Reader launches new publication on the 'dark side of digital culture'

'The Spam Book' front cover

Friday 25 September 2009 sees the official launch event of 'The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture.'

Edited by Dr Jussi Parikka, Reader within the Department of English, Communication, Film and Media, and Tony D. Sampson, the book is described as an 'aberration into the dark side of network culture,'

The event will be held at Room 3/4, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, Lewisham Way New Cross from 6-8.00pm, and is open to all who wish to attend.

Short interventions will be made by contributing writers including Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey, Steve Goodman, Jussi Parikka, Sadie Plant and Tony Sampson.

The book can be ordered from Hampton Press, as well as various highstreet and online stores.

For more information please contact Dr Jussi Parikka.


Steven Shaviro
DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University

"What if all those things we most hate about the Internet - the spam, the viruses, the phishing sites, the flame wars, the latency and lag and interruptions of service, and the glitches that crash our computers - what if all these are not bugs, but features? What if they constitute, in fact, the way the system functions? The Spam Book explores this disquieting possibility."

Geert Lovink
Dutch / Australian media theorist

"Parikka and Sampson present the latest insights from the humanities into software studies. This compendium is for all you digital Freudians. Electronic deviances no longer originate in Californian cyber fringes but are hardwired into planetary normalcy. Bugs breed inside our mobile devices. The virtual mainstream turns out to be rotten. The Spam Book is for anyone interested in new media theory."




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