materiality

Against Animal Authenticity, Against the Forced March of the Now: a review of Nicole Shukin’s Animal Capital

In one half of a pair of critical reviews looking at recent titles in animal studies, Karl Steel examines Nicole Shukin's Animal Capital (Shukin reviews Steel in the other half). In particular, Steel looks at Shukin's biopolitical framework, and considers how that framework challenges not only our conception of what constitutes the animal, but also--and more to the bone--our conception of the capacity of fields like animal studies.

Computers, Cut-ups, and Combinatory Volvelles

“With each project I find myself reimagining what cinema might be”: An Interview with Zoe Beloff

Jussi Parikka interviews artist Zoe Beloff about her relationship to the emerging set of interdisciplinary theories and methodologies known as media archaeology. In way of response, Beloff discusses some past works, including: Lost (1995), Shadow Land (2000), Claire and Don in Slumberland (2002), Charming Augustine (2005), The Somnambulists (2008), and The Dream Films (2009).

The Cybernetic Turn: Literary into Cultural Criticism

Joseph Tabbi reviews the essay collection Simulacrum America.

Printed Privileges

Carsten Schinko on Niklas Luhmann's Analogue Loyalty.

Re-Clearing the Ground: A Response to Linda Brigham

Mark Hansen responds to Linda Brigham's review of Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing.

Interferences: [Net.Writing] and the Practice of Codework

Materiality and Matter and Stuff: What Electronic Texts Are Made Of

John Cayley responds in turn

John Cayley replays what is literal and literary in the digital.

Introduction: ceci n’est pas un texte