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# Technologies of Self | # Technologies of Self | ||
# The Self in the age of Digital Exhibitionism | # The Self in the age of Digital Exhibitionism | ||
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[Steve: You need some Foucault here if you are going to tackle technologies of self- try means of correct training] | [Steve: You need some Foucault here if you are going to tackle technologies of self- try means of correct training] | ||
* Databases | * Databases | ||
* Hoer van de Duivel | * Hoer van de Duivel | ||
* Postscript on societies on control | * Postscript on societies on control – G. Deleuze | ||
* The rise of the network society | * The rise of the network society | ||
* A declaration of independence of cyberspace | * A declaration of independence of cyberspace | ||
* Black transparency | * Black transparency | ||
* ‘protocol’ – A. Galloway | |||
[Steve's feedback and suggestions: | |||
Key points: control societies are governed by pattern and code, and regulated by images and algorithms. This is opposed to disciplinary | |||
societies, which are governed by meaning and sense and regulated by precepts (see A. Galloway’s ‘protocol’ and G. Deleuze’s ‘postscript | |||
on the societies of control’) | |||
Recognition of these systems (control and discipline) allows us to understand contemporary media as a mode of (self) governance and opens | |||
up a number of avenues of enquiry. I will mention four here: | |||
1. Databases and protocols as control mechanisms | |||
2. Digital labor (immaterial labour) | |||
3. Digital mediation providing new ‘technologies of self’ | |||
4. Participatory surveillance | |||
Over the next few weeks we will study a series of texts that explore these avenues | |||
Sample texts: | |||
* Tiziana Terranova: ‘free labor’ (from ‘digital labor, the internet as playground and factory’, ed Trebor Scholz, 2013) | |||
* Ayhan Aytes: ‘return of the crowds, mechanical Turk & neoliberal states of exception’ (from ‘digital labor, the internet as playground | |||
and factory’, ed. Trebor Scholz, 2013) | |||
* Geert Lovink: ‘Facebook, anonymity and the crisis of the multiple self’ and ‘ society of the query: googlization of our lives’ | |||
(from ‘networks without a cause’, 2011) | |||
* A. Galloway: Protocol, Introduction (2004) | |||
* A. Galloway: The Interface Effect, one chapter from the book (2012) | |||
* Douglas Rushkoff: Programme or be Programmed (2012)] | |||
Over the next few weeks we will study a series of texts that explore these avenues | |||
Sample texts | |||
* Tiziana Terranova: ‘free labor’ (from ‘digital labor, the internet as playground and factory’, ed Trebor Scholz, 2013) | |||
* Ayhan Aytes: ‘return of the crowds, mechanical Turk & neoliberal states of exception’ (from ‘digital labor, the internet as playground and factory’, ed. Trebor Scholz, 2013) | |||
* Geert Lovink: ‘Facebook, anonymity and the crisis of the multiple self’ and ‘ society of the query: googlization of our lives’ (from ‘networks without a cause’, 2011) | |||
* A. Galloway: Protocol, Introduction (2004) | |||
* A. Galloway: The Interface Effect, one chapter from the book (2012) | |||
* Douglas Rushkoff: Programme or be Programmed (2012)] | |||
Revision as of 12:44, 23 March 2016
Essay #II
Topics:
[Steve: choose one of these topics. You have 4 essays here, each builds on the other:
- Technologies of Self
- The Self in the age of Digital Exhibitionism
- The anthropomorphic web: How can the web be seen as a (metaphysical) entity
- Internet Switching Policies: Two minutes of Jon Postel
Reading List:
[Steve: You need some Foucault here if you are going to tackle technologies of self- try means of correct training]
- Databases
- Hoer van de Duivel
- Postscript on societies on control – G. Deleuze
- The rise of the network society
- A declaration of independence of cyberspace
- Black transparency
- ‘protocol’ – A. Galloway
[Steve's feedback and suggestions: Key points: control societies are governed by pattern and code, and regulated by images and algorithms. This is opposed to disciplinary societies, which are governed by meaning and sense and regulated by precepts (see A. Galloway’s ‘protocol’ and G. Deleuze’s ‘postscript on the societies of control’)
Recognition of these systems (control and discipline) allows us to understand contemporary media as a mode of (self) governance and opens up a number of avenues of enquiry. I will mention four here: 1. Databases and protocols as control mechanisms 2. Digital labor (immaterial labour) 3. Digital mediation providing new ‘technologies of self’ 4. Participatory surveillance
Over the next few weeks we will study a series of texts that explore these avenues Sample texts: * Tiziana Terranova: ‘free labor’ (from ‘digital labor, the internet as playground and factory’, ed Trebor Scholz, 2013) * Ayhan Aytes: ‘return of the crowds, mechanical Turk & neoliberal states of exception’ (from ‘digital labor, the internet as playground and factory’, ed. Trebor Scholz, 2013) * Geert Lovink: ‘Facebook, anonymity and the crisis of the multiple self’ and ‘ society of the query: googlization of our lives’ (from ‘networks without a cause’, 2011) * A. Galloway: Protocol, Introduction (2004) * A. Galloway: The Interface Effect, one chapter from the book (2012) * Douglas Rushkoff: Programme or be Programmed (2012)]