Books

Contemporaneity in Embodied Data Practices, 2025

What parallels are there between a human pranayama practitioner and a migratory bird in heavily datafied environments? And what can they tell us about the need to reorient our thinking towards the planetary?

From Commons to NFT, 2023

The seven essays in this book examine the desires and impulses that drive digital culture, focusing on the shift from commons to NFTs, from new forms of sharing to the expansion of private ownership and tradable commodities.

Escape Velocity. Computing and the Great Acceleration, 2022

After 70 years of acceleration, human civilisation has now reached escape velocity, enough energy to move the Earth system out of the steady-state of the Holocene, the relatively stable climate.

Aesthetics of the Commons, 2021

Aesthetics of the Commons examines a series of artistic and cultural projects—drawn from what can loosely be called the (post)digital—that take up this challenge in different ways. What unites them, however, is that they all have a 'double character.' They are art in the sense that they place themselves in relation to (Western) cultural and art systems, developing discursive and aesthetic positions, but, at the same time, they are 'operational' in that they create recursive environments and freely available resources whose uses exceed these systems.

The Digital Condition, 2018

Translation of Kultur der Digitalität, published by Polity Press.

Kultur der Digitalität, 2016

Referentialität, Gemeinschaftlichkeit und Algorithmizität sind die charakteristischen Formen der Kultur der Digitalität,

Der Autor am Ende der Gutenberg Galaxis, 2014

Das Urheberrecht reguliert nicht nur einige Branchen, sondern es repräsentiert eine ganze kulturelle Epoche, die Gutenberg Galaxis. Dabei geht es um eine umfassende, historisch gewachsene kulturelle Landschaft, eine spezifische Subjektivität, kulturelle Identitäten und ein ausdifferenziertes Set an Institutionen, deren Zweck nur in diesem Kontext sinnhaft wird.

Digital Solidarity

This extended essay, Digital Solidarity, responds to the wave of new forms of networked organisation emerging from and colliding with the global economic crisis of 2008.

Deep Search. The Politics of Search beyond Google

This collection gets to the heart of the most important issues concerning our global information ecosystem: Will the ‘soft power’ of one, two, or three corporations exert inordinate yet undetectable influence over what we consider important, beautiful, or true?

Readme! Ascii Culture and the Revenge of Knowledge, 1999

A compilation of writings and debates from the Nettime newsgroup and internet mailing list. This book documents the debates over emerging media technologies that are currently reshaping society.