Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: The Making of Worlds 1
4. 1. Global Media and Culture 15
5. 2. Burning Man at Google: A Cultural Infrastructure for New Media Production 30
6. 3. Apocalypse by Subtraction: Late Capitalism and the Trauma of Scarcity 49
7. 4. These Great Urbanist Games: New Babylon and Second Life 72
8. 5. Format Television and Israeli Telediplomacy 86
9. 6. Mediating “Neutrality”: Latino Diasporic Films 103
10. 7. Killing Me Softly: Brazilian Film and Bare Life 121
11. 8. The Man, the Corpse, and the Icon in Motorcycle Diaries: Utopia, Pleasure, and a New Revolutionary Imagination 138
12. 9. Saudades on the Amazon: Toward a Soft Sweet Name for Involution 162
13. 10. States of Distraction: Media Art Strategies Within Public Conditions 178
14. 11. Bio Art 189
15. Notes 207
16. About the Contributors 229
17. Index 233