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When Technocultures Collide: Cultural Studies

Autor Gary Genosko
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 oct 2013
This book provides rich and diverse studies of collision courses between technologically inspired subcultures and the corporate and governmental entities they seek to undermine. The adventures and exploits of computer hackers, phone phreaks, urban explorers, calculator and computer collectors, CrackBerry users, whistle-blowers, Yippies, zinsters, roulette cheats, chess geeks, and a range of losers and tinkerers feature prominently in this volume. Gary Genosko analyzes these practices for their remarkable diversity and their innovation and leaps of imagination. He assesses the results of a number of operations, including the Canadian stories of Mafiaboy, Jeff Chapman of Infiltration, and BlackBerry users. The author provides critical accounts of highly specialised attributes, such as the prospects of deterritorialised computer mice and big toe computing, the role of electrical grid hacks in urban technopolitics, and whether info-addiction and depression contribute to tactical resistance. Beyond resistance, however, the goal of this work is to find examples of technocultural autonomy in the minor and marginal cultural productions of small cultures, ethico-poetic diversions, and sustainable withdrawals with genuine therapeutic potential to surpass accumulation, debt, and competition. The dangers and joys of these struggles for autonomy are underlined in studies of RIMs BlackBerry and Julian Assanges WikiLeaks website.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781554588978
ISBN-10: 1554588979
Pagini: 222
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 136 x 204 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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Table of Contents for
When Technocultures Collide: Innovation from Below and the Struggle for Autonomy by Gary Genosko

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1: Beyond Hands Free: Big-Toe Computing

2: Cultures of Calculation: William Gibson Collects

3: Rebel with an IV Pole: Portrait of Ninjalicious as an Urban Explorer

4: Home-Grown Hacker

5: Hacking the Grid: Does Electricity Want to Be Free?

6: Whistle Test: Blindness and Phone Phreaking

7: In Praise of Weak Play: Against the Chess Computers

8: CrackBerry: Addiction and Corporate Discipline

9: WikiLeaks and the Vicissitudes of Transparency

Conclusion

References

Index


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