Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Contributors ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Preface: Origins, Agents, and Alternative Archaeologies xiii
6. Part I. Medium Specificity And Productive Precursors
7. Medium Specificity and Productive Precursors: An Introduction 3
8. Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis 20
9. Postmedia Aesthetics 34
10. If–Then–Else: Memory and the Path Not Taken 45
11. Cyberspace and Its Precursors: Lintsbach, Warburg, Eisenstein 80
12. Past Indiscretions: Digital Archives and Recombinant History 100
13. Films Beget Digital Media 115
14. Navigating the Ocean of Streams of Story 126
15. Is This Not a Screen? Notes on the Mobile Phone and Cinema 147
16. Part II. Digital Possibilities And The Reimagining Of Politics, Place, And The Self
17. Digital Possibilities and the Reimagining of Politics, Place, and the Self: An Introduction 161
18. Transnational/National Digital Imaginaries 180
19. Is (Cyber) Space the Place? 198
20. Linkages: Political Topography and Networked Topology 211
21. The Database City: The Digital Possessive and Hollywood Boulevard 236
22. Cuba, Cyberculture, and the Exile Discourse 259
23. Thinking Digitally/Acting Locally: Interactive Narrative, Neighborhood Soil, and La Cosecha Nuestra Community 272
24. Video Installation Art as Uncanny Shock, or How Bruce Nauman’s Corridors Expand Sensory Life 291
25. Braingirls and Fleshmonsters 316
26. Tech-illa Sunrise (.txt con Sangrita) 330
27. Works Cited 339
28. Index 373