The User Unconscious : On Affect, Media, and Measure / [edited by] Patricia Ticineto Clough.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clough, Patricia Ticineto, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Interpersonal relations.

Subconsciousness.

Experience.

Affect (Psychology).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]

Summary:

Wide-ranging essays and experimental prose forcefully demonstrate how digital media and computational technologies have redefined what it is to be human Over the past decade, digital media has expanded exponentially, becoming an essential part of daily life. The stimulating essays and experimental compositions in The User Unconscious delve into the ways digital media and computational technologies fundamentally affect our sense of self and the world we live in, from both human and other-than-human perspectives. Critical theorist Patricia Ticineto Clough's provocative essays center around the motif of the "user unconscious" to advance the challenging thesis that that we are both human and other-than-human: we now live, think, and dream within multiple layers of computational networks that are constantly present, radically transforming subjectivity, sociality, and unconscious processes. Drawing together rising strains of philosophy, critical theory, and media studies, as well as the political, social, and economic transformations that are shaping the twenty-first-century world, The User Unconscious points toward emergent crises and potentialities in both human subjectivity and sociality. Moving from affect to data, Clough forces us to see that digital media and computational technologies are not merely controlling us--they have already altered what it means to be human.

Contents:

Notes toward a theory of affect-itself / Patricia Ticineto Cloguh, Greg Goldberg, Rachel Schiff, Aaron Weeks, and Craig Willse

War by other means : what difference do(es) the graphic(s) make?

Praying and playing to the beat of a child's metronome

Gendered security/national security : political branding and population racism / Patricia Ticineto Clough and Craig Willse

My mother's scream

Feminist theory : bodies, science, and technology

A dream of falling : philosophy and family violence

The datalogical turn / Patricia Ticineto Clough, Karen Gregory, Benjamin Haber, R. Joshua Scannell

The object's affects : the Rosary

Rethinking race, calculation, quantification, and measure

And they were dancing

Ecstatic Corona : from ethnography to performance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4529-5703-7

OCLC:

1028189729