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.

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.

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; Søren Bro Pold And Christian Ulrik Andersen
22. Networks NOW: Belated Too Early; Wendy Chun