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Infrastructure makes worlds. Software coordinates labor. Logistics
governs movement. These pillars of contemporary capitalism
correspond with the materiality of digital communication systems on
a planetary scale. Ned Rossiter theorizes the force of logistical
media to discern how subjectivity and labor, economy and society
are tied to the logistical imaginary of seamless interoperability.
Contingency haunts logistical power. Technologies of capture are
prone to infrastructural breakdown, sabotage, and failure.
Strategies of evasion, anonymity, and disruption unsettle regimes
of calculation and containment. We live in a computational age
where media, again, disappear into the background as
infrastructure. Software, Infrastructure, Labor intercuts
transdisciplinary theoretical reflection with empirical encounters
ranging from the Cold War legacy of cybernetics, shipping ports in
China and Greece, the territoriality of data centers, video game
design, and scrap metal economies in the e-waste industry. Rossiter
argues that infrastructural ruins serve as resources for the
collective design of blueprints and prototypes demanded of radical
politics today.
Examining the cultural, political, economic, technological and
institutional aspects of popular music throughout Asia, this book
is the first comprehensive analysis of Asian popular music and its
cultural industries. Concentrating on the development of popular
culture in its local socio-political context, the volume highlights
how local appropriations of the pop music genre play an active
rather than reactive role in manipulating global cultural and
capital flows. Broad in geographical sweep and rich in contemporary
examples, this work will appeal to those interested in Asian
popular culture from a variety of perspectives including, political
economy, anthropology, communication studies, media studies and
ethnomusicology.
Examining the cultural, political, economic, technological and
institutional aspects of popular music throughout Asia, this book
is the first comprehensive analysis of Asian popular music and its
cultural industries. Concentrating on the development of popular
culture in its local socio-political context, the volume highlights
how local appropriations of the pop music genre play an active
rather than reactive role in manipulating global cultural and
capital flows.
Unlike many studies on globalization which highlight functional
disjunctures of 'cultural imperialism', "Refashioning Pop Music in
Asia" stresses that it is the local context which imbues specific
meanings for different audiences, in turn allowing a creative
synthesis that makes pop music a unique channel through which
cultural identity, political resistance, social expression and
personal desire can be experienced. Popular musical expression in
Asia-its meaning and its practice-cannot be reduced to the State,
market, tradition or to a simple appropriation of Western forms,
rather, it is at the juncture of the local and global that an
aesthetic refashioning of traditional and pop music genres emerge.
Broad in geographical sweep and rich in contemporary examples, this
work will appeal to those interested in Asian popular culture from
a variety of perspectives including, political economy,
anthropology, communication studies, media studies and
ethnomusicology.
This book explores how the management science of logistics changes
working lives and contributes to the making of world regions. With
a focus on the port of Kolkata and changing patterns of Asian
regionalism, the volume examines how logistics entwine with
political power, historical forces, labour movements, and new
technologies. The contributors ask how logistical practices
reconfigure both Asia's relation to the world and its internal
logic of transport and communication. Building on critical
perspectives that understand logistics as a political technology
for producing and organizing space and power, Logistical Asia
tracks how digital technologies and material infrastructure combine
to remake urban and regional territories and produce new forms of
governance and subjectivity.
Infrastructure makes worlds. Software coordinates labor. Logistics
governs movement. These pillars of contemporary capitalism
correspond with the materiality of digital communication systems on
a planetary scale. Ned Rossiter theorizes the force of logistical
media to discern how subjectivity and labor, economy and society
are tied to the logistical imaginary of seamless interoperability.
Contingency haunts logistical power. Technologies of capture are
prone to infrastructural breakdown, sabotage, and failure.
Strategies of evasion, anonymity, and disruption unsettle regimes
of calculation and containment. We live in a computational age
where media, again, disappear into the background as
infrastructure. Software, Infrastructure, Labor intercuts
transdisciplinary theoretical reflection with empirical encounters
ranging from the Cold War legacy of cybernetics, shipping ports in
China and Greece, the territoriality of data centers, video game
design, and scrap metal economies in the e-waste industry. Rossiter
argues that infrastructural ruins serve as resources for the
collective design of blueprints and prototypes demanded of radical
politics today.
This book explores how the management science of logistics changes
working lives and contributes to the making of world regions. With
a focus on the port of Kolkata and changing patterns of Asian
regionalism, the volume examines how logistics entwine with
political power, historical forces, labour movements, and new
technologies. The contributors ask how logistical practices
reconfigure both Asia's relation to the world and its internal
logic of transport and communication. Building on critical
perspectives that understand logistics as a political technology
for producing and organizing space and power, Logistical Asia
tracks how digital technologies and material infrastructure combine
to remake urban and regional territories and produce new forms of
governance and subjectivity.
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Organize (Paperback, 1)
Timon Beyes, Lisa Conrad, Reinhold Martin; Afterword by Geert Lovink, Ned Rossiter
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A pioneering systematic inquiry into-and mapping of-the field of
media and organization Media organize things into patterns and
relations. As intermediaries among people and between people and
worlds, media shape sociotechnical orders. At the same time, media
are organized: while they condition different organizational forms
and processes, they, too, are formed and can be re-formed. This
intimate relation of media and organizing is timeless. Yet
arguably, digital media technologies repose the question of
organization-and thus of power and domination, control and
surveillance, disruption and emancipation. Bringing together
leading media thinkers and organization theorists, this book
interrogates organization as an effect and condition of media. How
can we understand the recursive relation between media and
organization? How can we think, explore, critique, and perhaps
alter the organizational bodies and scripts that shape contemporary
life? Organize will be of interest to scholars and students of new
and old media, social organization, and technology. Moreover, the
dialogical form of these essays provides a concise and
path-breaking view on the recursive relation between technological
media and social organization. The book therefore establishes and
maps "media and organization" as a highly relevant field of
inquiry, appealing to those with a critical interest in the
technological conditioning of the social.
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