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Errantries eBook Series

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  • Crisis Vision

    Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance

    by Torin Monahan ...
    Series series Errantries
    In Crisis Vision, Torin Monahan explores how artists confront the racializing dimensions of contemporary surveillance. He focuses on artists ranging from Kai Wiedenhöfer, Paolo Cirio, and Hank Willis Thomas to Claudia Rankine and Dread Scott, who engage with what he calls crisis vision—the regimes of racializing surveillance that position black and brown bodies as targets for police and state ... Read more

    16,74 €

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  • Liquid Surveillance

    A Conversation

    by Zygmunt Bauman, David Lyon ...
    Series series Conversations
    ‘Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored often cooperate willingly with the monitors. From London and New York to New Delhi, Shanghai and Rio de Janeiro, video cameras are a familiar and accepted sight in public places. Air travel now commonly involves devices such as body-scanners and biometric checks that ... Read more

    16,99 €

  • We Are Data

    Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves

    by John Cheney-Lippold ...
    Do algorithms get to decide who we are? "Essential reading for anyone who cares about the internet's extraordinary impact on each of us and on our society." ― Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news we get, the ads we see, the information accessible to us, and even who our friends are. These complex configurations not ... Read more

    21,61 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Keywords for Media Studies

    Edited by Laurie Ouellette, Jonathan Gray ...
    Series Book 5 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studiesKeywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing its established and emergent terminology. The book historicizes thinking about media and society, ... Read more

    18,54 €

  • Disposable Futures

    The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle

    by Henry A. Giroux, Brad Evans ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    "This is a must-read book for anyone ready to transcend fear and imagine a new reality."--TikkunDisposable Futures makes the case that we have not just become desensitized to violence, but rather, that we are being taught to desire it.From movies and other commercial entertainment to "extreme" weather and acts of terror, authors Brad Evans and Henry Giroux examine how a contemporary politics of ... Read more

    11,54 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Culture of Surveillance

    Watching as a Way of Life

    by David Lyon ...
    From 9/11 to the Snowden leaks, stories about surveillance increasingly dominate the headlines. But surveillance is not only 'done to us' – it is something we do in everyday life. We submit to surveillance, believing we have nothing to hide. Or we try to protect our privacy or negotiate the terms under which others have access to our data. At the same time, we participate in surveillance in order ... Read more

    16,99 €

  • Culture and Technology

    A Primer

    by Jennifer Daryl Slack, J. Macgregor Wise ...
    From mobile phones to surveillance cameras, from fracking to genetically modified food, we live in an age of intense debate about technology’s place in our culture. Culture and Technology is an essential guide to that debate and its fascinating history. It is a primer for beginners and an invaluable resource for those deeply committed to understanding the new digital culture. The award-winning ... Read more

    40,38 €

  • Theorizing Surveillance

    Edited by David Lyon ...
    This book is about explaining surveillance processes and practises in contemporary society. Surveillance studies is a relatively new multi-disciplinary enterprise the aims to understand who watches who, how the watched participate in and sometimes question their surveillance, why surveillance occurs, and with what effects. This book brings together some of the world's leading surveillance scholars ... Read more

    54,78 €

  • Security Unbound

    Enacting Democratic Limits

    by Jef Huysmans ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Global Politics
    Security concerns have mushroomed. Increasingly numerous areas of life are governed by security policies and technologies. Security Unbound argues that when insecurities pervade how we relate to our neighbours, how we perceive international politics, how governments formulate policies, at stake is not our security but our democracy. Security is not in the first instance a right or value but a ... Read more

    59,65 €

  • Media Life

    by Mark Deuze ...
    Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media.Media Life is a primer on how we may think of our lives as lived in rather than with media. The book uses the way media function today as a ... Read more

    21,99 €

  • Habitus of the Hood

    Edited by Chris Richardson, Hans A Skott-Myhre ...
    Since the 1990s, popular culture the world over has frequently looked to the ’hood for inspiration, whether in music, film, or television. Habitus of the Hood explores the myriad ways in which the hood has been conceived—both within the lived experiences of its residents and in the many mediated representations found in popular culture. Using a variety of methodologies including autoethnography, ... Read more

    29,56 €

  • Reality Bites

    Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture

    by Dana L. Cloud ...
    Fake news, alternative facts, post truth—terms all too familiar to anyone in U.S. political culture and concepts at the core of Dana L. Cloud’s new book, Reality Bites, which explores truth claims in contemporary political rhetoric in the face of widespread skepticism regarding the utility, ethics, and viability of an empirical standard for political truths. Cloud observes how appeals to truth ... Read more

    24,48 €