Abstract
We did not need the NSA scandal as a reminder that the minute we decide to engage in technologically mediated relation we inscribe ourselves in matrices of control. In fact, one might even question the status of National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance as a scandal: the democratically legitimated laws authorizing such big data projects have been on the books for a long time. Less known are the algorithmic architectures that scrape, mine, harvest, store, cluster, sequence, combine and analyse data generation through our daily use of computational systems. Even more obscure is the extent to which an aesthetic dimension attends the multiple formats and structures that organize data as a dynamic object. To conjoin aesthetics with algorithmic cultures brings us to the centre of info-politics today: namely, the capture of experience within 'integrated world capitalism'.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics |
| Editors | Randy Martin |
| Place of Publication | U.K. |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Pages | 214-221 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781315736693 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780415645102 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- aesthetics
- algorithms
- experience