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Wark, Scott (2019) The subject of circulation : on the digital subject’s technical individuations. Subjectivity, 12 (1). pp. 65-81. doi:10.1057/s41286-018-00062-5 ISSN 1755-6341.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41286-018-00062-5
Abstract
The concept of the digital subject proposes that online subjectivity is a mediated construct. This article extends this concept by arguing that online subjectivity is not a property of human users, but of digital subjects enacted in circulating data. It develops the digital subject by, first, using Phillip Agre’s concept of “grammars of action” to argue that computational architectures exclude humans from the position of the user; and, second, using Gilbert Simondon’s and Yuk Hui’s philosophies of technology to posit the digital subject as a determinate technical entity that, as per Hui’s reworking of Simondon, inhabits a “digital milieu”. Online, this digital subject inverts the human–technology relationship. It individuates by entering circulation, excluding us from individuating whilst individuating us in turn. This article expands upon this claim by analysing projects by Amalia Ulman and Zach Blas and their thematisation of visibility, identity and authenticity in online subjectivity.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Internet users, Technology -- Philosophy | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Subjectivity | ||||||||
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1755-6341 | ||||||||
Official Date: | March 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 12 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 65-81 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1057/s41286-018-00062-5 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Subjectivity. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Wark, S. Subjectivity (2019) 12: 65. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-018-00062-5 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-018-00062-5 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 20 February 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 December 2019 |
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