Abstract: From TIFF files to TED talks, from book sizes to blues stations - the term "format" circulates in a staggering array of contexts and applies to entirely dissimilar objects and practices. How can such a pliable notion meaningfully function as an instrument of classifica…
From TIFF files to TED talks, from book sizes to blues stations--the term “format” circulates in a staggering array of contexts and applies to entirely dissimilar objects and practices. How can such a pliable notion meaningfully function as an instrument of classification in so …
There is no Software, there are just Services
Abstract: Is software dead? Services like Google, Dropbox, Adobe Creative Cloud, or Social Media apps are all-pervasive in our digital media landscape. This marks the (re)emergence of the service paradigm that challenges traditional business and license models as well as modes o…
Organize
by Lovink, Geert, Martin, Reinhold, Rossiter, Ned, Beyes, Timon, Conrad, Lisa,, Dr
"This book is dedicated to the 'knot' of media and organization. It does not claim to untie the knot, for that would be a grandiloquent, impossible project. But it endeavours to disentangle important threads, both conceptually and empirically (as if the two could be held distinc…
Organize
by Lovink, Geert, Martin, Reinhold, Rossiter, Ned, Beyes, Timon, Conrad, Lisa,, Dr
"This book is dedicated to the 'knot' of media and organization. It does not claim to untie the knot, for that would be a grandiloquent, impossible project. But it endeavours to disentangle important threads, both conceptually and empirically (as if the two could be held distinc…
"The dialogical form of the essays in Organize provides a concise and path-breaking view on the recursive relation between technological media and social organization. Bringing together leading media thinkers and organization theorists, the book interrogates organization as an e…
Organize
by Lovink, Geert, Martin, Reinhold, Rossiter, Ned, Beyes, Timon, Conrad, Lisa,, Dr
"This book is dedicated to the 'knot' of media and organization. It does not claim to untie the knot, for that would be a grandiloquent, impossible project. But it endeavours to disentangle important threads, both conceptually and empirically (as if the two could be held distinc…
Organize
by Lovink, Geert, Martin, Reinhold, Rossiter, Ned, Beyes, Timon, Conrad, Lisa,, Dr
"This book is dedicated to the 'knot' of media and organization. It does not claim to untie the knot, for that would be a grandiloquent, impossible project. But it endeavours to disentangle important threads, both conceptually and empirically (as if the two could be held distinc…
In 1985, the French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard curated a groundbreaking exhibition called Les Immatériaux at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The exhibition showed how telecommunication technologies were beginning to impact every aspect of life. At the same time, it was a ma…