Critical Digital Studies

Acknowledgments

Introduction
ARTHUR AND MARILOUISE KROKER

CODE BREAKERS

1. Traumas of Code
   N. KATHERINE HAYLES
2. A Game of Cat’s Cradle: Science Studies, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies
   DONNA J. HARAWAY
3. Reframing the Cathedral: Opening the Sources of Technologies and Cultural Assumptions
   SARA DIAMOND
4. Romancing the Anti-body: Lust and Longing in (Cyber)space
   LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON

NEW DIGITAL MEDIA

5. All Bugs Are Shallow: Digital Biopower, Hacker Resistance, and Technological Error in Open-Source Software
   MATTHEW KELLY
6. Contagion Theory: Beyond the Microbe
   TONY D. SAMPSON
7. A Conversation with Spirits inside the Simulation of a Coast Salish Longhouse
   JACKSON 2BEARS
8. Empire@Play: Virtual Games and Global Capitalism
   NICK DYER-WITHEFORD AND GREIG DE PEUTER
9. Archaeologies of Media Art
   JUSSI PARIKKA IN CONVERSATION WITH GARNET HERTZ

TECHNOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND SURVEILLANCE

10. Precision + Guided + Seeing
    JORDAN CRANDALL
11. Understanding Meta-media
    LEV MANOVICH
12. Black Box, Black Bloc
    ALEXANDER R. GALLOWAY
13. Biophilosophy for the 21st Century
    EUGENE THACKER
14. Algebra of Identity: Skin of Wind, Skin of Streams, Skin of Shadows, Skin of Vapour
    D. FOX HARRELL

POLITICS, GENDER, AND RELIGION

INFORMATION AND POWER

15. Communication and Imperialism
    JAMES TULLY
16. Occupology, Swarmology, Whateverology: The City of (Dis)order versus the People’s Archive
    GREGORY SHOLETTE
17. Tell Us What’s Going to Happen: Information Feeds to the War on Terror
    SAMUEL NUNN
18. Grammar of Terrorism: Captivity, Media, and a Critique of Biopolitics
    MICHAEL DARTNELL
19. Virilio’s Apocalypticism
    MARK FEATHERSTONE

GENDER AND SEXUALITY

20. The Cyborg Mother: A Breached Boundary
    JAIMIE SMITH-WINDSOR
21. Haptics, Mobile Handhelds, and Other ‘Novel’ Devices: The Tactile Unconscious of Reading across Old and New Media
    RACHEL C. LEE
22. Becoming Dragon: A Transversal Technology Study
    MICHA CÁRDENAS

RELIGION AND SOCIETY

23. Circuits, Death, and Sacred fiction: The City of Banaras
    MAHESH DAAS
24. Digital Cosmologies: Religion, Technology, and Ideology
    ARTHUR KROKER
25. Technologies of the Apocalypse: The Left Behind Novels and Flight from the Flesh
    STEPHEN PFOHL

CULTURE, ART, AND COMMUNICATION

PERCEPTION

26. The Aura of the Digital
    MICHAEL BETANCOURT
27. When Taste Politics Meets Terror: The Critical Art Ensemble on Trial
    JOAN HAWKINS
28. Distraction and Digital Culture
    WILLIAM BOGARD

PERFORMANCE

29. Metal Performance: humanizing Robots, Returning to Nature, and Camping About
    STEVE DIXON
30. Prosthetic Head: Intelligence, Awareness, and Agency
    STELARC
31. Simulated Talking Machines: Stelarc’s Prosthetic Head
    JULIE CLARKE
32. Slipstreaming the Cyborg
    FRANCESCA DE NICOLÒ IN CONVERSATION WITH CHRISTINA MCPHEE

SOUND

33. Black Secret Technology (The Whitey on the Moon Dub)
    JULIAN JONKER
34. Material Memories: Time and the Cinematic Image
    PAUL D. MILLER (DJ SPOOKY)
35. The Turntable
    CHARLES MUDEDE

Bibliography

Contributors