Titlebook: Uncoding the Digital; Technology, Subjecti David Savat Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013 action

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The Human-Machine Assemblageor complex machines, such as computers, or, indeed, the applications people use on their smart-phones, are often treated as if they are somehow outside of us, and separable from what it means to be human. Instead, I adopt a view that all forms of human being are forms of technological or machine bei

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Mechanical Beinge machine and what he called ‘Mechanism’. He especially criticized the dominance of ‘Mechanism’ in the newly emerging politics of his time. This was a politics expounded by theorists such as Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham, who, so Carlyle argued, saw politics as being about the arrangement of mechani

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Digital Beingdifference that we recognize as the digital ensemble are many. Certainly the late 1940s can be identified as a point of emergence, though already before this the general expansion of control technologies in the century preceding it certainly forms part of its trajectory (Beniger 1986). More signific

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Solid Politicsllon and Lobo-Guerrero 2008; 2009; Parisi and Terranova 2000). Generally this is attributed, whether implicitly or explicitly, to our use of digital machines, and the concurrent and related transformation to a world that on both the machine level and the biological level — indeed, the two become inc

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The Boundary Layerworked or solid actor and how we might generally conceptualize political actions available to a networked or fluid actor. I attempted to delineate these two general approaches in conceptualizing political action in terms of a solid politics and a fluid politics, treating them as completely separate

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Conclusionis the view that different technologies express different social forms and a different politics. In order to begin an investigation into this politics and the forms it might take, I focused on what I saw as three key assemblages of what I call the digital ensemble: examining the operation of power,

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Book 2013or Facebook, to the operation of financial markets, to transformations in science and the economy - digital media continue to revolutionize how people live their daily life. This book challenges how we understand our relationship with our digital machines, and shows how they open up a new capacity f

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flow and viscosity. A capacity for action that produces a politics of fluids, and finds its expression not only in new forms of social control, but also in a renewed ability for people to engage with the world and each other.978-1-349-32601-3978-1-137-02501-2