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Dialogues Carried Out in Silence: An E-mail Exchange

Dialogues Carried Out in Silence: An E-mail Exchange BDDP & Fils. BMW X3 Advertisement Campaign, 2004. Dialogues Carried Out in Silence: An E-mail Exchange ALEXANDER R. GALLOWAY, GEERT LOVINK, AND EUGENE THACKER I. Introduction; or, Media Studies as a Form of Zeno’s Paradox The strange, forever-emerging discipline of “media studies” or “new media” often finds itself caught in a race with new media technologies themselves—the latter always remaining a halfstep ahead of the former. From one perspective, the relation between the media industries and academia has never been so smooth as it is today, for even the most Luddite humanities departments function (administratively and pedagogically) through computer and networked media. The social sciences are perhaps the most vulnerable to this growing investment by industry into realms formerly dominated by scholars and cultural workers. A few generations ago, industry had a monopoly on muscle. Today it has a monopoly on information. For example, a social scientist today seeking research data on social networks will forever be playing catchup to those industrial concerns that make it their business to cull such data. In the information economy, media critics often find themselves in a quandary: How can one ever keep up with the legions of mathematics Ph.D.’s on staff http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Grey Room MIT Press

Dialogues Carried Out in Silence: An E-mail Exchange

Galloway, Alexander R.; Lovink, Geert; Thacker, Eugene
Grey Room , Volume Fall 2008 (33) – Oct 1, 2008
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© 2008 by Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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10.1162/grey.2008.1.33.96
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BDDP & Fils. BMW X3 Advertisement Campaign, 2004. Dialogues Carried Out in Silence: An E-mail Exchange ALEXANDER R. GALLOWAY, GEERT LOVINK, AND EUGENE THACKER I. Introduction; or, Media Studies as a Form of Zeno’s Paradox The strange, forever-emerging discipline of “media studies” or “new media” often finds itself caught in a race with new media technologies themselves—the latter always remaining a halfstep ahead of the former. From one perspective, the relation between the media industries and academia has never been so smooth as it is today, for even the most Luddite humanities departments function (administratively and pedagogically) through computer and networked media. The social sciences are perhaps the most vulnerable to this growing investment by industry into realms formerly dominated by scholars and cultural workers. A few generations ago, industry had a monopoly on muscle. Today it has a monopoly on information. For example, a social scientist today seeking research data on social networks will forever be playing catchup to those industrial concerns that make it their business to cull such data. In the information economy, media critics often find themselves in a quandary: How can one ever keep up with the legions of mathematics Ph.D.’s on staff

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