ISBN:
9781501316159
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (291 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Bollmer, Grant Inhuman Networks : Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection
DDC:
302.23#23
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Social Media
;
Soziologie
Abstract:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Connectivity, Flow, Citizenship, Archaeology -- Part 1: Network Archaeologies -- Part Coda: Universality: From Network Archaeologies to Nodal Citizenship -- Part 2: Nodal Citizens -- Part 3: Beyond Social Medi a, or, a World Without People -- Notes -- Index -- How to make a person into an internet router -- Governing the inhuman -- Imagining a technological humanism -- Social media beyond social media -- Toward a media archaeology of social media -- Chapters -- Coda
Abstract:
The network, or, the other of Western modernity -- Chapter 1: Biology: Vital Technologies, Anatomical Networks -- Chapter 2: Society: Railroads, Red Scares, and Racism -- Chapter 3: Economy: Banking on a Networked Society -- Data as citizens -- Citizenship, states, networks -- Chapter 4: Death: Living Forever on Social Media -- Chapter 5: Labor: Giving Life to Data -- Chapter 6: Truth: The Politics of Performing the Total Self -- From social media to social networks -- Networks, neoliberalism, and the problem of the exterior -- Chapter 7: Contagion: The Inevitable Failure of Connectivity
Abstract:
Chapter 8: (Political) Theory: How to Disempower Friends and Pathologize People -- Blood and the Machine -- The weaving of networks -- Networks of the body -- Vitality and the management of fluidity -- The body as a network of fabric and fluid -- Pathologies of the networked body -- Vitality, technology, society -- Liberal capitalism and the unification of the iron network -- Material chaos and immaterial control -- Social networks, communism, and anti-Semitism -- The social network as an anti-Semitic political imaginary -- Money makes the network flow 'round
Abstract:
How disconnection apparently led to the Great Depression -- How to make a bank a social network -- Money as a social bond -- From economy to universality -- Millions now living will never die -- Animating the recordings of the deceased -- "To be haunted virtually is just another way to stay connected" -- Your data are the real you, your body is extraneous -- The economics and aesthetics of bots -- The political economy of social media -- The self as algorithm, or, your mind is a bunch of bots -- The cultural significance of click fraud -- Truth in data -- The revolution will be visible
Abstract:
Postcolonial blogging and the speech of the subaltern -- "Transparency" as political agency -- Identity, visibility, and nodal citizenship -- Failed nodal citizens -- From social media to social networks -- Networks, neoliberalism, and the problem of the exterior -- Epidemics of connectivity -- Pathologies of self-management -- "Infectobesity," or, the epidemiology of fat -- Social networks of contagious obesity -- Economic flows, network pathologies -- The unbearable pointlessness of doing anything -- The network and the apocalypse -- The political intimacy of connection
Abstract:
Complexity, inevitability, unknowability
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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