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Edited by Marc Bousquet and Katherine Wills, The Politics of Information is an essay collection in five parts covering a broad panoply of discourses, practices, and institutional change that can be garnered under the rubric of “materialist informatics.” The Politics of Information is available for download.

Geniwate, an Australian eliterature author who appeared at the ELO HyperText reading series in February, has received the Mayne Award for creative writing in multimedia. The award recognizes Geniwate’s work concatenation, which a judge called “an experiment in ‘Shockwave’ which is both aesthetically and intellectually compelling.” To experience concatenation, visit the website, then click on concatenation.

RCCS has published its first book review in a language other than English, Maria Rosales-Sequeiros’s review of Local y Global: La Gestion de las Ciudades en la Era de la Informacion by Jordi Borja and Manuel Castells. Other book reviews at RCCS this month include: Chris Hables Gray’s Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age reviewed by Danielle R. Wiese; Andrew Murphie and John Potts’s Culture & Technology reviewed by Tim Detwiler; and John Durham Peters’s Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication reviewed by Scott Campbell, Christopher Lucas, and Malcolm Dean.

ACE–Arts Computation Engineering–is UC Irvine’s new transdisciplinary graduate program in digital arts and sciences. Directed by noted interactive media artist and theorist Simon Penny, ACE currently offers three master’s degree programs, with concentrations in either engineering, fine arts, or information science/computer science. A Ph.D. program is under development. Oriented toward originators of “novel techno-cultural formations, makers of machines, environments, and nonstandard technical systems,” ACE offers “a new model for relating media arts to technical development.” Email: ace at uci dot edu.

CTHEORY is proud to announce the opening of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC), an institute for researching and teaching issues related to the impact of technological change on culture, politics and society. CTHEORY, an international journal of theory, technology and culture, has collaborated with PACTAC to create “Electronic Theory: Science, Terror and Nihilism,” a lecture series that will be streamed and archived on CTHEORY’s web site.

Visit the electronic book review to read two new reviews: “What Remains in Liam’s Going” by Dave Ciccoricco, a review of Michael Joyce’s novel Liam’s Going; and “Bataille’s Project: Atheology, Non-Knowledge” by Marc LaFountain, a review of Georges Bataille’s The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge. Also, be sure to read “Teaching the Cyborg,” the final installment of the Technocapitalism thread of The Politics of Information.

The December 15th deadline is fast approaching for those interested in applying for a fellowship in electronic writing at Brown University. The fellowship lasts two years, with tuition and stipend covered, and leads to an M.F.A. in Creative Writing.

“Teaching the Cyborg,” the final installment of the Technocapitalism thread The Politics of Information, is available at electronic book review.

“Fictional Worlds, Virtual Experiences” (archive url: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/ccva/) is an exhibition that presents the historical and cultural significance of interactive simulations, computer games, and video games. There is an emphasis on virtual gaming as forms of storytelling and communication. The exhibition opens November 12 at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. A free conference related to the exhibition will be held Friday, February 6 at the Cantor Arts Center Auditorium. The conference will allow scholars and game developers to discuss the role of narrative in computer games.

Indiana University Bloomington’s School of Informatics is looking to hire 30 new faculty members. If interested, visit the program website for the application and additional information.