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FCJ-020 Marginal Networks: The Virus between Complexity and Suppression
Roberta Buiani York University, Canada ‘What is a Margin ?’ I asked a friend recently. You know what a margin is” she replied “It’s outside the body of the text. It’s what holds the page together. Also,” she added, “It’s where you write your notes.’ (Berland, 1997) Introduction In a recent article, Sampson suggested that…
FCJ-020 Marginal Networks: The Virus between Complexity and Suppression
Roberta Buiani York University, Canada ‘What is a Margin ?’ I asked a friend recently. You know what a margin is” she replied “It’s outside the body of the text. It’s what holds the page together. Also,” she added, “It’s where you write your notes.’ (Berland, 1997) Introduction In a recent article, Sampson suggested that…
FCJ-019 Digital Monsters, Binary Aliens – Computer Viruses, Capitalism and the Flow of Information
Jussi Parikka Department of Cultural History, University of Turku, Finland As an analogy to a computer virus, consider a biological disease that is 100% infectious, spreads whenever animals communicate, kills all infected animals instantly at a given moment, and has no detectable side effects until that moment. If a delay of even one week were…
FCJ-018 Living Dead Networks
Eugene Thacker School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology Contagion and Transmission In contemporary popular culture, ideas about contagion are often tied up with ideas about information transmission. The film 28 Days Later, for instance, opens with a harrowing scene in which primates undergo medical experiments by being exposed to large doses…
FCJ-017 Material Cultural Evolution: An Interview with Niles Eldredge
Belinda Barnet, Swinburne University of Technology Niles Eldredge, City University of New York Niles Eldredge is good at collecting things, particularly fossils. He is Adjunct Professor of Biology and Geology at the City University of New York, and has been a palaeontologist for nearly forty years. His personal specialty is trilobites – a group of…
FCJ-016 The Online Body Breaks Out? Asence, Ghosts, Cyborgs, Gender, Polarity and Politics
Jonathan Marshall University of Technology, Sydney [1] Representations of the online body seem constantly involved with issues of imprecise, crossed or broken boundaries. Online boundaries, both personal and group, appear especially fluid when contrasted with moves towards establishing impermeable boundaries offline. This contributes to perceptions of disembodiment or potential unity with machines. Online bodies are…
FCJ-015 Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Google-Bomb
Séamus Byrne School of Media and Communications, UNSW Google. That the noun has rapidly become a verb speaks volumes for the influence of this search engine. Powered by PageRank, the accuracy of its results has done more than make Google the premiere search application – it has moved web search into the realm of ‘killer…
FCJ-014 Online Memorialisation: The Web As A Collective Memorial Landscape For Remembering The Dead
Kylie Veale Curtin University of Technology Introduction “The life of the dead consists in being present in the minds of the living.” Cicero In the last ten thousand years, our deceased antecedents are thought to number over one hundred billion (see Davies, 1994). Not much has been recorded about them, unless they were famous, rich…
FCJ-013 It’s New Media: But is it Art Education?
Trebor Scholz Institute for Distributed Creativity There is a crisis in new media arts education. Yet there has been surprisingly little debate about it until recently, despite the widespread emergence of new media arts programs and massive student interest all throughout the North American university landscape. The current crisis is only now starting to get…
FCJ-012 Composing the Self: Of Diaries and Lifelogs
José van Dijck University of Amsterdam Introduction A recent cartoon from a Dutch newspaper shows a man and a woman lying in bed, trying out the best delta-8 vape carts apparently after having sex. ‘Do you keep a diary?’ asks the man to his partner, and upon her negation, he comments: ‘Good. I don’t like…
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