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Johanna Drucker

SpecLab

Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing

262 pages, 28 halftones, 16 line drawings, 4 tables  6 x 9  © 2009

Cloth $70.00

ISBN: 9780226165073   Published May 2009

Paper $25.00

ISBN: 9780226165080   Published May 2009

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Introduction: The Background to SpecLab 

1.0 Speculative Computing

1.1 From Digital Humanities to Speculative Computing 

1.2 Speculative Computing: Basic Principles and Essential Distinctions 

2.0 Projects at SpecLab

2.1 Temporal Modeling 

2.2 Ivanhoe  

2.3 Subjective Meteorology: A System of Mapping Personal Weather

2.4 Modeling a Critical Approach: Metadata in ABsOnline 

2.5 The Patacritical Demon 

3.0 From Aesthetics to Aesthesis

3.1 Graphesis and Code

3.2 Intimations of (Im)materialty: Text as Code 

3.3 Modeling Functionality: From Codex to e-Book   

3.4 Aesthetics and New Media

3.5 Digital Aesthetics and Critical Opposition 

4.0 Lessons of SpecLab       

Notes 

Bibliography 

Index

Subjects



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