[ecrea] Book Annoucement: Diffractive Technospaces

"Diffractive Technospaces.A Feminist Approach to the Mediations of Space 
and Representation"
by Federica Timeto, Lecturer of Sociology of New Media, Academy of Fine
Arts, Palermo

Keywords: Haraway, mediation, performativity, representation, spaces.

The book is published by Ashgate, and appeals to scholars of new media
studies, feminist studies, human geography and science and technology
studies.

Articulating a non-representational perspective on knowledge production
and artistic practices, combined with an analysis of space, this book
offers a new performative and relational re-turn to representation in
contemporary technospaces. The radically materialist, posthumanist and
performative position from which this situated aesthetics of
technospaces is elaborated, aligns this book not only with
non-representational theory, but also with the theories of material
feminism, feminist geography, situated epistemologies, science and
technology studies, actor-network theory, performance studies and new
media studies.*

*Contents:** Introduction; Space and representation; Reconceiving
representation; Location, mobility, perspectives; Diffracting
technoscience; Opening conclusions: performing represent-actions;
Bibliography; Index.

Reviews:
‘Space is never a given. It is always in formation, an impasto of the
like and unlike in which the work of mediation never stops. Timeto is
exceptionally good at both pointing to this quality and making something
of it through a concentration on information technologies as both
spatial conveyors and conveyors of space. This is an important book
showing once again why the non-representational turn is crucial to
understanding the modern world.’
Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick, UK

‘Federica Timeto's outstanding book re-thinks the traditional feminist
politics of representation and location, standpoint epistemologies and
situated knowledges by introducing performative and technologically
mediated spaces teeming with entanglements, intra-actions, interferences
and diffractions. Densely theoretical, beautifully intermingled with
careful readings of film, video and multimedia art, Diffractive
Technospaces is an impressive contribution to new feminist cartographies
of technospaces.’
Tiziana Terranova, University of Naples 'L'Orientale', Italy

Additional information and the introduction can be found online at
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472445452



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