Index

Contents

Introduction                                                 7


Chapter I
ANTI
1. The Foul Promises of 'Interactivity' and 'Openness'.      20
   Rereading 'Art, Power and Communication'
2. Anti-Copyright in Artistic Subcultures                    24
3. The Fiction of the Creative Industries                    39
4. Rhizomatic Blitzkrieg                                     43


Chapter II
MEDIA
5. Literature in the Internet                                54
6. Digital Code and Literary Text                            68
7. Ctrl > Alt > Delete                                       75
8. The Creative Common Misunderstanding                      82
9. Animals that Belong to the Emperor                        90
10. $(echo echo) echo $(echo): Command Line Poetics          96
11. Peer-to-Peer Services: Transgressing the Archive         102 
    (and Its Maladies?)	
12. What Is Interface Aesthetics, or What Could It Be (Not)? 112


Chapter III 
EPHEMERA
13. BNADJT PD                                                124
14. Ultimate Manifesto of Neoism                             124
15. self.pl                                                  129
16. Action Melancholia                                       129
17. Pop Culture and the Aesthetics of Connection             132
18. Floppy Films                                             139


Chapter IV 
SPECULATIVE
19. Language and Software Studies                            142
20. Poetic Art of Wisdom: Quirinus Kuhlmann's                148
    41st Kiss of Love'
21. Alternative Porn and Aestetic Sensibility                162
22. mez,_Viro.Logic Condition] [ ing] [ I.I_                 167
23. Notes on the Nature of Conspiracy                        186
24. In Some Respects Reversed: Georg Philipp Harsdorffer's   193
    Frauenzimmer Gesprachspiele
	

Chapter V 
ARTS
25. With Perhaps the Exception of Rhythm                     200
26. Pataphysical Music Machines                              211
27. Social Hacking, Revisited                                220
28. Post-Digital Writing                                     227	

Small Museum of Obsessions                                   240

Notes                                                        243

Also available in this series                                261