The Spam Book · On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies From the Dark Side of Digital Culture by Parikka, Jussi -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Foreword—Sadie Plant

Sadie Plant

Introduction: On anomalous objects of digital culture—Jussi Parikka, Tony D. Sampson

Media anomalies: historical context Topological thinking: the role of the accident The topological space of “bad” objects Conclusion: standard objects?

Part I. Contagions

The advent of artificial evolution Toward open ALife systems Computer immune systems Swarm intelligence

Universal contagion Question concerning connectivity The Myths of the Cold War Internet The Power Law: There Might be Giants Re-coupling Connection and Collectivity A question concerning the offensive-defensive mode of epidemic power A question concerning network power: fuzzy detection Acknowledgments

3. Extensive abstraction in digital architecture—Luciana Parisi

Digital gene Symbiotic algorithm Fuzzy architecture Chaos prehended

4. Unpredictable legacies: Viral games in the networked world—Roberta Buiani

A viral guide to the viral The viral in viruses (being viral) The use of the viral (becoming viral) Viral conundrums (Viral) Action! Acknowledgments

Part II. Bad objects

Artistic viruses: A prologue Vision machines Archives of risk Commercial techniques of observation Multiplicities of viruses Acknowledgements

6. Contagious noise: From digital glitches to audio viruses—Steve Goodman

Threat Outbreak Immunization Rhythmic mutation

7. Toward an evil media studies—Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey

Stratagem 1: Bypass representation Stratagem 2: Exploit anachronisms Stratagem 3: Stimulate malignancy Stratagem 4: Machine the commonplace Stratagem 5: Make the accidental the essential Stratagem 6: Recurse stratagems Stratagem 7: The rapture of capture Stratagem 8: Sophisticating machinery Stratagem 9: What is good for natural language is good for formal language Stratagem 10: Know your data Stratagem 11: Liberate determinism Stratagem 12: Inattention economy Stratagem 13: Brains beyond language Stratagem 14: Keep your stratagem secret as long as possible Stratagem 15: Tale care of the symbols, the sense will follow Stratagem 16: The creativity of matter Further exercises

Part III. Pornography

On the boundaries of the regular Filth, anomaly and affect Record sizes Fucking machines Complex fantasies

9. Make porn, not war: How to wear the network’s underpants—Katrien Jacobs

Katrien Jacobs Uncle Bataille said: Let’s make porn, not war The echo of male fantasies We are all grinning monkeys

Can thought go on without a body? The libidinal economy of online porn, a case study: Empornium574 Anomie, anomaly and the orbital emancipation of digital consumption Viva la revolución Desire and capitalism on the libidinal band Two screens Conclusion: Negentropy and the problem of theory

Part IV. Censored

11. Robots.txt: The politics of search engine exclusion—Greg Elmer

The web as a set of discrete sites? URL lists and Internet censorship research Related Site Dynamic URL Sampling Redistributed content discovery Surfer Re-Routing Conclusion Acknowledgment

13. On narcolepsy

Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker Accidentally asleep Junk, trash, spam Birth of the algorithm Becoming-number The paranormal and the pathological RFC 001b: BmTP Universals of identification Unknown unknowns Tactics of nonexistence Disappearance, or, “I’ve seen it all before” (There is) no content Junk or not junk

Notes