Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 19, Issue 4
September 2013
Without Sin: Freedom and Taboo in Digital Media
Volume Editors: Lanfranco Aceti and Donna Leishman
Editorial Managers: Sheena Calvert and Ozden Sahin
What is the relationship between contemporary digital media and contemporary society? Is it possible to affirm that digital media are without sin and exist purely in a complex socio-political and economic context within which the users bring with them their ethical and cultural complexities? This issue, through a range of scholarly writings, analyzes the problems of ethics and sin within contemporary digital media frameworks.
Contents
Introduction
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Post-Society: Data Capture and Erasure One Click at a Time
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Without Sin: Freedom and Taboo in Digital Media
Articles
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Like Reality
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Media, Memory, and Representation in the Digital Age: Rebirth Reflecting on Lossless Imagery, Mediated Memories, and the Terrorist Attacks on 9/11
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Differential Surveillance of Students: Encounters with Surveillance/Sousveillance Art as Opportunities for Reform
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Ana-Materialism & the Pineal Eye: Becoming Mouth-Breast Visual Arts in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction
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Dancing on the Head of a Sin: Touch, Dance and Taboo
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“There must be something wrong with this, Sally…” Faults, Lapses and Imperfections in the Sex Lives of Machines
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Copyright and Digital Art Practice: The ‘Schizophrenic’ Position of the Digital Artist
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Curating, Piracy and the Internet Effect
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Precarious Design
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Seductive Technologies and Inadvertent Voyeurs Effect
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Anonymous Social as Political
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Content Osmosis and the Political Economy of Social Media
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Re-Program My Mind: The Emotions (after Charles Darwin)
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The Premediation of Identity Management in Art and Design: New Model Cyborgs – Organic & Digital
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Pornography, Alterity, Divinity
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Do We Need Morality Anymore?
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The Economies of Language in Digital Space/s