Big Data--A New Medium?

ISBN-13: 9780367333843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 228 str.

Natasha Lushetich

Opis

Drawing on a range of methods from across science and technology studies, digital humanities and digital arts, this book presents a comprehensive view of the Big Data phenomenon.

Spis treści

Prologue: Why Ask the Question? Natasha Lushetich  Section I: Patterning Knowledge and Time  1. Big Data and/versus People Knowledge: On the Ambiguities of Humanistic Research Ingrid Hoofd  2. Simulated Replicants Forever? Big Data, Engendered Determinism and the end of Prophecy Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi  3. "Visual Hallucination of Probable Events": On Environments of Images, Data, and Machine Learning Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka  Section II: Patterning Use and Extraction  4. Biometric Datafication in Governmental and Personal Spheres Btihaj Ajana  5. Digital Biopolitics and the Problem of Fatigue in Platform Capitalism Tim Christaens  6. Appreciating Machine-Generated Artwork through Deep Learning Mechanisms Lonce Wyse  Section III: Patterning Cultural Heritage and Memory  7. Data to the Nth Degree: Zooming in On The Smart Set Craig J. Saper  8. Intellectual Autonomy After Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Memory Institutions and Historical Research Nicola Horsley  9. BeHere: Prosthetic Memory in the Age of Digital Frottage Natasha Lushetich and Masaki Fujihata  Section IV: Patterning People  10. Surfaces and Depths: An Aesthetics of Big Data Dominic Smith  11. POV Data Doubles, the Dividual and the Drive to Visibility Mitra Azar  12. Reading Big Data as the Heterogenous Subject Simon Biggs  13. Epilogue: Telepathic Exaptation in Late Cognitive Capitalism: A Speculative Approach to the effects of Digitality Warren Neidich

O autorze

Natasha Lushetich is Professor of Contemporary Art & Theory at the University of Dundee. Her research is interdisciplinary and focuses on intermedia, biopolitics and performativity, the status of sensory experience in cultural knowledge, hegemony, and complexity.