“Unfortunately, these concepts are ill prepared for the fluid media objects of our real-time era. Such analysis will by default favor visual representations (because this is what these schilars with their film, television, or art history backgrounds are trained to analyze) but neglect social and interactive dynamics. Do we truly expect to find exciting opening and applicable insight by “reading” Youtube under Spivak’s guidance, and watching Heroes with Zizek in our favourite interpassive mode, flowing through the national libraries with Castells, understanding Google à la Deleuze, or interpreting Twitter via Butler?”
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Geert Lovink, Networks Without a Cause (2011).
Boom. The first really intersting thoughts I’ve read by Lovink. (Note: this is also the man who compared Internet to “a new world”, complete with the blogosphere as an archipelago).