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How We Became Our Data - A Genealogy of the Informational Person (Hardcover)
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How We Became Our Data - A Genealogy of the Informational Person (Hardcover)
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We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data
matters enormously to how we live. How did information come to be
so integral to what we can do? How did we become people who
effortlessly present our lives in social media profiles and who are
meticulously recorded in state surveillance dossiers and online
marketing databases? What is the story behind data coming to matter
so much to who we are? In How We Became Our Data, Colin Koopman
excavates early moments of our rapidly accelerating data-tracking
technologies and their consequences for how we think of and express
our selfhood today. Koopman explores the emergence of mass-scale
record keeping systems like birth certificates and social security
numbers, as well as new data techniques for categorizing
personality traits, measuring intelligence, and even racializing
subjects. This all culminates in what Koopman calls the
"informational person" and the "informational power" we are now
subject to. The recent explosion of digital technologies that are
turning us into a series of algorithmic data points is shown to
have a deeper and more turbulent past than we commonly think.
Blending philosophy, history, political theory, and media theory in
conversation with thinkers like Michel Foucault, J rgen Habermas,
and Friedrich Kittler, Koopman presents an illuminating perspective
on how we have come to think of our personhood--and how we can
resist its erosion.
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