As current as 'the day Wiki shut down in protest,' Guertin's deeply informed, wide-ranging, and provocative book resituates the questions of net freedom, intellectual property, digital distribution, and censorship in what- borrowing from and building upon Homi Bhabha's Location of Culture- she calls the 'third space of authorship.' In a heady and vibrant series of interlaced arguments and speculative forays, ... Read moreGuertin delivers on her promise to 'explore ... the potentialities in the social nature of electronic works—literary, artistic, and viral—to create new kinds of creative practices, and new spaces for the rise of alternative artistic, authorial or publishing models'.
Michael Joyce, Professor of English and Media Studies, Vassar College Guertin's book is extremely timely in addressing the crisis in copyright but also in terms of the explosion of compositional/authorial modes and practices circulating through popular cultures. This interconnection brings together two issues that have, for the most part, been addressed separately. Connecting them through a framework of prohibition provides an excellent historical grounding and an innovative foothold for these discussions in progressive media studies.
Jamie "Skye" Bianco, Assistant Professor, English Department, Director, DM@P, Digital Media at Pitt, University of Pittsburgh Carolyn Guertin has long been embedded in the digital, both as a practitioner and as a critic. Her insightful and provocative ideas should be part of every new media syllabus.
Professor Sue Thomas, De Montfort University, UK This is an inclusive text that connects media philosophers with radical changes to internet periodicals and plenty of related digital artworks. Nicolas Bourriaud's definition of "art as a social interstice" suitably describes most of the art present here, with its distinctively disruptive, powerful and subtle qualities.
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