From Digital to Analog - "Agrippa" and Other Hybrids in the Beginnings of Digital Culture (Hardcover, New edition)

From Digital to Analog delves into the origins of digitization and its effects on contemporary culture. The book challenges the "common sense" assertion that digitization is just another step in the evolution of the culture of the editorial, film and recorded music industries and their enforcement of copyright laws. Digital technologies in contemporary culture have paradoxically undermined and, at the same time, strengthened such practices, provoking an unprecedented quarrel over the possession of, and access to, cultural products. Agustin Berti uses the release of Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) in 1992 to study this paradox. The importance of Agrippa for digital culture studies is proven through the discussion of the frequently understated importance of the materiality of digital culture. The book develops a critique of digital technology and its alleged neutrality and transparency. Ultimately, it illustrates how Agrippa anticipated a number of contemporary phenomena such as piracy, leaks, remixes, memes, and more, forcing us to rethink the concept of digital content itself and thus the way in which culture is produced, received and preserved today. From Digital to Analog is ideal reading for a graduate student readership, especially Master candidates in the fields of Literature, Arts, Digital Humanities, Digital Culture and New Media Studies.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies, 69
Release date:	August 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Augustin Berti
Dimensions:	230 x 150 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	287
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-2505-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Semiology Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Specific skills > Speaking / pronunciation skills > Public speaking / elocution Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Promotions
LSN:	1-4331-2505-6
Barcode:	9781433125058

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