Engineering Culture: On the Author as (Digital) Producer (Data Browser)

Cox, Geoff [Editor]; Krysa, Joasia [Editor];

ISBN 10: 1570271704 / ISBN 13: 9781570271700

Published by Autonomedia, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Engineering Culture: On the Author as (Digital) Producer (Data Browser)
• Publisher: Autonomedia
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570271704
• ISBN 13: 9781570271700
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 17 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Social Science

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Synopsis

Cultural Writing. Edited by Jeff Cox and Joasia Krysa. ENGINEERING CULTURE is the second installment in Autonomedia's DATA Browser series. Social change does not simply result from resistance to the existing set of conditions but from adapting and transforming the technical apparatus itself. Walter Benjamin in his essay 'The Author as Producer', recommends that the 'cultural producer' intervene in the production process in the manner of an engineer. This collection of essays and examples of contemporary cultural practices asks if this general line of thinking retains relevance for cultural production at this point in time. ENGINEERING CULTURE contains writings by Josephine Berry Slater, William Bowles, etoy, Matthew Fuller, Pit Schultz and more.

About the Author

Geoff Cox is an artist, teacher and Senior Lecturer in Computing at the U. of Plymouth, UK. He cocurates exhibitions, including Generator (20023, with Spacex Gallery) and Vivaria.