I am checking out what I can read in English…. I found 3 of his novels so far. I will start with “Honeymoon” His Goodreads page here. Patrick Modiano | 2014 Nobel prize in Literature French historical author Patrick Modiano[1] has won the 2014 Nobel Prize for literature. He is the 11th Nobel literature prize winner … Read more
New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is probably one of the best/most substantive readers in new media. It provides a historically broader perspective on the emergence of new media. Most of the volumes on the topic rely on buzz and … Read more
Anthropology Beyond Culture by Barbara J. King My rating: 2 of 5 stars I have encountered the culture debate through the Writing Culture tradition. Later I was excitedly reading Ferguson/Gupta pieces on fieldwork, ethnography through which culture debate continued. Later there are fantastic pieces at Cultural Anthropology Journal. ie Michael Fischer’s review of history of … Read more
You Talkin’ To Me? by Sam Leith My rating: 4 of 5 stars Easy read. Refreshes the very basics of rhetoric. It is a good idea to provide portrayals of rhetorical figures from the classics and moderns. In the end, there is a good dictionary of rhetorical concepts. I wish there could be simple explanations … Read more
From The New Media Theory Reader, 39-40 A basic development in the very near future is the merger of computers and telecommunications (Bradley et al., 1993; Scientific American Special Issue, 1991), known variously as the information superhighway (Koelsch, 1995), the infobahn (Mitchell, 1995), Integrated Services Digital Network (Horrocks/Scarr, 1993), the telecomputer (Gilder, 1990), the SuperTube … Read more
view book The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates Release Date: November 1 “The Corn Maiden” is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet, but somewhat slow, eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk. Her single mother comes home one nig…more view book The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 5 by Neil … Read more
Valla ne yazdığımı bile unuttum, kitabın çıkması biraz zaman aldı ama sonunda elimizde… Dostum Aslı Telli Aydemir’in eline aklına sağlık, o olmasa ne benim yazım girerdi bu derlemeye ne de kitap çıkardı sanırım… kitabın tanıtımından: ?Katılımın e-hali: Gençlerin Sanal Alemi?, Türkiye?de gençlik alanında internetin sivil ve politik katılıma etkisini masaya seren ilk e-derleme. Avrupa Komisyonu VI. … Read more
Mark Hansen’s New philosophy for new media is one of the enlightening books I have recently read on new media. I am not too knowledgeable on digital art and thus I have had difficulties to grasp all the arguments all over the book but its introduction may give you clues about thinking new media from … Read more
One of the free readings books I am on. I am not working on these issues right now but i like to read about them. So this fits just fine. I am in the middle of it, but i enjoyed reading the first articles and just to note: FRAMING NATIONAL CINEMAS Susan Hayward. This articles seems … Read more
I have recently finished reading Cihan Tugal’s Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism. I have met Cihan when he was doing his fieldwork for the research for this book when I was working on my master’s thesis. His book is an ethnographic contribution to understand contemporary Turkey. He plays with Gramscian ideas of … Read more
One is a “proper” one with a very nice language: A History of the Internet and the Digital Future by Johnny Ryan. Especially the early histories parts are informative and fun to read. Not that later parts are worse, just that there is a flood of information for the very recent periods and too much … Read more
I have recently finished reading The Finkler Question. A stream of consciousness that focuses on being a Jew in contemporary UK. I was not particularly interested in the subject matter but as a Man Booker prizer winner, the literary substance of the novel makes it worth reading anyway…
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom Yochai Benkler This book has become another key work in my cyberculture readings. Prof. Benkler provides an exhaustive presentation of what is out there. It sometimes become repetitive and too detailed but for those who are interested in the mechanics and culture of open … Read more
photo via Recently I have been struggling with very long novels with no rapid narratives or any narratives at all. China Miéville’s The City & The City provided me the pleasure of reading a good novel with quality… It is a Hugo Award winner. That is, it serves better for Science Fiction fans but for … Read more
Blaming Others This is basically my master thesis. I had finished this just before i flew to Houston to start my PhD. In a more traditional sense this is much more ethnographic than my dissertation. When I have a look after so many years, I am really proud of with what I did in this … Read more