[ecrea] New Book: Cyborg Subjects: Discourses on Digital Culture

We are happy to announce the publication of the volume Cyborg Subjects: 
Discourses on Digital Culture (edited by Bonni Rambatan and Jacob 
Johanssen) that is now available on Amazon: 
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1491271515

Featuring essays from Robert Barry, Siri Driessen & Roos van Haaften, 
Bonni Rambatan, Dustin Cohen, Jacob Johanssen, Michel Bauwens, Aliki 
Tzatha, Zakary Paget, Stefen Baack, Alessandro Zagato, Peter Nikolaus 
Funke, Glenn Muschert, and Jung-Hua Liu.

The selected essays in this anthology confront questions from a 
wide-ranging perspective that evoke the postmodern idea of the cyborg to 
illuminate recent phenomena from global warming, Wikileaks, to the 
Occupy movements. Multiple disciplines from music to psychoanalysis to 
journalism to anthropology collaborate to examine the way we shape the 
world from behind our ubiquitous screens to taking to the streets in 
mass protests.

What does the increasing omnipotence of networked machines ultimately 
mean? What do social networks do to our sense of self, others and 
society? Does P2P technology foster new ethics and spiritualities? What 
potentials does posthumanity have to bring about social change?

The book's goal is to offer a cutting edge commentary on recent issues 
and debates that are of interest to a large audience precisely because 
they traverse borders, nation states and cultures. In its combination of 
complex theory, events and issues that many students, academics and 
readers relate to, it offers a new and illuminating way into different 
aspects of digital culture and helps to think about the question of how 
the virtual and the tangible are interwoven in our contemporary age. 
Part one of the book, entitled Subjects, is an exploration on the 
question "What is the Cyborg Subject?" Submitted by intellectuals from 
various fields---from music to film to psychoanalysis---this section 
represents the first moment: the conception of digital subjectivity and 
its different embodiments. Part two, Sharing, takes on this venture and 
proceeds to the second moment: when digital subjectivity turns into 
global resistance, specifically in the case of Wikileaks. The talk of 
shared discourses shifts our discussion from Part Two to Part three, 
Streets, marking the third moment: when people with a shared global 
consciousness enabled by digital networks begin taking to the streets, 
as exemplified by the worldwide Occupy movements.

You can download the introduction and the table of contents for free at 
www.cyborgsubjects.org <http://www.cyborgsubjects.org>