Code Drift - Essays in Critical Digital Studies 2010.pdf

Code Drift
Essays in Critical Digital Studies
Code Drift
Essays in Critical Digital Studies
Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
Editors
Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC)
NWP
CTheory Books
Victoria, Canada
Code Drift: Essays in Critical Digital Studies
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First published in Canada in 2010
Printed and bound in Canada
ISBN 978-0-920393-08-6
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Code drift [electronic resource] : essays in critical digital studies /
Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, editors.
Type puter file: Electronic monograph in PDF format.
ISBN 978-0-920393-08-6
1. Information technology--Social aspects. 2. Information society.
3. Computer and civilization. I. Kroker, Arthur, 1945-
II. Kroker, Marilouise, 1943-
2010 '34 C2010-900683-6
Contents
Preface
1
Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
Code Drift
4
Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
Fractal Philosophy (and the small matter of
learning how to listen): Attunement as the Task
20
of Art
Johnny Golding
Digital Magic, ic Sorcery: On the
Cultural Politics of Fascination and Fear 52
Stephen Pfohl
Digital Resisto(e)rs
81
William Bogard
Something is Happening
107
Jordan Crandall
ing Dragon: A Transversal Technology
Study 127
Micha Cardenas
A Conversation with Spirits Inside the
Simulation of a Coast Salish Longhouse 153
Jackson 2Bears
Illuminated Darkness: Nightma