[Air-L] Shadowbook: Writing Through the Digital 2014-2018 by Miriam Rasch

[Geert Lovink]

Shadowbook: Writing Through the Digital 2014-2018 by Miriam Rasch is the second volume in the Deep Pockets series of the Institute of Network Cultures, and is now available in print and online:

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What happens to our everyday language in the digital sphere? How does ‘the post-digital condition’ change the world in which we think about ourselves and talk to one another? In Shadowbook: Writing Through the Digital 2014-2018, Miriam Rasch investigates these questions in five experimental essays and one exposition. From the way the smartphone molds the language of desire and friendship to the possibilities of writing a ‘spreadsheet novel’ – Shadowbook is a testimony to post-digital writing by way of writing. It salutes both the beauty of the web and what hides in the shadows. Even in the bright and shiny sphere of the digital, the dark side is never far off.

With a foreword by Maria Fusco.

Table of Contents:

Introduction by Way of Acknowledgments (or Vice Versa)

A Small Organic Banana: Phonophilia in 12 Scenes

Shadowbook

Notes Towards a Spreadsheet Novel

The Post-digital Condition

40: A Fictitious Smartphone Essay on Friendship

SUBLIMINALITATIONS

About the author: Miriam Rasch works as a researcher for the Institute of Network Cultures and is a writer, critic and essayist. In 2015 she was awarded the Jan Hanlo Essay Award for her essay ‘A Small Organic Banana: Phonophilia in 12 Scenes’, which is included in this collection. Her book Zwemmen in de oceaan: Berichten uit een postdigitale wereld was published by the Dutch publisher De Bezige Bij in 2017.

Thanks to a fund coming from the Dutch Foundation for Literature and the Van Doesburghuis-residency, there is a small print run.

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