Beyond Globalization

A. ANEESH is an associate professor of sociology and global studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the author of Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization. LANE HALL is a professor in the department of English at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. His work examines digital art and culture, procedural and experimental literature, and the history of the book. PATRICE PETRO is a professor of English and film studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is past president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and has written and edited numerous books, including Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s, Rethinking Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the War on Terror, and Global Currents: Media and Technology Now (all published by Rutgers University Press).

• Introduction: The Making of Worlds1. Global Media and Culture2. Burning Man at Google: A Cultural Infrastructure for New Media Production 3. Apocalypse by Subtraction: Late Capitalism and the Trauma of Scarcity 4. These Great Urbanist Games: New Babylon and Second Life 5. Format Television and Israeli Telediplomacy 6. Mediating “Neutrality”: Latino Diasporic Films 7. Killing Me Softly: Brazilian Film and Bare Life 8. The Man, the Corpse, and the Icon in Motorcycle Diaries: Utopia, Pleasure, and a New Revolutionary Imagination9. Saudades on the Amazon: Toward a Soft Sweet Name for Involution 10. States of Distraction: Media Art Strategies Within Public Conditions 11. Bio Art Notes About the ContributorsIndex

"Thoughtful and insightful, this volume compellingly reshapes debates over global media with its rare interdisciplinary examination of the relationship between the global and the local." - Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (author of Programmed Visions: Software and Memory) "Exploring patterns of critical intervention, cultural remediation, and runaway speculation, these imaginative essays channel the logic of our zeitgeist, for Beyond Globalization opens the multiplicities of world making." - Jon McKenzie (author of Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance)