<nettime-ann> new book: organized networks

[Ned Rossiter <n.rossiter@ulster.ac.uk>]

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[dear nettime -- here's info on my recently published book, a fair  
bit of which was helped by critiques of some of my postings and the  
nettime archive more broadly.  thanks to all those who prodded me  
along in those days.  Ned]

Organized Networks
Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions
http://www.naipublishers.nl/art/organized_networks_e.html

Ned Rossiter

Paperback, sewn, 250 pages, Size: 16 X 23 cm
ISBN 90-5662-526-8 / 978-90-5662-526-9, € 23.50

First publication in the series ‘Studies in Network Cultures’,  
published by NAi Publishers, Rotterdam and Institute of Network  
Cultures, Amsterdam.

Order online: https://www.naipublishers.nl/ordering.html
More information: http://www.networkcultures.org/naiseries

About the book
The celebration of network cultures as open, decentralized, and  
horizontal all too easily forgets the political dimensions of labour  
and life in informational times. Organized Networks sets out to  
destroy these myths by tracking the antagonisms that lurk within  
Internet governance debates, the exploitation of labour in the  
creative industries, and the aesthetics of global finance capital.  
Cutting across the fields of media theory, political philosophy, and  
cultural critique, Ned Rossiter diagnoses some of the key  
problematics facing network cultures today. Why have radical social- 
technical networks so often collapsed after the party? What are the  
key resources common to critical network cultures? And how might  
these create conditions for the invention of new platforms of  
organization and sustainability? These questions are central to the  
survival of networks in a post-dotcom era. Derived from research and  
experiences participating in network cultures, Rossiter unleashes a  
range of strategic concepts in order to explain and facilitate the  
current transformation of networks into autonomous political and  
cultural ‘networks of networks’.

* Whose Democracy? NGOs, Information Societies and Non-Representative  
Democracy * The World Summit on the Information Society and Organized  
Networks as New Civil Society Movements * Creative Industries,  
Comparative Media Theory and the Limits of Critique from Within *  
Creative Labour and the role of Intellectual Property * Processual  
Media Theory * Virtuosity, Processual Democracy and Organized Networks *

About the author
Australian media theorist Ned Rossiter works as a Senior Lecturer in  
Media Studies (Digital Media), Centre for Media Research, University  
of Ulster, Northern Ireland and an Adjunct Research Fellow, Centre  
for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Australia.

About the book series
‘Studies in Network Cultures’ investigates concepts and practices  
special to network cultures. Exploring the spectrum of new media and  
society, we see network cultures as a strategic term to enlist in  
diagnosing political and aesthetic developments in user-driven  
communications. Network cultures can be understood as social- 
technical formations under construction. They rapidly assemble, and  
can just as quickly disappear, creating a sense of spontaneity,  
transience and even uncertainty. Yet they are here to stay. However  
self-evident it is, collaboration is a foundation of network  
cultures. Working with others frequently brings about tensions that  
have no recourse to modern protocols of conflict resolution. Networks  
are not parliaments. How to conduct research within such a shifting  
environment is a key interest to this series.


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