management
• medicine and healthcare

Proposals should also address strategies for resisting some of the more perfidious elements of the digital, including those that emerge from and must remain in the interstices of the 21st century networked society of control. We invite contributions from practitioners of digital arts and sciences, media theorists and philosophers, historians, cultural critics, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and other analysts of digital technologies and culture.

Please send your abstract (up to 250 words) and a brief (1-page) CV by Friday, January 4 to Richard Grusin, Director, Center for 21st Century Studies, c21@uwm.edu. read more

Lars Nyre - Sound Media - Taylor & Francis, Usa, 2008

Sound Media considers how music recording, radio broadcasting and muzak influence people's daily lives and introduces the many and varied creative techniques that have developed in music and journalism throughout the 20th century. Lars Nyre starts with the contemporary cultures of sound media, and works back to the archaic soundscapes of the 1870s. The first part of the book devotes five chapters to contemporary digital media, and presents the internet, the personal computer, digital radio (news and talk) and various types of loudspeaker media (muzak, DJ-ing, clubbing and PA systems). The second part examines the historical accumulation of techniques and sounds in sound media, and presents multitrack music in the 1960s, the golden age of radio in the 1950s and back to the 1930s, microphone recording of music in the 1930s, the experimental phase of wireless radio in the 1910s and 1900s, and the invention of the gramophone and phonograph in the late 19th century. Sound Media includes a soundtrack CD with 36 examples from broadcasting and music recording in Europe and the USA, from Edith Piaf to Sarah Cox, and is richly illustrated with figures, timelines and technical drawings.


Acknowledgements Soundtrack Figures 1. Theoretical Introduction to Sound Media Part I: The Present Time 2. The Acoustic Computer. Nervous experiments with Sound Media 3. Synthetic Music. Digital Recording in Great Detail 4. The Mobile Public. Journalism for Urban Navigators 5. Phone Radio. Personality Journalism in Voice Alone 6. Loudspeaker Living. Pop Music is Everywhere Part II: Backwards History 7. Tape Control. A Revolution in Music Recording 1970s – 1950s 8. The Acoustic Nation. Live Journalism 1960s – 1930s 9. Microphone Moods. Music Recording 1940s – 1930s 10. The Live Public. Experiments in Broadcasting 1920s – 1900s 11. The Repeating Machine. Music Recording 1920s – 1870s. Literature. Soundtrack Supplement. Index


Lars Nyre is an Associate Professor at the University of Bergen and Volda University College, Norway. He is chair of the research network Digital Radio Cultures in Europe (www.drace.org) and has published articles about mass media in research journals including Journalism Studies and the Journal of Radio and Audio Media


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STEVE GOODMAN - MAY 11, 2012: PUBLIC SYMPOSION IN LÜNEBURG: NEW TECHNOLOGIES – NEW SOUND PRACTICES

MAY 11, 2012: PUBLIC SYMPOSION IN LÜNEBURG: NEW TECHNOLOGIES – NEW SOUND PRACTICES

By Ann-Kathrin Eickhoff, Berlin

A Public Symposion at Freiraum Lüneburg on the occasion of the 5th Workshop of the International Research Network

funded by the German Research Foundation DFG and Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Friday May 11, 2012

4.30pm – 8pm

Freiraum Lüneburg
Salzstraße 1 [entry Auf der Altstadt]
21335 Lüneburg

How do new technologies shape the way we conceptualize, produce, and listen to sound?

How do these new sound practices affect notions like instrument, performance, and playing?

Together with the British sound researchers Steve Goodman („Sonic Warfare“, 2009) and Julian Henriques („Sonic Bodies“, 2011), we want to focus on the interrelationship between sound technologies, sound practices, and sound theories.

A panel discussion with Mark Butler („Unlocking the Groove“, 2006) and Paul Théberge („Any Sound You Can Imagine“, 1997) alongside Goodman and Henriques is followed by a performance on cello, wiimote, computer, and turntables with Sutsche & Fello (Pingipung Records, Hamburg).

With:
Steve Goodman
Julian Henriques
Mark Butler
Paul Théberge
Susanne Binas-Preisendörfer
Jochen Bonz
Michael Bull
Diedrich Diederichsen
Veit Erlmann
Franco Fabbri
Golo Föllmer
Marta García Quiñones
Rolf Großmann
Maria Hanáček
Carla Müller-Schulzke
Carlo Nardi
Jens Gerrit Papenburg
Thomas Schopp
Holger Schulze
Peter Wicke

Performance by Sutsche & Fello

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Gilbert Simondon - L'individuazione. Alla luce delle nozioni di forma e d'informazione (Mimesis, It, Dicembre 2011)

Questo testo costituisce la prima traduzione italiana integrale del capolavoro di Gilbert Simondon (1924-1989): la tesi di dottorato principale. In questo saggio fondamentale, l’Autore promuove una puntuale critica alle classiche concezioni filosofiche delle nozioni di individuo e soggetto, ripensandone le definizioni a partire dal processo che sottende alla loro costituzione ed elaborazione. A tale scopo, Simondon sviluppa alcune significative suggestioni provenienti dalla tradizione della fenomenologia francese, dalla Gestaltpsychologie, dalla Teoria dell’Informazione e dalla Fisica quantistica, articolando, al contempo, una riflessione autonoma e sistematica, atta a ripensare l’individualità alla luce dei contributi delle più recenti teorie scientifiche. Il primo volume di quest’opera consta della traduzione italiana del monumentale saggio simondoniano, con Prefazione di Jacques Garelli; questa edizione ripresenta nella sua unitarietà complessiva l’opera simondoniana. Il secondo volume raccoglie l’Introduzione, le note, l’apparato al testo e il commento storico-critico-analitico di Giovanni Carrozzini, curatore della presente 
edizione italiana.


Gilbert Simondon (Saint-Étienne, 1924-Palaiseau, 1989) è il massimo filosofo della tecnologia del ‘900. Nella sua opera, ha articolato un’originale interpretazione filosofica del processo ontogenetico che sottende alla costituzione dell’individualità, sviluppando un interesse scientificamente documentato per la dimensione culturale delle tecniche e delle tecnologie. Docente di Psychologie générale alla Sorbona dal 1964 al 1984, fondatore e direttore del Laboratoire de Psychologie générale et Technologie, è autore, oltre che de L’individuation à la lumière des notions de forme et d’information, del saggio Du mode d’existence des objets techniques (Aubier, 1958).


Giovanni Carrozzini (Lecce, 1981), Dottore di ricerca in discipline storico-filosofiche all’Università del Salento, è uno dei maggiori studiosi del pensiero simondoniano. Si occupa di epistemologia e di storia e filosofia delle scienze e delle tecniche. Oltre ai volumi Gilbert Simondon: per un’assiomatica dei saperi. Dall’“ontologia dell’individuo” alla filosofia della tecnologia (2006) e Gilbert Simondon filosofo della mentalité technique (Mimesis, 2011), ha curato un numero monografico della rivista «Il Protagora» (di cui è segretario di redazione), Gilbert Simondon filosofo delle tecniche (2008). È collaboratore scientifico del Centro Internazionale Insubrico “Carlo Cattaneo” e “Giulio Preti”.