Network Aesthetics is ambitious and comprehensive, informed and original. Jagoda manages to retain the fluidity of the term network while understanding it in both its utopian and dystopian dimensions, and he displays an alertness to, and facility with, issues of medium specificity that is both rare and very welcome.
Scott Bukatman, Stanford University Network Aesthetics will transform the study of both digital networks for new media scholars and media about networks for film and literature scholars.Jagoda s monograph is a fully fleshed out, closely argued, and richly detailed account of an emergent techno-cultural formation the emergence of a new network aesthetics through both analog and digital forms such as the novel, the television serial, the networked game, and the augmented reality game.A remarkable book: lyrical, deeply ethical, and inspiring.
Lisa Nakamura, University of Michigan Network Aesthetics will transform the study of digital networks both for new media scholars andfor film and literature scholars.Jagoda s monograph is a fully fleshed out, closely argued, and richly detailed account of an emergent network aesthetics that informs both analog and digital forms such as the novel, the television serial, the networked game, and the augmented reality game.A remarkable book: lyrical, deeply ethical, and inspiring.
Lisa Nakamura, University of Michigan Network Aesthetics is ambitious and comprehensive, informed and original. Jagoda manages to retain the fluidity of the term 'network' while understanding it in both its utopian and dystopian dimensions, and he displays an alertness to, and facility with, issues of medium specificity that is both rare and very welcome.
Scott Bukatman, Stanford University Network Aesthetics will transform the study of digital networks both for new media scholars and for film and literature scholars. Jagoda's monograph is a fully fleshed out, closely argued, and richly detailed account of an emergent network aesthetics that informs both analog and digital forms such as the novel, the television serial, the networked game, and the augmented reality game. A remarkable book: lyrical, deeply ethical, and inspiring.
Lisa Nakamura, University of Michigan Jagoda's work makes key contributions to our understanding of the role of networks in contemporary cultural production and will be of value in a number of fields, from literary studies to film and television studies to digital media studies. Network Aesthetics is an important and timely book that powerfully affirms the ability of aesthetic forms and practices to help us make sense of our world
and also to intervene in it.
Tara McPherson, University of Southern California Network Aesthetics is ambitious and comprehensive, informed and original. Jagoda manages to retain the fluidity of the term network while understanding it in both its utopian and dystopian dimensions, and he displays an alertness to, and facility with, issues of medium specificity that is both rare and very welcome.
Scott Bukatman, Stanford University Network Aestheticswill transform the study of digital networks both for new media scholars andfor film and literature scholars.Jagoda s monograph is a fully fleshed out, closely argued, and richly detailed account of an emergent network aesthetics that informs both analog and digital forms such as the novel, the television serial, the networked game, and the augmented reality game.A remarkable book: lyrical, deeply ethical, and inspiring.
Lisa Nakamura, University of Michigan Jagoda s work makes key contributions to our understanding of the role of networks in contemporary cultural production and will be of value in a number of fields, from literary studies to film and television studies to digital media studies. Network Aesthetics is an important and timely book that powerfully affirms the ability of aesthetic forms and practices to help us make sense of our world and also to intervene in it.
Tara McPherson, University of Southern California