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The notion of "the problematic" has changed its meaning within the
history of power and knowledge since the early 20th century,
leading up to today's performative, neocybernetic fascination with
generalized management ideas and technocratic models of science.
This book explores central scenes, conceptual elaborations, and
practical affiliations of what historically has been called "the
problem" or "the problematic". By way of considering modes of
problematization as modes of inhabitation, intervention, and
transformation the contributions map its current
conceptual-political uses as well as onto-epistemological
challenges. Thus, "problematization" is positioned as a critical
concept that links, often in intricate ways, several currents from
speculative philosophy to the formation of interdisciplinary
fields. The "problematic", as it turns out, has been the source of
change in philosophy and the sciences all along.
The book won the Surveillance Studies Network Book Prize 2014. The
book argues that the mobile as a political technology in a broad
sense facilitates the global export of the Western concept of
individuality. This empowers those subjectivities and mindsets
which can adapt to the communication regime of ubiquitous
connectivity. Exemplifying two focal points - the use in protests
and the surveillance of mobile phones - the book traces political
trajectories of mobile phones, just as it provides deep insights
into the actual practice of mobile phone use by activists and their
surveillance. 50 semi-structured interviews with activists from
countries including Brazil, India, Pakistan and Mexico offer a
detailed and profound discussion of mobile phone success and
failures in different struggles for justice. By situating mobile
phone mass dissemination within a political rationality of
neoliberalism and its political technology of governmentality, it
shows how sovereign rule updates to catch up with the subject's
empowerment through mobile phones. The limits of mobile phone
impact on activism are examined, and how it compromises its users
when new sovereign means such as data retention or silent SMS
surveillance are invoked.
Commercial social media platforms have become integral to
contemporary forms of protests. They are intensely used by advocacy
groups, non-governmental organisations, social movements and other
political actors who increasingly integrate social media platforms
into broader practices of organizing and campaigning. But, aside
from the many advantages of extensive mobilization opportunities at
low cost, what are the implications of social media corporations
being involved in these grassroots movements? This book takes a
much-needed critical approach to the relationship between social
media and protest. Highlighting key issues and concerns in
contemporary forms of social media activism, including questions of
censorship, surveillance, individualism, and temporality, the book
combines contributions from some of the most active scholars in the
field today. Advancing both conceptual and empirical work on social
media and protest, and with a range of different angles, the book
provides a fresh and challenging outlook on a very topical debate.
Commercial social media platforms have become integral to
contemporary forms of protests. They are intensely used by advocacy
groups, non-governmental organisations, social movements and other
political actors who increasingly integrate social media platforms
into broader practices of organizing and campaigning. But, aside
from the many advantages of extensive mobilization opportunities at
low cost, what are the implications of social media corporations
being involved in these grassroots movements? This book takes a
much-needed critical approach to the relationship between social
media and protest. Highlighting key issues and concerns in
contemporary forms of social media activism, including questions of
censorship, surveillance, individualism, and temporality, the book
combines contributions from some of the most active scholars in the
field today. Advancing both conceptual and empirical work on social
media and protest, and with a range of different angles, the book
provides a fresh and challenging outlook on a very topical debate.
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