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Netporn
Netporn delves into the aesthetics and politics of sexuality in the era of do-it-yourself (DIY) Internet pornography. Katrien Jacobs, drawing on digital media theory and interviews with Web porn producers and consumers, offers an unprecedented critical analysis of Web culture as digital artistry and of the corresponding heightened government surveillance and censorship of the Internet. Netporn features Web users who question the goals of global commercial porn industries-whether they are engaged in Usenet fringes, video blogging, peer-to-peer distribution, porn art collectives, or decadent amateurism. Emphasizing gender and cultural differences, Jacobs shows how the creative uses of netporn images and services are important ways of exploring or redefining the 'network body' and indispensable ingredients of a maturing network society.
Carnal Resonance
An exploration of the modalities, affective intensities, and disturbing qualities of online pornography. Digital production tools and online networks have dramatically increased the general visibility, accessibility, and diversity of pornography. Porn can be accessed for free, anonymously, and in a seemingly endless range of niches, styles, and formats. In Carnal Resonance, Susanna Paasonen moves beyond the usual debates over the legal, political, and moral aspects of pornography to address online porn in a media historical framework, investigating its modalities, its affect, and its visceral and disturbing qualities. Countering theorizations of pornography as emotionless, affectless, detach...
Vat in the Digital Era
With the growth of the digitalized economy, VAT on cross-border digital supplies has emerged as an important issue. Yet, views and practices regarding the application of the VAT on these supplies differ significantly across different jurisdictions. A lack of international VAT harmonization can cause double taxation or unintended double non-taxation, resulting in distortions and revenue losses. VAT in the Digital Era considers unilateral and multilateral options for the creation of an internationally coordinated VAT framework. Providing analysis of the status quo in key jurisdictions, the book explores the implications of the digitalized economy for the VAT systems across borders. It outlines...
At a Distance
The theory and practice of networked art and activism, including mail art, sound art, telematic art, fax art, Fluxus, and assemblings. Networked collaborations of artists did not begin on the Internet. In this multidisciplinary look at the practice of art that takes place across a distance--geographical, temporal, or emotional--theorists and practitioners examine the ways that art, activism, and media fundamentally reconfigured each other in experimental networked projects of the 1970s and 1980s. By providing a context for this work--showing that it was shaped by varying mixes of social relations, cultural strategies, and political and aesthetic concerns-- At a Distance effectively refutes t...
Cruising World
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Grid and Cloud Computing: Concepts and Practical Applications
The distributed computing infrastructure known as ‘the Grid’ has undoubtedly been one of the most successful science-oriented large- scale IT projects of the past 20 years. It is now a fully operational international entity, encompassing several hundred computing sites on all continents and giving access to hundreds of thousands of CPU (central processing unit) cores and hundreds of petabytes of storage, all connected by robust national and international scientific networks. It has evolved to become the main computational platform many scientific communities. This book presents lectures from the Enrico Fermi International School of Physics summer school Grid and Cloud computing: Concepts...
Lettere imprudenti sulla diversità
Quella della solitudine è una delle paure più sentite da ognuno di noi. Non è solo il timore di perdere chi più ci è vicino, piuttosto, in generale, il timore di essere soli al mondo rispetto al resto degli uomini. E la disabilità è un ottimo...
Empatico sarà lei!
In questi ultimi anni si va diffondendo un senso di smarrimento di fronte a un mondo sempre più percepito come “ostile” e complicato, nel quale le relazioni appaiono spesso difficili e conflittuali e si respira un clima di aggressività latente. Allo...
Desiderio e dono
«Che cos’è l’amore?» è una delle domande fondamentali per la vita di una persona, ma è esperienza comune assistere ad interminabili conversazioni sull’amore che – alla fine – non portano a nulla. La ragione è semplice: il moderno termine «amore» ha...
Appunti per la vita
In una società in cui tutto sembra spezzato, frenetico, veloce... gli "appunti per la vita" sono una sosta ristoratrice per “prendere il largo” e stare in disparte. La comunicazione, nella sua profondità, ha un solo scopo: costruire relazioni d'amore autentiche.
