Media Environments
A more McLuhanesque interest of mine are media-related properties of electronic spaces. If the medium is the message, what is the message of computer networks? Media have biases which make certain things easier and others more difficult. They exercise a profound impact on what is being communicated through them. Of course they don't determine but definitely shape the content. They relegate certain things to the background, while drawing others to the fore.
Here, the redefinition of space is of particular interest to me. Manuel Castells coined the term "space of flows" for a new kind of space which enables real-time interaction without physical proximity. This is creating new types of social spaces, impacting on the physical spaces as we know them, in a pattern of simultaneous fragmentation (based on locality) and re-integration (based on function).| <*> | Our New Public
Life. (pdf) Gerfried Stocker / Christine Schöpf (Hrsg.): Goodbye Privacy. Katalog zur Ars Electronica 2007, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag |
| <*> | Turbulent
Spaces of Fragments and Flows Sarai Reader 06, Turbulence. Sarai Dehli, 2006 |
| <*> | Manuel Castells and the
Theory of the
Network Society. Polity Press, 2006 First comprehensive critical review of Castells's theory of the network society. |
| <*> | Fragmented Places
and Open Societies Published in the exhibition catalogue to "Open Nature", ICC Tokyo, April 29 - July 3, 2005 |
| <*> | Transeuropean
Picnic posted to nettime, May 3, 2004 |
| <*> |  (Translation of The Network Paradigm: Social Formations in the Age of Information (local copy), by Liu Wei, 09.20003. Foreign Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Bejing |
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Space
of Flows:
Characteristics and Strategies [Talk, slightly revised, given at the Doors of Perception conference (http:/ flow.doorsofperception.com), Amsterdam, November 14-16, 2002] A revised version, with proper references, is available and still seeks a good publisher. |
| <*> |
The
Culture of Conduits Essay written for the "zones" show by Thomas Kneubühler: (11.16-12.14.2002) at Observatoire 4 de Montréal |
| <*> |
The
Culture of
Broadband Mute, Issue 24, May 2002 |
| <*> | Datenströme und Knoten. Charakteristiken der neuen Medienumgebung (übersetzt von Roland Voullié). In: Stefen Iglhaut; Martin Roth, Peter Weibel (Hrsg). Hyperorganismen. Internationalismus Verlag, Berlin. 2001 pp. 345-353 |
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In
den Fängen
der
Netzwerkgesellschaft |
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The
Space
of Flows |
| <*> | Flows
and
nodes: The financial markets as new media environment.
(pdf) The Convergence: Journal for Research into New Media Technologies (Vol.7/No.3) 2001 |
| <*> | Viruses
on the Internet: Monoculture breeds parasites Telepolis [May 10, 2000] English version, German version |
| <*> | Turning
Tides: Reading the Hotmail hack Telepolis, [Sept. 2, 1999]. English version, German version |
| <*> |
Global
Financial Markets and
the Bias of Networks (1999) |
| <*> | Internet
Retrograde: The Rise of Infomercials Published by Gallery 9/Walker Art Center for "AIRWORLD" by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy [August 1999] |
| <*> | The
Network Paradigm: Social Formations in the Age of Information
(local
copy) The Information Society (December 1998) This text has also been translated into Dutch. |
| <*> | The
Logic of
Networks: Social Landscapes vis-a-vis the Space of Flows CTheory (February 1998) |
| <*> | The Nature of Financial Networks (1997) |
| <*> | The Political Economy of Financial Networks (1997) |
| <*> | Coming
Round
Full Circle: The Financial Markets as Pop Events Nettime (October, 1997) |
| <*> | New
Environment--Old Story Talk at the Local Knowledge / Global Wisdom Conference (1997) |
| <*> | Information Ecology (1997) |