Index

Contents

List of Figures   ix
Acknowledgements   xi
Notes on Contributors   xiii

1   Thinking Postdigital Aesthetics: Art, Computation
    and Design   1
    David M. Berry and Michael Dieter

2   What Is ' Post-digital' ?    12
    Florian Cramer

3   Genealogies of the New Aesthetic   27 
   Christiane Paul and Malcolm Levy

4   The Postdigital Constellation   44 
   David M. Berry

5   Communication Models, Aesthetics and Ontology of the 
   Computational Age Revealed   58 
   Lukasz Mirocha

6   How to Be Theorized: A Tediously Academic Essay on the
   New Aesthetic   72
   Katja Kwastek

7   A Hyperbolic and Catchy New Aesthetic    86 
   Daniel Pinkas

8   The Genius and the Algorithm: Reflections on the New
   Aesthetic as a Computer's Vision   96
   Stamatia Portanova

9   Selfiecity: Exploring Photography and Self-Fashioning in Social 
   Media   109 
   Alise Tifentale and Lev Manovich

10  Judging Like a Machine   123
   David Golumbia

11  Not Now? Feminism, Technology, Postdigital   136 
   Caroline Bassett

12  Postscript on the Post-digital and the Problem of Temporality   151
    Geoff Cox

13  Dark Patterns: Interface Design, Augmentation and Crisis   l63 
    Michael Dieter

14  Data Visualization and the Subject of Political Aesthetics   179
    Sean Cubitt

15  School Will Never End: On Infantilization in Digital 
    Environments - Amplifying Empowerment or Propagating 
   Stupidity?   191 
    Mercedes Bum

16  The City and the City: London 2012 Visual (Un)Commons   203
    Jussi Parikka

17  Going Beyond the Visible: New Aesthetic as an Aesthetic
    of Blindness?   219
    Shintaro Miyazaki

18  Glitch Sorting: Minecraft, Curation and the Postdigital   232 
    Thomas Apperley

19  Through Glass Darkly: On Google's Gnostic Governance   245 
    Marc Tuters

20  New Aesthetic in the Perspective of Social Photography   259 
    Vito Campanelli

21  Aesthetics of the Banal - 'New Aesthetics' in an Era of Diverted 
    Digital Revolutions   271 
    Christian Ulrik Andersen and Seren Bro Pold

22  Networks NOW: Belated Too Early   289 
   Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Index  316