Articles

 

'From General Intellect to General Intuition: Electronic Waste, Art Practice and Critical Media Ecologies', ephemera: theory & politics in organization [forthcoming]

 

‘The Virtues of Critical Technical Practice’, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Special Issue: Darkside of the Digital Humanities 25.1 (2014): 216-230.

 

‘The Becoming Environmental of Power: Tactical Media After Control’, Fibreculture Journal 18 (2011), http://eighteen.fibreculturejournal.org/2011/10/09/fcj-126-the-becoming-environmental-of-power-tactical-media-after-control/

 

‘Issues, Processes, AIR: Toward Reticular Politics’, Australian Humanities Review 46 (2009), http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-May-2009/dieter.htm

 

‘Amazon Noir: Piracy, Distribution, Control’, M/C Journal 10.5 (2007), http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0710/07-dieter.php

 

‘Notes on Hardware Archaeology and 8-Bit Video Game Modification,’ Civics, Communication, Industry - ANZCA2007 Conference Proceedings (2007), http://www.latrobe.edu.au/ANZCA2007/proceedings/Dieter.pdf

 

 

Book Chapters

 

‘Locative Aesthetics and the Actor-Network’, in Rowan Wilkin and Gerald Goggin (eds) Locative Media: Culture, Economy, Policy, London: Routledge [forthcoming]

 

‘Childish Things: Counterplay, Game Art, Nostalgia’, in Jan Simons (ed.) Counterplay, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press [forthcoming]

 

w/ Geert Lovink, 'Theses on Making in the Digital Age', in Garnet Hertz (ed.) Critical Making (2012), http://conceptlab.com/criticalmaking/PDFs/CriticalMaking2012Hertz-Manifestos-pp15to20-DieterLovink-ThesesOnMaking.pdf

 

‘Contingent Operations: Reticular Aesthetics, Transduction, and the EKMRZ Trilogy’, in Mark Nunes (ed.) Error: Glitch, Noise and Jam in New Media Cultures, Continuum: New York and London, 2010, pp. 187-209.

 

 

Edited Collections

 

w/ David Berry, New Aesthetics, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillian [forthcoming] 

 

w/ Thomas Apperley, ‘Counterplay: Gaming, Cheating and Control’, Fibreculture Journal 16 (2010), http://sixteen.fibreculturejournal.org/

 

 

 

Selected Presentations

 

'The Virtues of Critical Technical Practice', MFM Research Seminars (March 2014, University of Sussex) 

 

‘Towards a Theory of General Intuition’, Media Archaeology and Technological Debris (June 2013, Goldsmiths, University of London)

 

‘Imaginary Museums, Computationality and the New Aesthetic’, Transmediale (February 2013, Berlin)

 

‘Estranged Agencies: Latourian Discourse and Locative Media’, The Digital Methods Summer School (June, 2012, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam)

 

‘Generation Glitch’, Transmediale (February 2012, Berlin)

 

‘The Nostalgia Mod: Counterplay and Game Art’, Gli.tc/h 20111 (November 2011, Amsterdam)

 

‘Rewiring Tactical Media: From Infopolitics to Ontopolitics’, Rewire: The 4th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology (September 2011, FACT, Liverpool)

 

‘Untying the Mechanical Knot: General Intellect, Open Hardware, Ecologies of Practice', What Is Post-Autonomia Today? (May 2011, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam)

 

 

Other Writing 

 

w/ Rachel Baker, David Berry, Mark Brokering, Amanda French and Barbara Rühling, On Book Sprints (2014), http://www.booksprints.net/2014/05/book-sprint-on-book-sprints/ 

 

‘New Materialism and Non-Humanisation: Interview with Jussi Parikka’, in Speculative Realities, Rotterdam: V2_ Publishing 2013, pp. 23-36; http://v2.nl/files/2013/ebooks/speculative-realities-blowup-reader-6-pdf

 

w/ David M. Berry, Baruch Gottlieb and Lioudmila Voropai, Imaginary Museums, Computationality and The New Aesthetic, Berlin: Transmediale, 2013.

 

w/ David M. Berry, ‘Book Sprinting (or Everything You Wanted To Know About Book Sprinting But Were Afraid To Ask)’, Booktype: The Future of the Book – A Sourcefabric Magazine (2012).

 

w/ David M. Berry, Michel van Dartel, Michelle Kasprzak, Nat Muller, Rachel O'Reilly and José Luis de Vicente, New Aesthetic, New Anxieties, Rotterdam: V2_ Publishing 2012, http://www.v2.nl/files/new-aesthetic-new-anxieties-pdf 

 

w/ Thomas Apperley, ‘Counterplay Editorial’, Fibreculture 16 (2010), http://sixteen.fibreculturejournal.org/issue-16-counterplay/

 

‘Interview with Matthew Kirschenbaum’, Neural 31 (2008): 7-10.

 

 ‘cyclone.soc’, catalogue text for Atmos: Weather as Media, curated by Janine Randerson, Mic Toi Rerehiko, Media and Interdisciplinary Arts Centre, Auckland, 2008.

 

‘Review of Tom Corby (ed.) “Network Art: Practices and Positions”’, Animation 3.2 (2008): 207-211.

 

w/ Nicole Heber, ‘Paper and Pixels in Love: An Email Interview with Alessandro Ludovico’, antiTHESIS 18 (2008): 82-90; http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0806/msg00002.html       

 

‘Review of Michele White’s “The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship”’, Media Information Australia 124 (2007): 198-200.

 

‘Open Cartographies: On Assembling Things Through Locative Media’, New Network Theory Reader, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2007, http://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/27.pdf

 

w/ Amelia Johns and Beornn McCarthy, ‘A Forgetting That Fails to Forget Itself: Interview with Peter Krapp’, antiTHESIS 17 (2007): 115-125.

 

‘Review of McKenzie Wark’s “A Hacker Manifesto”’, Cultural Studies Review 12.1 (2006): 218-221.

 

‘Review of Tiziana Terranova’s “Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age”’, antiTHESIS 16 (2006): 196-198.

 

 

 

Teaching 2014

 

THE DIGITAL BOOK (193417066Y)

 

Studielast: 6

Ingangseis: being admitted to one of the MA's of the Faculty of Humanities

Periode(n): Semester 2 block 1, voertaal English

Onderwijsinstituut: Mediastudies 

 

Subject Description

 

In this module, students learn how the concept of the ‘book’ is translated into new media forms that coincide with transformations in the contemporary publishing industry. The subject contains both theoretical and practical components. Theoretical topics include historical overviews of electronic and independent book publishing; the book as media, covering aspects of materiality, figuration (typography), text, interface, mark-up and metadata; the political economy of formats, protocols and standards; multimedia; distribution and validation (error-checking). The practical component involves students exploring technical affordances in the creation of an e-book using the EPUB format.

 

Objectives

 

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• Demonstrate a critical understanding of contemporary debates pertaining to the publishing sector as professional communicators in the field;
• Present an advanced comprehension of media theory relevant to the book as cultural object;
• Perform enhanced planning and production skills relevant to e-publishing initiatives;
• Prepare and present ideas in both verbal and written mode at an intermediate level and in conformity to conventions of academic presentation;
• Participate in discussion and group assessment activities and be sensitive to the participation of others. 

 

SYLLABUS

 

Week 1 - Introduction: Books as Infrastructure

 

Set Texts

Stephen Levy, ‘Amazon: Reinventing the Book’, Newsweek (17.11.2007), http://www.newsweek.com/amazon-reinventing-book-96909

 

Oprah Winfrey with Jeff Bezos, ‘Kindle Class’, Oprah.com (24.10.2008), http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Take-Jeff-Bezos-Amazon-Kindle-Class

 

Steve Jobs, ‘iBooks for iPad’ (2010), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G31PSNhVUM

 

James Bridle, ‘From Books to Infrastructure’, Domus (2012), http://www.domusweb.it/en/design/2012/06/04/from-books-to-infrastructure.html

 

Alessandro Ludovico, ‘The End of Paper: Can Anything Actually Replace the Printed Page?’, in Post-Digital Print: The Mutation of Publishing Since 1894, Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2012, pp. 83-117.

 

Ted Striphas, ‘The Abuses of Literacy: Amazon Kindle and the Right to Read’, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 7.3 (2010): 297-317.

 

Recommended

Mieke Gerritzen, Geert Lovink and Minke Kampman (eds) I Read Where I Am: Exploring New Information Cultures, Valiz: Amsterdam, 2011, http://www.ireadwhereiam.com/

 

 

Week 2 - From Codex to Markup: The EPUB Format

 

Set Texts

Friedrich Kittler, ‘Code (or, How You Can Write Something Differently)’, in Matthew Fuller (ed.) Software Studies: A Lexicon, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008, pp. 40-47.

 

Adriaan van der Weel, ‘A Brief History of Text and the Computer’, in Changing Our Textual Minds: Towards a Digital Order of Knowledge, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011, pp. 104-141.

 

Mark C. Marino, ‘Critical Code Studies’, Electronic Book Review (2006), http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/codology

 

The Manual

Greg Williams, ‘EPUB: Primer, Preview and Prognostications’, in Collection Management 36 (2011): 182-191.

 

‘EPUB’, Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB

 

Matt Garesh, What is EPUB3?, Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Publishing, 2011.

 

Recommended

John Burrows, ‘Text Encoding’, in Susan Schreibman, et al (eds) A Companion to Digital Humanities, Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/

 

Tools

MAC

Sublime Text 2 – http://www.sublimetext.com/
TextWrangler – http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
TextMate 2 – http://macromates.com/

 

PC

SublimeText 2 – http://www.sublimetext.com/
Notepad 2 – http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
Notepad++ – http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

 

Assets

EPUB 3.0 Samples – https://code.google.com/p/epub-samples/
Project Gutenberg – http://www.gutenberg.org/

 

 

Week 3 - Computational Bibliography: Package Documents & Metadata

 

Set Texts

Gérard Genette, ‘Introduction to the Paratext’, trans. Marie Maclean, New Literary History 22.2 (1991): 261-272.

 

D. F. McKenzie, ‘“What’s Past Is Prologue”: The Bibliographical Society and the History of the Book’, in Making Meaning: “Printers of the Mind” and Other Essays, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002, pp. 259–275.

 

Matthew Kirschenbaum, ‘Editing the Interface: Textual Studies and First Generation Digital Objects’, Text 14 (2002): 15-51.

 

Alan Galey, ‘The Enkindling Reciter: E-Books in the Bibliographic Imagination’, Book History 15 (2012): 210-247.

 

The Manual

Liz Castro, ‘Inside an EPUB File [Selection]’, in EPUB Straight to the Point: Creating eBooks for the Apple iPad and Other Readers, 2011, pp. 91-112.

 

_____. ‘Unpacking a Kindle/Mobi File’, Pigs, Gourds and Wikis (09.04.2012), http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/2012/04/unpacking-kindlemobi-file.html  

 

Case Study Resources: Google Books

Google Books, http://books.google.com/

The Art of Google Books: http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/

Ben Lewis (dir.), Google and the World Brain (2012), http://www.worldbrainthefilm.com/

Andrew Norman Wilson, Workers Leaving the Googleplex (2011), http://vimeo.com/15852288

_____. ScanOps (2012): http://www.andrewnormanwilson.com/ScanOps.html 

 

Week 4 - Translating Media: XML Workflow

 

Set Texts

Chris Mod, ‘Books in the Age of the iPad’, craigmod.com (03.2010), http://craigmod.com/journal/ipad_and_books/

 

N. Katherine Hayles, ‘Translating Media’, in My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005, pp. 89-106.

 

Johanna Drucker, ‘Modeling Functionality: From Codex to eBook’, in SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008, pp. 165-174. 

 

Brendan Riley, ‘A Style Guide to the Secrets of <style>’, in Bradley Dilger and Jeff Rice (eds) From A to <A>: Keywords of Markup, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011, pp. 67-80.

 

Lev Manovich, ‘Import/Export’, in Matthew Fuller (ed.) Software Studies: A Lexicon, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008, pp. 119-125.

 

The Manual

Julian Smart, Creating Great Books Using Jutoh, ed. 1.7, Anthemion, 2013, pp. 1-66; 156-175.

 

Tools 

MAC and PC
Jutoh – http://www.jutoh.com/

 

 

Week 5 - Bookish Aesthetics: Hypertext, Multimedia, Post-Digital

 

Set Texts 

HYPERTEXT 

Max Whitby (dir.) Hyperland, BBC Two (1990), http://vimeo.com/72501076

 

Stuart Moulthrop, ‘You Say You Want a Revolution? Hypertext and the Laws of Media’, in Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Monfort (eds) The New Media Reader, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003, pp. 692-704.

 

MULTIMEDIA

Robert Winter, The CD-Companion to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Voyager Company (1989), http://vimeo.com/7581651

 

Martin Campbell-Kelly, ‘CD-ROM Encyclopedias: Content vs. Code’, in From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry, pp. 288-294.

 

Mike Matas, ‘A Next Generation Digital Book’, TED Talk (2011), http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_matas.html

 

POST-DIGITAL

Florian Cramer, ‘Bound to be a Book: Towards Print as Multimedia and e-Books as Paperbacks’, in Joost Kircz and Adriaan van der Weel (eds) The Unbound Book, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013, pp. 71-79.

 

Jessica Pressman, ‘The Aesthetic of Bookishness in Twenty-First Century Literature’, Michigan Quarterly Review 48.4 (2009): 465-482.

 

Christian Ulrik Andersen and Søren Bro Pold, ‘Post-Digital Books and Disruptive Literary Machines’, Electronic Literature Organization Conference – Chercher le Texte: Locating the Text in Electronic Literature (2013), http://conference.eliterature.org/sites/default/files/papers/Andersen_Pold_v2_0.pdf

 

The Manual

Julian Smart, Creating Great Books Using Jutoh, ed. 1.7, Anthemion, 2013, pp. 99-103.

 

Matt Garrish & Markus Gylling, ‘Multimedia’, in EPUB 3: Best Practices, Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Publishing, 2013, pp. 141-164.

 

Works

Angela Genusa (Portfolio), http://cargocollective.com/angelagenusa 

Kenneth Goldsmith, Printing Out the Internet (2013), http://printingtheinternet.tumblr.com/ 

Wolfgang Ploeger, Google Image Search (2003-ongoing) http://www.wolfgang-ploeger.com/books/books.html

Adrien Parlenge, Cinema.JPG (2010), http://www.adrienparlange.com/cinemadotjpeg.html

Sebastian Schmieg, BOOKS AND BLANKETS 1 - Search by Image (2013) http://www.booksandblankets.org/artists/

Silvio Lorusso (Portfolio), http://silviolorusso.com/ 

Link Editions, Inside My Computer (Series), http://linkeditions.tumblr.com/tagged/in-my-computer 

Dennis Neuschaefer-Rube, The Wizard of Oz, http://cosascool.tumblr.com/post/28844598493/the-wizard-of-oz-book-by-dennis-neuschaefer-rube

 

 

Week 6 - Figuration: Digital Typography & Cover Design

 

Set Texts

DIGITAL TYPOGRAPHY 

Alexander Galloway, ‘Fonts and Phrasing’, C-Theory (1996), http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=84

 

Robin Kinross, 'Modernity After Modernism', in Modern Typography: An Essay in Critical History, London: Hyphen Press, 2004, pp. 158-182.

 

Alan Liu, ‘Information Is Style’, in Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004, pp. 195-230.

 

Ricardo Lafuente, ‘Appropriation and Type: Before and Today’, in FLOSS + Art, Poitiers: GOTO10, 2008, pp. 192-205.

 

Leo Merz, ‘Comic Resistance’, in Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied (eds) Digital Folklore, Stuttgart: Merz & Solitude, 2009, pp. 226-239.

 

The Manual

Liz Castro, ‘Embedding Fonts in EPUB: iPhone, iPad and Nook’, Pigs, Gourds and Wikis (12.04.11), http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/2011/04/embedding-fonts-in-epub-ipad-iphone-and.html

 

Adam Witwer, ‘Font Embedding and Licensing’, in EPUB 3: Best Practices, Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Publishing, 2013, pp. 140-177.

 

Assets

OSP Foundry, http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/

Google Fonts, https://www.google.com/fonts

 

Works

Xu Bing, Book from the Ground (2003-ongoing) http://www.xubing.com/index.php/site/projects/year/2003/book_from_the_ground

Fred Beneson, The Mechanical Turk and Herman Melville, Emoji Dick (2010), http://www.emojidick.com/

Paul Chan, Phaedrus Pron (2011), http://badlandsunlimited.com/books/

Thomas More / Åbäke, Utopia in Utopia (2011), http://dentdeleone.co.nz/utopia-in-utopia/

Page 1: Great Expectations (2012), http://www.graphicdesignand.com/outputs/bliss/page-1

ZXX (2012), http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/53542353499/zxx-a-font-designed-to-be-unable-to-be-read-via

Société Réaliste, media police (2013), http://artfcity.com/2013/10/10/black-and-white-societe-realistes-media-police-font/

Robert Preusse, Crisis of Linearity (2013), http://www.robertpreusse.com/crisisoflinearity

 

COVER DESIGN

James Bridle, ‘On Covers’, booktwo.org (30.07.10), http://booktwo.org/notebook/on-covers/

 

Craig Mod, ‘Hack the Cover’, craigmod.com (05.2012), http://craigmod.com/journal/hack_the_cover/

 

The Manual

Liz Castro, ‘Inside an EPUB File: Creating the Cover’, in EPUB Straight to the Point: Creating eBooks for the Apple iPad and Other Readers, 2011, pp. 113-117.

 

Works

Phil Baines, Penguin by Design: A Cover Story, London: Penguin Books, 2006.

The Book Cover Archive: http://bookcoverarchive.com/

Heman Chong, Untitled (Paperback Covers #01) (2006), http://www.hemanchong.com/projects/2006/paperbackcovers/pictures.html

Benjamin Shaykin, Lo-Res-Books (2010), http://benjaminshaykin.com/Lo-Res-Books 

Stefanie Posavec (Portfolio), http://www.itsbeenreal.co.uk/ 

Odyssey Editions, http://www.odysseyeditions.com/

 

 

Week 7 Cultural Circulation: The Politics of Distribution

 

Set Texts

Sean Cubitt, ‘Distribution and Media Flows’, Cultural Politics 1.2 (2006): 193-214.

 

Michael Dieter, 'Amazon Noir: Piracy, Distribution, Control', M/C 10.5 (2007), http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0710/07-dieter.php

 

Matthew Fuller, ‘In the Paradise of Too Many Books: An Interview with Sean Dockray’, Mute Magazine (May 2011), http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/paradise-too-many-books-interview-sean-dockray

 

Christopher Kelty, ‘The Disappearing Virtual Library’, Al Jazeera (2012), http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/2012227143813304790.html

 

The Manual

Liz Castro, ‘Inside an EPUB File [Selection]’, in EPUB Straight to the Point: Creating eBooks for the Apple iPad and Other Readers, 2011, pp. 118-128.

 

Tools

EPUB Validator – http://validator.idpf.org/

 

Works

Paolo Cirio, Alessandro Ludovico and UBERMORGEN.COM, Amazon Noir (2006), http://www.amazon-noir.com/index0000.html 

Tim Devin, I Left This for You to Read (2008-2009), http://timdevin.com/ileftthishereforyoutoread-about.html 

Linda Hilfling, Kioskbaskere til alle (2013), http://kta.lnd4.net/ 

Sal Randolph, Free Words, http://www.freewords.org/fwabout.html

Public Domain Day, http://publicdomainday.constantvzw.org/

Traumawein and Bernhard Bauch, Ghostwriters (2011-2012), http://traumawien.at/ghostwriters

 

Resources

empyre list – http://www.subtle.net/empyre/

Fibreculture Digital Publishing List – http://fibreculturejournal.org/mailman/listinfo/dpub_fibreculturejournal.org

P-DPA Tumblr – http://p-dpa.tumblr.com/ 

 

Assessment

Bibliographic Analysis: 1,500 words, due 21st February (20%)

EPUB Book: due 21st of March (50%)

Reflective Essay: 2,000 words, due 21st of March (30%)

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