Uno studio che scava nei significati politici e identitari della pratica del body marking, con l'obiettivo di mappare la complessa rete di relazioni tra la pratica del tatuaggio e le strategie di costruzione dell'identità. A study that digs into the political and identity meanings of the practice of body marking, with the aim of mapping the complex network of relationships between tattooing and identity building strategies.
"Drawing on a range of contributors, case studies and examples, this book examines ways in which we can think about design through Deleuze, and likewise how Deleuze's thought can be experimented upon and re-designed to produce new concepts. Discussions include materiality, creativity, objects, the future, innovation, the designed environment and the interaction between human non-human agents." -- Back cover
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This chapter asks: what would a Marx-oriented approach to smart objects be like? As an exercise in 'philoso-fiction' it mobilizes critical thinking around the organization of the forces of production of digital devices. The chapter imagines how a smart environment would appear to Marx as an ecosystem of intensely alienating and fetished commodities. The chapter examines alienation and the disjuncture inherent to smart objects: while they support and enable users, they also capture (and trade) users' data, time, and attention. Smart environments claim to personalize and tailor their presence to individual needs, but they also intrude in, monitor and control human life, thus enabling new techno-digital forms of alienation where user, content provider and product collapse in one single 'datified' role. The chapter offers a conceptual framework to locate smart commodity fetishism and alienation within the context provided by the politics of extractive capitalism.
Chapter in the volume Hybrid Ecologies. About this book: The notion of ecology not only figures centrally in current debates around climate change, but also traverses contemporary discourses in the arts, the humanities, and the social and techno sciences. In its present reformulation it refers to the multi-layered and multi-dimensional nexus of reciprocities between living processes, technological and media practices, i.e. to the complex relations of human and nonhuman agents. The book Hybrid Ecologies understands ecology as an ambivalent notion, whose multivalence opens up new fields of action and yet, thanks precisely to this openness and vast applicability, at the same time raises questions not least concerning its genealogy. The interdisciplinary contributions seek to explore the political and social effects that a rethinking of community in ecological and thus also in biopolitical terms may provoke, and which consequences the contemporary notion of ecology might entail for artistic and design practices in particular. The present publication is the result of the fifth annual program of the cx centre for interdisciplinary studies, which was conceived in cooperation with the Chair of Philosophy | Aesthetic Theory at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
The notion that the future has a 'shape' is a deep-rooted construct, the cornerstone of how chance is mediated, for example through the 'distributions' of probability theory. Algorithmic prediction, via machine learning, builds on these shapes and amplifies their complexity and authority. While the problematic effects of this predictive regime and the preemptive politics it supports are objects of concern for scholars and practitioners across the humanities, social sciences, art, and philosophy, design is surprisingly disengaged from this conversation. Instead, it is either concerned with data visualization, often without questioning its positivist ontology, or with 'seamless' non-interfaces which effectively seek to remove choice. Against this backdrop, our proposal brings together design theory and design practice to interrogate current modes of algorithmic prediction and the construction of subjectivity enabled by 'choice design'. Our designed artifacts are diagrams to think through practice about the shape(s) of the possible. Rather than designing predictable futures, we aim to use diagram-making to expose and reframe choice design. These design artifacts - initial and ongoing experiments in mapping YouTube recommendations - are a series of computational diagrams that weave together the tools of computational prediction, critical design practice, and theory.
