Beyond globalization : making new worlds in media, art, and social practices /

Beyond Globalization highlights how mediated practices have become integral to global culture; how social practices have emerged out of computer-related industries; how contemporary apocalyptic narratives reflect the anxieties of a U.S. culture facing global challenges; and how design, play, and tec...

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Other Authors: Aneesh, A. (Aneesh), 1964-, Hall, Lane, 1955-, Petro, Patrice, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2012
Series:New directions in international studies.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the making of worlds / A. Aneesh, Lane Hall, and Patrice Petro
  • Global media and culture / Mark Poster
  • Burning man at Google: a cultural infrastructure for new media production / Fred Turner
  • Apocalypse by subtraction: late capitalism and the trauma of scarcity / Peter Y. Paik
  • These great urbanist games: new Babylon and second life / Thomas M. Malaby
  • Format television and Israeli telediplomacy / Tasha G. Oren
  • Mediating "neutrality": Latino diasporic films / Yeidy M. Rivero
  • Killing me softly: Brazilian film and bare life / Amy Villarejo
  • The man, the corpse, and the icon in Motorcycle diaries: utopia, pleasure and a new revolutionary imagination / Cristina Venegas
  • Saudades on the Amazon: toward a soft sweet name for involution / Craig Saper
  • States of distraction: media art strategies within public conditions / Mat Rappaport
  • Bio art / Eduardo Kac.