Suchergebnisse

Prologue: Why ask the question? / Natasha Lushetich -- Big data and/versus people knowledge : on the ambiguities of humanistic research / Ingrid Hoofd -- Simulated replicants forever? Big data, engendered determinism and the end of prophecy / Franco 'Bifo' Berardi -- "Visual hallucination of probable events" : on environments of images, data, and machine learning / Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka -- Biometric datafication in governmental and personal spheres / Btihaj Ajana -- Digital biopolitics and the problem of fatigue in platform capitalism / Tim Christaens -- Appreciating machine-generated artwork through deep learning mechanisms / Lonce Wyse -- Data to the Nth degree : zooming in on the smart set / Craig J. Saper -- Intellectual autonomy after artificial intelligence : the future of memory institutions and historical research / Nicola Horsley -- BeHere : prosthetic memory in the age of digital frottage / Natasha Lushetich and Masaki Fujihat -- Surfaces and depths : an aesthetics of big data / Dominic Smith -- POV data doubles, the dividual and the drive to visibility / Mitra Azar -- Reading big data as the heterogenous subject / Simon Biggs -- Epilogue: Telepathic exaptation in late cognitive capitalism : a speculative approach to the effects of digitality / Warren Neidich.

"Violent Islamic extremism is affecting a growing number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In some, jihadi Salafi organizations have established home bases and turned into permanent security challengers. However, other countries have managed to prevent the formation or curb the spread of homegrown jihadi Salafi organizations. In this book, Sebastian Elischer provides a comparative analysis of how different West and East African states have engaged with fundamentalist Muslim groups between the 1950s and today. In doing so, he establishes a causal link between stateimposed organizational gatekeepers in the Islamic sphere and the absence of homegrown jihadi Salafism. Illustrating that the contemporary manifestation of violent Islamic extremism in sub-Saharan Africa is an outcome of strategic political decisions that are deeply embedded in countries' autocratic pasts, he challenges conventional notions of statehood on the African continent, and provides new insight into the evolving relationships between secular and religious authority"--