Index

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Ambivalence and authorship	viii
The third space of authorship	1
The new Prohibition	14

PART ONE The aesthetics of appropriation	37
Interruption (stoppage + repetition)	51
Disturbance (action + event)	72
Capture/leakage (performance + documentation)	83
Dynamic data and augmented bodies	110

PART TWO Authorship	117
From karaoke culture to vernacular video	119
‘Aberrant decoding’ and a tactical aesthetics	141
Google Empire: smart art, intelligent agents	171
Real time	189

PART THREE Creative cannibalism and digital anthropophagy	197
Digital anthropophagy	199
Translation: performing the in between	205
‘Productive mistranslation’ (China and Pakistan)	209
Conclusion	239
Notes	241
Bibliography	251
Index	277