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1. Introduction - John Potts -- PART ONE: MAKING A DIGITAL ARCHIVE -- 2. Making the Temporary Permanent: the Digital Archive - John Potts .-3. Digitisation & Imagination: Curating the Kaldor Public Art Projects Archive -Alice Desmond.-4. Public Art and Education in the Age of Digital Archives - Ross Harley -- 5. The (After) Life of the Archive - Scott East.-6. Hauntology: the Archive as Past and Future - Nicole Anderson -- PART TWO: THE DIGITAL ARCHIVE AND ITS EFFECTS -- 7. Preservation/Access/Reuse - audio visual collections in the digital age - Katrina Sedgwick -- 8. Archival Ethics after Benjamin - Sean Cubitt -- 9. Temporary Library, Archiving Digital Culture - Alessandro Ludovico -- 10. The Romance of Form - Julia Mant -- 11. Conclusions: Use & Re-Use - John Potts.

In the networked age, we are living with changed parameters of time and space. Mobile networked communication fosters a form of virtual time and space, which is super-imposed onto territorial space. Time is increasingly composed of interruptions and distractions, as smartphone users are overwhelmed by messages.

"This collection draws together perspectives on the future of writing in publishing, journalism and online sites. Discussion ranges across the challenges and opportunities for writing and publishing in the context of new content platforms, formats and distribution networks, including e-books, online news and publishing, and social media. Contributors include publishers, editors, journalists, writers, bloggers, start-up entrepreneurs, media studies scholars and media commentators."--Publisher's website

This essay charts a brief intellectual history of the futures – both utopian and dystopian – conceived in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It traces perspectives on the future since 1909, when the term 'futurism' was coined in the publication of the 'The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism'. The essay maps changes in the vision of the future, taking a chronological approach in noting developments in the discourse on the future. A prominent theme in pronouncements on the future is technological progress, first in relation to industrial technology, later in the context of post-industrial or information technology. A turning-point in this discourse can be isolated around 1973, when ideas of technological progress begin to be challenged in the public sphere; from that date, environmental concern becomes increasingly significant in discussions of the future.

"Confronting the issue of the unacceptable as a social category, this international collection of essays provides distinctive perspectives on the theme of what is deemed socially acceptable. The unacceptable is explored in relation to censorship, pornography, free speech and hate speech, moral panics, drug culture, social policy and power, fears surrounding paedophilia and the family, gay marriage, childhood sexuality, smoking, and the representation of criminal or transgressive behaviour. The volume reveals the ways in which the category of the unacceptable reflects sexual, racial and political fault-lines of a society"--

"Confronting the issue of the unacceptable as a social category, this international collection of essays provides distinctive perspectives on the theme of what is deemed socially acceptable. The unacceptable is explored in relation to censorship, pornography, free speech and hate speech, moral panics, drug culture, social policy and power, fears surrounding paedophilia and the family, gay marriage, childhood sexuality, smoking, and the representation of criminal or transgressive behaviour. The volume reveals the ways in which the category of the unacceptable reflects sexual, racial and political fault-lines of a society"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: 'Culture' and 'Technology' -- What is Technology? -- What is Technique? -- What is Culture? -- Culture/Technology -- 1 Theoretical Frameworks -- Technological Determinism -- Technologies of Media -- Baudrillard and the Technologies of Simulacra -- Cultural Materialism -- Is Technology Neutral? -- Knowing the World Differently: Poststructuralist Thought -- Going with the Flow: 'Machinic' Thought -- Virilio and the Technologies of Speed -- 2 Art and Technology -- The Modern -- Artists Represent Technology -- The Futurists -- The Constructivists -- Machine Modernism -- Modern to Postmodern: Pop Art -- Postmodern Aesthetics -- Critical Approaches to Postmodernism -- Postmodern Media Art -- Continuity or Discontinuity? -- Technology in Music -- 3 Digital Aesthetics: Cultural Effects of New Media Technologies -- Authorship, Intellectual Property and Technology -- Net Culture, Net Art -- The Digital Image -- Digital Aesthetics: New Labels for the New Aesthetic -- New Media and Digital Aesthetics -- The Digital, the Future and the Past -- 4 Science Fictions -- The Beginnings of Science Fiction: Frankenstein -- Frankenstein's Legacy -- Robots -- Utopias and Dystopias -- Flesh and Machine -- Hyperreal Science Fiction -- 5 Cyborgs: the Body, Information and Technology -- Donna Haraway's Cyborg -- Cyborg Basics -- Information as the New 'Spirit'? -- From Postmodern to Posthuman -- Presence and Patterns -- The Body as Collective -- Stelarc -- Material Immortality and 'Genethics' -- Radical Futures and 'Gray Goo' -- 6 Technology, Thought and Consciousness -- Consciousness -- Computers as Universal Machines -- How Artificial is Intelligence? -- Technology Affects Thought -- The Sense of Self -- Heidegger and the 'Question Concerning Technology'.