Synthesis philosophica, Vol. 25 No. 2, 2010.
Original scientific paper
To be Lifestreamed. The Subjectivity, Politics, and Literacy of Digital-Networked Media
Katarina Peović Vuković
; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
The paper investigates the possibilities and problems of the (new) media political theory. The new media paradigm is defined by the Network as a distributive diagram (that allows direct peer-to-peer communication between two computers without intermediation of the central hub) and a digital sign as the flexible (manipulative, variable, programmable, “flickering”) sign. Nevertheless, the design of the technology is a subject of public dispute. For that reason the paper proposes a cultural and material analysis that would discard technological determinism and domesticating metaphors in order to describe the material ground for digital network society. The paper derives Deleuze/Guattari’s machinic “productivity” as a basic modus for the political actions of network subjects accustomed to lifestream.
Keywords
digital network paradigm; lifestream; technological determinism; otherness; political theory; flexibility; distributivity
Hrčak ID:
68511
URI
Publication date:
19.5.2011.
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