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Edited by Clemens Apprich, Josephine Berry Slater, Anthony Iles and
Oliver Lerone Schultz Felix Guattari's visionary term 'post-media',
coined in 1990, heralded a break with mass media's production of
conformity and the dawn of a new age of media from below.
Understanding how digital convergence was remaking television,
film, radio, print and telecommunications into new, hybrid forms,
he advocated the production of 'enunciative assemblages' that break
with the manufacture of normative subjectivities. In this
anthology, historical texts are brought together with newly
commissioned ones to explore the shifting ideas, speculative
horizons and practices associated with post- media. In particular,
the book seeks to explore what post- media practice might be in
light of the commodification and homogenisation of digital networks
in the age of Web 2.0, e-shopping and mass surveillance. With texts
by: Adilkno, Clemens Apprich, Brian Holmes, Alejo Duque, Felipe
Fonseca, Gary Genosko, Michael Goddard, Felix Guattari, Cadence
Kinsey, Oliver Lerone Schultz, Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits, and
Howard Slater Part of the PML Books series. A collaboration between
Mute & the Post-Media Lab
In less than two decades, digital networks have moved from
providing a macro background environment - actively accessible by
only a small coterie of scientists, experts, and state or corporate
agents - to pervading and augmenting our lives at an increasingly
micrological level. As our world is plugged into the matrix, we
know from direct experience that the pace of change is feverish,
the scope infinite and the effects in need of constant reckoning.
The Post-Media Lab offers a space in which to examine, reflect and
operate upon the networked, mediatised society from an unhurried
perspective. We seek to slow down the machinic pace of 'cybertime'
just enough to allow for a different tempo of thought to engage and
encompass it. Through a programme of four bi-annual residency
cycles spanning 2012 and 2013, the Lab has provided participants
(artists, technologists, film-makers, activists, cultural/media
theorists) with the practical and intellectual support and
resources to build real-world, aesthetic, technical or theoretical
assemblages which operate acutely on the interface between digital
networks and social and political life.
Felix Stalder's extended essay, Digital Solidarity, takes it's
point of departure from the waves of new forms of networked
political organisation which have met the onset of the global
economic crisis of 2008. Following Karl Marx, Stalder lays out how
in the current period there are emergent contradictions between
applied innovation and technical progress and the economic
institutions whch organise or restrain this progress. The
contradictions between forces of production and relations of
production are placed in a context in which we have left McLuhan's
Gutenburg Galaxy behind for good and the struggles over where we
will arrive are only just beginnning. A co-publication of Mute
Books & the Post-Media Lab
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Pattern Discrimination (Paperback)
Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Florian Cramer, Hito Steyerl
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How do "human" prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures
allegedly devised to be blind to them? How do "human" prejudices
reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to
them? To answer this question, this book investigates a fundamental
axiom in computer science: pattern discrimination. By imposing
identity on input data, in order to filter-that is, to
discriminate-signals from noise, patterns become a highly political
issue. Algorithmic identity politics reinstate old forms of social
segregation, such as class, race, and gender, through defaults and
paradigmatic assumptions about the homophilic nature of connection.
Instead of providing a more "objective" basis of decision making,
machine-learning algorithms deepen bias and further inscribe
inequality into media. Yet pattern discrimination is an essential
part of human-and nonhuman-cognition. Bringing together media
thinkers and artists from the United States and Germany, this
volume asks the urgent questions: How can we discriminate without
being discriminatory? How can we filter information out of data
without reinserting racist, sexist, and classist beliefs? How can
we queer homophilic tendencies within digital cultures?
Many technologies and practices that define the Internet today date
back to the 1990s - such as user-generated content, participatory
platforms and social media. Indeed, many early ideas about the
future of the Internet have been implemented, albeit without
fulfilling the envisioned political utopias. By tracing back the
technotopian vision, Clemens Apprich develops a media genealogical
perspecive that helps us to better understand how digital networks
have transformed over the last 30 years and therefore to think
beyond the current state of our socio-technical reality. This
highly original book informs our understanding of new forms of
media and social practices, such that have become part of our
everyday culture. Apprich revisits a critical time when the
Internet was not yet an everyday reality, but when its potential
was already understood and fiercely debated. The historical context
of net cultures provides the basis from which the author critically
engages with current debates about the weal and woe of the Internet
and challenges today's predominant network model.
In this volume, passionate texts from the last decade by artist and
theory collective Claire Fontaine are brought together with an
extended concluding essay and foreword. Moving across militant,
aesthetic and poetic registers these texts consider what resistance
might look like in the age of human capital, where all dimensions
of the self are infiltrated and conscripted by capital in its
pursuit of value. Their answer is the human strike - a strike
against the demands on the self imposed by power - in the interest
of 'changing ourselves', becoming who we want to become. This
strike has been happening all along, throughout history, but has
today reached a peak of political consciousness. This book was
commissioned to accompany the Post-Media Lab's 'The Subsumption of
Sociality' research theme. Published by Mute Books and Post-Media
Lab
Many technologies and practices that define the Internet today date
back to the 1990s - such as user-generated content, participatory
platforms and social media. Indeed, many early ideas about the
future of the Internet have been implemented, albeit without
fulfilling the envisioned political utopias. By tracing back the
technotopian vision, Clemens Apprich develops a media genealogical
perspecive that helps us to better understand how digital networks
have transformed over the last 30 years and therefore to think
beyond the current state of our socio-technical reality. This
highly original book informs our understanding of new forms of
media and social practices, such that have become part of our
everyday culture. Apprich revisits a critical time when the
Internet was not yet an everyday reality, but when its potential
was already understood and fiercely debated. The historical context
of net cultures provides the basis from which the author critically
engages with current debates about the weal and woe of the Internet
and challenges today's predominant network model.
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