Postdigital Aesthetics: Art, Computation and Design

Postdigital Aesthetics presents a constellation of contributors who seek to unpack, explore and critically reflect on the questions raised by the notion of the postdigital and its relation to our computational everyday lives. Through a number of interventions, each chapter subjects the concept and ideas that surround our ideas of an aesthetic of the postdigital to critical examination to understand the new asterism of material digital culture in the twenty-first century. From Minecraft to post-internet art, each contributor offers an original perspective on network culture and its distinctive aesthetics and politics, and the relations between art, computation and design.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction; David Berry And Michael Dieter 2. What Is Post-Digital?; Florian Cramer 3. Genealogies Of The New Aesthetic; Malcolm Levy And Christine Paul 4. The Post-Digital Constellation; David Berry 5. Communication Models, Aesthetics And Ontology Of The Computational Age Revealed; Lukasz Mirocha 6. How To Be Theorized. A F*** Academic Essay On The New Aesthetic; Katja Kwastek 7. A Hyperbolic New Aesthetic; Daniel Pinkas 8. The Genius And The Algorithm. Reflections On The New Aesthetic As A Computer's Vision; Stamatia Portanova 9. Selfiecity: Exploring Photography And Self-Fashioning In Social Media; Lev Manovich And Alise Tifentale 10. Judging Like A Machine; David Golumbia 11. Not Now? : Feminism, Technology, Postdigital; Caroline Bassett 12 . Postscript On The Problem Of Temporality In The Post-Digital; Geoff Cox 13. Dark Patterns: Interface Design, Augmentation And Crisis; Michael Dieter 14. Data Visualisation And The Subject Of Political Aesthetics; Sean Cubitt 15 . School Will Never End: On Infantilization In Digital Environments - Amplifying Empowerment Or Propagating Stupidity?; Mercedes Bunz 16 . The City And The City: London 2012 Visual (Un)Commons; Jussi Parikka 17 . Going Beyond The Visible: New Aesthetic As An Aesthetic Of Blindness?; Shintaro Miyazaki 18. Glitch Sorting: Minecraft, Curation And The Postdigital; Thomas Apperley 19 . Through Glass Darkly: Google's Gnostic Governance; Marc Tuters 20. New Aesthetic In The Perspective Of Social Photography; Vito Campanelli 21 . Aesthetics Of The Banal - 'New Aesthetics' In An Era Of Diverted Digital Revolutions; Soren Bro Pold And Christian Ulrik Andersen 22. Networks NOW: Belated Too Early; Wendy Chun

About the Author :
David M. Berry is Reader in the School of Media, Film and Music at the University of Sussex. He writes widely on computation and the digital and is the author of Critical Theory and the Digital; The Philosophy of Sofware: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age; Copy, Rip Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source and editor of Understanding Digital Humanities. Michael Dieter is Associate Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick, UK.

Review :
'What is the digital? Or rather, what was it? And how has culture changed, now that the Internet got normal? In this capacious compendium of essays, some of the world's leading scholars discuss the art and culture of the present age, a time not so much 'of' the digital but forged in reaction to it. From the New Aesthetic and Post-Internet Art to more exotic trends in contemporary theory, this timely volume explores what it means to see, feel, and think after the advent of ubiquitous digitality.' Alexander R. Galloway, New York University, USA "Computational thought and perspectives now permeate every aspect of our lives and profoundly influence our cultural and aesthetic perceptions, leading to claims of the emergence of a new aesthetic. However, the postdigital landscape is not the techno-utopian dream of Silicon Valley, but a vibrant, messy, conflicted and confusing arena of debate and uncertainty which challenges every aspect of our cultural formation, including our own humanity. This groundbreaking collection of essays is a thought-provoking guide to a new and contested intellectual territory.' Andrew Prescott, University of Glasgow, UK 'This book critically examines the way in which the digital is both embedded in, and has dramatically transformed, our sense of the social; structurally, aesthetically and individually. It uniquely, through a wonderful collection of essays, develops a much needed critical theoretical vocabulary that permits us to (re)evaluate what a postdigital aesthetics might look like. Thoroughly recommended.' Michael Bull, University of Sussex, UK