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Posthuman Media Studies : = An Affirmative Approach to Big Data, Informational Ontology and Processes of Subjectivation.

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Reminder of title:	An Affirmative Approach to Big Data, Informational Ontology and Processes of Subjectivation.
Author:	Sylvia, John, IV.
Description:	1 online resource (338 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07(E), Section: A.
Subject:	Communication. -
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ISBN:	9780355635560

Posthuman Media Studies : = An Affirmative Approach to Big Data, Informational Ontology and Processes of Subjectivation.
Sylvia, John, IV.

Posthuman Media Studies :An Affirmative Approach to Big Data, Informational Ontology and Processes of Subjectivation. - 1 online resource (338 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--North Carolina State University, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

The concept of information plays an increasingly important role in the work being done in a wide variety fields, ranging from engineering and biology to communication and philosophy. Tiziana Terranova (2006) traces the development of this concept from its emergence in the 15th century to contemporary feminist critiques. Although cybernetic definitions of information have varied throughout different waves of cybernetic thinking, information has been identified as the predominant element of organization for systems. In molecular biology, information is seen as negentropic, which explains how systems retain their organization despite surrounding entropic forces. Finally, Terrenova links this tendency to the identification of information with DNA. This shift makes information both hylomorphic because it contains form and matter, and neo-Platonic, because life is understood as the expression of a pattern which can be replicated in more than one medium. Through this connection, information has also come to be understood as a central concept that has pushed society past industrialization and into an "information society" that, arguably, renders traditional Marxist theory outdated (Bell 1976; Castells 1996). However, some present-day autonomous Marxists are rethinking Marxist theory for the Information Age around the concepts of immaterial labor, the general intellect, and a-signifying subjectivation (Hardt and Negri 2001, 2005, 2009; Berardi 2011b, 2015; Lazzarato 2014). These processes of subjectivation are the forces responsible for one's construction as a subject. Despite these efforts, information has largely remained part of the discursive constructionism paradigm that was predominant in media and cultural studies throughout the 1990s. This paradigm is focused narrowly on the role of discourse in human affairs and tended to downplay the role of information because it existed outside of signification. Other scholars have critiqued the discursive constructionist paradigm, outlining paths for analyzing materiality and affect (Grossberg 1992, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2010; Hayles 1999, Terranova 2006).

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Posthuman Media Studies : = An Affirmative Approach to Big Data, Informational Ontology and Processes of Subjectivation.
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520 $a The project first demonstrates through a quantitative analysis that most contemporary approaches to information and big data operate within the resource doctrine of information--- a problem-space that posits information as a thing that can be used (Ch. 2). Because critical theorists have largely tried to address the challenges associated with information from within the same doctrine, few solutions or alternatives have arisen, highlighting the need for an affirmative approach, understood as a process of counter-actualization that experiments with new forms of subjectivation (Ch. 3). Before developing this affirmative approach, it is important to consider how the concepts of eidos (form, information) and tekhne (skill, technics, technique) have been understood in prior major philosophic systems through a genealogy of their uses. This genealogy demonstrates the way these concepts are understood significantly influences philosophic systems of ontology and epistemology (Ch. 4). Based on this analysis, this project argues that Foucault's understanding of technics as a technique of power opens the path to understanding the impact of technics on processes of subjectivation and influences developing notions of posthumanism (Ch. 5). Next, this project develops a materialist definition of information and explores affirmative approaches to both information and big data that focus on citizen science as a method of data generation and collection (Ch. 6). Drawing on Felix Guattari's mixed semiotics, the project develops an approach to using big data for generating experimental processes of subjectivation. (Ch. 7). The final chapter offers several methodological approaches that arise from the informational ontology developed in this project. These approaches taken together, modulation, counter-memory, media genealogy, and critical making, form the core methods of an approach that I call Posthuman Media Studies (Ch. 8).
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