MachineMachine /stream - tagged with newmedia http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron text@machinemachine.net “Escape the Overcode” http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/book-materials/ by Brian Holmes

===> INTRODUCTIONS

-The Affectivist Manifesto:

Artistic Critique for the 21st Century

-Toward the New Body:

Marcelo Expósito’s “Entre Sueños“

-Recapturing Subversion:

Twenty Twisted Rules for the Culture Game

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===> POTENTIALS

01-Network Maps, Energy Diagrams:

Structure and Agency in the Global System

02-Do-It-Yourself Geopolitics:

Global Protest and Artistic Process

03-The Potential Personality:

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