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    • Issue 17: Modularity and Modification
    • Issue 16: Life Cycles
    • Issue 15: Media Cultures of the Imperial Pacific
    • Issue 14: At the Edge
    • Issue 13: Mediating the Anthropocene
    • Issue 12: Media and Migration
    • Issue 11: Surveillance States
    • Issue 10: Digital Distribution
    • Issue 9: Spaces of Protest
    • Issue 8: Playgrounds
    • Special Conference Issue
    • Issue 7: Gender & Sexuality
    • Issue 6: Data/Space
    • Issue 5: Memory, Space and Media
    • Issue 4: Scale
    • Issue 3: Documentary and Space
    • Issue 2: Media, Labor, Mobility
    • Issue 1: Video Stores
  • Conferences
    • Witnessing (2025)
    • Zones of Mediation (2022)
    • Display (2019)
    • Ruins (2017)
    • Encounters (2015)
    • Access/Trespass (2013)
    • Contested Territories (2011)
    • Infrastructures (2009)
    • Media and Space (2007)
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  • Past Issues
    • Issue 17: Modularity and Modification
    • Issue 16: Life Cycles
    • Issue 15: Media Cultures of the Imperial Pacific
    • Issue 14: At the Edge
    • Issue 13: Mediating the Anthropocene
    • Issue 12: Media and Migration
    • Issue 11: Surveillance States
    • Issue 10: Digital Distribution
    • Issue 9: Spaces of Protest
    • Issue 8: Playgrounds
    • Special Conference Issue
    • Issue 7: Gender & Sexuality
    • Issue 6: Data/Space
    • Issue 5: Memory, Space and Media
    • Issue 4: Scale
    • Issue 3: Documentary and Space
    • Issue 2: Media, Labor, Mobility
    • Issue 1: Video Stores
  • Conferences
    • Witnessing (2025)
    • Zones of Mediation (2022)
    • Display (2019)
    • Ruins (2017)
    • Encounters (2015)
    • Access/Trespass (2013)
    • Contested Territories (2011)
    • Infrastructures (2009)
    • Media and Space (2007)
  • Submissions
    • Call for Submissions
    • Guidelines
  • About
  • Search
  • Apply

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  • Past Issues
    • Issue 17: Modularity and Modification
    • Issue 16: Life Cycles
    • Issue 15: Media Cultures of the Imperial Pacific
    • Issue 14: At the Edge
    • Issue 13: Mediating the Anthropocene
    • Issue 12: Media and Migration
    • Issue 11: Surveillance States
    • Issue 10: Digital Distribution
    • Issue 9: Spaces of Protest
    • Issue 8: Playgrounds
    • Special Conference Issue
    • Issue 7: Gender & Sexuality
    • Issue 6: Data/Space
    • Issue 5: Memory, Space and Media
    • Issue 4: Scale
    • Issue 3: Documentary and Space
    • Issue 2: Media, Labor, Mobility
    • Issue 1: Video Stores
  • Conferences
    • Witnessing (2025)
    • Zones of Mediation (2022)
    • Display (2019)
    • Ruins (2017)
    • Encounters (2015)
    • Access/Trespass (2013)
    • Contested Territories (2011)
    • Infrastructures (2009)
    • Media and Space (2007)
  • Submissions
    • Call for Submissions
    • Guidelines
  • About
  • Search
  • Apply
Issue 8: Playgrounds
  • Playgrounds Introduction
  • The Passenger and the Player
  • Antagonism, Incorporated
  • Playing Dead
  • This Thing of Ours
  • Careless Whispers
  • Queer/ing Game Space
  • Haptic Landscapes
  • The Street is in Play
  • Policing the Sandbox
  • Race, Space, and Digital Games
Issue 9: Protest Spaces
  • Tactical Frivolity and Disobedient Objects
  • The Medium is the Masses
  • Drone Vision, Zones of Protest and the New Cinema
  • Spaces of Witness
  • Protesting from Within
  • OccupyGezi as (an) Intertopian Space
  • The Gezi Movement and the Politics of Being-there
  • "Imaging Dissent"
  • Apocalypse at the Kremling's Door
  • Occupy and Academia
  • Staging Revolution
Issue 12: Migration
  • Introduction: Media and Migration
  • The Filmic Realization of Third Space
  • Rigid Identities and Evaporating Borders
  • Opening A Certain Poetic Space”: What Can Art Do
  • [The Fiction of a Doorframe]
  • From Drones to Crop Dusters
  • Producing and Televising Immigrant Stories: A Con
  • Border Research and the Transborder Immigrant Tool
  • Refugee Selfies
  • Digital Transience
  • Collaborative Journalism
Issue 13: Anthropocene
  • Against Eschatology
  • Surface Tensions
  • Email interview with Heather Davis, Visiting Schol
  • Post-Cinema After Extinction
  • There is no carbon-neutral production
  • Standing With Standing Rock
  • Cinema Cnidaria, or Marine Movies in an Age of Mas
  • Rethinking the Work of Art in an Age of Creativity
  • Weather Diaries
  • S-Town, Shit World
  • How to Hack the Grid
  • Introduction
Issue 14: At the Edge
  • Introduction: At the Edge
  • Edge of Linear Cinema
  • Into Great Silence
  • She Crawls
  • The Exit Sign
  • Edge Detection
  • Immediate Delay
  • Queer Futures
  • Museum Maps and the Edge
  • Learning to Ignore Sirens
  • Media after Life
  • Drones at the Edge
  • Alchemical Ontology
  • Issue 14 Masthead
Issue 15: Imperial Pacific
  • The Cross-Pacific as Method
  • Cross-Pacific As Method
  • Reframing Colonial Legacies of New Guinea Art
  • The Karrabing Film Collective
  • Global Media Logistics of Exchange and Expenditure
  • Ticklish Contact Zones
  • Night and Fog in Japan
  • Japan Sea(s)
  • CHamoru Digital Activism
  • Introduction
  • Infrastructure of the Image
  • Issue 15 Masthead
Issue 16
  • Virtual Ruins: Longing for Other Worlds
  • Theatrical Life after the Coronavirus Pandemic: Tr
  • New Age New Media
  • Air-Conditioning the Internet
  • The Politics of Cinematic Disposability
  • Reanimator
  • Re-presencing, Re-containing, and Re-materializi
  • Nostalgia as an Agent in the Life Cycle of Media
  • Undead: VHS and Technological Life Cycles
  • Four Theses on Formal Chronocentrism: Forgetful Re
  • Lithium Landscapes
  • Afterlives of Oil Media
  • Notes on Differential Circulation
  • Corvid Emoji Needed
  • Are Payphones Obsolete?
  • Introduction: The Life Cycles of Media
Issue 17
  • Blocked Ports: Sanctions and Software in Networked
  • Uncharted Media: Vietnam’s Exhibition and the Prac
  • Portals, Platforms, and Other Standards
  • Queer Blogs and Digital Archives
  • Did Hole-in-Space Create Place?
  • Embodied Subjectivity from Avant-Garde to Popular
  • Platforms+
  • Some New Rules of the Game
  • Introduction
Issue 18
  • Issue 18
  • Looking into the Desert Mirage
  • Navigating the Virtual Labyrinth
  • The World in Front of the Text
  • Shudders in the Neoliberal Machine
  • The Presence of Others Affects Me: On the Mutualit
  • Webs of Care
  • Becoming Opaque, Becoming No-Body
  • Afterword: Trig Metawe Kura
  • Introduction: Media Mutualities
  • Mutual Exposure
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 Introduction

 Daniel Grinberg
and Lisa Han

  Fighting Bodies,
 Fighting Apps

 Beth Capper and
Michael Litwack

   Surveillance
 from the
 Middle

Jason Farman

  Surveillance,
 Desire, and the
  Obliteration of
the Subject

Mark Andrejevic

  Rise of the
 IMSI Catcher

Lisa Parks

   Ghost
  Photography
  in the War
  on Terror

Andrea Miller

  Companion
  Surveillance and Surveillant Subjectivities

Gavin J.D. Smith

  Black
  Infrastructure

Anirban Gupta-Nigam

  "Your Personal
  Information is
  Being Requested"

Simone Browne

 Risky Play

Alexander Champlin

  The Rhetoric of  Desiring-Surveillance

Scott Sundvall

  How to Disappear   Completely (Into
 Surveillance
  Video)

Thomas Stubblefield

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