Beyond globalization : making new worlds in media, art, and social practices / edited by A. Aneesh, Lane Hall, and Patrice Petro.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the making of worlds / A. Aneesh, Lane Hall, and Patrice Petro -- Global media and culture / Mark Poster -- Burning man at Google: a cultural infrastructure for new media production / Fred Turner -- Apocalypse by subtraction: late capitalism and the trauma of scarcity / Peter Y. Paik -- These great urbanist games: new Babylon and second life / Thomas M. Malaby -- Format television and Israeli telediplomacy / Tasha G. Oren -- Mediating "neutrality": Latino diasporic films / Yeidy M. Rivero -- Killing me softly: Brazilian film and bare life / Amy Villarejo -- The man, the corpse, and the icon in Motorcycle diaries: utopia, pleasure and a new revolutionary imagination / Cristina Venegas -- Saudades on the Amazon: toward a soft sweet name for involution / Craig Saper -- States of distraction: media art strategies within public conditions / Mat Rappaport -- Bio art / Eduardo Kac.

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Beyond Globalization highlights how mediated practices have become integral to global culture; how social practices have emerged out of computer-related industries; how contemporary apocalyptic narratives reflect the anxieties of a U.S. culture facing global challenges; and how design, play, and technology help us understand the histories and ideals behind the digital architectures that mediate our everyday actions. This provocative volume brings together the best new work of scholars within such diverse fields as history, sociology, anthropology, film, media studies, and art.

English.

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