The DJs and laptop performers of electronic dance music use preexistent elements such as records and digital samples to create extended improvisations. Analysis of these technologically mediated performances reveals a complex dynamic in which a modular approach to musical struct…
Presents an examination of the internet, and of its subcultures: trolls and pornographers, drug dealers and hackers, political extremists and computer scientists, Bitcoin programmers and self-harmers, libertarians and vigilantes.
Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source software - and to hacking as a technical, aesthetic, and moral project - reveal about the values of contemporary liberalism? Exploring …
Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source software--and to hacking as a technical, aesthetic, and moral project--reveal about the values of contemporary liberalism? Exploring th…
Introduction : rethinking social movement temporality and spatiality through counter-space and urban youth culture -- Building youth counter-spaces, horizontal political cultures and emergent identities in the Oaxacan social movement of 2006 -- Urban autonomy, indigenous anarchi…
"By the dawn of the twentieth century Budapest was on its way to becoming a cosmopolitan metropolis. The 'Pearl of the Danube' boasted some of Europe's most beguiling architectural achievements, and its growing middle class was committed to advancing the city's liberal politics,…
Long description: Transgeschlechtliche Menschen werden vermehrt auch in populären Medien dargestellt und repräsentiert. Nicht selten ist diese mediale Sichtbarkeit von Trans* jedoch geprägt von Voyeurismus und Sensationsgier. Robin K. Saalfeld geht daher der Frage nach, wie Tran…
"Others may think of the 1960s as The Last Good Time, but Kimball has no patience with such nostalgia. He sees this decade as a seedbed of excess and moral breakdown. He argues that the radical assaults on "the System" that took place then still define the way we live now - with…
"Others may think of the 1960s as The Last Good Time, but Kimball has no patience with such nostalgia. He sees this decade as a seedbed of excess and moral breakdown. He argues that the radical assaults on "the System" that took place then still define the way we live now - with…
"The history of how teenage East German punk rockers played an indispensable role in bringing down the Berlin Wall"
"The history of how teenage East German punk rockers played an indispensable role in bringing down the Berlin Wall"-- "It began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio broadcast to troops in West Berlin, and it ended with the co…
