Cultures

How to intervene? Interventions are in vogue in digital cultures as forms of critique or political actions into public spheres. By engaging in social, political, and economic contexts, interventions attempt to interrupt and change situations—often with artistic means. This volume maps methods of interventions under the specific conditions of the digital.

Interventions in Digital Cultures

Technology, the Political, Methods

How to intervene? Interventions are in vogue in digital cultures as forms of critique or political actions into public spheres. By engaging in social, political, and economic contexts, interventions attempt to interrupt and change situations—often with artistic means. This volume maps methods of interventions under the specific conditions of the digital. How are interventions shaped by these conditions? And how can they contribute to altering them? In essays and interviews, this book interrogates modes of intervening in and through art, infrastructures, techno-ecological environments, bio-technology, and political protests to highlight their potentials as well as their ambivalences.

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2017
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The Editors

Howard Caygill is Professor of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London. His research interests are in the fields of the history of philosophy, aesthetics, and cultural history. He is the author of several books, including Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience (1998), Levinas and the Political (2002), On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance (2013), and the forthcoming Kafka: In Light of the Accident (2017).

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Martina Leeker has a background in theatre studies, media studies, theatre practice, and performance. She held an assistant professorship in theatre and media at the University of Bayreuth from 2002 to 2010 and was a senior researcher at Leuphana University Lüneburg’s Centre for Digital Cultures from 2013 until autumn 2018. Her research interests include theatre/performance and media, art and technology, systems engineering, infrastructures, the history of fascination with digital cultures, and methods and critique in digital cultures. As part of her academic work, Leeker is building on research with artistic methods, in particular performative methods, within lecture-performances
and speculation labs.

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Tobias Schulze is a masters student in media studies at Humboldt University Berlin, a research assistant at the Digital Cultures Research Lab, Leuphana University Lüneburg, and a tutor at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig. His focus in work and studies is on entanglements between art, temporality, and media.

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